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April 23, 1564 – April 23, 1616
The Bard’s Life
More than 80 name variations
-from “Shappere” to “Shaxberd.”
A few signatures have survived:
-“Willm Shaksp,” “William Shakespe,” “Wm Shakspe,” “William Shakspere,” ”Willm Shakspere,” and “William Shakspeare”--but never “William Shakespeare.”
Birthday is Saint George’s Day! Shakespeare was born under the old Julian
calendar, not the current Gregorian calendar that was created in 1582 and adopted in England in 1751. What was April 23 during Shakespeare's life would be May 3 on today's calendar.
Shakespeare’s Rents
John Shakespeare – glove maker and held many of the towns finances
Mary Arden – inherited farm property
My Wife and Kids
Married Anne Hathaway about November 30, 1582
- She was 3 months pregnant! fathered 3 children – Susanna, Hamnet and
Judith (twins) Anne’s Tombstone?
Shakespeare’s Sonnets
154 Sonnets Sonnets 127-152 talk about the “dark lady”
On May 20, 1609, Thomas Thorpe published Shakespeare's sonnets without the Bard’s permission.
Give Credit Where Credit Is Due
Shakespeare's works contain first-ever recordings of 2,035 English words, including critical, frugal, excellent, barefaced, assassination, and countless.
Shakespeareisms
As You Like It -bag and baggage: Act 3, Scene 2, Line 156 -neither rhyme nor reason: Act 3, Scene 2, Line 376
Hamlet -cruel... to be kind: Act 3, Scene 4, Line 194 -to be or not to be: Act 3, Scene 1, Line 64 -to thine ownself be true: Act 1, scene 3, Line 81
King Henry IV, part 2 -eaten... out of house and home: Act 2, Scene 1, Line 28
Love's Labours Lost -apple of [one's] eye: Act 5, Scene 2, Line 502
Merchant of Venice -All that glitters is not gold: Act 2, Scene 7, Line 66
Othello -wear [one's] heart upon [one's] sleeve: Act 1, Scene 1, Line 65
Romeo and Juliet -star-cross'd lovers: Prologue, Line 6
The Taming of the Shrew -to kill...with kindness: Act 4, Scene 1, Line 196
The Tempest -into thin air: Act 4, Scene 1, Line 165 -[to be] in a pickle: Act 5, Scene 1, Line 320
Troilus and Cressida -good riddance: Act 2, Scene 1, Line 116
Unsorted-all the world's a stage -the green-eyed monster -violent delights have violent ends
On With The Show…
In Shakespeare's time, theaters had no curtain and used little or no scenery. Playwrights described the setting within the text of the performance.
Elizabethan theatergoers could purchase apples and pears to eat during the show. These snacks were often thrown at the actors by dissatisfied members of the audience.
The Globe burned to the ground on June 29, 1613, set fire by a cannon shot during a performance of Shakespeare's Henry VIII.
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THE DEATH OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
William Shakespeare was buried on April 25th 1616 in Holy Trinity Church, Stratford-upon-Avon
His tomb lies beneath the floor of the church, in the chancel
Shakespeare is said to be buried 17 feet under the stone but his bone have not been moved, as per his wishes on the tombstone
Shakespeare’s Tombstone
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
Fun Facts
Suicide occurs an unlucky thirteen times in Shakespeare’s plays. It occurs in Romeo and Juliet where both Romeo and Juliet commit suicide, in Julius Caesar where both Cassius and Brutus die by consensual stabbing, as well as Brutus’ wife Portia, in Othello where Othello stabs himself, in Hamlet where Ophelia is said to have "drowned" in suspicious circumstances, in Macbeth when Lady Macbeth dies, and finally in Antony and Cleopatra where suicide occurs an astounding five times (Mark Antony, Cleopatra, Charmian, Iras and Eros).
Fun Facts
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.
Fun Facts
Shakespeare's works contain over 600 references to birds of all kinds, including the swan, bunting, cock, dove, robin, sparrow, nightingale, swallow, turkey, wren, starling, falcon, and thrush, just to name a few.
Fun Facts
Macbeth is thought to be one of the most produced plays ever, with a performance beginning somewhere in the world every four hours!