Информация по теме "Шекспир.Жизнь.Творчество"

By Kirova Anastasiya 6A

William Shakespeare

 April 1564 - 23 April 1616

English national poet, the greatest dramatist of all time.

v William Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon, England.

v His father William was a successful local businessman and his mother Mary was the daughter of a landowner.

v Shakespeare  began his education at the age of six or seven at the Stratford grammar school.

v William, aged only 18, married an older woman named Anne Hathaway. They had three children, Susanna, Hamnet and Juliet.

v In 1850s Shakespeare arrived to London and started his career of actor and playwright.

v His early plays were mainly comedies (e.g. Much Ado about Nothing, A Midsummer’s Night Dream) and histories (e.g. Henry V).

v Later Shakespeare began to write plays in the genre of tragedy (Hamlet, Othello and King Lear). These later plays are considered Shakespeare’s finest achievements.

v William Shakespeare wrote 154 sonnets.

v The plays of Shakespeare have been studied more than any other writing in the English language and have been translated into numerous languages.

v His plays which were very popular and commercially successful.

v Today, his plays are highly popular too and can be seen in films and theatres.

v Shakespeare died in 1616; it is not clear how he died.