William Shakespeare was an English playwright and poet born in 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon, England. He wrote about 38 plays and 154 sonnets over the course of his career. Some of his most famous works include Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, and Macbeth. He retired around 1613 and died in his hometown of Stratford-upon-Avon in 1616 at the age of 52.

1. William Shakespeare
The Chandos portrait, National Portrait Gallery, London.
Born
Baptized 26 April 1564 (birth date unknown)
Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England
Died
23 April 1616 (aged 52)
Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England
Occupation Playwright, poet, actor
Literary
movement
English Renaissance theatre
Spouse(s) Anne Hathaway (1582–1616)
Children
Susanna Hall
Hamnet Shakespeare
Judith Quiney
Signature

2. Sonnets
Title page from 1609 edition of Shake-Speares Sonnets.

3. Shakespeare’s funerary monument in Stratford -upon- Avon.
Shakespeare's grave.
Good frend for Iesvs sake for beare,
To dig the dust enclosed hear.
Blest be ye man yet spares thus stones,
And crest is he yet moves my bones.

4. William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the
greatest writer in the English language and the world's famous dramatist. He is often
called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon". His surviving works, including
some collaborations, consist of about 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative
poems, and several poems.
Early life
William Shakespeare was the son of John Shakespeare, a successful glover and
alderman originally from Snitterfield, and Mary Arden, the daughter of an affluent
landowning farmer. He was born in Stratford-upon-Avon and baptised there on
26 April 1564. His actual birthdate remains unknown, but is traditionally observed on
23 April, St George's Day. He was the third child of eight and the eldest surviving son.
At the age of 18, he married Anne Hathaway, with whom he had three children.
Between 1585 and 1592, he began a successful career in London as an actor, writer.
He appears to have retired to Stratford around 1613.
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Poems
In 1593 and 1594, when the theatres were closed because of plague, Shakespeare
published two narrative poems on erotic themes, Venus and Adonis and The Rape of
Lucrece. He dedicated them to Henry Wriothesley, Earl of Southampton. Both proved
popular and were often reprinted during Shakespeare's lifetime. A third narrative
poem, A Lover's Complaint, in which a young woman laments her seduction by a
persuasive suitor, was printed in the first edition of the Sonnets in 1609. Critics
consider that its fine qualities are marred by leaden effects
Sonnets
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Published in 1609, the Sonnets were the last of Shakespeare's non-dramatic works to
be printed. Evidence suggests that Shakespeare wrote sonnets throughout his career
for a private readership. Even before the two unauthorised sonnets appeared in The
Passionate Pilgrim in 1599. He seems to have planned two contrasting series: the
"dark lady", the "fair youth". It remains unclear if these figures represent real
individuals, or if the authorial "I" who addresses them represents Shakespeare
himself. The 1609 edition was dedicated to a "Mr. W.H.". Nor it is known who Mr. W.H.
was. Critics praise the Sonnets as a profound meditation on the nature of love, sexual
passion, procreation, death, and time.

5. Later years and death
Rowe was the first biographer to pass down the tradition that Shakespeare retired to
Stratford but retirement from all work was uncommon at that time, and Shakespeare
continued to visit London In March 1613 he bought a gatehouse in the former
Blackfriars priory and from November 1614 he was in London for several weeks with
his son-in-law, John Hall.
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Shakespeare died on 23 April 1616. Susanna had married a physician, John Hall, in
1607, and Judith had married Thomas Quiney, a vintner, two months before
Shakespeare’s death. In his will, Shakespeare left the bulk of his large estate to his
elder daughter Susanna.
Shakespeare was buried in the chancel of the Holy Trinity Church two days after his
death. The epitaph carved into the stone slab covering his grave includes a curse
against moving his bones, which was carefully avoided during restoration of the
church in 2008.
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6. Charles Robert Darwin
Charles Robert Darwin, aged 45 in 1854, by then working towards publication of On the Origin of Species.
Born
12 February 1809
Mount House, Shrewsbury, Shropshire,
England
Died
19 April 1882 (aged 73)
England
Citizenship British
Nationality British
Fields Naturalist
Institutions Geological Society of London
Known for
The Voyage of the Beagle
On The Origin of Species
Influences
Alexander von Humboldt
John Herschel
Influenced
Thomas Henry Huxley
Ernst Haeckel
Notable awards
Wollaston Medal (1859)
Copley Medal (1864)
Signature
Biology

7. Charles Darwin
Charles Robert Darwin FRS was an English naturalist who established that all species
of life have descended over time from common ancestry, and proposed the scientific
theory that this branching pattern of evolution resulted from a process that he called
natural selection. He published his theory with compelling evidence for evolution in
his 1859 book On the Origin of Species. The scientific community and much of the
general public came to accept evolution as a fact in his lifetime, but it was not until the
emergence of the modern evolutionary synthesis from the 1930s to the 1950s that a
broad consensus developed that natural selection was the basic mechanism of
evolution. In modified form, Darwin's scientific discovery is the unifying theory of the
life sciences, explaining the diversity of life.
Works
Charles Darwin even without publication of his works on evolution, he would have had
a considerable reputation as the author of The Voyage of the Beagle, as a geologist
who had published extensively on South America and had solved the puzzle of the
formation of coral atolls, and as a biologist who had published the definitive work on
barnacles. While The Origin of Species dominates perceptions of his work, The
Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex and The Expression of Emotions in
Man and Animals had considerable impact, and his books on plants including The
Power of Movement in Plants were innovative studies of great importance, as was his
final work on The Formation of Vegetable Mould Through the Action of Worms.