EARLY LIFE

• William shakesphere was baptized
• at Holy Trinity Church in Stratford-upon-Avon on April 26, 1564.
• From this, it is believed he was born on or near April 23,
• is the date scholars acknowledge as William Shakespeare's birthday.

MARRIED LIFE

• William Shakespeare married Anne Hathaway
• on November 28, 1582, in Worcester, in Canterbury Province
• William was 18 and Anne was 26,

STYLE OF WRITTING

• conventional style
• with elaborate metaphors and rhetorical phrases
• that didn't always align naturally with the story's plot or characters.
• Shakespeare was very innovative, adapting the traditional style

Early Works: Histories and Comedies

• With the exception of Romeo and Juliet,
• William Shakespeare's first plays were mostly histories
• dramatize the destructive results of weak or corrupt rulers,
• Shakespeare also wrote several comedies during his early period

Later Works: Tragedies and Tragicomedies

• It was in William Shakespeare's later period, after 1600
• that he wrote the tragedies Hamlet, King Lear, Othello and Macbeth.
• Shakespeare's characters present vivid impressions of human temperament
• that are timeless and universal.
• Possibly the best known of these plays is Hamlet, which explores betrayal, retribution, incest and moral failure.

DEATH:

• William Shakespeare died on his birthday, April 23, 1616,
• though many scholars believe this is a myth.
• Church records show he was interred in the church April 5, 1616
• In his will, he left the bulk of his possessions to his eldest daughter, Susanna.
• People believe William and Anne fell apart and grew further apart from each other even though It hasn't been proven

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