William Shakespeare was an English playwright and poet born in 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon. Little is known about his childhood and education, though he likely attended the local grammar school. He moved to London in the 1580s where he began his career as a playwright and actor. His plays with the Chamberlain's Men, later the King's Men, brought him great fame and wealth. By 1613, Shakespeare had written 38 plays and 154 sonnets and retired to Stratford, where he died in 1616. His works, including comedies, tragedies and histories, showcase the complex range of human emotions and experiences.

1. BIOGRAPHY OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
William Shakespeare (Stratford on Avon, United Kingdom, 1564 - be going., 1616) Playwright
and poet Englishman. Third party of eight children of John Shakespeare, a wealthy merchant
and local politician, and Mary Arden, whose family had suffered religious pursuit derived from
his catholic confession, little or nothing is known of the childhood and adolescence of William
Shakespeare. It seems to be probable that he was studying in the Grammar School of his natal
locality, though it is not known how many years and in what circumstances. According to his
contemporary, William Shakespeare learned " little Latin and less Greek ", and in any case it
seems to be also probable that it was leaving the school early age due to the difficulties for
which his father was crossing, already they were these economic or derivatives of his political
career.
Be since it will be, always Shakespeare has been considered to be an educated person, but not
in excess, and it has made possible the birth of theories according to which he would have
been only the straw man of someone anxiously to remain in the literary anonymity. To it he
has contributed also the fact that he does not arrange by no means of writings or personal
letters of the author, who seems that only he wrote, apart from his poetical production, you
act for the scene.
The gait of Shakespeare like playwright began after his movement London, where rapidly there
acquired reputation and popularity in his work for the company Chaberlain's Men later known
as King's Men, owner of two theatres, The Globe and Blackfriars. Also it represented,
successfully, in the court. His beginnings were, nevertheless, humble, and according to the
sources it was employed at the most varied trades, though it seems to be reasonable to
suppose that it was from the beginning related to the theatre, since before devoting itself as
author he was known already as actor.
His stay in the British capital is dated, approximately, between 1590 and 1613, year the latter
in which it stopped writing and moving back to his natal locality, where he acquired a house
known as New Place, while he was investing in real estate of London the fortune that it had
managed to knead. The publication, in 1593, of his poem Venus and Handsome youth very well
received in the literary London environments, was first one of his successes. From his poetical
later production it is necessary to distinguish The violation of Lucrecia (1594) and the Sonnets
(1609), from loving subject matter and that for yes alone would place it between the big ones
of the Anglo-Saxon poetry.
With everything, it was his activity as playwright what gave reputation to Shakespeare in the
epoch. His work, in total fourteen comedies, ten tragedies and ten historical dramas, is an
exquisite compendium of the feelings, the pain and the ambitions of the soul it humanizes.
After a few first attempts, in which Marlowe's influence is transparent, before 1600 there
appeared the majority of his " happy comedies " and some of his dramas based on the history
of England. Stands out especially the fantasy and the poetical sense of the comedies of this
period, since in Dream of one summer night; the prodigious domain of the author in the
versification was allowing him to distinguish the prominent figures for the way of speaking,
amen of providing to his language of an almost colloquial naturalness.
From 1600, Shakespeare publishes the big tragedies and the so called " dark comedies ". The
big topics are treated in the works of this period by the most ambitious accents, and

2. nevertheless the tragic thing arises always from the realistic detail or from the penetrating
psychological treatment of the personage, that it induces the spectator to be identified by him:
this way, Hamlet reflects the disability to act before the moral dilemma between revenge and
pardon; Otelo, the free cruelty of the jealousies; and Macbeth, the cruel temptation of the
power.
In his last works, from 1608, it changes record and enters the kind of the tragicomedy, often
with a happy end the one that guesses the possibility of the reconciliation, since it happens in
Pericles. Shakespeare published in life only 16 of the works that assume him; for it, some of
them possibly had got lost of not be publishing (a few years after the death of the poet) the
Sheet of paper, volume recopilatorio that would use as base for all the later editions.