William Shakespeare

I was born at Stratford a small town in England in 1564. I was the third child of my father Jhon. I attended the free grammar-school where I learned Latin and Greek. My father was a wool dealer and I was really proud of him because he also held several public offices in our hometown. But, when I was youngster, I got married to Anne Hathaway, a beautiful woman eight years older than myself. She bore me three children: two gorgeous girls, Susanne and Judith; they were twins. Unfortunately, my unique son died in 1596. Before this awful episode in my life I began a successful career in London as an actor, writer, and part-owner of a playing company called the Lord Chamberlain's Men.

I wrote and published two lyric epic poems entitled “Venus and Adonis” as well as “Lucrece” in 1592. I decided to dedicate these two poems to Henry Wriothesley who was my chief protector taking into account that he was the earl of Southampton and one of the favorites gentlemen of Queen Elizabeth. It was a black period in London in which theatres were closed and during this period I only wrote these two poems, but when they reopened I wrote mainly tragedies including Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth, considered some of my finest and most important plays in the English language. In my last phase, I wrote tragicomedies, also known as romances, and I had the opportunity to collaborate with other playwrights such as Marlowe.

To conclude with my own life description, I need to say that I was considered to be the most important and the greatest human dramatist. I thought that it would be necessary to create new words in English to emphasize the action and the feelings in my plays and for that reason I invented more than 2000 words in English that nowadays are useful in any context. Most of my followers mention that I helped to understand the meaning of literature and also that I am the most quoted writer in the history of the English-speaking. But, as you know everything has an end, and I died in my hometown in 1616.