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(1564-1616)
William Shakespeare, poet and English dramatist, the most famous of the English speaking world
and of his century, was known universally as the Swan of Avon.
He was born in Stratford-upon- Avon in 1564and died in Stratford in 1616. It seems he spend very few years in school, but his work reveal an immense knowledge acquired about life.
In 1582when he was 18 years old, he married Anna Hathaway. The first theater in which he appeared as an actor was Black Friars, owned by the Vurvage brothers. In 1592, he was already known as a dramatist in London and in 1590 wrote his first work, Henry VI.
His most important poetics works are: Venus and Adonis, The capture of Hucrecia, and above all, the Sonnets. His works, through their themes and characters can be classified into three groups: histories, comedies, and tragedies.
His reputation rest mostly on his plays, of which there are about three dozen, though the 154 sonnets are also greatly admired. The plays are usually divided into three categories: tragedies (Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth, Othello, and Romeo and Juliet), histories (Richard III), and comedies, (The Merry Wives of Windsor, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Tempest).