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William Shakespeare 1564-1616
William
Shakespeare, greatest
playwright of all times by far, was born and died in Stratford-upon-Avon,
Warwickshire, England.
William
Shakespeare's Family
His father was
John Shakespeare.
His mother was
Mary Arden.
In 1582, William Shakespeare married
Anne Hathaway.
They had a daughter,
Susanna, and twins,
Hamnet and Judith.
William became a member of theater company the King's Men.
William Shakespeare's
Works
Henry VI
Richard III
The Comedy of Errors
Titus Andronicus
The Taming of the Shrew
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
Love's Labour's Lost
Romeo and Juliet
Richard II
A Midsummer Night's Dream
King John
The Merchant of Venice
Henry IV
Much Ado About Nothing
Henry V
(
Here is an excerpt)
Julius Caesar
As You Like It
Hamlet
The Merry Wives of Windsor
Twelfth Night
Troilus and Cressida
All's Well That Ends Well
Measure for Measure
Othello
King Lear
Macbeth
Antony and Cleopatra
Coriolanus
Timon of Athens
Pericles
Cymbeline
The Winter's Tale
The Tempest
Henry VIII
You can read William Shakespeare's works online and for free,
provided by the Gutenberg Project.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE'S
WILL
Unfortunately, none of Shakespeare's manuscripts survived.
But
what the
folks at the British National Archive do have is Shakespeare's will, which is dated
March 25, 1616.
The Archive comments:
He was clearly a man of some means by the time of his death. He
left the bulk of his estate to his elder daughter, Susannah Hall. He
left £300 to his younger daughter, Judith. He gave his wife, Anne
Hathaway, his second-best bed. Beds and other pieces of household
furniture were often the sole bequest to a wife. It was common
practice for the best things to go to the children and the second
best to the wife.
Shakespeare died a month after this will was written, having caught
a fever at a 'merry party' thrown by fellow writer, Ben Jonson. He
was buried in Stratford upon Avon church.
And here is the good piece as PDF
document:
SHAKESPEARE'S WILL
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