Shakespeare

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

By gaizkaoihana
  • Apr 23, 1564

    WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE´S BIRTH

    William Shakespeare was born in Stratford, England, on the 26 of April 1564. He was the third child of eight and the eldest surviving son.
  • Apr 26, 1564

    BAPTISM

    William Shakespeare was baptized at Holy Trinity Church in Stratford.
  • Sep 8, 1569

    SCHOOL

    At the age of 5 he started going to the King´s New School, a free school about a quarter-mile from his home. He studied Grammar and Latin, as this option was provided by his school.
  • May 22, 1582

    MARRIAGE

    William Shakespeare left school and married Anne Hathaway. Nine months after their marriage they had their first daughter called, Susanna. It is unknown the exact date.

  • TWINS

    In 1584 they had two twins, son Hamnet and daughter Judith.

  • LONDON THEATRE

    In 1585 he began a successful career in London as an actor, writer, and part-owner of a playing company called the Lord Chamberlain's Men, later known as the King's Men.

  • FIRST PLAY

    In this year Shakespeare wrote the first part of Henry VI, his very first play.

  • THEATRES CLOSED

    London theaters were closed because of a bubonic plague that killed about five percent of the city's residents. Shakespeare used the city´s situation to write poetry.

  • VENUS AND ADONIS

    Shakespeare published "Venus and Adonis," his first long poem.

  • THE RAPE OF LUCRECE

    Shakespeare published "The Rape of Lucrece," also dedicated to the Earl of Southampton.

  • THEATRES REOPEN

    In the spring of 1594, the London theaters reopened to the public.

  • HAMNET´S DEATH

    In this year, Shakespeare´s son, Hamnet, died at the sge of 11 of unknown causes. Shakespeare and Anne, his wife, buried their son.

  • SHAKESPEARE´S NEW HOUSE

    Thanks to the money he won working as an actor Shakespeare bought the second-largest house in Stratford.

  • SHAKESPEARE´S RECOGNISMENT

    Shakespeare became a famous writer with at least lots of plays, including Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night's Dream andThe Merchant of Venice.

  • GLOBE THEATRE

    The Chamberlain's Men built the Globe, a wooden theater in London. Many of Shakespeare's most famous plays were performed for the first time here.

  • HAMLET

    As Shakespeare's father died it is believed that his father's death motivated Shakespeare to write Hamlet around this time.

  • PUBLICATION OF SHAKESPEARE´S SONNETS

    The publisher Thomas Thorpe printed a collection of 154 of Shakespeare's sonnets.

  • SHAKESPEARE´S RETURNS TO STRATFORD

    Shakespeare left London and moved back to Stratford, where his wife and married daughters were living.

  • FINAL PLAYS AND GLOBE THEATRE´S FIRE

    Shakespeare composed his final plays in collaboration with John Fletcher. The Globe Theatre caught fire during a performance and burned to the ground.

  • BURIAL

    Shakespeare was buried in Holy Trinity Church in Stratford, the same church where he was baptized. H

  • SHAKESPEARE´S DEATH

    William Shakespeare died on his 52 birthday, because of an unknown ilness.

  • PUBLICATION OF HIS FIRST FOLIO

    John Heminge and Henry Condell, Shakespeare's friends, collected 36 of his plays and published them together in a collection known as the First Folio.