William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare

• Was born 26. of April, 1564, and died 23. of April, 1616.

• In 1582 Shakespeare married the eight year-older Anne Hathaway. They had three children, Susanna, Hamnet and He is one of the greatest writer that the English world, perhaps the entier world has ever seen.

• He is known for his dramatic tragedies, like Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet, but also for some of the funniest comedies that has been performed on a English stage.

His work• We can separate his dramatic work into four

different periods. • In the period from 1589 1594, he wrote historical

plays, about English history. • Richard III and King Henrik VI is examples of

plays from this period. • Shakespeare had moral values like honesty,

curage, trust and pitty in his work. • Shakespeare was also very good to use olf

sources, like Saxo Grammaticus Gesta Danorum.