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William Shakespeare´s Biography




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William Shakespeare’s Biography

 
 

 

Watch the video and answer the questions.

 

When was William Shakespeare born? in 1464 in 1554 in 1564.

Where was he born? in London in Stratford-Upon-Avon in Devon.

 

His father was a teacher a landowner a local businessman.

He married Anne Hathaway in 1572 in 1582, when he was 18 28 years old.

She was younger older than him.

They had 2 3 4 5 children : boy and girls.

 

Because the next years of his life are a mystery, they are called the vanished years the mystery years the lost years.

 

A few years later, he lived in and he worked in a

 

The Lord Chamberlain’s Men was a WhatsApp group a political party an acting company.

Shakespeare was an and a .

The company became very rich poor popular terrible.

Which plays did he write during this period? A Midsummer Night’s Dream Romeo & Juliet Twelfth Night

The plays were performed in the Circle Theatre the Round Theatre the Globe Theatre.

 

Later in his life, Shakespeare wrote the famous plays…

Richard III King Lear Othello Henry VIII Macbeth Twelfth Night Hamlet

 

He retired and died in 1616 in 1626 in 1636.

Shakespeare is often called the British National Poet the English National Poet the English International Poet.