A rare few geniuses of world literature who transcend the boundaries of time for their epoch-making contributions are marked as great men, William Shakespeare being one of them.
The people of the world are still surprised and blessed to get acquainted with this literary figure of almost four hundred years ago. Literary commentators and critics can convey a vast and multifaceted meaning with a single sentence of his drama, which has not been possible till date in any other literary work. It seems that there is not a single day in the whole year, on which his plays are not performed in some country or place of the world. Such a popular and profoundly knowledgeable yet philosophical literature has never been born in the world.
Shakespeare was born on April 26, 1564 in Stratford on the Avon River in Warwickshire. His father's name was John Shakespeare and mother's name was Mary Arden. Of the seven siblings, all but William died of plague in childhood.
Not much is known about William's childhood and adolescence. But it is known that he was born into an old English landed gentry family.
His father was elected Alderman of Stratford and Bailiff of the Corporation. His interest and patronage towards stage acting is known during his tenure in all these government positions.
He helped the troupes that came to the city from outside to get direct financial support. It can be assumed that this theatricality of the father is of the son William
It was performed and developed within.
Many say that John Shakespeare was a butcher by profession. But what is reliably known from Stratford town statistics is that John was a glove maker and leather goods merchant.
It is not difficult to surmise that William was exposed to stage plays from a boyhood in the Stratford milieu. This is how his passion for poetry and acting was born.
Along with his studies, William also took care of his father's business. A common story about Shakespeare is that he used to steal deer in the Stratford area. He once fled to London to escape punishment for stealing a deer.
His livelihood was looking after the horses of those who came to see the theater in the theater. These stories are just stories, they have no basis in reality
Experts think not. At the age of eighteen, Shakespeare married Anne Hathaway, the daughter of a farmer friend of John Shakespeare's.
William was interested in poetry and acting since childhood. When he came to London, he joined a drama group. Here his early work was writing phiformous khata and plays.
Playwrights did not have much status at that time. They were treated like five other ordinary workers of the theatre.
Old documents suggest that William Globe or anotherHe did not act in any theater.
Richard Burbage, Edward Allyn and later Lord. William Shakespeare worked with Chamberlain's company.
Within a few days of his life in London, William published two collections of poems at his own expense.
He gained recognition as a poet when Venus and Adonis was published in 1593 AD and The Rape of Lucrece in 1594 AD. Plays written by William have been successfully performed on the stage.
But he had no interest in publishing them in book form. No publisher has come forward. But William is a simple worker with his natural talent He was able to pull himself up from one of the main London
As a co-owner of the troupe. William was the second of nine partners in the Globe Theatre. 1596 A.D.: William's life suffered an extreme disaster. His only son, Hamlet, was suddenly only 11 years old dies
This accident hit him hard. He then took a bus from London to Stratford.
Here in 1597 AD he bought a big house and settled permanently continued to live The new house was named New Press. William was in London for eight years. During this time he wrote plays one after another and was busy staging them. William married his two daughters Susan and Judith at Stratford in 1608 and 1616 respectively.
This world famous playwright passed away on 23rd April 1616 at the age of 52. He was buried next to the preaching altar in front of a small church in his hometown. The First Folio, the first collection of Shakespeare's plays, was first published in 1623 AD. He composed a total of 34 plays.They are:
Historical Dramas: Henry IV, Henry IV, Part II, Henry V, Henry VIII.
Historical Tragedy: Henry VI I, II, III
Share, Richard III, Richard II, King John. Tragedy: Titus Adronicus, Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth, Antony and Cleopatra, Coriolanus, Timon of Athens.
Comedies: The Comedy of Errors, The Taming of the Shrew, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Love's Labour's Lost, Midsummer Night's Dream, Merchant of Venice, Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like It, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Twelfth Knight, Troilers and Grasida, All's Well That Ends Well, Cymbeline, The Winter's Tale, The Tempest, The Two Noble Kinsmen.
Shakespeare's poetry includes: 154 sonnets, Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrecy, and a elegy, The Phoenix and Turtle
