I need all of this on William Shakespeare?

Question

I need 7 facts about
*Birth, childhood, anything about his babyhood
*What did people of Shakespeares time think of his work
*Some one who has read one of his books to tell a little about it and if it was good or not.
*Why is Romeo and Juliet a classic


******Please give me the website you got it from*********

Answer 1

This may be a little off topic, but the son of glove maker from Stratford did not write the works we call Shakespeare.

Shakespeare by Another Name: A Biography of Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, the Man Who Was Shakespeare by Mark Anderson.

In general, Shakespeare's works were very popular.
Queen Elizabeth like them because they bolstered the Tudor claim to the throne. (Richard III). MacBeth and King Lear pandered to James I. He was also slyly critical of people he didn't like.

R & J is a classic because it points out the folly of family feuds and rivalry. Something our current gang members could learn from.

Answer 2

For me Shakespeare is the greatest writer of the English language.
However he didn’t really write books.
He wrote plays (you must have heard of them: Hamlet, King Lear, Othello, Macbeth, A Midsummernight’s Dream, Romeo and Juliet ...) and sonnets.
He is so famous because his subjects are universal: an impossible love affair between two opposing families. Think of interracial, interreligious etc matches.
Shakespeare was a master of language and many of his verses are household expressions:
To Be or not to Be, Well roared Lion, When shall we three meet again, Frailty thy name is woman etcetc

There is an ongoing debate whether Shakespeare was really Shakespeare or not. It think this is almost irrelevant. The work stands for itself.

My all-time favorite is Hamlet!

Wikipedia will give you a good survey, I guess

Answer 3

Romeo & Juliet is a classic tragic love story. Romeo & Juliet are from 2 feuding families. Juliet is being arranged to marry another man, but falls in love with Romeo. They marry in secret, but Juliet's parents arranged her marriage & announce it, but there is little she can do because Romeo has been run out of town for murder/dueling. Desperate she takes a potion that makes her appear dead, but her messenger fails to reach Romeo so he hears that she's dead so he takes poison at her bier side. Juliet wakes up and finds Romeo dead so she stabs herself. Their tragic deaths unite the feuding families. Seen this story arc anywhere else? Yep. Just turn on the TV.

http://www.shakespeare-online.com/

http://education.yahoo.com/reference/encyclopedia/entry/Shakespe

Answer 4

William Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon in April 1564, the son of John Shakespeare, a successful glover and alderman from Snitterfield, and of Mary Arden, a daughter of the gentry.His birth is assumed to have occurred at the family house on Henley Street. Shakespeare's christening record dates to April 26 of that year. Because christenings were performed within a few days of birth, tradition has settled on April 23 as his birthday. This date provides a convenient symmetry because Shakespeare died on the same day, April 23 (May 3 on the Gregorian calendar), in 1616.

Shakespeare is believed to have attended King Edward VI Grammar School in central Stratford,[10] since as the son of a prominent town official he was entitled to do so for free[11]; however, the records that would confirm this no longer exist.[10]

By 1596, Shakespeare had moved to the parish of St. Helen's, Bishopsgate, and by 1598 he appeared at the top of a list of actors in Every Man in His Humour written by Ben Jonson. Also by 1598, his name began to appear on the title pages of his plays, presumably as a selling point.

There is a tradition that Shakespeare, in addition to writing many of the plays his company enacted, and being concerned as part-owner of the company with business and financial details, continued to act in various parts, such as the ghost of Hamlet's father, Adam in As You Like It, and the Chorus in Henry V.[citation needed]

He appears to have moved across the Thames River to Southwark sometime around 1599. By 1604, he had moved again, north of the river, where he lodged just north of St Paul's Cathedral with a Huguenot family named Mountjoy. His residence there is worth noting because he helped arrange a marriage between the Mountjoys' daughter and their apprentice Stephen Bellott. Bellott later sued his father-in-law for defaulting on part of the promised dowry, and Shakespeare was called as a witness.


In his own time, William Shakespeare (1564–1616) was seen as merely one among many talented playwrights and poets, but ever since the late 17th century he has been considered the supreme playwright, and to a lesser extent poet, of the English language. No other dramatist has been performed even remotely as often on the British (and later the world) stage as Shakespeare. The plays have often been drastically adapted in performance; the version of King Lear used in performance between 1681 and 1838, for instance, had a happy ending. During the 18th and 19th centuries, the era of the great acting stars, to be a star on the British stage became synonymous with being a great Shakespearean actor. The emphasis was then on the soliloquies as declamatory turns, at the expense of pace and action, and Shakespeare's plays threatened to disappear under music, scenery, thunder, lightning and wave machines.

Answer 5

http://www.shakespeare-online.com/biography/

Answer 6

go to en.wikipedia.org (google wikipedia)
very resourceful