Research the following on William Shakespeare, note it in your notebooks, and remember to cite your sources: Birth, Birthplace ,Education, Died. Research the Elizabethan Period: What was going on during that period. Highlight what you think the main points are of the period.What are his famous works or most famous work?
William Shakespeare was born on April 23, 1564 in Stratford- Upon- Avon in Warwickshire. William Shakespeare had very little education it was said that he was likely to have been educated at a Grammar School in Stratford. From the age of six or seven until he was fourteen years old. After Grammar school he was to attend a University but failed to attend due to his father's financial problems. William Shakespeare died on April 23, 1616 in Statford.
The Elizabethan Period was associated with Queen Elizabeth I's regin from 1558-1603. This was also refereed to as the Golden Age. This was the height of English Renaissance. This was when English poetry and Literature began. It was also the age of exploration and expansion.
Some of William Shakespeare's famous works are Romero & Juliet, Hamlet, Macbeth, Much Ado About Nothing, Othello, Tempest and his Sonnets.
Sources:
1) www.springfield.k12.il.us/school/springfield/el/shakespeareBig.html
2) www.shakespeare.palomar.edu/timeline/timeline.html
3) www.william-shakespeare.org.uk/education-of-william-shakepeare.html
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