William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare 1564 - 1616

The Greatest English Writer
William Shakespeare was born on April 23, 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon. Shakespeare was the most documented Elizabethan playwright who was recognised in his own lifetime. After retiring and making his will out on March 25, 1616, Shakespeare died on April 23, 1616. Nothing is recorded on the cause of his death.

Shakespeare's Life
John Shakespeare, William's father, was a glover and a whittawer. He was a highly successful and respected man. His father held many public official positions: mayor, town council man, and justice of peace. Shakespeare's father was not able to write. In 1576, John's business went down. He stopped attending meetings and social events. Shakespeare was twelve at this point in time.
Stratford on Avon

Shakespeare's mother was Mary Arden. She came from a wealthy family who paid a handsome dowry to marry her off. While living on Henly Street, she bore eight children with the Shakespeare name.

Shakespeare went to Stratford Grammar School where he studied classics written in Greek and Latin. His teachers gave him the incentive to read.
He was taught by two Oxford graduates, Simon Hunt and Thomas Jenkins. Shakespeare had an unusual keen observation of both nature and mankind. His education was said to have ended here.

On November 27, 1582, Shakespeare married Ann Hathaway who was twenty-eight years old. On May 26, 1583, Ann bore their first daughter, Susanna. In 1585, a set of twins were born, Judith and Hamnet. Hamnet died at the age of eleven in 1596.
No evidence was found of Shakespeare between the years of 1585 1592. These years of Shakespeare's life were called "The Hidden Years".
Ann Hathaway's House

Shakespeare's Memorial Places in Stratford on Avon Shakespeare’s Memorial Theater

Monument to Lady Macbeth

The Trinity Church Where William Shakespeare Was Baptized And later Buried.

A Stained-Glass Window

A Monument to William Shakespeare

Hidden Years
During Shakespeare's Hidden Years, many people suspected that he ran away from the law or became a butcher's apprentice. Christopher Beston, called "The Chronicle of the Stage", was also a prominent theatrical manager. Beston told John Aubry, who wrote "Brief Lies", that Shakespeare was probably a school teacher during these years. No evidence was found of Shakespeare's whereabouts until 1592 in London.

London Period
In London, Shakespeare established himself as an actor who began to write many plays. In 1593, he found a patron, Henry Wriothsley, to sponsor him. During this time, he wrote two long poems. His first long poem, "Venus and Adonius", was written in 1593. In 1594, he wrote his second long poem, “Lucrece". The theatres also opened again after the plague during this year.

The Globe Theater
Shakespeare worked for "Lord Chamberlain's Men" company that later became "The King's Men" in 1603 after King James I took over. This company became the largest and most famous acting company because Shakespeare performed and worked for them. His plays were usually performed by this company.

. All 154 of his sonnets were published in 1609. At this time, Richard Burbage was considered the greatest actor. James Burbage, Richard's father, was the first to build a theatre in London called "The Theatre" in 1576. In 1599, "The Globe" was built in a circular shape.

The plays in this theatre usually lasted for three days. The first day, expenses were paid, the second day, the actors were paid, and the third day, the playwright was paid. Other theatres to follow were the following: "The Curtain", "The Rose", "The Swan", "The Fortune", "The Red Bull", and "The Hope".
Hamlet

As an actor, writer, director, and a stockholder in "The King's Men" company, Shakespeare had multiple sources of income. He was becoming a very wealthy man. In 1597, Shakespeare bought New Place which was a very large house for his family to live in.

At the End
Shakespeare left London in 1611 and retired. On March 25, 1616, Shakespeare made a will. He died April 23, 1616 at the age of fifty-two. The cause of his death was unknown. Many people believe that Shakespeare knew he was dying; however, he didn't want anyone to know that he was.

The Modern Building of the Globe Theater in London.

At Shakespeare's time, after the graveyard was full, they would dig one's corpse up and burn the person's bones in a huge fireplace. Some people would strip the corpse after the burial. Shakespeare hated this type of treatment after death, so he wrote his own epitaph.

Shakespeare's Will
"Good Friends, for Jesus' sake forbear, To dig the bones enclosed here! Blest be the man that spares these stones, And curst be he that moves my bones."

Due to the fact that the people at this time were superstitious, no one ever bothered his corpse. A while ago, a few people wanted to dig him up and check his bones to be sure that the person buried there was Shakespeare. However, the government would not allow it.

Shakespeare's Grave

In 1623, Shakespeare's first folio was published. The folio included: 154 sonnets, 37 plays, and 2 long poems.
His friends compiled all of his work into this folio before anyone could reproduce his plays and claim them as their own.
Many of his plays are famous and are studied by students today.

Romeo and Juliet

King Lear

The Twelfth Night

Hamlet

Caesar and Cleopatra

Some Sonnets
Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove: O no! it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken; It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken. Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come: Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom. If this be error and upon me proved, I never writ, nor no man ever loved.
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date: Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimm'd; And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance, or nature's changing course, untrimm'd; But thy eternal summer shall not fade, Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest; Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade, When in eternal lines to time thou growest; So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes, I all alone beweep my outcast state, And trouble deaf Heaven with my bootless cries, And look upon myself, and curse my fate, Wishing me like to one more rich in hope, Featur'd like him, like him with friends possess'd, Desiring this man's art, and that man's scope, With what I most enjoy contented least: Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising, Haply I think on thee,--and then my state (Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth) sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings'.
Not marble, nor the gilded monuments Of princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme; But you shall shine more bright in these contents Than upswept stone, besmear'd with sluttish time. When wasteful war shall statues overturn, And broils root out the work of masonry, Nor Mars his sword nor war's quick fire shall burn The living record of your memory. ‘Gainst death and all oblivious enmity Shall you pace forth; your praise shall still find room, Even in the eyes of all posterity That wear this world out to the ending doom. So, till the judgment that yourself arise, You live in this, and dwell in lovers' eyes.

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