William Shakespeare, about

At 18 he married Anne Hathaway, the daughter of Richard Hathaway, a local farmer. They had 3 children with named, Susanna, Hamnet and Judith.

Career

Shakespeare started his career in London and established a reputation by 1952, his earliest plays included; Henry VI, the Two Gentlemen of Verona, and Titus Andronicus. However a man named Robert Greene, was envious of his success and called him “an upstart crow”. 1n 1594, Shakespeare joined others in forming a new theatre company under the control of the Lord Chamberlain, with Richard Burbage as its leading actor. For almost twenty years Shakespeare was its regular play writer, producing an average of two plays a year. Shakespeare's success in the London theatres made him wealthy and in 1597 he bought one of the largest houses in Stratford. He kept close to his home town even though his professional career was in London.

          The Globe

In 1599 the acting company with which Shakespeare was involved, the Lord Chamberlain's Men, built a new theatre, . Situated on the south bank of the Thames, it is the theatre most closely associated with Shakespeare's plays, and he was one of the shareholders in the enterprise. Two of his plays, Henry V and Julius Caesar, were written during the year in which the Globe opened. In 1613, during a performance of Henry VIII, a fire broke out and destroyed the Globe, but it was rebuilt the following year.                        The Globe Theatre                   It later closed in 1642.        

Death

William Shakespeare died on April, 23 1616, (the same date he was born) at the age of 52 and was later buried on April 25th, in the same church where he was baptised: Stratford’s Holy Trinity church. His cause of death is unknown.

                                        

                                                                                      His Tomb

Bibliography

In researching for my project the internet mostly helped me to learn and collect information for my project. These are the sites I used:

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I also used a book I found in the library very useful:

Skakespeare, Life and work,

Appendix

For images in this research project I used Google image search. I found this very useful to collect images on all aspects of Shakespeare.  Another site I used was  this was very informative and helped me learn a great deal more about Shakespeare. I used , for the more simple facts e.g. where he was born, when he died etc. I also found Wikipedia very helpful for pictures.