In my ninth grade honors english class we just finished doing research on Shakespeare's private life. His writing career was very important because his writings were completely different from those of that era. Shakespeare grew up in a family that could afford for him to go to school since his father's job was a craftsman (or something like that), but when the business turned, there was no longer enough money for him to attend a university. He wrote many tradgedies after his only son died because during that time period, women could not own property so anything (such as land, wealth, etc) Shakespeare acquired would be lost after he died since their was no other man to carry on the family name. Also, it was believed that he was bisexual because of the ways he wrote about men in his writings and disregard for women. Also, there were not many theaters in that time, so when one of the most well known theaters, the Globe Theater, burned down, it marked the end of his writing career.
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2007-02-26 12:31:57
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By 1592, Shakespeare was a playwright in London; he had enough of a reputation for Robert Greene to denounce him as "an upstart crow, beautified with our feathers, that with his Tygers hart wrapt in a Players hyde, supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blanke verse as the best of you: and being an absolute Johannes factotum, is in his owne conceit the onely Shake-scene in a countrey." (The italicised line parodies the phrase, "Oh, tiger's heart wrapped in a woman's hide" which Shakespeare wrote in Henry VI, part 3.)
By late 1594, Shakespeare was an actor, writer and part-owner of a playing company, known as the Lord Chamberlain's Men — like others of the period, the company took its name from its aristocratic sponsor, in this case the Lord Chamberlain. The group became popular enough that after the death of Elizabeth I and the coronation of James I (1603), the new monarch adopted the company and it became known as the King's Men. Shakespeare's writing shows him to indeed be an actor, with many phrases, words, and references to acting, but there isn't an academic approach to the art of theatre that might be expected.[15]
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.[16]
He appears to have moved across the River Thames 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.
Various documents recording legal affairs and commercial transactions show that Shakespeare grew rich enough during his stay in London to buy a property in Blackfriars, London and own the second-largest house in Stratford, New Place.
Later years
Shakespeare's funerary monument
Shakespeare's House in Stratford-Upon-Avon. Now home of the Shakespeare's Birthplace TrustShakespeare appears to have retired to Stratford in 1613. He died on April 23, 1616 at the age of 52. Supposedly Shakespeare died on his birthday, if the tradition that he was born on April 23 is correct. He was married to Anne Hathaway until his death and was survived by his two daughters, Susanna and Judith. His son Hamnet had died in 1596. Susanna married Dr John Hall, but there are no direct descendants of the poet and playwright alive today.
Shakespeare is buried in the chancel of Holy Trinity Church in Stratford-upon-Avon. He was granted the honour of burial in the chancel, not on account of his literary fame but for purchasing a share of the tithe of the church for £440 (a considerable sum of money at the time).[17] A monument on the wall nearest his grave, probably placed by his family, [18] features a bust showing Shakespeare posed in the act of writing. Each year on his claimed birthday, a new quill pen is placed in the writing hand of the bust. He may have written the epitaph on his tombstone:
“ Good friend, for Jesus' sake forbear,
To dig the dust enclosèd here.
Blest be the man that spares these stones,
And cursed be he that moves my bones.
2007-02-26 12:39:50
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answered by jason m 4
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ALL I KNOW IS THAT SHAKESPEARE WAS BORN IN ENGLAND, BUT HE WROTE PLAYS THAT TOOK PLACE IN ITALY. THE BEST ONE'S WERE "ROMEO AND JULIET", "OTHELLO", "HAMLET", "KING LEAR", "MACBETH", "HAMLET" AND "JULIUS CESAR". TRY TO LOOK THESE UP, IT SHOULD TELL U WHAT GOT HIM TO WRITE THESE PLAYS. WAIT A SEC, I HEARD THAT SHAKESPEARE DIDN'T REALLY WRITE HIS PLAYS (TRUST ME HE DIDN'T, ALL HE DID WAS TELL IT AS IF HE WROTE THEM)
2007-02-25 09:01:13
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answered by faileider_lucky7 2
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