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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Born - Died | April 23, 1564 - April 23, 1616 |
| City of Birth | Stratford-Upon-Avon (Stratford on the Avon River) |
| Parents | John Shakespeare and Mary Arden |
| Married to ____ in ____. | Anne Hathaway, 1582 |
| 3 children | Suzanna (May 1583), Hamnet and Judith (Febuary 1585) |
| 1594 - Member of ________ | Lord Chamberlain's Acting Company |
| 1603 - Acting Co. changed their name to ________ | King's Men |
| Number of plays written | 37 |
| Shareholder in the _____ Theater | Globe |
| 1611 - he ______ | Retired |
| 1613 - he ______ | Returned home to Stratford |
| Buried in ______ | Trinity Churchyard |
| Wrote Comedies: | A Midsummer's Night Dream, The Merry Wives of Windsor |
| Wrote Romances: | Tempest, Winter's Tale |
| Wrote Tragedies: | Hamlet, MacBeth, King Lear |
| Wrote Histories: | Richard II, Richard III, Henry IV, Henry V |
| Problem Play: (doesn't fit a category) | Measure Measure |
| Quartos | A single edition of a play usually published without the author's permission |
| ______ and _______ were colleagues of Shakespeare's who published 36/37 plays in The __________. | John Heminges, Henry Condell, First Folio |
| First Folio was published in ______ | 1623 |
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