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The Complete work of Shakespeare

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William Shakespeare was a great English poet. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon".
He is the world's most performed play writer and his works have been translated into every major living language. Shakespeare produced most of his known work between 1590 and 1612. He is one of the few playwrights of the time considered to have excelled in both tragedy and comedy. Many of his dramas, including Macbeth, Hamlet and King Lear, are ranked among the greatest plays of Western literature. William Shakespeare was born in April 1564, He was the eldest surviving son, and third child among eight. Shakespeare most likely attended King Edward VI Grammar School in Stratford, about a quarter-mile from the family home on Henley Street. At age 18 Shakespeare married 26-year-old Anne Hathaway. His wife gave birth their first child named "Susanna" then after two years later they got twins, a son named "Hamnet" and a daughter "Judith". Hamnet died of unknown causes at the age of 11. The years between 1585 and 1592 are known as Shakespeare's "lost years". It is not known exactly when Shakespeare began writing; Greene's attack is the first reference to Shakespeare's career as an actor. Shakespeare retired to Stratford some time around the period 1610-1613. He died on23 April 1616. The day traditionally presumed to be his birthday. He was married to Anne Hathaway until his death and was survived by her and their two daughters, Susanna and Judith. There are no direct descendants of Shakespeare alive today. Shakespeare may have written his own epitaph... Good friend, for Jesus' sake forbear, To dig the dust enclosèd here. Blest be the man that spares these stones, And cursed be he that moves my bones. There is complete work of Shakespeare. Comedy by Shakespeare: All's Well That Ends Well As You Like It, The Comedy of Errors, Cymbeline, Love's Labours Lost, Measure for Measure, The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Merchant of Venice, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, Pericles, Prince of Tyre, Taming of the Shrew, The Tempest, Troilus and Cressida, Twelfth Night, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Winter's Tale. Tragedies from Shakespeare are Antony and Cleopatra, Coriolanus, Hamlet, Julius Caesar, King Lear, Macbeth, Othello, Romeo and Juliet, Timon of Athens, Titus Andronicus. History from Shakespeare are :Henry IV, part 1,Henry IV, part 2, Henry V, Henry VI, part 1,Henry VI, part 2,Henry VI, part 3, Henry VIII, King John,Richard II, Richard III. And his poetry is: The Sonnets, A Lover's Complaint, The Rape of Lucrece Venus and Adonis, Funeral Elegy by W.S. Write your abstract here.
Published: July 24, 2007
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