Intro :

Shakespeare is a very important figure in the western culture because he stills remain a huge influence into the artists’ works today. His plays are translated in a lot of languages and are regularly played everywhere all around the world. He is one of the only playwrights who have written both comedies and tragedies.
Shakespeare wrote 37 plays between 1580 and 1613. We can also mesure his influence on the anglo-saxon culture, since we notice the large amount of references which are done about him, through quotations, work title or through the innumerable adaptations of his works. You may already know that English is called: Shakespeare’s language.

A Mysterious life:

But we can ask ourselves a lot of questions about his life and his works. Indeed, throughout the ages, some have even said that he never had existed. However we know today that this is wrong and the fact that a certain William Shakespeare had existed during the XVI Th century was proved. Despite all of that, we have just a few elements of his life and a lot of questions are remaining about his plays’ authorship.

Biography:

Je n’aie pas trouvé les versions anglaises des citations. (moi non plus j’en ai mis qu’une)^^
William Shakespeare (clic) was born to John Shakespeare and mother Mary Arden some time in late April 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon. There is no record of his birth, but his baptism was recorded by the church, thus his birthday is assumed to be the 23 of April. His father was a prominent and prosperous alderman in the town of Stratford-upon-Avon, and was later granted a coat of arms by the College of Heralds. All that is known of Shakespeare's youth is that he presumably attended the Stratford Grammar School, and did not proceed to Oxford or Cambridge. The next record we have of him is his marriage (clic) to Anne Hathaway in 1582. The next year she bore a daughter for him (clic), Susanna, followed by the twins (clic) Judith and Hamnet two years later.

Seven years