shakespeare time line

  • Apr 23, 1564

    william shakespeare

    william shakespeare
    Stratford-upon-avon birth place
  • Apr 26, 1564

    bapitzed at Holy Trinity Church in Stratford-upon-Avon

    bapitzed at Holy Trinity Church in Stratford-upon-Avon
    bapitzed
  • william married lift

    william married lift
    married anna halfaway
  • williams first play

    williams first play
    Romeo and Juliet," William Shakespeare's first plays were mostly histories written in the early 1590s.
  • williams first career

    williams first career
    William Shakespeare earned a living as an actor and a playwright in London and possibly had several plays produced.
  • william shakespeare

    william shakespeare
    William Shakespeare had published 15 of the 37 plays attributed to him.
  • williams second play

    williams second play
    William Shakespeare's later period, after 1600, that he wrote the tragedies "Hamlet," "King Lear,"
  • williams death

    williams death
    Tradition has it that William Shakespeare died on his birthday, April 23, 1616, though many scholars believe this is a myth. Church records show he was interned at Trinity Church on April 5, 1616.
  • after his death

    after his death
    About 150 years after his death, questions arose about the authorship of William Shakespeare's plays. Scholars and literary critics began to float names like Christopher Marlowe, Edward de Vere and Francis Bacon--
  • info of william skakespeare

    info of william skakespeare
    Members of the Shakespeare Oxford Society (founded in 1957) put forth arguments that English aristocrat Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford, was the true author of the poems and plays of "William Shakespeare," The Oxfordians cite de Vere's extensive