2. Shakespeare birth and death
• Shakespeare was born on
26,April 1564
• His death was never truly
known but people believe it
was due to a fever he got(23,
April 1616)
• Good Friend, for Jesus’ sake
forbear
To dig the dust enclosed here:
Blessed be the man that spares
these stones,
And curst be he that moves my
bones.
3. William Shakespeare relationship
• William Shakespeare was married to his wife
and had four kids
• Father was a glove maker
• Good friends with Queen Elizabeth and King
4. Why was Shakespeare
authorship/identity questioned ?
• Many people questioned Shakespeare’s authorship/identity .
There are many theory's that say that perhaps the education he had
wasn’t enough to create all the marvelous plays and literature he
wrote. other people believe that Shakespeare was a group of people
that hid their identity with Shakespeare in representation.
• The Shakespeare authorship question was first posed in the middle
of the 19th century. By then Shakespeare had been named the
greatest writer all time.
• More than 70 authorship candidates have been proposed
5. What’s Shakespeare's influence?
• William Shakespeare influence extends from theatre and literature
to present-day movies and the English language itself. Widely
regarded as the greatest writer of the English language
• Once Shakespeare's plays became popular in the late seventeenth
and eighteenth century, they helped contribute to the
standardization of the English language, with many Shakespearean
words and phrases becoming embedded in the English language,
particularly through projects such as Samuel Johnson's A dictionary
of the English language which quoted Shakespeare more than any
other writer.
6. What was his family like ?
• In 1582, at the age of eighteen, he married
Anne Hathaway.
• In 1583, they had a daughter, Susanna,
and then twins, Hamnet and Judith, in
1585.
• Around 1588 Shakespeare and his family
moved to London and within a few years
he had achieved some success as an actor,
a poet and a playwright.
7. What was Shakespeare top best
writing ? of Venice Julius Caesar
Othello, The Moor Henry V
Believed to have been Believed to have been written in written in 1599, it’s based
written in approximately 1599. It is one of several Roman on the life of King Henry V
1603. The work revolves plays that Shakespeare wrote, of England and focuses on
around four central based on true events from Roman events immediately before
characters history and after the Battle of
Agincourt
Romeo and Juliet
likely Shakespeare’s first about
two teenage lovers whose
“untimely deaths” ultimately
unite their feuding households
8. Who is William Shakespeare and how did he become
one of the most popular and influential authors of all
time ?
• Shakespeare was born in 1564, the third child
and first son of John Shakespeare and his wife
Mary Arden, in Stratford-upon-
Avon, Warwickshire, England.
• Shakespeare was baptized in Stratford-upon-
Avon on April 23, 1564. The exact date is known
from town records.
9. Shakespeare's childhood
• Shakespeare childhood no one really knows
about but that he had a great interest in writing.
• He was very focused on his education and took 7
years of grammar school something many
writers didn’t have
