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William Shakespeare1564-1616 Born in Warwickshire The 3rd of 8 kids Married at age 18 Worked as an actor before1590. The home of Mary Arden, wee Willy Shakespeares mothers house Anne Hathaways [Shakespeares wife] cottage The Avon River, near Stratford-upon-Avon. Henley Street, Stratford-upon-Avon The New Globe Theater The life of Shakespeare Arrive in London in 1586 Well-known in 1581 Died on the 23rd of April,1616 A respected poet and playwright in his own day, but his reputation did not rise to its present heights until the 19th century. His work was repeatedly adopted and rediscovered by new movements in scholarship and performance. His plays remain highly popular today and are constantly studied, performed and reinterpreted in diverse cultural and political contexts throughout the world About his works The works of William Shakespeare are a great land mark in the history of world literature. He was the first founders of realism(现实主义)，a masterhood at realistic portrayal of human characters and relations. In the expression of art, he inherited three traditions of the dramas of ancient Greece and Rome, medieval Britain and the European Renaissance and developed, innovating creatively from the content to the form. His plays try hard to reflect the true life and explore the inner mysteries, thus can figure out many diverse and complex personalities, vivid characters that represent the typical figure and social life. During the twenty-two years of his literary work he produced 37 plays, two narrative poems and 154 sonnets. His literary work may be divided into three major periods： The first period(1590-1600) The second period(1601-1608) The third period(1609-1612) His early plays were mainly comedies and histories, he raised to the peak of sophistication and artistry（复杂性和艺术性） by the end of the sixteenth century. He then wrote mainly tragedies until about 1608, including Hamlet(1601), Othello(1604)