Реферат: Shakespears Life Essay Research Paper England

The play writing commenced in 1595 and of the 38 plays

that comprise the Shakespeare Cannon, 36 were published

in the 1st Folio of 1623, of which 18 had been

published in his lifetime in what are termed the Quarto

publications.

Love’s Labour’s Lost and The Comedy of Errors appear

to be among the earliest, being followed by The Two

Gentlemen of Verona and Romeo and Juliet. Then followed

Henry VI, Richard III, Richard II, Titus Andronicus,

The Taming of the Shrew, King John, The Merchant of

Venice, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, All’s Well that Ends

Well, Henry IV, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Henry V,

Much Ado about Nothing, As you like it, Twelth Night,

Julius Caesar, Hamlet, Troilus and Cressida, Othello,

Measure for Measure, Macbeth, King Lear, Timon of

Athens, Pericles, Antony and Cleopatra, Coriolanus,

Cymbeline, A Winter’s Tale, The Tempest, Henry VIII and

The Two Noble Kinsmen.

When he retired from writing in 1611, he returned to

Stratford to live in a house which he had built for his

family. His only son, Hamnet died when still a child.

He also lost a daughter Judith (twin to Hamnet), but

his third child Susanna married a Stratford Doctor,

John Hall and their home “Hall’s Croft” is today

preserved as one of the Shakespeare Properties and

administered by the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust.

In 1616 Shakespeare was buried in the Church of the

Holy Trinity the same Church where he was

baptised in 1564. Tradition has it that he died after