William shakespeare

William Shakespeare

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Who is William Shakespeare?

The Final Years

How did he influence the dramas today?

Between the years 1610 and 1613, Shakespeare returned to live in Stratford-upon-Avon. His wife and his daughters and their husbands also lived there, and he owned a large house and even some other property.

William Shakespeare was a man that lived from 1564-1616. In the early life he lived in Stratford on Avon, England, then in 1590 he moved to London with his wife Marries Anne Hathaway, and his three kids; Susanna, Hamnet and Judith. He was a poet an actor and a playwright. he made allot of plays about everything, but especially about romance and tragedy.

William Shakespeare influenced all of the drama which followed him by setting a higher standard for character development, pacing, dramatic structure and plot. even thought the lines Shakespeare wrote for his characters are amazingly potent, and most actors want to be able to say them, their style did not affect later playwrights that much.

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William Shakespeare died in Stratford on April 23, 1616, and was buried on April 25. Seven years after his death, in 1623, his collected plays were published in the work now known as the First Folio.

Questioning Shakespeare's Authorship

Shakespeare in London

Shakespeare's 37 plays

Shakespeare made 37 plays, but some of his most well known plays are:

Since the mid-1800s, some have argued that Shakespeare couldn't have written the plays it is sayd that he made. Some people believe that someone else made them, the suspected people of making them are: Queen Elizabeth, Sir Francis Bacon, Christopher Marlowe, and Edward de Vere, the Earl of Oxford.

Comedies

Histories

Tragedies

After Shakespeare moved to London with his family in 1590, his plays got popular really fast, and just two years later in 1592 he became a leading actor and playwright. In 1595 he had finished the play; Romeo and Juliet and performed it.

• King John
• Henry IV
• Richard III
• Henry VIII

• Romeo and Juliet
• Hamlet
• Antony and Cleopatra
• Julius Caesar

• All's Well That Ends Well
• Measure for Measure
• Twelfth Night
• The Merry Wives of Windsor

The biggest reasons to why Shakespeare couldn't have made the plays, is that the plays must have been made by someone with an excellent "grammar-school" education and a life of experience in London and the London theater.

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