#shakespeare400

#shakespeare400: Is a hashtag of a season of cultural and artistic events across 2016, celebrating four hundred years of Shakespeare, his creative achivement and his profund influence on creative culture across the centuries.

#stratford-upon-avon: A hashtag which explains the market town Stratford-upon-avon in Warwickshire, England, on the River Avon. The town is a popular tourist destination owing to its status as birthplace of English playwright and poet William Shakespeare.

#annehatheaway: She was the wife of William Shakespeare, the English poet, playwright and actor. They were married in 1582, when he was 18 and she was 26 years old. She outlived her husband by eight years. Very little is known about her beyond a few references in legal documents, but her personality and relationship to Shakespeare have been the subject of much speculation by historians and creative writers.

#theglobe: The Globe Theatre was a theatre in London associated with William Shakespeare. It was built in 1599 by Shakespeare's playing company, the Lord Chamberlain's Men, on land owned by Thomas Brend and inherited by his son, Nicholas Brend and grandson Sir Matthew Brend , and was destroyed by fire on 29 June 1613.

#plays:  The plays written by English poet, playwright, and actor William Shakespeare have the reputation of being among the greatest in the English language and in Western Literature. Traditionally, the plays are divided into the genres of tragedy, history and comedy. The most famous plays are : Hamlet, Macbeth, Julius Caesar , The Tempest...

#plague The plays of Shakespeare were like a plague because when they were shown to the world almost all the people of the town had gone to the Globe Theatre to watch Shakespeare's plays.

#1595 William Shakespeare achieves prosperity and recognition as the Leading London Playwright.

#queenelizabeth  Shakespeare was ardently attracted to Elizabeth and her Court, and proved a faithful servant to his royal mistress. The first evidence of this is in his fine eulogy of the virgin queen in that most sweetly poetical early drama, A Midsummer-Night's Dream, as "a fair vestal throned by the west".

#thearmada  The british victory against The Spanish Armada influenced Shakespeare in his plays, adding more English national identity to the country.

#shakespearequotes "To be or not to be, that's the question" , "We know what we are, but know not what we may be", "It is not in the stars to hold the destiny but in ourselves"