Shakespeare


 * William Shakespeare ** Scarlett Priest

Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon, United Kingdom on April 23, 1564. He died on his birthday in 1616 at the age of 52. The reasonhe died is a mystery, but it is believed that he died from a serious outbreak of typhus, caused from excess drinking a few nights before, although it may be many other things.

In Shakespeare’s life he wrote 38 plays and 154 sonnets. The most renowned of his plays would probably be Romeo and Juliet. Which he wrote in about 1594. Other well known plays are: Macbeth, Hamlet, Julius Caesar, Midsummer Night's Dream, The Taming of the Shrew, Henry V and many more!

Shakespeare had seven siblings. They were: Joan born in 1558, Margaret born in 1562, Gilbert born in1566, Joan II born in 1569, Anne born in 1571, Richard born in 1574 and Edmund born in 1580.

He married his wife Anne Hathaway when he was 18, and she, 26.‘William Shakespeare’ is an anagram of ‘I am a weakish speller’.

Suicide occurs an unlucky thirteen times in Shakespeare’s plays.