william shakespeare?

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6 facts on william shakespeare

Answer 1

Facts about william Shakespeare

William Shakespeare fact 1
Shakespeare's life lasted for fifty-two years. It is known that he was born in April 1564 and that he died on 23rd April 1616. We know that he was baptised on 26th April 1564 and scholars now believe that he was born on 23 rd . He therefore died on his fifty-second birthday. It is interesting that that is St George's Day. How fitting that the great English writer is so closely identified with the patron saint of England!



William Shakespeare fact 2
Shakespeare was buried in the Holy Trinity Church, Stratford-upon-Avon. He put a curse on anyone daring to move his body from that final resting place. His epitaph was:


Good friend for Jesus' sake forbear,
To dig the dust enclosed here:
Blest be the man that spares these stones,
And curst be he that moves my bones.

Though it was customary to dig up the bones from previous graves to make room for others, Shakespeare's remains are still undisturbed.



William Shakespeare fact 3
Most academics agree that Shakespeare wrote his first play, Henry VI, Part One around 1589 to 1590 when he would have been roughly twenty-five years old. If you are thirteen you will think he was ancient but if you are twenty-six you will probably be thinking about where your life is going!



William Shakespeare fact 4
Shakespeare died in 1616 at the age of 52. He wrote on average 1 . 5 plays a year since he first started in 1589. His last play The Two Noble Kinsmen is reckoned to have been written in 1613 when he was 49 years old. When you think about it, it was amazing. While he was writing the plays at such a pace he was also conducting a family life, a social life and a full business life, running an acting company and a theatre. And he was practising his profession as an actor. He was also writing poems. If he wrote at night he was doing it in poor lighting and using a quill and ink.



William Shakespeare fact 5
Few people realise that apart from writing thirty-seven plays and composing one hundred and fifty-four sonnets, Shakespeare was also an actor who performed many of his own plays as well as those of other playwrights, for example, Ben Jonson.



William Shakespeare fact 6
Almost four hundred years after Shakespeare's death there are 15 million pages referring to him on Google. There are 132 million for God, 2.7 million for Elvis Presley, and coming up on Shakespeare's heels, George W Bush with 14.7 million.

Answer 2

1) Nobody knows Shakespeare’s true birthday. The closest we can come is the date of his baptism on April the 26th, 1564. By tradition and guesswork, William is assumed to have been born three days earlier on April the 23rd, a date now commonly used to celebrate the famous Bard's birthday.

2) Shakespeare invented the word "assassination".

3) Shakespeare, one of literature’s greatest figures, never attended university.

4) Few people realize that aside from writing 37 plays and composing 154 sonnets, William was also an actor who performed many of his own plays as well as those of other playwrights (Ben Jonson).

5) William never published any of his plays. We read his plays today only because his fellow actors John Hemminges and Henry Condell, posthumously recorded his work as a dedication to their fellow actor in 1623, publishing 36 of William’s plays. This collection known as The First Folio is the source from which all published Shakespeare books are derived and is an important proof that he authored his plays.

6) The Bard lost a play. The play Cardenio that has been credited to the Bard and which was performed in his life, has been completely lost to time. Today we have no written record of it’s story whatsoever.

Answer 3

pls give a look about william shakespeare and what me was...................Then u come to know about.................... William Shakespeare was the son of John Shakespeare, a successful glover and alderman originally from Snitterfield, and Mary Arden, the daughter of an affluent landowning farmer.[5] He was born in Stratford-upon-Avon and baptised on 26 April 1564. His unknown birthday is traditionally observed on 23 April, St George's Day.[6] This date, which can be traced back to an eighteenth-century scholar's mistake, has proved appealing because Shakespeare died on 23 April 1616.[7] He was the third child of eight and the eldest surviving son Authorship Around 150 years after Shakespeare's death, doubts began to emerge about the authorship of Shakespeare's works.[171] Alternative candidates proposed include Francis Bacon, Christopher Marlowe, and Edward de Vere, the Earl of Oxford.[172] Although all alternative candidates are almost universally rejected in academic circles, popular interest in the subject, particularly the Oxfordian theory, has continued into the 21st century.[173] Religion Some scholars claim that members of Shakespeare's family were Catholics, at a time when Catholic practice was against the law,[174] Shakespeare's mother, Mary Arden, certainly came from a pious Catholic family. The strongest evidence might be a Catholic statement of faith signed by John Shakespeare, found in 1757 in the rafters of his former house in Henley Street. The document is now lost, however, and scholars differ on its authenticity.[175] In 1591, the authorities reported that John had missed church "for fear of process for debt", a common Catholic excuse.[176] In 1606, William's daughter Susanna was listed among those who failed to attend Easter communion in Stratford.[176] Scholars find evidence both for and against Shakespeare's Catholicism in his plays, but the truth may be impossible to prove either way.[177] Sexuality Few details of Shakespeare's sexuality are known. At 18, he married the 26-year-old Anne Hathaway, who was pregnant. Susanna, the first of their three children, was born six months later on 26 May 1583. However, over the centuries readers have pointed to Shakespeare's sonnets as evidence of his love for a young man. Others read the same passages as the expression of intense friendship rather than sexual love.[178] At the same time, the twenty-six so-called "Dark Lady" sonnets, addressed to a married woman, are taken as evidence of heterosexual liaisons.[179]

Answer 4

There is a great deal of controversy on whether Shakespeare really wrote the plays that were attributed to him, but even if he was the right one, I doubt if there are 6 facts we know about him. We have a marriage license with his signature when he married Anne Hathaway, we know he probably died in the first part of James I's reign, based purely on when the plays stopped, he was an actor and owner of the Globe Theatre, and that's about it.

Answer 5

1. His first name was William
2. His second name was Shakespeare
3. He was English
4. He wrote plays
5. He wrote sonnets
6. He is dead

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