William Shakespeare

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William Shakespeare
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William Shakespeare

• Was born 26. of April, 1564, and died 23. of
  April, 1616.
• In 1582 Shakespeare married the eight year-older
  Anne Hathaway. They had three children, Susanna,
  Hamnet and He is one of the greatest writer that
  the English world, perhaps the entier world has
  ever seen.
• He is known for his dramatic tragedies, like
  Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet, but also for some of
  the funniest comedies that has been performed on
  a English stage.

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His work

• We can separate his dramatic work into four
  different periods.
• In the period from 1589 1594, he wrote historical
  plays, about English history.
• Richard III and King Henrik VI is examples of
  plays from this period.
• Shakespeare had moral values like honesty,
  curage, trust and pitty in his work.
• Shakespeare was also very good to use olf
  sources, like Saxo Grammaticus Gesta Danorum.