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1564 - William Shakespeare

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Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, in 1564. Little is known about his life however, he did right more than 37 plays. William Shakespeare's work was mostly comedies, histories and tragedies. He wrote 17 comedies, 10 historic plays, and 10 tragedies.

His comedies were...

All's Well That Ends Well

As You Like It

Cardenio (lost)

The Comedy of Errors

Cymbeline

Love's Labour's Lost

Love's Labour's Won (lost)

Measure for Measure

The Merchant of Venice

The Merry Wives of Windsor

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Much Ado About Nothing

Pericles Prince of Tyre

Taming of the Shrew

The Tempest

Twelfth Night

The Two Gentlemen of Verona

The Winter's Tale

 

His 10 Historic plays...

Henry IV (Part 1) the play by William Shakespeare

Henry IV ( Part 2 ) the play by William Shakespeare

Henry V the play by William Shakespeare

Henry VI (Part 1) the play by William Shakespeare

Henry VI (Part 3) the play by William Shakespeare

Henry VI (Part 3) the play by William

Henry VIII the play by William Shakespeare

King John the play by William Shakespeare

Richard II the play by William Shakespeare

Richard III the play by William Shakespeare

 

His 10 tragedy plays...

Antony and Cleopatra the play by William Shakespeare

Coriolanus the play by William Shakespeare

Hamlet the play by William Shakespeare

Julius Caesar the play by William Shakespeare

King Lear the play by William Shakespeare

Macbeth the play by William Shakespeare

Romeo and Juliet the play by William Shakespeare

Othello the play by William Shakespeare

Timon of Athens the play by William Shakespeare

Titus Andronicus the play by William Shakespeare

 

His poems

The Sonnets

A Lover's Complaint

The Rape of Lucrece

Venus and Adonis

Funeral Elegy by W.S.

 

All of the plays he wrote were watched by millions of people. These plays became masterpieces and were loved by everyone who watched them. His pieces were the entertainment of his time and are still today.

 

 

Works Cited

The picture <http://www.william-shakespeare.info/william-shakespeare-plays.htm>

His thirty - seven plays <http://www.william-shakespeare.info/william-shakespeare-plays.htm>

Poems <http://shakespeare.mit.edu/>

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