William Shakespeare (1564-1616) was an English playwright, poet, and actor considered the greatest dramatist of all time. He wrote approximately 38 plays and 154 sonnets throughout his career. Some of his most famous plays include Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, and Macbeth. Though his works are renowned, Shakespeare's personal life remains relatively unknown. He was married with three children but had no direct descendants. Debate continues around his sexuality and whether he truly authored the works attributed to him.

1. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Nutsa Iordanishvili

2. CONTENTS
 About Author
 Education
 Marriage
 Career
 Written plays
 Gossips

3. ABOUT AUTHOR

4.  William Shakespeare (26 April 1564–23 April 1616),
also known as the "Bard of Avon," is often called
England's national poet and considered the
greatest dramatist of all time. Shakespeare's works
are known throughout the world, but his personal
life is shrouded in mystery.

5. OCCUPATION(S)
 Playwright
 Poet
 Actor
 Politician

6. FAMILY
 Father: John Shakespeare (1530-1601)
Mother: Mary Arden Shakespeare (?-1608)
Sister: Joan Shakespeare (1558)
Sister: Margaret Shakespeare (1562-1563)
Brother: Gilbert Shakespeare (1556-1612)
Sister: Joan Shakespeare Hart (1569-1646)
Sister: Anne Shakespeare (1571-1579)
Brother: Richard Shakespeare (1574-1613)
Brother: Edmund Shakespeare (1580-1607)

8. EDUCATION

9.  William Shakespeare’s education would have
started at home. His mother would have told him
fairy tales during his early youth. The kinds of
stories Shakespeare was told are referred to much
later in his plays.

10.  After several years he attended King Edward VI
Grammar School in Stratford-upon-Avon from the
age of 7 and left school and formal education when
he was 14.

12. MARRIAGE

13. WIFE
 William Shakespeare married Anne Hathaway in
November 1582 and they remained married until
Shakespeare's death. At the time of their marriage
William was 18, while Anne was 26 and pregnant
with their first child.

14. CHILDREN
 William and Anne Shakespeare had three
children; Susanna was born six months after their
marriage and was followed by
twins Judith and Hamnet in 1585.

16. DESCENDANTS
 Shakespeare had four grandchildren who all died
without heirs, so there are no direct descendants of
his line today. Susanna and John Hall’s only
daughter, Elizabeth, married twice but both
marriages remained childless. Judith and Thomas
Quiney’s sons all died at an early age, either in
infancy or as young adults before having children

17. CAREER

18.  William Shakespeare was an actor, play write, and
English poet. He was called an English national
poet and considered the greatest playwright and
greatest dramatist of all time.

20.  Shakespeare began his career as an actor on stage
by 1592.
 By 1594 he was an actor in The Chamberlain's
Men acting company.
 He was Playwright for 20 years and wrote plays
that capture the complete range of human emotion
and conflict.

21. WRITTEN PLAYS

22.  His plays are of different kinds, or genres. There
are histories, tragedies and comedies. These plays
are among the best known in English literature and
are studied in schools around the world.

23.  Shakespeare wrote his works between about 1590
and 1613. He is considered the first writer who
wrote a tragicomedy. (A tragicomedy is a play that
mixes comedy and tragedy, with a happy ending.)

24.  Shakespeare's plays are written in poetic language.
Many of the plays are set in strange, distant places
and times. They are still popular today. The stories
are often exciting, very funny, or very tragic and
make people want to know what happens to his
characters. He says much about things that are still
important today, like love, sadness, hope, pride,
hatred, jealousy, and foolishness.

25. SHAKESPEARE’S TRAGEDIES
 Romeo and Juliet
 Macbeth
 King Lear
 Hamlet
 Othello
 Titus Andronicus
 Julius Caesar
 Antony and Cleopatra
 Coriolanus
 Troilus and Cressida
 Timon of Athens

26. SHAKESPEARE’S COMEDIES
 The Comedy of Errors
 All's Well That Ends Well
 As You Like It
 A Midsummer Night's Dream
 Much Ado About Nothing
 Measure for Measure
 The Tempest
 Taming of the Shrew
 Twelfth Night or What You Will
 The Merchant of Venice
 The Merry Wives of Windsor
 Love's Labour's Lost
 The Two Gentlemen of Verona
 Pericles Prince of Tyre
 Cymbeline
 The Winter's Tale

27. SHAKESPEARE’S HISTORIES
 King John
 Richard II
 Richard III
 Henry IV
 Henry V
 Henry VI
 Henry VII

28. GOSSIPS

29. SEXUALITY
 Although Shakespeare was married to a woman
and fathered three children, people have debated
his sexuality. Some people, such as Peter Holland
of the Shakespeare Institute at Birmingham
University, have argued that Shakespeare was
possibly bisexual because of some of
the sonnets he wrote that were directed towards
young men

30. WHO WROTE “SHAKESPEARE”?
 About 150 years after Shakespeare died, some
writers began to say that the work called
"Shakespeare" were not really written by him. They
had various reasons for saying this. For example,
the person who wrote "Shakespeare" knew a lot
about other countries, but William Shakespeare
never left England. Several other writers of
"Shakespeare" have been suggested, such
as Francis Bacon, Christopher Marlowe,
and Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford. Most
scholars believe that William Shakespeare did write
the works that bear his name