'Biography of William Shakespeare Essay\r'

'William Shakespeare was born in 1564, supposedly on 22 or 23 April, in Stratford-upon-Avon. His father, John, who was a prosperous glover there, preparing and sell soft leather, became alderman and later high bailiff. Shakespeare was meliorate at Stratford Grammar School. When he was eighteen, he hook up with Anne Hathaway †eight years older than he and already, she was pregnant. Six months later their daughter Susanna was born. They had twins, a boy Hamnet and a girl named Judith, dickens years later.\r\nThere are no records of Shakespeare’s life during the septet years that followed, ? the lost years’. But by 1592 he was already an established shammer and playwright in London. He joined the lord Chamberlain’s Men in 1594, working as a leash actor and dramatist. By 1599 this all-male company of experient and talented players †no women appeared on the period until the Restoration †had built their own theatre, the cosmos. Its owners we re seven member of the company, including Shakespeare himself, who shared in its profits.\r\nFor the following decade the Globe, on the Thames at Bankside, was to be London’s chief theatre, and the business firm of Shakespeare’s work. Many of his greatest plays were write during these ten years, and were acted there. Both Queen Elizabeth, and later her James I, showed the company many favors. In 1613, during a performance of Henry VIII, the Globe was destroyed by fire. But the Lord Chamberlain’s men, by now called the queen mole rat’s Men, had four years preliminary leased a second, smaller playhouse, the Blackfriars.\r\nThis was an indoor(prenominal) theatre, unlike the Globe which was open to the sky, and it had the technological facilities for scenic effects †a detail which probably accounts for the spectacular element in Shakespeare’s late plays. In 1612, Shakespeare, it seems, went home. His son Hamnet had died when only eleven, but his deuce daughters were in Stratford-upon-avon with his wife Anne. He was now a wealthy man and had, as colossal before as 1597, bought a plentiful house, New Place, the second largest in Stratford.\r\nIt had two gardens, two orchards, and two barns. Here, with his family, he washed-out the last years of his life. Shakespeare remained friends with actors and poets, worked sometimes, and visited London. He bought a house in Blackfriars in 1613. He died on April 23rd, 1616, after entertaining Ben Jonson and Michael Drayton at New Place. He is buried at Trinity Church in Stratford-upon-avon. He wrote thirty-seven plays.\r\n'