Shakespeare biography slideshow
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Assignment: William Shakespeare
Date: 11 December 2019
Purpose: Building Background Knowledg
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Early Life
- Born 26 April 1564 in Stratford upon Avon
- Father: John Shakespeare--glover
- Mother: Mary Arden--daughter of a wealthy farmer
- Third child--eldest son
- A part of the middle class
Education
- No official records of Shakespeare’s schooling
- Historians generally agree that he attended grammar school in Stratford--free
- Studied largely classical Latin authors
- Would be able to read in both English and Latin
- He did NOT attend any sort of university
Family
- At 18, Shakespeare married Anne Hathaway (26 years old)
- Six months later, she gives birth to their first daughter, Susanna
- Two years later, they have twins--Judith (F) and Hamnet (M)
- Hamnet dies at 11
- Family lives in Stratford upon Avon while Shakespeare commutes between London and Stratford
Elizabethan England
- When Shakespeare was born, Queen Elizabeth was in