Shakespeare

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    Shakespeare's birth

    Shakespeare's birth
    Shakespeare was born and raised in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire. He was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon"

    Stratford-upon-Avon
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    Career in London

    He began a successful career in London as an actor, writer, and part-owner ("sharer") of a playing company called the Lord Chamberlain's Men, later known as the King's Men
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    known works

    Shakespeare produced most of his known works between 1589 and 1613.[11][12] His early plays were primarily comedies and histories and are regarded as some of the best works produced in these genres. He then wrote mainly tragedies until 1608, among them Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth, all considered to be among the finest works in the English language.

  • ROMEO &JULIET

    ROMEO &JULIET
    Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare early in his career .Believed to have been written between*1591* and 1595 and premiered in 1597

  • GLOBE THEATRE

    GLOBE THEATRE
    The*Globe Theatre* was a theatre in London associated with William Shakespeare. It was built in 1599 at Southwark, close to the south bank of the Thames, by Shakespeare's playing company, the Lord Chamberlain's Men. It was destroyed by fire on 29 June 1613

  • HAMLET

    HAMLET
    The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, often shortened to Hamlet is a tragedy written sometime between 1599 and 1601. It is Shakespeare's longest play,with 29,551 words. Set in Denmark, the play depicts Prince Hamlet and his attempts to exact revenge against his uncle, Claudius, who has murdered Hamlet's father in order to seize his throne and marry Hamlet's mother.

  • Bubonic plague in London

    Bubonic plague in London
    Bubonic plague raged in London throughout 1609.[72][73] The London public playhouses were repeatedly closed during extended outbreaks of the plague which meant there was often no acting work.After 1610, Shakespeare wrote fewer plays, and none are attributed to him after 1613

  • Death

    Death
    Shakespeare died on 23 April 1616, at the age of 52.He had a sudden death that raised a lot of speculation.
    The epitaph carved into the stone slab covering his grave includes a curse against moving his bones, 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. A PROTAGONIST TO HIS LAST MOMENT!!!