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William Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon, England, the son of Mary Arden. His father, John was a glove maker and trader in farm produce.
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At the age of 11 Shakespeare attended a festival in Stratford in honor of the queen Elizabeth and he was impressed by the performances he saw.
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At the age of 15 Shakespeare abstained from school in order to work along with his father.
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He got married to Anne Hathaway at the age of 18! They had three children, Susanna, Hamnet and Judith.
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He wrote his first play, probably The Comedy of Errors. It is a humorous work with a story unlikely to happen in real life.
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It is one of Shakespeare's first history plays performed in three parts.
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This play is the last of Shakepseare's first comedies. The plot centers on four young men who fall in love against their wills.
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Titus Andronicus is Shakespeare's first tragedy and focuses on the topic of revenge. It is a successful and brilliant play.
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It is also one of Shakespeare's first history plays. Both Richard III and Henry VI are ambitious and impressive.
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Shakespeare became the main writer for the company, an actor in the company and also a partner in the group of artist-managers who ran it.
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It is a play that Shakespeare wrote for the company. It involves fairies and magic potions in a forest where young lovers escape from society.
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It is best known for Shylock, a Jewish moneylender, one of the characters in the play.
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One of Shakespeare's most famous tragedies. It is about the love of two young people in Verona whose families were enemies.
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Shakespeare's son, Hamnet, died because of plague. That was the most tragic event in Shakespeare's life. However, after that event he wrote some of his best and most well known tragedies.
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Shakespeare and the company Lord Chamberlain's Men had the Globe Theatre built in London.
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Julius Caesar is one of Shakespeare's most famous plays. It centers around Julius Caesar's assassination and the consequences following his assassination.
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Shakespeare wrote his famous tragedy Hamlet, which is about the prince of Denmark, Hamlet, who took revenge from his uncle for murdering his father.
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The play talks about and aged king who deprives his loving daughter from her heritage in order to leave everything to her hyprocitical sisters.
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Macbeth is a play which focuses on the problems of evil and freedom. It mixes witchcraft, murder and prophecy.
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The Tempest is one of his final group of plays. It is probably the most popular and perhaps the best of this group of plays.
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Shakespeare died in Stratford upon Avon the same day he was born at the age of 52. The cause of his death is a mystery.
