Around 1600. Some say 1601.
At the start Shakespeare was at his best, and wrote some of his most famous plays including Hamlet and Julius Caesar. His last play was written in 1613, the year the globe theatre burnt down.
Shakespeare wrote Othello in the year 1604
The first time William Shakespeare appeared in public as a poet was in 1593. The poem he had written was Venus and Adonis.
No - just think of anything written before 1564 the year he was born.
1564 to 1616
At the start Shakespeare was at his best, and wrote some of his most famous plays including Hamlet and Julius Caesar. His last play was written in 1613, the year the globe theatre burnt down.
Shakespeare wrote Othello in the year 1604
The first time William Shakespeare appeared in public as a poet was in 1593. The poem he had written was Venus and Adonis.
No - just think of anything written before 1564 the year he was born.
Round about 1600. It was first published in 1601, so cannot be after that. But it was not referred to in a list of Shakespeare's plays made in 1598, so it is probably after that.
1589
1564 to 1616
Mr. William Shakespeare, gent. of Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire. Born in 1564 and died in 1616, he wrote Hamlet in the year 1600 more or less and Macbeth five or six years later. He is the most famous writer of plays in the world.
If you mean, "How old was Hamlet, the character in the play, at the time Shakespeare was married?" then your question makes no sense. It's like asking "How old was Donald Duck when Shakespeare was born?" Well, you cannot answer not only because Donald Duck is a fictional character who never ages but also because he was not invented at the time Shakespeare was born. Likewise, if you mean "How old was Shakespeare's play Hamlet at the time Shakespeare was married?", it doesn't make sense because Shakespeare wrote that play after he and Anne were married. The same if by "Hamlet" you mean "Hamnet Shakespeare, William's son" because Hamnet was born in 1585 and his parents were married in 1582. The only way this question could possibly make sense is if you mean "How old was the story of Hamlet when Shakespeare got married in 1582?" Well, the story of Amleth appears in a book called Gesta Danorum (The Acts of the Danes), a kind of Danish history book, written around the year 1200, 382 years before Shakespeare's marriage, give or take a dozen years. Another similar but shorter work called the Chronicon Lethrense was written about thirty years earlier. These books put the events in the Amleth story some time in the 600s AD.
No
Actor Rory Kinnear won the 2010 British award for his work in two plays by William Shakespeare: "Measure for Measure" and "Hamlet."
An 18-year-old William Shakespeare married 26-year-old Anne Hathaway in November 1582. At the time, she was pregnant with his child.