Name: William Shakespeare
Birth: April 23, 1564
Father’s Name: John Shakespeare
Father’s Occupation: A Farmer
Mother’s Name: Mary Arden
Left School: At the age of 14
Married: in 1582 he married Anne Hathaway who was 8 years older than Shakespeare
Went to London: in 1587 Shakespeare went to London and joined Burbage’s company of action
Life in London: 1587-1611
Books: love’s labour’s lost, comedy of errors, two gentlemen of Verona, the English chronide (Henry 6 Richard 3, Richard 2 king john), a midsummer night’s dream, Romeo and Juliet, the merchant of Venice, as you like it. Twelfth night, Julius Caesar, hamlet, macebeth, Othello, Lear, Antony and Cleopatra.
Died: April 23, 1616
ON THE TOMBSTONE THESE SENTENCES ARE INSCRIBED:
“Good friend for Jesus sake forbear
To dig the dust enclosed here;
Blest be the man that spares these stones,
And curst be he that moves my bones.”
