.:Facts About Sir William Shakespeare:.

• Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, in 1564.
• Between about 1590 and 1613, Shakespeare wrote at least 37 plays and collaborated on several more.
• Many of these plays were very successful both at court and in the public playhouses.
• He died and was buried his home town in 1616.
• His plays were comedies, histories and tragedies.
• Shakespeare’s plays began to be printed in 1594, they appeared as a small, cheap pamphlet called a quarto.

Information above was mixed around but came from this website; http://www.bl.uk/treasures/shakespeare/basics.html

• Boys and men played all the parts in Shakespeare's plays in Elizabethan times.
• Sir William Davanant (1606-1668), godson of Shakespeare and poet laureate of England, claimed to be Shakespeare's illegitimate son.
• Shakespeare was 17 or 18 when he married. His wife, Anne Hathaway, was 26.
• No one knows how Shakespeare died. Among the possibilities are kidney disease, murder most foul, and too much to drink.

Something interesting but confusing i found out was;

• Shakespeare wrote most of the lines in his plays in blank verse, which is unrhymed iambic pentameter.
• An iamb is a unit of rhythm consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable.

The information above was selected from the site; http://www.cummingsstudyguides.net/xfacts.html