BIOGRAPHY

William Shakespeare (Great Britain, 1564-1616)
English poet and playwright, widely regarded as one of the best playwrights of the literature. He was baptized in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire. The young Shakespeare had to start working as an apprentice butcher, by the difficult economic situation his father. Another witness, became a schoolteacher. The references in his works on hunting and falcons.
In 1582 he married Anne Hathaway, daughter of a farmer, with whom he had a daughter, Susanna, in 1583, and two twins, a boy, who died at 11 years old and a girl in 1585. Apparently, he had to leave Stratford andalusia surprising hunting illegally on the property of Sir Thomas Lucy, the magistrate of the city. The publication of two poems erotic as the fashion of the time, Venus and Adonis (1593) and the rape of Lucretia (1594) and its Sonetos earned him a reputation for brilliant Renaissance poet. The life of Shakespeare in London was marked by a series of financial arrangements that allowed him to share the benefits of the theater company in which it acted, the Chamberlain's Men, later called King's Men, and the two theaters possessed it, The Globe and Blackfriars.It was in 1599 when his company performed the works of the deposition and murder of King Richard II, at the request of a group of courtiers who conspired against Queen Elizabeth, led by a former favorite of the queen, Robert Devereux, and the Earl of Southampton, although the investigation that followed the event, the theater company was acquitted of any complicity. From the year 1608, Shakespeare's dramatic production decreased considerably, apparently was in his hometown, Stratford, where he bought a house called New Place. He died on April 23 1616 and was buried in the church of Stratford.



Until the eighteenth century, Shakespeare was considered only as a genius difficult. Nineteenth century onwards, his works have received the recognition they deserve in the world. Almost all his works continue today represent and are a source of inspiration for numerous theatrical experiments, reported as a deep understanding of human nature, as exemplified by the perfect characterization of their multifaceted characters. His skill in the use of poetic language and dramatic resources, able to create an aesthetic unity from a multitude of expressions and actions, has no par in the literature. Subsequent British playwrights as John Webster, John Ford and Philip Masing borrowed ideas from their works and their influence on the restoration of the authors, especially John Dryden, William Congreve and Thomas Otway is more than evident.