Whos Shakespeare's ?

Jos Bernabe

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 forbearTo dig the dust enclosed here:Blessed be the man that spares these stones,And curst be he that moves my bones.

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

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

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.

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.

What was Shakespeare top best writing ?Othello, The Moor of Venice Julius Caesar Henry V

Romeo and Juliet

written in 1599, it’s based on the life of King Henry V of England and focuses on events immediately before and after the Battle of Agincourt 

 Believed to have been written in 1599. It is one of several Roman plays that Shakespeare wrote, based on true events from Roman history

Believed to have been written in approximately 1603. The work revolves around four central characters

 likely Shakespeare’s first about two teenage lovers whose “untimely deaths” ultimately unite their feuding households

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.

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

Sources

•http://www.shakespeare-online.com/faq/shakespeareinspired.html

•http://www.online-literature.com/shakespeare/

•http://earlswynn.hubpages.com/hub/Shakespeares-Women