Name:

Anzla Ashraf
Class:
BS English 3B
Roll no:
HUSS19111126
Subject:
History of literature 1
Submitted to:
Mam Noor ul Ain

William Shakespeare: (1564-1616)

William Shakespeare was a renowned English poet, playwright,
and actor born in 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon. … Shakespeare
was a prolific writer during the Elizabethan and Jacobean ages
of British theatre (sometimes called the English Renaissance or
the Early Modern Period).
Profession: Poet, Dramatist, Actor, Writer.
Shakespeare's Family Life: John Shakespeare married Mary
Arden, and together they had eight children. William became
their eldest child. William Shakespeare would have lived with
his family in their house on Henley Street until he turned
eighteen. When he was eighteen, Shakespeare married Anne
Hathaway, who was twenty-six.
Shakespeare’s Works:
Altogether Shakespeare’s works include 38 plays, 2 narrative
poems, 154 sonnets, and a variety of other poems.
 Genres:
Shakespeare wrote in three genres: tragedy, comedy, and
history. Although this seems very straightforward, it is
notoriously difficult to categorize the plays. This is because
the histories blur comedy and tragedy, the comedies
contain elements of tragedy, and so on.

Death:
William Shakespeare died on 23 April 1616, his 52nd birthday. In
truth, the exact date of Shakespeare’s death is not known but
assumed from a record of his burial two days later, 25 April
1616, at Holy Trinity Church. Stratford upon Avon, where his
grave remains. Shakespeare was sick for over a month before
he died.