1. William Shakespeare:
Biography
Birth: 26 April 1564, in Stratford-upon-Avon, England
Death: 23 April 1616, at fifty-two years, in Stratford-upon-Avon,
England
Job: playwright, poet and actor
Main works: Romeo and Juliet; Hamlet; A Midsummer Night’s
Dream; Othello, the Moor of Venice.
Literary Genres: tragedy, drama, comedy, poetry, romance (thirty-
seven/thirty-eight plays, one hundred and fifty-four sonnets and two
long narrative poems)
Period of History: English Renaissance
Family:
Wife – Anne Hathaway
Children – Susanna and the twins Hamnet and Judith
Parents – John Shakespeare and Mary Shakespeare
He is considered the greatest English writer. The most known
works of him are Romeo and Juliet, which is acted in theatres,
television, cinema and literature, and Hamlet, which has got one of
the most English sentences: “To be or not to be: that’s the question”.
Although we know him as William Shakespeare, in the time of
Elizabeth I of England, some documents were found with the next
names: Shakspere, Shaksper and Shake-speare.
Nowadays, his death involves mystery. Some researchers also
believe that Shakespeare isn’t the author of his works, discussing
the question of the Identity of Shakespeare.