William Shakespeare
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Gender | Male |
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Death | 407 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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... The Guardian s Hollie Richardson said Branagh, seen regularly quoting William Shakespeare, was " sickeningly accurate as Boris Johnson"...
Gordonstoun: The Scottish school that educated a king
... His performance as the king in a school production of William Shakespeare s Macbeth, in 1965, received critical acclaim, with newspapers using a striking image of him on their front pages...
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... But his first post-Downing Street task will be finally to finish his biography of William Shakespeare, which he has been writing, on and off, for the past seven years...
What if Juliet survived (and listened to an absolute tonne of Britney Spears) in Romeo and Juliet?
Miriam Teak-Lee (centre) re-interprets Justin and Britney 's biggest hits in The West End musical & Juliet
Spoiler Alert : At the end of Romeo and Juliet, Romeo and Juliet die.
Juliet's taken a sleeping potion and Romeo thinks she's dead, so he drinks a vial of poison. When Juliet awakens and discovers his corpse, she stabs herself in The Heart .
"O happy Dagger , / This is thy sheath," she says, before collapsing onto Romeo's lifeless body.
But what if she didn't? What if Juliet dropped the Dagger and ran off to Paris to rebuild her life?
That's the jumping off point for a new West End musical, & Juliet, which depicts the heroine on a post-traumatic journey of self-empowerment, while belting Out The Hits of Britney Spears , Katy Perry and Justin Timberlake .
If this all sounds like The Product of a concussed writer's Fever Dream , that's because it is.
Major pop hitsPlaywright David West Read came up with the idea four years ago, after slamming his head into a cupboard in The Kitchen of his rented apartment.
He'd recently been asked to pitch a musical based on the songbook of Swedish pop powerhouse Max Martin so, after briefly ignoring his symptoms to watch a 3D screening of Star Wars : The Force Awakens ("the worst thing I could have done"), he retired to bed and started researching.
"I didn't actually know who Max Martin was until I Googled him," he confesses, "But in my concussed state, I made this Max Martin playlist which was, like, 150 tracks; and I suddenly realised that he'd written so many of my favourite Songs from The Past 25 years. "
In fact, Martin is the third most-successful songwriter in US chart history, with credits on 22 Number One singles. Only Paul Mccartney (32) and John Lennon (26) have More .
Max Martin has written and produced hundreds of hits over his 25-year career, working closely with Britney SpearsHe is The Man who introduced us to indelible choruses like, "Oops! I did it again", or "I kissed a girl and I liked it", or "Hit Me baby One More time"; and who helped Taylor Swift mastermind her transition from Country Music to globe-straddling pop megastardom.
As Read delved into the playlist, One thing became clear.
"You could make five musicals with The Material that was there," he says. "But there's a lot of Songs About Love , a lot of Songs about heartbreak, and a lot of Songs about Second Chances . So I came to this idea of Romeo and Juliet, and a new beginning for Juliet. "
The Key to unlocking the Character was One Britney Jean Spears.
"She became a through-line for Juliet," says Read, "because there's these two Britney Songs : . , which has The Line , 'My loneliness is killing me'; and, which is, 'My loneliness ain't killing me no More ', which became this perfect bookend to Her Story . "
But & Juliet isn't just concerned with its titular Character . . In fact, the musical opens with William Shakespeare and his wife, Anne Hathaway , arguing about the ending of his great tragedy. Hathaway grabs control of the quill, and the couple tussle over the development of The Play - cleverly deploying the Backstreet Boys ' as the soundtrack.
"Max is The First to admit that the lyrics to that song don't really make sense," laughs Read. "Basically every other line contradicts The Line that came before it. So The Natural way to make sense of that is it's an argument between Two People . "
Read - a producer and writer on The Hit sitcom Schitt's Creek, whose previous Broadway Show was a comedy about the adult film Industry - instantly won Martin over with his witty, meta-textual take on Shakespeare.
The musician had been wary of "jukebox musicals" that become allegories for The Music Industry (hello, Viva Forever), preferring the universal appeal of something like Mamma Mia!
"I wanted it to be a great story because I'm insecure, because I'm a songwriter," he told the BBC's The One Show in a rare interview last week. "So I'm thinking everyone that comes into this room, they're going to have To Love it, even if they haven't heard The Music . "
Miriam-Teak Lee takes The Lead role in the musical, and helped rewrite Juliet to suit her own Character The freewheeling plot also gives Romeo a chance at redemptionAfter hiring Read, the next crucial step was to find a Juliet; and they struck gold when they discovered Miriam-Teak Lee , a young actress who, at the time, was the understudy for all three Schuyler sisters in the London production of Hamilton.
"I remember reading the story and just thinking, 'this is incredible, I love it,'" she says. "And like David, I didn't know anything about Max Martin , so I was just Blown Away when I found Out who he was. "
One of her first tasks was to perfect Juliet's opening number, and she insisted On Going through The Melody line by line with The Show 's musical director Dominic Fallacaro (a process known in the musical theatre world as "note-bashing").
"I remember Dominic being like, 'Really? Do you need a note bash for Britney 's. . Baby One More Time?'" she says, "But I just wanted to get it right, because it was done in a completely different way. It was much slower and it forced me to really listen to the lyrics, which intrigued me so much.
"When I Heard it like that, I already wanted to see where Juliet was going to go, where this was going to take her. "
As it turns Out , even Read didn't know where Juliet would end up. Casting Lee changed The Show beyond recognition, as The Actress 's irresistible spirit and humour began to bleed into her Character .
"I had this idea that Juliet was going to be this meek, obedient, subservient girl, who learns to become empowered," says Read. "Then Miriam-Teak walked in and she was like, 'There is no version of that that is going to work!'"
"In the beginning, we were like, 'Is she this vulnerable Character ?'" recalls Lee , "And Then we did the workshops and I was like, 'No, I think she's always had this inner strength,' and it's just about putting her in a situation where she's allowed To Let that Out . "
Read jumps back in: "If I can speak about her like she's not in The Room , Miriam-Teak has this intelligence, confidence and self-assuredness; and because she's such a powerhouse as a vocalist and as a person, that's how we came up with this empowered version of Juliet that feels way More 2019.
"It's not as simplistic as going, 'Stand up to the patriarchy!' or 'Women should have a voice!' It's about saying, as a young person and as a young woman, I know who I Am and I don't need to apologise for that. And I think that feels like a More dynamic Character than where I was four years ago. "
In the musical, this is exemplified by the use of Demi Lovato 's ballsy pop banger Confident. Originally, it was used to illustrate Juliet discovering her inner confidence. In the finished version of the musical, she's using it to educate the rest of the cast.
"She's saying, 'Look, I did stand up To My parents in the original Play and I've learned some things that I'm gonna pass on to the rest of you,'" says Lee .
It's not the only element that was transformed during the workshops and previews that built up to the musical's West End official opening this weekend.
In particular, Read spent months trying to shoehorn Adele's into The Score .
"We tried it in, like, five different places. That's how much I wanted it in," he says. "But as much as I wanted Adele in the musical, it just didn't serve the story.
"But that's the cool thing. If it was a new musical where someone had written all the Songs , and you said, 'We're not going to use it,' that song would disappear forever. But Max had already written all the Songs , so we were a bit More free to Play around with which ones were in or Out ".
Cassidy Janson , who previously played Carole King in the musical of her life, plays Anne HathawayThe Final tweaks were made during a four-week trial run in Manchester last month, with early reviews praising The Show 's "" and Lee 's " vocals on Katy Perry 's Roar ("That's The Most full-on song," she admits. "It's so thrilling to sing but you have to give it everything. ")
But it was the reaction of The Audience that gave The Team true confidence.
"There was One woman who said she came 28 times," says Read.
"I mean, there were 32 shows, so I want to know why she didn't come to those four extra nights!
"But I feel like that's a good sign, when people want to come back. "
& Juliet opens at London's Shaftesbury Theatre on 2 November, with the cast recording to follow on 15 November.
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Source of news: bbc.com