William Shakespeare

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William Shakespeare

• 1564-1616

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Biography

• born on April 23, 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon
• son of John Shakespeare, butcher and also glover
  (maker and seller of gloves) and Mary, his wife
  from a well-established family and a heiress of
  some land
• went to Stratford Grammar School,
• now called Edward VI Grammar School for Boys
  
• pictures from the school
• married Anne Hathaway at the age of 18
• they had three children Suzanna and the twins
  Judith and Hamnet
• left Stratford quite early, some rumours suggest
  he did it to avoid a charge for poaching deer
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His birthplace
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• in 1592 he is established in London
• starts a theatre company in 1593, called Lord
  Chamberlains Men, later known as The Kings Men
• writes lots of plays and sonnets and is soon
  regarded as the greatest playwright of all time
• He has written 37 plays, 154 sonnets (a poem
  of fourteen lines that follow a strict rhyme
  scheme and logical structure) and lots of other
  poems
• He started writing poems in the late 16th
  century because the Elizabethans considered the
  writing of poetry to be more important than the
  writing of plays
• Hamlets monologue ( på närpesiska!)
• Sonnet 18
• Sonnet 130
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Anne Hathaways Cottage
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• In 1599 he is involved in the building of a new
  theatre,
• the Globe

the Globe rebuilt and completed in 1995
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• Later in life he returned to Stratford where he
  died on April 23, 1616
• Buried in Holy Trinity Church in Stratford
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Private pictures as well as pictures from
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