William Shakespeare April 26, 1564 - April 23, 1616

By Josh Saylors

HIS PLAYS

Tragedies

• Antony and Cleopatra • Coriolanus • Hamlet • Julius Caesar • King Lear

• Macbeth • Othello • Romeo and Juliet • Timon of Athens • Titus Andronicus

Histories

• Henry IV, Part I • Henry IV, Part II • Henry V • Henry VI, Part I • Henry VI, Part II

• Henry VI, Part III • Henry VIII • King John • Richard II • Richard III

Comedies

1. All's Well That Ends Well2. As You Like It 3. The Comedy of Errors4. Cymbeline 5. Love's Labours Lost 6. Measure for Measure 7. The Merry Wives of Windsor 8. The Merchant of Venice 9. A Midsummer Night's

Dream 10. Much Ado About Nothing

1. Pericles, Prince of Tyre 2. The Taming of the

Shrew 3. The Tempest 4. Troilus and Cressida 5. Twelfth Night 6. Two Gentlemen of

Verona 7. The Winter's Tale

Shakespeare's Birth

• The actual date of Shakespeare's birth is not known, but, traditionally, April 23, St George's Day, has been Shakespeare's accepted birthday, and a house on Henley Street in Stratford, owned by William's father, John, is accepted as Shakespeare's birth place

Shakespeare's House in Stratford-Upon-Avon

Shakespeare's Parents

• Shakespeare's father, John, came to Stratford from Snitterfield before 1532

• Mary Arden, the daughter of the wealthy Robert Arden of Wilmecote

SHAKESPEARE'S EDUCATION AND CHILDHOOD

• Shakespeare probably began his education at the age of six or seven at the Stratford grammar school

• In 1553, due to a charter by King Edward VI, the school became known as the King's New School of Stratford-upon-Avon.

Writings1. The Men Who Would Be King: A

Look at Royalty in Exile, Sidgwick & Jackson (London), 1984.

2. Londoners, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1986.

3. The Vision of Elena Silves (novel), Harvill (London), 1989, Knopf (New York), 1990.

4. High Flyer (novel), Harvill, 1993. 5. (Author of introduction) Gabriel

Garcia Marquez, Love in the Time of Cholera, translated by Edith Grossman, Random House (New York City), 1997.

1. The Dancer Upstairs (novel), Nan A. Talese (New York City), 1997.

2. Bruce Chatwin (biography), Nan A. Talese, 2000.

3. In Tasmania, Harvill Press (London, England), 2004.

4. Snowleg, Harcourt (Orlando, FL), 2004.

• His work was made in the Elizabethan time.

• The parish register of Holy Trinity Church in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, shows that he was baptized there on April 26, 1564

• His wife, Mary Arden, of Wilmcote, Warwickshire, came from an ancient family and was the heiress to some land

The forever William Shakespeare Ha ha

Sources

• http://www.shakespeare-online.com/biography/#birth

• "Shakespeare, William." Encyclopædia Britannica. 2009. Encyclopædia Britannica Online Library Edition. 30 Oct. 2009 <http://www.library.eb.com/eb/article-232303>.