Essay about Shakespeare's life. explaination of general life durring Shakespeares time (elizabethan period) and breif notes on the Globe Theatre -includes a catagorized list of Shakespeares plays.

William Shakespeare, surely the world's most performed and admired playwright, was born in April, 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, about 100 miles northwest of London. According to the records of Stratford's Holy Trinity Church, he was baptised on April 26. Since it was customary to baptise infants within days of birth, and since Shakespeare died 52 years later on April 23, and--most significantly--since April 23 is St. George's day, the patron saint of England, it has become traditional to assign the birth …

…where Juliet's body lay asleep he would have seen her wake up and therefore not kill himself. If this had of been the case then Juliet too would of lived and maybe perhaps unite the two families after years of feud. However, this did not happen as Romeo and Juliet is more tragedy then fairytale. As it is said, 'it is better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all.'