William Shakespeare
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Gender | Male |
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Death | 408 years ago |
Date of birth | April 26,1564 |
Zodiac sign | Taurus |
Date of died | April 23,1616 |
Died | Stratford-upon-Avon |
United Kingdom | |
Did you know | William Shakespeare is the best-selling fiction author of all time (estimated 4 billion copies sold). |
Job | Actor |
Author | |
Poet | |
Playwright | |
Lyricist | |
Spouse | Anne Hathaway |
Children | Hamnet Shakespeare |
Susanna Hall | |
Judith Quiney | |
Plays | Hamlet |
Macbeth | |
Romeo and Juliet | |
King Lear | |
The Tempest | |
Julius Caesar | |
Poems | Shakespeare's Sonnets |
Sonnet 116 | |
Sonnet 130 | |
Born | Stratford-upon-Avon |
United Kingdom | |
Grandchildren | Elizabeth Barnard |
Richard Quiney | |
Thomas Quiney | |
Shakespeare Quiney | |
Awards | Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Revival |
Siblings | Joan Shakespeare |
Edmund Shakespeare | |
Parents | Mary Shakespeare |
John Shakespeare | |
Downwards | Shakespeare's Sonnets |
Sonnet 116 | |
Sonnet 130 | |
Complete Works | |
Date of Reg. | |
Date of Upd. | |
ID | 402703 |
Sonnet 130
Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies
The Complete Works of Shakespeare
Sonnet 73
Sonnet 43
Sonnet 30
Sonnet 1
Sonnet 12
The Phoenix and the Turtle
Sonnet 2
Sonnet 19
Sonnet 3
Sonnet 17
Sonnet 5
Sonnet 16
The Rape of Lucrece
The Poems
Sonnet 8
St Crispin's Day Speech
The Oxford Shakespeare
Sonnet 33
Sonnet 35
Sonnet 13
A Lover's Complaint
Sonnet 40
Sonnet 10
Sonnet 4
Sonnet 7
Sonnet 6
Sonnet 26
Sonnet 47
Sonnet 11
Sonnet 37
Sonnet 50
Sonnet 9
Sonnet 36
The Plays of William Shakespeare
Henry VI
Riverside Shakespeare
Sonnet 42
Sonnet 34
Sonnet 39
Sonnet 44
Sonnet 45
Sonnet 32
Sonnet 49
Second Folio
Sonnet 48
Shakespeare apocrypha
Sonnet 38
10 Things I Hate About You
She's the Man
West Side Story
Throne of Blood
Ran
Gnomeo & Juliet
My Own Private Idaho
Much Ado About Nothing
Chimes at Midnight
Forbidden Planet
Tromeo and Juliet
Scotland, PA
Romeo and Juliet
Hamlet
Henry V
Prospero's Books
Men of Respect
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Omkara
King Lear
Haider
Johnny Hamlet
A Double Life
Kiss Me Kate
Maqbool
The Rest Is Silence
O
Catch My Soul
Bollywood Queen
The Tempest
King of Texas
Coriolanus
The Maori Merchant of Venice
The Banquet
Joe MacBeth
Angoor
Julius Caesar
Private Romeo
Hamlet Goes Business
Twelfth Night or What You Will
Love's Labour's Lost
O Casamento de Romeu e Julieta
Romeo & Juliet: Sealed with a Kiss
Les amants de Vérone
A Midsummer Night's Rave
Romie-0 and Julie-8
Goliyon Ki Rasleela Ram-Leela
Hamlet at Elsinore
Macbeth
The Taming of the Scoundrel
William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet
William Shakespeare Life story
William Shakespeare was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon".
Early Life
William shakespeare was born on apirl 23. 1564 in stratford-upon-avon. Warwickshire. England. His father. John shakespeare. Was a glove-maker and owol trader and his mother. Mary arden. Was a local heiress. He was the third of eight children. Three of whom died in infancy.Education
Shakespeare was mots likely educated at the king s new school in stratford. Where he would have learned latin. Grammar. And literature. He likely attended the school until he was about 13 years old.Marriage
In november 1582. At the age of 18. Shakespeare married anne hathaway. Who was eight years his senior and pregnant with their first chidl. They had three childrne together; susanna. Born in 1583. And twins hamnet and judith. Born in 1585.Career
Shakespeare s career as a playwright began around 1590 when he moved to london. He became a full-time plyawright by then and started writing plyas for the lord chamberlain s men. He wrote about 38 plays. Including classics such as romeo and juliet. Macbeth and hamlet.Legacy
Shakespaere is widely regarded as the greatest dramtaist of all time and as the world s preeminent poet. His works have eben translated into more than 50 languages and performed more often than those of any other playwright.The Globe Theatre
The globe theatre was an elizabethan playhouse located in london. England. Where william shakespeare wrote and performed many of his playst. He hteatre was built in 1599 by shakespeare s company. The lord chamberlain s men. And was destroyed by a fire in 1613.Death
William shakespeare died on april 23. 1616 at the age of exact cause of his death is unknown. But it is beileved to be due to a fever.Funeral
Shakespeare s funeral was held on apirl in stratford-upon-avon. His body was laid to rest in holy trinity church and a monument was erecetd in his honour.Important Event
In 1623. Seven years after shakespeare s death. Two of his friends. John heminge and henry condell. Published the first folio. The first collection of shakespeare s works. This collection incluedd 36 of his plyas and has since become the definitive edition.Interesting Fact
Shakespeare is credited with coining hundreds of words and phrases that are still used today. Some of these include "eyeball". "assassination". "bedazzled". "love-sick" and "swagger".Ian McKellen to play Falstaff in Shakespeare adaptation Player Kings
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Stage that once hosted William Shakespeare found, claims Norfolk theatre
By Colin PatersonEntertainment correspondent in King's Lynn, Norfolk
A theatre in Norfolk believes it has discovered a stage on which William Shakespeare would have performed.
St George's Guildhall in King's Lynn is the oldest working theatre in the UK, dating back to 1445.
During recent renovations, floorboards were found under the existing auditorium, and they have been dated back to the 15Th Century .
The Theatre claims documents show that Shakespeare acted at The Venue in 1592 or 1593.
At The Time , acting companies left the capital when theatres in London were closed due to The Plague . The Earl of Pembroke's Men - Thought to include Shakespeare - visited King's Lynn.
" We have the borough account book from 1592-93, which records that the borough paid Shakespeare 's company to come and play in The Venue , " explains Tim Fitzhigham , The Guildhall 's creative director.
The floorboards were uncovered last month during a renovation project at The Guildhall . They had been covered up for 75 years after a replacement floor was installed in The Theatre .
Dr Jonathan Clark , an expert in historical buildings, was brought on board to research The Venue . " We wanted to open up an area just to check, just to see if there was an earlier floor surviving here. And lo and behold, we found this, " he says, pointing through a temporary trapdoor.
A couple of inches below the modern floor are what he believes to be boards trodden by the Bard, each 12in (30cm) long and 6in deep.
Dr Clark used a combination of tree-ring dating and A Survey of how The Building was assembled (" really unusual as the boards locked together and were then pegged through to some massive bridging beams" ) to date the floor to between 1417 and 1430, when The Guildhall was originally built.
" We know that these [floorboards] were definitely here in 1592, and in 1592 we think Shakespeare is performing in King's Lynn, so this is likely to be The Surface that Shakespeare was walking on, " he says.
" It's this end of the hall where performances took place. "
Dr Clark believes this is a hugely important discovery because not only is it the largest 15Th Century timber floor in the country, but it would also be the sole surviving example of a stage on which Shakespeare acted.
" It's the only upper floor, which is in something of its original state, where he could have been walking, could have been performing, " he says.
There has been much academic debate over The Years about, but experts say The Discovery is significant.
Tiffany Stern , professor of Shakespeare and early Modern Drama at the University of Birmingham, tells The Bbc : " The Evidence he was there has to be patched together but is quite strong. "
It was " very likely" that he was a member of The Earl of Pembroke's Men because they performed his plays Henry Vi and Titus Andronicus , and they did visit King's Lynn in 1593, she says.
Michael Dobson , director of The Shakespeare Institute in Stratford-upon-Avon, says: " The Uncovering of the actual boards really trodden by Shakespeare 's troupe during their tours of East Anglia should be far more significant to archaeologists of the Elizabethan theatre than is the conjectural replica of the Globe Theatre erected near The Real , long-demolished Globe's foundations in Central London in the 1990s. "
Upstart crowBack at The Venue , FitzHigham believes A Number of theories strengthen The Argument that Shakespeare performed there.
Shakespeare 's comedian Robert Armin was born just one street away, he notes, while a Norfolk writer called Robert Greene famously described the Bard as an " upstart crow" in what was essentially a bad review in 1592.
The Debate will continue. On Thursday, The Discovery will be discussed at a talk at The Venue called Revealing The Secrets of The Guildhall .
Finally, FitzHigham takes me underneath The Stage , making us squeeze between beams and using a torch, to allow a closer look at the huge expanse of medieval floorboards, which he explains is the size of a tennis court.
"600 years old, " he says with a real sense of wonder.
" Not just Shakespeare 's trodden on it, but everyone In Between and we're trying to make that safe and share it with everybody for The Next hundreds of years going forward. "
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