@op 1) William Shakespeare was probably born on twenty-third April fifteen-sixtyfour (23/04/1564), which is also thought to be the day of his death in sixteen-sixteen (1616). He wrote around thirty-seven (37) plays for the theatre and over a houndred-fifty comedies.
2) At first, we wrote mainly historical play, but with time he started putting comedies onto the stage. He plays with the conventions of elizabethan love poetry and expresses nostalgia for the old kind of writing, he also provides a complex exploration of sexuality and emotions. He adresses his poems to the "Fair youth" and to the "Dark Lady":
3) the first one is a young man and the poems dedicated to him explore the themes of beauty and its decay and the destructive power of time, while the second one is a woman that, thought not physically pleasing, is irresistibly attractive.
1) The story of Hamlet is set in the late middle ages, in the Castle in Elsinore, a city in Denmark. To months after the death of the king, that's hamlet's father, his mother married her brother in law Claudius, so he becomes the new king. But the late king's ghost starts appearing at night at the castle
2) and tells Hamlet he was poisoned by Claudius and asks his son to revenge him. Hamlet performs a play at the castle, where he delivered the famous "to be or not to be" soliloquy and reveals what the ghost told him, so Claudius gets scated and rushes away. Then Hamlet is sent to England because, during an argument, he killed Polonius,
3) the king's councellor, and his daughter Ophelia got mad and drowned herself, so her brother Leaters tried to revenge her in a sword duel, but both of them died. Before his death, Hamlet asks Horatio to give him honour and to make Fortinbras the new king.