W. William Shakespeare (1564～1616) was born in Stratford, England on April 23, 1564 - May 3, 1616 (April 23 in the Julian calendar) ), a famous British playwright and poet, whose main works include "Romeo and Juliet", "Hamlet", etc. Life The great British playwright and poet William Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwick County, central England, in 1564. His father, John Shakespeare, was a grocer engaged in wool, leather manufacturing and grain business. He was appointed as the town civil officer in 1565 and was elected as the mayor three years later. Shakespeare studied at a local grammar school as a child. Although he received a good basic education, he never went to college. In 1582, the 18-year-old Shakespeare married 26-year-old Anne Hathaway, a peasant girl from a neighboring country. They had three children when they were less than 21 years old. His situation from 1585 to 1592 is unknown, and is called the "lost years" by commentators. He left Stratford after 1585 and went to London to make a living. Around 1590, he joined a troupe and became an actor and playwright, starting his stage and creative career. He became famous in the theater world at the age of thirty, and four years later he became a leading figure in the British theater world. In 1592, theater manager P. Henslow first mentioned Shakespeare's play "Henry VI" Part 1. In the same year, before his death, the playwright R. Green alluded to Shakespeare's surname in "A Wisdom of a Thousand Regrets" and quoted lines from the second chapter of "Henry VI", calling Shakespeare "an upstart crow". This shows that he had already Quite famous. From 1593 to 1594, he wrote and published two long poems, "Venus and Adonis" and "The Humiliation of Lucrece", which were dedicated to the young noble Earl of Southampton. He also wrote some miscellaneous poems and 154 sonnets published in 1609. Starting from 1594, his troupe was protected by the Chamberlain and was called the "Chamberlain's Troupe". Around 1598, as a shareholder of the theater company, he co-founded the Globe Theater with others, and his later dramas were mainly performed here (the "Blackfriars Theater" was later added around 1609). He himself also performed in the palace with the troupe, and occasionally performed in universities and law schools; in summer or when the plague was prevalent and the London theaters were closed, he would perform in other provinces. In 1598, university scholar F. Mills listed Shakespeare's plays before he was 35 years old in his "Treasury of Wisdom" and praised his comedies and tragedies as "unparalleled", ranking him with the first-rate dramatic poets in ancient times. But he never published any of his plays during his lifetime. In 1596, he applied for the title of "gentleman" and the right to own a coat of arms in his father's name, and purchased considerable real estate three times. In 1603, when James I succeeded to the throne, his troupe was renamed the "King's Troupe", and he and the actors in the troupe were appointed as chamberlains. Around 1612 he bid farewell to London and returned to his hometown to settle down. He died of illness on April 23, 1616 and was buried in the Holy Trinity Church in the town. He left a will before his death. Two of his portraits that are said to be more reliable are the bust in the church and the portrait of Drochot, and the handwriting has 6 signatures and three pages of the play "Sir Thomas More". In 1623, actors J. Heming and H. Condale printed his plays into a folio, which included 36 plays (20 of which were printed for the first time), known as the "First Folio". Since 1772, some people have continuously raised questions about the author of Shakespeare's plays, and tried to prove that the author was Bacon, C. Marlowe, Earl of Letland, Earl of Oxford, Earl of Derby, etc., but there is a lack of evidence.

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