Shakespeare
William Shakespeare was an Englishman born to a leather merchant and Mary Arden, a local land heiress, on April 1564 in Stratford-Upon-Avon. John Shakespeare was a successful merchant who held official positions as an alderman, and later on as a bailiff. William Shakespeare, 18 years old, married 26 year old Anne Hathaway on November 28, 1582. They had three children together.
William Shakespeare was a major poet who was credited with writing 2 popular narrative poems, 154 sonnets, and 40 plays. He earned a living as an actor who was a member of Lord of Chamberlain’s Men Company, later renamed King’s Men. He published his first narrative poem in 1593.
Early on, William Shakespeare did not write in the conventional style of the day with elaborate metaphors and rhetoric that didn’t sound natural, nor had anything to do with the plot or characters in the story. He started changing this traditional style soon wrote in a variety of styles. Some of his earlier work was history plays and comedies, with the exception of Romeo and Juliet. Later on, his plays included tragedies based on human temperaments that drove the twists and turns of the plots that often destroyed the hero.
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