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«Famous people of Great
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"All the world's a
stage, and all the men
and women merely
players."
was an English poet and playwright.
Не is known as the greatest writer in the English
language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist.
He is often called England's national poet and the
"Bard of Avon".
His extant works consist of about 38 plays, 154
sonnets, two long narrative poems, and a few
other verses, the authorship of some of which is
uncertain.
His plays have been translated into every major
living language and are performed more often
than those of any other playwright.
William Shakespeare was the son of John
Shakespeare, an alderman and a successful
glover, and Mary Arden, the daughter of a
farmer.
John Shakespeare's house, believed to be Shakespeare's birthplace,
in Stratford-upon-Avon.
Shakespeare’s genealogy
Emblem of the Shakespears
He was born in Stratford-upon-Avon and
baptised there on 26 April 1564. His actual date
of birth remains unknown. He was the third
child of eight and the eldest surviving son.
Although no attendance records for the period
survive, most biographers agree that
Shakespeare was probably educated at the
King's New School in Stratford,
At the age of 18, Shakespeare married the 26-yearold Anne Hathaway.
Their marriage was on
27 November 1582 and six
months after the marriage
Anne gave birth to a
daughter, Susanna, baptised
26 May 1583. Twins, son
Hamnet and daughter
Judith, followed almost two
years later and were
baptised 2 February 1585.
Hamnet died of unknown
causes at the age of 11 and
was buried 11 August 1596.
After the birth of the twins, there are seven years
of William Shakespeare's life where no records
exist.
It is also not known exactly when Shakespeare
began writing, but contemporary allusions and
records of performances show that several of his
plays were on the London stage by 1592.
Biographers suggest that his career may have
begun any time from the mid-1580s
From 1594 Shakespeare's plays were performed
by only the Lord Chamberlain's Men, a company
owned by a group of players, including
Shakespeare, that soon became the leading
playing company in London.
After the death of Queen Elizabeth in 1603, the
company was awarded a royal patent by the new
king, James I, and changed its name to the King's
Men.
In 1599, a partnership of
company members built
their own theatre on the
south bank of the River
Thames, which they
called the Globe.
The reconstructed Globe Theatre, London.
By 1598, his name had become a selling point and
began to appear on the title pages.
Shakespeare continued to act in his own and
other plays after his success as a playwright.
After 1606–1607, Shakespeare wrote fewer plays,
and none are attributed to him after 1613.
Shakespeare’s signatures on all documents from
1612 till 1613 are not very clerkly. So many
biographers suppose that William Shakespeare
was very ill.
Signature on the Last Will
Shakespeare died on 23 April 1616.
He was buried in the chancel of the Holy Trinity
Church two days after his death.
The epitaph carved into the stone slab covering
his grave:
Good frend for Iesvs sake forbeare,
To digg the dvst encloased heare.
Bleste be ye man yt spares thes stones,
And cvrst be he yt moves my bones.
(Modern spelling: Good friend, for Jesus' sake
forbear, | To dig the dust enclosed here. | Blessed be
the man that spares these stones, | And cursed be he
that moves my bones.)
Sometime before 1623, a
funerary monument was
erected in his memory on the
north wall, with a half-effigy
of him in the act of writing.
Shakespeare's funerary monument
in Stratford-upon-Avon.
Most playwrights of the period typically
collaborated with others at some point, and critics
agree that Shakespeare did the same, mostly early
and late in his career.
The first recorded works of Shakespeare are
Richard III and the three parts of Henry VI, written
in the early 1590s during a vogue for historical
drama.
In the early 17th
century, Shakespeare
wrote the so-called
"problem plays"
Measure for Measure,
Troilus and Cressida, and
All's Well That Ends
Well and a number of
his best known
tragedies, like Romeo
and Juliet, Hamlet,
Macbeth, Othello, King
Lir and other.
Shakespeare's sonnets are a
collection of 154 sonnets,
dealing with themes such as
the passage of time, love,
beauty and mortality, first
published in 1609.
The first 17 poems, traditionally called the
procreation sonnets, are addressed to a young
man urging him to marry and have children in
order to immortalize his beauty by passing it to
the next generation.
Other sonnets express the speaker's love for a
young man; brood upon loneliness, death, and the
transience of life; seem to criticise the young man
for preferring a rival poet; express ambiguous
feelings for the speaker's mistress; and pun on the
poet's name.
The final two sonnets are allegorical treatments of
Greek epigrams referring to the "little love-god"
Cupid.
Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments, love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove.
O no, it is an ever fixèd mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wand'ring bark,
Whose worth's unknown although his height be
taken.
Love's not time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come,
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom:
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.
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