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"All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players."

was an English poet and playwright. Не is known as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon". His extant works consist of about 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and a few other verses, the authorship of some of which is uncertain. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright.

William Shakespeare was the son of John Shakespeare, an alderman and a successful glover, and Mary Arden, the daughter of a farmer. John Shakespeare's house, believed to be Shakespeare's birthplace, in Stratford-upon-Avon.

Shakespeare’s genealogy

Emblem of the Shakespears

He was born in Stratford-upon-Avon and baptised there on 26 April His actual date of birth remains unknown. He was the third child of eight and the eldest surviving son. Although no attendance records for the period survive, most biographers agree that Shakespeare was probably educated at the King's New School in Stratford,

At the age of 18, Shakespeare married the 26-year- old Anne Hathaway.

Their marriage was on 27 November 1582 and six months after the marriage Anne gave birth to a daughter, Susanna, baptised 26 May Twins, son Hamnet and daughter Judith, followed almost two years later and were baptised 2 February Hamnet died of unknown causes at the age of 11 and was buried 11 August 1596.

After the birth of the twins, there are seven years of William Shakespeare's life where no records exist. It is also not known exactly when Shakespeare began writing, but contemporary allusions and records of performances show that several of his plays were on the London stage by Biographers suggest that his career may have begun any time from the mid-1580s

From 1594 Shakespeare's plays were performed by only the Lord Chamberlain's Men, a company owned by a group of players, including Shakespeare, that soon became the leading playing company in London. After the death of Queen Elizabeth in 1603, the company was awarded a royal patent by the new king, James I, and changed its name to the King's Men.

In 1599, a partnership of company members built their own theatre on the south bank of the River Thames, which they called the Globe. The reconstructed Globe Theatre, London.

By 1598, his name had become a selling point and began to appear on the title pages. Shakespeare continued to act in his own and other plays after his success as a playwright.

After 1606–1607, Shakespeare wrote fewer plays, and none are attributed to him after Shakespeare’s signatures on all documents from 1612 till 1613 are not very clerkly. So many biographers suppose that William Shakespeare was very ill. Signature on the Last Will

Shakespeare died on 23 April He was buried in the chancel of the Holy Trinity Church two days after his death.

The epitaph carved into the stone slab covering his grave: Good frend for Iesvs sake forbeare, To digg the dvst encloased heare. Bleste be ye man yt spares thes stones, And cvrst be he yt moves my bones. (Modern spelling: Good friend, for Jesus' sake forbear, | To dig the dust enclosed here. | Blessed be the man that spares these stones, | And cursed be he that moves my bones. )

Sometime before 1623, a funerary monument was erected in his memory on the north wall, with a half-effigy of him in the act of writing. Shakespeare's funerary monument in Stratford-upon-Avon.

Most playwrights of the period typically collaborated with others at some point, and critics agree that Shakespeare did the same, mostly early and late in his career. The first recorded works of Shakespeare are Richard III and the three parts of Henry VI, written in the early 1590s during a vogue for historical drama.

In the early 17th century, Shakespeare wrote the so-called "problem plays" Measure for Measure, Troilus and Cressida, and All's Well That Ends Well and a number of his best known tragedies, like Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Macbeth, Othello, King Lir and other.

Shakespeare's sonnets are a collection of 154 sonnets, dealing with themes such as the passage of time, love, beauty and mortality, first published in 1609.

The first 17 poems, traditionally called the procreation sonnets, are addressed to a young man urging him to marry and have children in order to immortalize his beauty by passing it to the next generation. Other sonnets express the speaker's love for a young man; brood upon loneliness, death, and the transience of life; seem to criticise the young man for preferring a rival poet; express ambiguous feelings for the speaker's mistress; and pun on the poet's name. The final two sonnets are allegorical treatments of Greek epigrams referring to the "little love-god" Cupid.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments, love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove. O no, it is an ever fixèd mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken; It is the star to every wand'ring bark, Whose worth's unknown although his height be taken. Love's not time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come, Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom: If this be error and upon me proved, I never writ, nor no man ever loved.

 Where and when was he born?  What date did he die?  How many brothers and sisters did he have?  What were his parents names?  Who did he marry in November 1582?  How many children did they have?  What did he write?  What Shakespearean plays do you know?