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William

Shakespeare

Who was he?

PROF. LIC. Nisela Cittadino

Sources of information

1.Documentary Evidence

2.References by

Contemporaries

3.Hearsay/Gossip

First Period His Family Birth Date April, 23rd 1564 Stratford-Upon- Avon Birth Place Middle Class John Shakespeare Mary Arden^ (Father) (Mother)

Education Anne Hathaway (Wife)

Stratford Grammar School/

King’s New school of

Stratford-upon-Avon.

Religion His family might have been Catholic Marriage and Children Susanna Judith Hamnet (Children)

The Seven Lost

Years

PART 2

a) He might have worked for an attorney. b) He might have had an affair with someone related to his family. c) He might have offered himself as an actor or playwright so as to become renewed. d) He might have offended Sir Thomas Lucy by poaching /pəʊtʃ/ (to catch and kill animals without permission on someone else's land) deer on his grounds and had to leave Stratford to avoid prosecution. Oxford students usually did this to challenge each other, as a game, it wasn’t because they needed the food. e) He might have met the Queen and she might have asked him to spy in Spain (Anglo-

Life in London

Life in London

His Plays

His Death

In 1585 he arrived

in London. He

rented property until

he was able to

purchase his own in

The heart of the country. The land of opportunities. Overpopulation Unsafe Unhealthy (rat-infested, epidemic diseases, bubonic plague) Polluted Fires and riots were part of Londoners’ everyday life. Ceaseless motion Tradition has it that William Shakespeare died on his birthday, April 23, 1616, though many scholars believe this is a myth. Church records show he was interred at Trinity Church on April 25, 1616. Major entertainment Not published but performed. None of Shakespeare’s plays own manuscripts survive, so we only have the works that were published. -Folio Edition 4 parts(1623) (Folded in two) -Quarto Edition 8 parts (Folded in four)