William Shakespear

             Born in a small market town of Stratford-on-Avon on April 23, 1564, William Shakespeare was the son of a successful glove maker, landowner, moneylender, and deal in agricultural commodities (Brooke 1, 2, 3, 4, 5). He attended the free Stratford Grammar School where he acquired a reasonably impressive education, including a respectable knowledge of Latin. However, he did not attend Oxford or Cambridge instead, he married Anne Hathaway and they had three children: Susanna and twins Hamnet and Judith. In 1592, Shakespeare was will know playwright after writing the historic plays "Richard III" and the first and second parts if "Henry IV ," and "Henry V". In 1601, after writing several impressive plays, including, "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and Twelfth Nights," Shakespeare wrote one of his six greatest tragedies, "Hamlet" (Bentley 22).
             This play tells the story of prince named Hamlet whose father is killed by his uncle Claudius as part of an evil plan to marry Hamlet's mother Gertrude and become King. Once Hamlet return home he begins to plot his revenge on his father's killer by the use of a comedy show at the king's court in which his father's death is reenacted. While learning the truth about what happen to Polonius? Hamlet falls in love with a beautiful Ophelia, but thinking that he is a mad man, she ends up committing suicide (www.clicknotes.com/hamlet/gertrude.html).
             A tragedy comes around, Hamlet mistakenly, while attempting to kill his uncle Claudius, stabs Polonius the chief's advisor to King Claudius in the abdomen killing him instantly. After learning about Polonius, Queen Gertrude the queen of Denmark and mother of Hamlet, rather than face the wrath of Hamlet's sword, decides to commit suicide by drinking poison. Laertes the son of Polonius, challenges Hamlet to a duel to the death by sword
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