William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare was baptized on the 26^th April 1564 in Stratford. Known throughout the world, his works have been performed in countless countries and occasions. Shakespeare wrote plays that caught a complete variety of emotions and conflicts and perhaps that is why nowadays so many adaptations of his plays are being turned into films like for example the very well-known film Romeo and Juliet. Although William was the third child of John Shakespeare, a leather merchant and Mary Arden, a local landed heiress, some records say that William had a non-existent education, as there are no records of it anywhere. Being the son of a public official had free tuition, but as there is uncertainty about his education, the question of the authenticity of his work was raised. However, the great majority of Shakespearean researchers believe that William Shakespeare wrote all his own plays as the lack of evidence about his life didn’t mean his plays weren’t his.  William Shakespeare's early plays were written in a conventional style with elaborate metaphors and rhetorical phrases that sometimes didn’t relate well enough with the story's plot.

With the exception of the play “Romeo and Juliet”, William’s first plays were generally histories and comedies although he also wrote romance as the play “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”. Nevertheless, although William Shakespeare was a respected man of the dramatic arts who wrote his plays in the late 16th and early 17th centuries, his reputation as a play writer wasn't acknowledge until the 19th century.

 It is said that William Shakespeare died on his birthday, April 23, 1616, however many intellectuals assure that this is a myth as church records show he was buried at Trinity Church on April 25, 1616.