Please enable JavaScript.

Coggle requires JavaScript to display documents.

William Shakespeare's - Coggle Diagram

- - - - He was born on 23 April 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon, in Warwickshire, his father John was a glover
        
        his mother, Mary Arden, came from an important country family, in his youth Shakspeare studied at Stratford's grammar school, and he studied rhetoric, poetry, Latin and some Greek
        
        when he was 18, he married Anne Hathaway, she was already pregnant, he had Susanna, the twins Judith and Hamnet, Shakespeare decided to go to London to work in the theatre
- - - - in this period Shakspeare won himself a reputation as a poet by two long mythological poems: Venus and Adonis, and The Rape of Lucerne
- - - - When Marlowe was dead Shakespeare became the most successful playwright of his time
        
        he excelled in all the dramatic genres: comedies, tragedies and historical plays the Chamberlain's Men moved into a new playhouse: The Globe
- - - - In the last part of Shakespeare's career he abandoned tragic subjects and only wrote comedies, in fact, he went on to write other comedies that were also called romances
        
        When he was fifty he retired to Stratford and buyed several properties there
        
        he died in Stratford in 1616, on the 23 of April, the same day on which he was born
- - - - it contains 36 plays by Shakespeare, 20 of which had not been published in his lifetime
        
        this means that without the First Folio we would not have more than half of Shakespeare's plays;
        
        thanks to this book Shakespeare's plays reached the world