home

=** Shakespeare's Life **= = **﻿ ** = ﻿William Shakespeare was known as the greatest writers English lauguage. He was born on April 23, 1564 in Stratford. At the age of 18, Shakespeare married Anne Hathaway. She was a local Farmers daughter eight years his senior year. He had 3 kids. Susanna was born six months later in 1583. In 1585 he had twins, Judith and Hamnet. His parents were John and Mary Adren﻿. They lived on Henley Street.

Shakespeare attended the local grammar school in Stratford, where his parents lived. Little is known about his overall education. He publishesd 154 sonnets, a few miscellanous, and 37 plays for which he was famous for. He had wrote plenty more in his future. Shakespeare died on April 23, 1616. He was buried 2 days later in the Channet of Holy Trinty Church. He could have been exacly 52 years of baptized.

6 years before he was born Elizabeth I became queen in England. She supported all the arts in the Renaissance era. Since the early 1590's Shakespeare was affiliated with a theater company known as The Lord Chamberlain's Men. Shakespeare wrote screenplays and was a shareholder, he also occasionally worked as an actor for his own work. In 1599 he became part owner of the Globe Theater, for years later queen Elizabeth died. They them got a sponser from King James I and became known as the King's Men.

The Globe Theatre is a faithful reconstruction of the open-air playhouse first built in 1599, where Shakespeare worked and for which he wrote many of his greatest plays. Each year the theatre season runs from April to October with productions of the work by Shakespeare and modern authors, and plays to an audience of 350,000 who experience the ‘wooden O’ sitting in a gallery or standing as a groundling in the yard, just as they would have done 400 years ago.

