William Shakespeare wrote 13 comedies, 13 historical plays, 6 tragedies, 4 tragicomedies, 154 sonnets as well as three long poems, Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece, and A Lover's Complaint, before he died on his birthday in 1616 at the age of 52. Considered perhaps the best dramatist ever to live he is still also considered one of the best poets ever to write in the English language. William Shakespeare was born on April 23, 1564 to John Shakespeare and Mary Arden in …showed first 75 words of 494 total…

…showed last 75 words of 494 total…writing his most famous plays such as his tragedies Antony and Cleopatra, Julius Caesar, Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth and Othello. Only four plays were produced in Shakespeare's last eight years. His last play, Henry VIII is dated 1613. In 1616 Shakespeare's youngest daughter married Thomas Quiney, two months later Shakespeare died and was buried inside the Stratford parish church. Shakespeare's last direct descendant died in 1670. It was his granddaughter Elizabeth who never had any children. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**