He is considered to be the greatest dramatic all over the world.
He was born in Stratford upon Avon. He was a son of glove maker John Shakespeare and his wife Merry Arden. He was the youngest child in family (he had one brother and one sister). He studied local grammar school and very often walked along the banks of Avon – this surroundings became a great spring for his later literate works.
He got married very early, when he was only 18 years old. He married to Anne Hathaway, who was about 8 years older then William. Together they had three children – daughter Judith with her twin boy Hamnet and next daughter Susan.
After this he went to London, where he started his carrier. He became a member of the theatrical group Lord Chamberlain’s men. Here he rewrote the old plays to the common drama-style. He became very well known in higher society.
Elizabeth I. and King James I. started to be very interested in his works and so they decided to support the group around William Shakespeare. This group was renamed to King’s men and began to earn a lot of money.
In the year 1599 he had already enough money to buy his own theater – and it was the Globe Theater. In these times he wrote his most famous plays.
But one day died his only 11 years old son Hamnet and that was a strange strike on his psychic. He decided to return to Stratford. He was quite rich enough in these times to buy here new house. He lived here a peaceful and quite boring life then before. He had a beautiful relationship with his daughter Susan.
He died in 1616 of a heart attack during his birthday celebration. The legend says, that this celebration was very wild and that the reason of William’s death was that he was too much over drunk.
CARRIER
He wrote 37 plays and sonnets. His work we can divide into three parts :
COMEDIES
the Comedy of Errors, the taming of the Shrew, The two gentlemen of Verona, The merchant of Venice, A Midsummer-night’s dream, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Much Ado about nothing, As you like it, Twelfth Night.
HISTORY PLAYS
Henry IV,V,VI, Richard III, Richard II and Julius Caesar
TRAGEDIES
Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth