ENGLISH: William Shakespeare's Information

William Shakespeare
New Place, Stratford-upon-Avon, England

Key Skills and Abilities

·         A fast thinker. He can make poems and write-ups very quickly.

·         Uses creative approaches to all writing activities. He thinks “outside of the box” resulting in unique and beautiful outputs.

·         Innovative. He can adapt traditional style to his own purposes and create a freer flow of words. He invented different words while writing different poems, often combining or contorting Latin, French, and native roots.

·         A multi-tasker who is able to finish loads of outputs in a short span of time.

Career Experience

Actor and Playwright: London (1592 – 1612)

-       Wrote more than 30 plays

Managing Partner: Lord Chamberlaine’s Men Company, London (early 1590’s)

-       Several of his works were published and sold as popular literature.

-       He was able to attract the attention of Henry Wriothesley, the Earl of Southampton, to whom he dedicated his first published poems "Venus and Adonis" (1593) and "The Rape of Lucrece" (1594)

Entrepreneur and artist (1599)

-       Built his own theatre on the south bank of the Thames River, which he called the Globe, which became the most famous theatre of its time.

Sonnet Writer (1593-1601)

-       Wrote The Sonnets of Shakespeare which consists of 154 sonnets.

Education

·         King’s New School, Stratford, England

Other Information

Personal:

·         He married Anne Hathaway and had three children. His interests are writing.