William Shakespeare was an English playwright, poet and actor born in 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon. He wrote 37 plays and 154 sonnets over the course of his career in London from 1585 until his death in 1616. His plays are categorized as comedies, tragedies and histories and include famous works such as Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Macbeth, King Lear and A Midsummer Night's Dream. He is considered one of the greatest writers in the English language.

1. AGE
OF
SHAKESPEARE

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1.Sayings
2.Early Life
3.Career
4.Literary Life
5.Works
6.Contemporary Writers
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4. ● Ben Jonson says, "Shakespeare
was not of an age, but of all
ages."
● He is eternal and universal.

5. Death
26th April,
1616
Baptized
Place
Stratford
-on-Avon
Baptism
26th
April
1564
Life of Shakespeare
Anne
Hathaway
8 years
senior,
Rich
Mary
Arden,
local
landed
heiress
John
Shakespeare
, Tradesman

6. Siblings:
sisters, Joan and
Judith
Brothers,
Gilbert, Richard,
Edmund.
School: Local
Grammar School,
The King’s School
Children:
Susanna, Hamnet,
and Judith.
Marriage life
seems to be
unhappy.
Marriage: At the
age of 18, married
26 years old Anne
Hathaway.
Life of Shakespeare

7. Career
1586 or 87 - left
native town and
came to London at
the age of 22.
The university Wits
had renovated
English drama.
Soon turned to the
stage- first, an actor,
and then, a
playwright.
He stayed in London
for about 20 years.

8. 1st Period
2nd Period
3rd Period
4th Period
24 years (1588 - 1613) divided into four
sub-periods.
● First Period (1588-1596)
● Second Period (1596-1600)
● Third Period (1601-1608)
● Fourth Period (1609-1613)
Literary Life

9. FIRSTPERIOD

10. SECONDPERIOD

11. THIRDPERIOD

12. FOURTHPERIOD

13. famous
works
Major
Tragedies
Sonnets
Two
Categories
of Works
Works of Shakespeare
Plays sources

14. Non-
Dramatic
Work
2 Poems and
154 Sonnets
Dramatic
Work
37 Plays
Two categories of Works

15. Some of the famous works
Romeo
Juliet
The
Merchant
of Venice
Julius
Caesar
The
Tempest

16. Four Major Tragedies

17. Sonnets
First 126 - Beloved
Friend
Last 28 - Dark Lady
154

18. COMIC PLAYS
 All’s Well That Ends Well
 The Comedy of Errors
 Love’s Labour’s Lost
 The Merchant of Venice
 Taming of the Shrew
 Twelfth Night
 The Merry Wives of
Windsor
 A Midsummer Night’s
Dream
 Much Ado About Nothing
 The Two Gentlemen of
Verona
 The Winter’s Tale
 As You Like It
 Cymbeline
 Measure for Measure
 Pericles Prince of Tyre
 The Tempest

19. TRAGIC PLAYS
 Romeo and Juliet
 Macbeth
 King Lear
 Hamlet
 Othello
 Titus Andronicus
 The tragedy of Julius
Caesar
 Antony and Cleopatra
 Coriolanus
 Cymbeline
 The life of Timon of
Athens
 The history of Trolius
and Cressida

20. HISTORICAL PLAYS
 King John
 Edward III
 Richard II

 Henry IV, Part I
 Henry IV, Part 2
 Henry V
 Henry VI, Part I
 Henry VI, Part 2
 Henry VI, Part 3
 Richard III (also
considered a tragedy)
 Henry VIII

21. Christopher
Marlowe
Thomas
Middleton
John
Webster
Ben
Jonson
Thomas
Dekker
Contemporary Writers