Shakespeare’s+life2

===Shakespeare was a talented man, and throughout his life he showed wisdom, knowledge, and fasination for the arts. Among the arts he enjoyed acting and writing, in which both he succeeded greatly. Shakespeare was a special man that we enjoyed researching. He was born in 1564 and died in 1616, and below is all the events that occured inbetween.===

=__EARLY YEARS__=
 * Shakespeare was born on April 26th, 1564 in Stratford-Upon-Avon.
 * His parents were John and Mary Shakespeare.
 * William Shakespeare's family did not have a lot of money.
 * William was one of eight children. He had four sisters and three brothers.
 * William attended King Edward IV Grammar School as a child from ages 7 to 14.
 * As a child, he lived in Stratford- Upon- Avon.
 * His father was a glove-maker, and the chaimberlain of Stratford.

=__MIDDLE YEARS__=
 * Wiliam Shakespeare was married on November 27th, 1582, to Anne Hathaway. Shakespeare was only eighteen when he got married, and Anne was eight years older than William.
 * They had a daughter six months after they got married on May 26th, 1583, and named her Susanna.
 * On Feburary 2nd, 1585, two twins Hamnet and Judis were born.
 * There were no more accounts of other children after the twins were born, so William and Anne had only three [|children].
 * In 1623, [|Anne Hathaway] died at the age of sixty seven.

=__THE MISSING YEARS__= =__LATER YEARS__= If you would like to know more about the death of William Shakespeare, please click the following link, [|The Death Of William Shakespeare.]
 * Nothing is known of Shakespeare's life for the next seven years between the christianing of Judis and Hamnet and Shakespeare's appearance in London. There were no records found, so many researchers only have theories of what Shakespeare could have been doing during these Missing Years.
 * Between 1586 and 1592, Shakespeare was a school master in Lancashire.
 * He was an established man of the theater. He started writing plays and getting interested in several acting groups.
 * Shakespeare wrote the play "Tigers heart wrapped in a player's hide."
 * He was an atheist and Machiavellian. This means that he did not believe in a god.
 * By 1592, Shakespeare had become an actor and had written many plays.
 * Between 1592 - 1594 Shakespeare presented himself as a poet.
 * His 1st [|poem] was "Venus and Adonis," along with "The Rape of Lucrece." These were published 1593 and 1594.
 * In 1592, Shakespeare left Stratford and his wife and kids and went to London. This was because we wanted to earn more money for his family. England had grown more prosperous under the rule of Queen Elizabeth.
 * William joined Lord Chamberlain's acting company for Queen Elizabeth. He quickly became the leading member of this acting group. He served in this group as an actor and playwright for most of his career.
 * Lord Chamberlain's men built a new theater, the Globe Theater. This theater was most associated with Shaespeare's plays. In 1613, a fire destroyed the Globe, but it was rebuilt the following year.
 * 1595- he did a presentation at court in Greenwiten for two comedies.
 * Gave 32 performances for Queen Elizabeth during her reign.
 * He held 1/7th interest in the Black Prayers after it ws aquired by The Globe Theater.
 * Shakespeare wrote 38 plays between 1590 - 1591 and 1612 - 1615
 * Also in 1596 he served in court on the part of William Wayte.
 * 1597 Shakespeare bought [|New Place] were he planned to retire. New Place was the name that was given to Shakespeare's last residence where he retired. New Place was one of the largest houses in Stratford. http://www.stratford-upon-avon.co.uk/images/newpljd_868.jpg -an image of New Place.
 * 1612 - 1613 he retired.
 * He died on April 23, 1616. Shakespeare was at the age of 52 when he passed away.

__**Shakespeare's Works**__
All's Well That Ends Well As You Like It The Comedy of Errors Cymbeline Love's Labours Lost Measure for Measure The Merry Wives of Windsor The Merchant of Venice A Midsummer Night's Dream Much Ado About Nothing Pericles, Prince of Tyre Taming of the Shrew The Tempest Troilus and Cressida Twelfth Night Two Gentlemen of Verona Winter's Tale Antony and Cleopatra Corilanus Hamlet Julius Caeser King Lear Macbeth Ortherllo [|Romeo and Juliet] Timon and Athens Titus Andronicus The Sonnets A Lover's Complaint The Rape of Lucrece Venus and Adonis Funeral Elegy by W.S.
 * __Comedies__**
 * __Tragedies__**
 * __Poetry__**

SHAKESPEAREAN FACTS -William Shakespeare's birth and death was on the same day, April 23rd. -Only five of William's eight siblings survived until adulthood. -Shakespeare lived through the Black Death. This was a plague that had killed 33,000 people in London alone. -William never published any of his plays. We read them today becuase of John Hemminges and Henry Condell, William's fellow actors. -Shakeseare is responsible for over 1,700 words that we use everyday such as bedroom, housekeeping, and assassination, and many common phrases such as "breaking the ice" and "all that glitters is not gold". -William Shakespeare's children Hamnet, Judith,and Susanna lived to the ages of eleven, seventy-seven, and sixty-six.

__**Some Sources Used**__ http://www.william-shakespeare.info/william-shakespeare-children-and-grandchildren.htm http://www.william-shakespeare.info/william-shakespeare-anne-hathaway.htm http://www.william-shakespeare.info/william-shakespeare-poems.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Place http://www.onlineshakespeare.com/death.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Chamberlain http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romeo_and_Juliet http://www.balletmet.org/Notes/Shakespeare.html

BY: Andra Dunlap Meghan Heimbouch