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William Shakespeare (c. 23 [a] April 1564 – 23 April 1616) [b] was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. [3] [4] [5] He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon" (or simply "the Bard").
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 11 December 2024. The Chandos portrait, believed to be Shakespeare, held in the National Portrait Gallery, London William Shakespeare was an actor, playwright, poet, and theatre entrepreneur in London during the late Elizabethan and early Jacobean eras. He was baptised on 26 April 1564 [a] in Stratford ...
The largely fictionalised plot revolves around William Shakespeare coming to terms with Hamnet's death and his relationship with his family. [ 23 ] Irish novelist Maggie O'Farrell 's 2020 book Hamnet is a fictional account of the life of Hamnet.
Shakespeare's funerary monument, Holy Trinity Church, Stratford. The Shakespeare funerary monument is a memorial to William Shakespeare located inside Holy Trinity Church at Stratford-upon-Avon in Warwickshire, the church in which Shakespeare was baptised and where he was buried in the chancel two days after his death. [1]
Anne Shakespeare (née Hathaway; 1556 – 6 August 1623), commonly known as Anne Hathaway, was the wife of William Shakespeare, an English poet, playwright and actor. They were married in 1582, when Hathaway was 26 years old and Shakespeare was 18. She outlived her husband by seven years.
At his death in 1570, Underhill left New Place to his son, William Underhill II (d.1597), who in 1597 sold it to William Shakespeare for £60. He (William Underhill II) died two months later, and it emerged that he had been poisoned by his eldest son and heir, Fulke Underhill. According to some sources, Fulke Underhill died in May 1598 while ...
“I remember just feeling completely numb, disorientated, dizzy,” Prince William said in a 2017 BBC documentary on Diana’s death, in which he appeared alongside Harry. “You feel very, very ...
William Shakespeare's last will and testament was signed on 25 March 1616, just under a month before his death. [ a ] The document has been studied for details of his personal life, for his opinions, and for his attitudes towards his two daughters, Susanna and Judith , and their respective husbands, John Hall and Thomas Quiney .