By: Mariana and Minerva

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

He is an English poet, playwright and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world´s pre-eminent dramatist.The date of his birth isn´t known but he was baptized on the 26 of April in 1564 and he died on the 23rd of April in 1616.Shakespeare is the second most quoted writer in the English language – after various writers of the Bible.

WHO IS HE

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Shakespeare married his wife Anne Hathaway when he was 18. She was 26 and she was pregnant when they married. Their first child was born six months after the wedding.

 

HIS MARRIED LIFE

During his life, Shakespeare wrote 37 plays and 154 sonnets! This means an average 1.5 plays a year since he first started writing in 1589. His last play The Two Noble Kinsmen is reckoned to have been written in 1613 when he was 49 years old. While he was writing the plays at such a pace he was also conducting a family life, a social life and a full business life, running an acting company and a theatre.

HIS PLAYS

Apart from writing his numerous plays and sonnets, Shakespeare was also an actor who performed many of his own plays as well as those of other playwrights. During his life Shakespeare performed before Queen Elizabeth I, and, later, before James I who was an enthusiastic patron of his work.

HIS LIFE AS AN ACTOR

Suicide occurs an unlucky thirteen times in Shakespeare’s plays. It occurs in Romeo and Juliet where both Romeo and Juliet commit suicide, in Julius Caesar where both Cassius and Brutus die by consensual stabbing, as well as Brutus’ wife Portia.

SUICIDE IN HIS BOOKS

Almost four hundred years after Shakespeare’s death there are 157 million pages referring to him on Google. There are 132 million for God, 2.7 million for Elvis Presley, and coming up on Shakespeare’s heels, George W Bush with 14.7 million.

GOOGLE SEARCH

William Shakespeare is really important because he changed the literature media a lot. There a lot of important messages in his stories and it is important to understand them.

CONCLUSION