biography of shakespear

assignment:Your First Blog Entry Will be A Biography in your own words on William Shakespeare. This is due Thursday (posted to your blog site.)

William Shakespeare was not only a good actor he was a great poet and play write who is still well known today. William Shakespeare was born in April 26,1564 born in Stratford, London. Shakespeare was married to Anne Hathaway in 1582, when he was just 18 years old. He had three children, Susanna, Hamnet and Judith. Shakespeare's work in the theaters came to a halt in January of 1593 when a plague broke into london. He then joined the Lord Chamberlain's Men, an acting company becoming a partner in, 1595. Thus becaming very wealthy in his thirty's.

His son Hamnet died the next year in 1596 he was very young. In 1603, Queen Elizabeth died and so Shakespeare’s company was taken under the wing of King James the 1st so the company was renamed the The King's men. Because Shakespeare worked and performed for the king, this company became the biggest acting company in Europe. The number of theatergoers from different social levels enjoyed his very versatile/diverse plays. Shakespeare’s fame grew immensely throughout London after that.

Shakespeare retired and left London in, 1611. He made a will on March 25, 1616 and died on April 23, 1616 three days before his birthday. He was only fifty two years old. Shakespeare also wrote his own epitaph because of the disrespect for the dead. People would dig up corpses to bury another in its place. Shakespeare told them why, what they were doing was wrong and no one has disturbed his grave to this day.

Shakespeare in his life accomplish so many things from his career, to his life as a poet/writer as well as father. Shakespeare has also created 38 plays and 154 sonnets that we know of. His plays were and are well known to this day varying from comedies, histories, tragedies and tragicomedies etc.. William Shakespeare made over 20,000 words that contributed to the English language. He was and is the best play write of all time. His words and stories will live on forever!

work sited:
-http://www.field-of-themes.com/shakespeare/shakehis.html
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shakespeare
-http://www.shakespeare.com/