WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE QUESTIONS

1. When was William Shakespeare born? Where?

Shakespeare was born the 26^th of April 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England.

2.  Write the name of William Shakespeare’s parents. Who were they?

His father was John Shakespeare, an alderman and a successful glover and his mother Mary Arden, the daughter of an affluent landowning farmer. She was the heiress to some land.

3. Write the name of his wife. When did they get married?

His wife is Anne Hathaway. When Shakespeare was 18 years old and Hathaway was 26.

4. Write the names of his children. What happened to them?

They had three children: Susanna and twins, Hamnet and Judith.

Hamnet died of unknown causes at the age of 11 (1596).

5. What was the name of his hometown?

Stratford-upon-Avon

6. Write the name of the buildings in his hometown related to him.

King Edward VI Grammar School, Mary Arden's house, Nash House, Hall's Croft, Anne Hathaway's cottage and Holy Trinity Church.

7. Where did he study?

He studied in Stratford.

8. Did he go to university?

No, he didn’t.

9. Why did he leave his family and hometown to go to London?

Nicholas Rowe, Shakespeare's first biographer, recounted a Stratford legend that Shakespeare fled the town for London to escape prosecution for deer poaching in the estate of local squire Thomas Lucy.

Another 18th-century story has Shakespeare starting his theatrical career minding the horses of theatre patrons in London.

10. How many plays had he written when he arrived in London?

None

11. When can we find the first reference to Shakespeare in the literary world of London?

In 1592, when a fellow dramatist, Robert Greene, wrote about Shakespeare in a pamphlet written on his deathbed.

12.  When he was in London, he was an actor and playwright who belonged to the company called Lord Chamberlain's Men, which had been founded by Lord Chamberlain and whose theatre was called The Globe. They has the best actor  Richard Burbage and the best dramatist William Shakespeare.

13.  When and where did he die?

He died on April 23, 1616 in Stratford-upon- Avon

14.  When and where did his wife die?

In 1623, seven years after Shakespeare.

15.  Where is he buried?

In the chancel of the parish church of Stratford-upon-Avon.

16.  What did his will state?

Shakespeare's will state is long and detailed document.