Do you know who Shakespeare is? Do you know any of his works? Read about him and let’s have a look at one of his most famous tragedies: Hamlet.
William Shakespeare (also spelled Shakspere, Shaksper and Shake-speare, as spelling in Elizabethan times was not fixed and absolute)[1] was born in Stratford-upon-Avon, the son of John Shakespeare, a successful glover and alderman from Snitterfield, and of Mary Arden, a daughter of the gentry. They lived on Henley Street, having married around 1557.