William Shakespeare was a renowned English poet and playwright born in 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon. He married Anne Hathaway at age 18 and had three children, though he is best known for his plays and poems written in London, including famous tragedies like Hamlet, Othello, and Romeo and Juliet. Throughout his career, Shakespeare contributed numerous words and expressions to the English language and remains one of the most influential writers in history.

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2. Shakespeare, is a landmark English poet and playwright, he has
written some of the world’s most famous plays.
He is born the 26th of April 1964 in Stradford-uppon-Avon.
Marries Anne Hathaway at the age of 18 and he has 3 children with her Susanna, Hamnet
and Judith.
He does not attend university but becomes a successful actor in London.
Due to some well-timed investments he was able to secure a firm financial background ,
leaving time for acting or writing.
He then starts writing plays and poems. His early plains were mainly comedies or histories
but they involved into tragedies. These tragedies went on to be considered as his finest
works.
In 1599 he built The Dome Theatre , the largest open-air theatre at the time.
Finally, Shakespeare was a prolific writer whose influence is ever-growing

3. Shakespeare’s Kid’s Insults
Throughout his lifetime Shakespeare has contributed importantly to
the English language. He has added around 3 000 words and
expression.
However he also invented insults and among these insults he also
invented kid’s insults :
-[Thine] face is not worth sunburning.
-Thou villainous malmsey-nosed horn-beast!
-God hath given you one face and you make yourselves another.
-Thou art some fool, I am loath to beat thee.
- Thou puking milk-livered hugger-mugger!

4. His Plays . Shakespeare has written many plays but there are some of his most successful
plays.
Hamlet Othello
Romeo
and
Juliet

5. Fun Facts
- Some believe that Shakespeare was a fraud and that he didn’t write his
own works but this has never been proven.
- During his life he wrote 37 plays and 154 sonnets.
- The end of his plays often end tragically, most of the time as suicides.
- William Shakespeare is an anagram for “I am a weak speller”
- He did not die in poverty unlike many of his fellow authors at the time
- He is believed to have died on his birthday
- There are only two authentic portraits of Shakespeare
- Shakespeare's “Macbeth” could be the origin of the “Knock-Knock” jokes
- He invented the words: assassination, swagger, addiction, torture etc
- He has 946 writing credits for television and films.
- He wrote a curse on anyone who plunders his grave.

6. Which one of these quotes is from Shakespeare ?
1 “What the mind of man can conceive and believe, the
mind of man can achieve”
2 “To be , or not to be; that is the question.
3 “We are what we repeatedly do . Excellence then , is not
an act, but a habit”.
Easy Question: Which Anne Hathaway is Shakespeare’s wife
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