The Life and Times of Shakespeare

By DarkPhoniex
  • Apr 26, 1564

    The Birth of William Shakespeare

    This is the day William Shakespeare was christened and his assumed birthdate.
  • Dec 31, 1568

    Shakespeare begins private school

    William Shakespeare is starting his schooling at the King Edward VI Grammar School

  • The birth of Susanna

    William Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway (his wife) gav birth to their first child, Susanna.

  • Shakespeares Twins

    William Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway's twins are born this year. They are named Judith and Hamnet.
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    Williams Comedies

    William Shakespeare wrote 10 plays in between

  • Williams First Play

    The First Play of William Shakespeare "Comedy of Errors" is published.
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    Attack of the Plauge

    William Shakespeare stopped playwriting for a brief period of time because of the plague.

  • First Play Published

    William Shakespeares first poem "Venus and Adonis" was published this year.
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    Roman Themed Plays

    Shakespeare decided to start writing tragedies based in Rome like Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra
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    Making of His most famous works

    Shakespeares most famous works are produced in this time. Plays like Macbeth, Hamlet, King Lear and Othello are produced.

  • The Tempest

    William Shakespeare writes the Tempest and soon after returned to his house in Stratford upon-Avon.

  • The Death of William Shakespeare

    William Shakespeare died because of a fever he contracted after consuming to much alcohol.