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Shakespear was bon in Stratford-on-Avon, Warwickshire, located in the center of England. On April 23, 1564. His father, John, was a glove-maker and married Mary Arden. They settled in a home in Henley Street, in Stratford. This is where he attended school. This is where he started to get his ideas for plots and characters for his plays. In November he married Anne Hathaway. He was 18 and she was 26. They had 3 children; Susanna, and a set of twins; Hamnet and Judith. Shakespear left Stratford for London and became a professional actor and play writer. His reputation for this started in 1592. His first two works published were poems, Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece. Most of his other worls were not printed til 1609. In 1594, he joined a theater company called Lord Chamberlain's Men. He did this for almost twenty years, performing in, on average, two plays a year. He was very successful and became weathly in 1597. He bought New Place in Stratford at this time. In 1599 The Lord Chamberlain's Men built The Globe. It was also known as "the wooden O". In 1613, The Globe was burnt down during a performance of Henery VIII. It was rebuilt the following year. Over all Shakespear wrote about 37 plays in his career. He died on April 23, 1616.
Durband, Alan. Shakespear Made Easy. Hauppauge, NY: Barron's Educational Series, Inc., 1985 "About Shakespear-William Shakespear: An Outline of His Life". The Shakespeare Birth Place Trust- About Shakespear. 6 December 1999 <http/www.shakespeare.org.uk/about_shake.htm>
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A Few Facts About This Play The story of Hamlet was first told by Saxo Grammaticus in 1514 as The History of Denmark. Then Thomas Kyd wrote his own verson off of Grammatics. Hamlet was first acted out in 1599. It was entered in The Stationers Register in 1602.
Durband, Alan.Shakespear Made Easy. Hauppauge, NY: Barron's Educational Series, Inc., 1985 |
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