Term Papers on William Shakespeare

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William Shakespeare

     William Shakespeare was one of the world’s finest authors.  A complete, authoritative account of
Shakespeare's life is lacking; much supposition surrounds relatively few facts. His day of birth is
traditionally held to be April 23; it is known he was baptized on April 24, 1564, in Stratford-upon-Avon,
Warwickshire. The third of eight children, he was the eldest son of John Shakespeare, a locally prominent
merchant, and Mary Arden, daughter of a Roman Catholic member of the landed gentry.  In 1582 he
married Anne Hathaway, the daughter of a farmer.  Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway produced a daughter
in 1583 and twins—a boy and a girl—in 1585. The boy did not survive.  He was buried in the Stratford
church but the exact date of his death is not known
Although the precise date of many of Shakespeare's plays is in doubt, his dramatic career is generally
divided into four periods: (1) the period up to 1594, (2) the years from 1594 to 1600, (3) the years from
1600 to 1608, and (4) the period after 1608.
First Period -  Shakespeare's first period was one of experimentation. His early plays, unlike his more
mature work, are characterized to a degree by formal and rather obvious construction and often stylized
verse.
     Second Period -  Shakespeare's second period includes his most important plays concerned with
English history, his so-called joyo...

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