1. William Shakespeare April 26, 1564 - April 23, 1616 By Josh Saylors

2. HIS PLAYS

3. Tragedies Antony and Cleopatra Coriolanus Hamlet Julius Caesar King Lear Macbeth Othello Romeo and Juliet Timon of Athens Titus Andronicus

4. Histories Henry IV, Part I Henry IV, Part II Henry V Henry VI, Part I Henry VI, Part II Henry VI, Part III Henry VIII King John Richard II Richard III

5. Comedies 1.All's Well That Ends Well 2.As You Like It 3.The Comedy of Errors 4.Cymbeline 5.Love's Labours Lost 6.Measure for Measure 7.The Merry Wives of Windsor 8.The Merchant of Venice 9.A Midsummer Night's Dream 10.Much Ado About Nothing 1.Pericles, Prince of Tyre 2.The Taming of the Shrew 3.The Tempest 4.Troilus and Cressida 5.Twelfth Night 6.Two Gentlemen of Verona 7.The Winter's Tale

6. Shakespeare's Birth The actual date of Shakespeare's birth is not known, but, traditionally, April 23, St George's Day, has been Shakespeare's accepted birthday, and a house on Henley Street in Stratford, owned by William's father, John, is accepted as Shakespeare's birth place

7. Shakespeare's House in Stratford-Upon-Avon

8. Shakespeare's Parents Shakespeare's father, John, came to Stratford from Snitterfield before 1532 Mary Arden, the daughter of the wealthy Robert Arden of Wilmecote

9. SHAKESPEARE'S EDUCATION AND CHILDHOOD Shakespeare probably began his education at the age of six or seven at the Stratford grammar school In 1553, due to a charter by King Edward VI, the school became known as the King's New School of Stratford-upon-Avon.

10. Writings 1.The Men Who Would Be King: A Look at Royalty in Exile, Sidgwick & Jackson (London), 1984. 2.Londoners, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1986. 3.The Vision of Elena Silves (novel), Harvill (London), 1989, Knopf (New York), 1990. 4.High Flyer (novel), Harvill, 1993. 5.(Author of introduction) Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Love in the Time of Cholera, translated by Edith Grossman, Random House (New York City), 1997. 1.The Dancer Upstairs (novel), Nan A. Talese (New York City), 1997. 2.Bruce Chatwin (biography), Nan A. Talese, 2000. 3.In Tasmania, Harvill Press (London, England), 2004. 4.Snowleg, Harcourt (Orlando, FL), 2004.

11. His work was made in the Elizabethan time. The parish register of Holy Trinity Church in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, shows that he was baptized there on April 26, 1564 His wife, Mary Arden, of Wilmcote, Warwickshire, came from an ancient family and was the heiress to some land

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13. Sources http://www.shakespeare- online.com/biography/#birth http://www.shakespeare- online.com/biography/#birth "Shakespeare, William." Encyclopædia Britannica. 2009. Encyclopædia Britannica Online Library Edition. 30 Oct. 2009.http://www.library.eb.com/eb /article-232303