Williiam Shakespeare Biography

 

Born - Baptised 26 April 1564 (birth date unknown) Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England Died - 23 April 1616 (aged 52) Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England Occupation - Playwright, Poet, Actor Literary movement - English Renaissance theatre Spouse - Anne Hathaway (m. 1582–1616) Children - Susanna Hall, Hamnet Shakespeare, Judith Quiney Parents - John Shakespeare (father), Mary Shakespeare (mother)

William Shakespeare Biography

If you are talking about William Shakespeare biography, then you should know that William Shakespeare was born on 26 April of the year 1564 and died on 23 April of the year 1616. He was a famous playwright and English poet. He was very great writer of English language and world's excellent dramatist. He was popular as national poet of England and “Avon Bard”. He had done many works and given his large contribution in the field of poetry. He wrote approx 38 plays, 2 narrative poems, 154 sonnets and various other types of poems.

Many people as director, producer and writers of movies translated various plays of him in various living languages and performed them in the movies.

William Shakespeare profile says that at the age of 18 years, he married with ‘Anne Hathaway’ and had 3 children ‘Susanna’ and twins ‘Judith’ and ‘Hamnet’. Between the years 1585 to 1592, he had started his successful career as writer, owner of playing company and as an actor. According to the biography of William Shakespeare, He was known as “Lord Chamberlain” and later he became popular as “King’s Men”. He got retirement at the age of 49 years in the year 1613 and died after 3 years. He had done large amount of work between the years from 1589 to 1613. At his initial basis of his career, he made various comedies plays and some plays were depended on the histories.

According to the William Shakespeare biography, Father of William Shakespeare was John Shakespeare and he was a successful Glover and a council member from Mary Arden and Snitterfield. The birthplace of him was Stratford upon Avon. His effort was repetitively adopted and revived by new activities in scholarship and presentation. If you are interested to read William Shakespeare profile then you will get that his plays continuously highly admired in the present day and are persistently studied, reinterpreted and executed in various civilizing and political contexts all through the world in 20th century. Various plays of him were printed in various editions with different types of accuracy and quality in his life. Biography of William Shakespeare provides the information that in the year 1623, his drama “First Folio” was published that became more popular and people liked that very much. In the present time, many of his stories and poetries are in use in the field of education and various schools and colleges add them in their college or school syllabus.

He wrote many plays but some of which are as Titus Andronicus, The 2 Noble Kinsmen, Cardenio, Titus Andronicus, Raphael Holinshed's, Tudor dynasty, Thomas Kyd, Christopher Marlowe, Seneca, Shylock and many more. Among various plays, the most popular play was “Romeo & Juliet”.