William Shakespeare Research Paper

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William Shakespeare is one of the worlds greatest poets, actor and playwrights to ever live. Shakespeare was one of the most influential authors of all time. Some people live their whole life based off of Shakespeare and what ways and lessons he taught in his stories and plays. He wrote many famous plays the we still read and act out to this day. Most writers look up to Shakespeare and his work even after the many years of his age. Shakespeare’s legacy will forever influence new authors and playwrights coming up. Personal Life/ Education William Shakespeare was born on April 23, 1564 in Stratford England. He was born to John and Mary Shakespeare and was the third of eight children. He is known as the most famous dramatists in history. Shakespeare …show more content…

He wrote a variety of themes including: Histories, Comedies, Tragedies, and Tragicomedies.(Biography) Most of the plays he wrote were histories. All of shakespeare’s comedies include: All's Well That Ends Well, As You Like It, Comedy of Errors, Love's Labour's Lost, Measure for Measure, Merchant of Venice, Merry Wives of Windsor, Midsummer Night's Dream, Much Ado about Nothing, Taming of the Shrew, Tempest, Twelfth Night, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Winter's Tale. His histories include: Henry IV part I & II, Henry V, Henry VI part I, II, & III, Henry VIII, King John, Pericles, and Richard II & III. and his tragedies include: Antony and Cleopatra, Coriolanus, Cymbeline, Hamlet, Julius Caesar, King Lear, Macbeth, Othello, Romeo and Juliet, Timon of Athens, Titus, Andronicus, Troilus and Cressida. Three of shakespeare’s most famous plays are Hamlet, Macbeth, and The tragedy of Romeo & Juliet. All three of these plays are

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