Shakespeare's name records more than 80 spellings, from "Shappere" to "Shaxberd."
Of the few surviving signatures, Shakespeare spelled his name with "Willm Shaksp," "William Shakespe," "Wm Shakspere," "Willm Shakspere," and "William Shakspeare," but never "William Shakespeare."
Under the rule of Joseph Stalin, "Hamlet" was banned. Formal reason: Hamlet's indecisiveness and frustration were at odds with the soviet optimism, fortitude, and bright new spirit.
Shakespeare was baptized in Stratford-upon-Avon on 26 April 1564, just three days before the plague outbreak was recorded in the Diocese Register of Stratford Parish.
Traditionally, Shakespeare is generally believed to have been born on April 23, 1564. On 23 April, England's National Day, St. George's Day, Shakespeare died in 1616 at the age of 52.
Shakespeare was born into the Old Julian calendar, not the current Gregorian calendar, created in 1582 and adopted in England in 1751. April 23 of Shakespeare's life is today's calendar.
With the exception of what is found in some church records and legal documents, as well as in some contemporary documents such as the diary of a visitor, much of the evidence of Shakespeare's life is that of a bystander. Few people know.
Shakespeare's father, John, a glove and leather worker, held a series of authoritative positions until 1568, when he became a senior bailiff in Stratford's highest electoral office.
In the 1570s, William Shakespeare's father, John Shakespeare, was prosecuted four times (or threatened by prosecution) for illegal activities in wool and money lending.
A 1576 document mentions Shakespeare's father, "John Shappere's name is Shakespeare of Stratford on the Haven", and accuses him of being a loan shark. Shortly thereafter, John Shakespeare withdrew from public life.
In November 1582, Shakespeare applied for permission to marry Anne Whateley. "Anne Whiteley" may have been a transcription error by Anne Hathaway, who married around November 30. She was three months pregnant at the time.
Since Anne Hathaway Shakespeare's tombstone says she was only 67 years old when she died in 1623, it is widely believed that she was eight years older than her husband. However, the numbers 1 and 7 are easily confused – so she may already be 61 years old, only two years older than William Shakespeare.
William and Anne Shakespeare had three children. Susanna was named Baptistery in May 1583, while twins Judith and Hamnet were named in February 1585.
There is no evidence of what Shakespeare did between 1585 and 1592, a period when he moved to London and began his writing career. As a result, there is no record of how his career began or how quickly he became famous.
Shakespeare is listed as an actor in documents from 1592, 1598, 1603, and 1608. Presumably, most of his roles are modest, such as Ghost in Hamlet, to give him more time to write.
Phillip Henslowe's diary entry records the performance of the play "Harley VI" performed at the Rose Theatre in Henslowe in March 1592. Many scholars believe that this is a reference to Part 1 of Shakespeare's Henry VI. However, there are no other records of Shakespeare's involvement in Henslowe's company, so references cannot be determined.
Robert Greene, who for the first time explicitly mentioned Shakespeare as a playwright in his pamphlet, wrote: "There is a upstart crow, glorified with our feathers, his tiger's heart wrapped in the skin of the player, and the one sentence he thinks he can do the best of is the sensational blank verse: As the absolute Johannes Totum, for his part, is the only shaking scene in the country." "The Tiger's Heart Is Wrapped in the Player's Skin" is a reference to Henry VI, Part 3.
According to the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, Shakespeare wrote about one-tenth of the most highly cited quotations ever written or spoken in English.
Although Shakespeare is often considered an Elizabethan playwright, much of his greatest works were produced after James I ascended the throne. Thus, Shakespeare can be more accurately considered Jacobist.
By 1597, Shakespeare's troupe, Lord Chamberlain's Men, had rented the theatre. The owner is reluctant to renew. On 28 December 1598, Lord Chamberlain and about twelve workers demolished the theatre and rebuilt it on the River Thames. The new theater is known as the "New Earth".
In February 1599, the land of the globe was leased to Cuthbert and Richard Burbage, along with five other members of the troupe, including Shakespeare, for 31 years. Shakespeare's share of the lease has been changing over the years, from one-fourteenth to one-tenth.
On June 29, 1613, the globe was burned to the ground, and during a performance by Shakespeare's Henry VIII, a cannon set it on fire.
In 1603, Shakespeare's company became an official player of King James I and was renamed "King's Man".
In 1608, Shakespeare's company, The King's Men, opened the Blackfriar's Theatre, which was used as a model for all subsequent chamber theatres.
Sonnets are usually love poems, but Shakespeare's poems are usually self-loathing, bitter, and even sympathetic.
Little is known about the writing of William Shakespeare's 154 sonnets, to whom they were sent, and whether they were assembled in the correct order.
Based on the textual evidence in sonnets and some plays, some believe that Shakespeare was bisexual.
The main contender for the beautiful young man known as the lover in William Shakespeare's sonnets was the turbulent young Henry Friotsley, the Third Earl of Southampton and the Baron of Titchfield, to whom Shakespeare dedicated his narrative poems Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lupules.
Shakespeare's sexual orientation cannot be proven in either way, but Friotsley's sexuality is considered the beautiful young man in Shakespeare's sonnets. One observer wrote that Voris Leslie shared the dormitory with an officer who would "embrace in his arms and play wildly." ”
On May 20, 1609, Thomas Thorpe published Shakespe's sonnets, which were apparently without the poet's permission.
Although the publisher of Shakespeare's first collection claims that the playwright rarely modified his work, the three-page manuscript of the untitled play Sir Thomas More is believed to be a collaboration between several writers and is believed to be Shakespeare's hand, indicating that he did, indeed, did make changes.
Many of Shakespeare's plays were based on the early plays, histories, and poems of others. This was common practice at the time.
In Shakespeare's day, the theater had no curtains and almost no scenery. The playwright describes the setting in the performance text.
Theatre audiences in queen Elizabethan times, such as those in the era of William Shakespeare, could purchase apples and pears as food for the show. These snacks are often thrown to the actors by dissatisfied audiences.
Shakespeare's works contain 2,035 English words, including the first recording of key, frugal, excellent, explicit, assassination, and countless.
Countless excellent phrases, now commonly used, that first occurred in Shakespeare, included in one fell swoop, became a bubble, three or four, were in a predicament, foul action, tower of strength, F breakdown and blood, were brutal and gasping for breath.
In March 1616, Shakespeare amended his will. His signature is unstable, indicating that he is not in good health.
Shakespeare died on 23 April 1616. In his will, he left most of the estate to his daughter, Susanna. A statement was inserted between the two lines of the will: "I plead with my wife for my second best furnished bed." "Furniture" is the futon of the bed. This was the entire length of his wife in his will, and the only mention of her.
A complete list of all of Shakespeare's possessions, possibly listing his books and other historically important information, might have been sent to London, where these records were preserved at the time. It was probably destroyed in the fire of 1666.
Shakespeare is buried near the altar of Holy Trinity Church in Stratford-upon-Avon. The stone tablet on the tombstone bears the following inscription, believed to have been written by Shakespeare himself:
Good friends, for Jesus' sake,
To dig out the dust that is trapped in it.
Bleste is a man who spares no effort,
And the cursed man is the one who can move my bones. - William Shakespeare
The first folio, for the main source of most Shakespearean plays, was published by the men of Burren, John Hemming and Henry Condell, in August 1623, as the only source for Shakespeare's plays 18 that would otherwise have been lost.
William Shakespeare's 300 First Folios, in whole or in part, can still survive.
Prior to the release of The First Folio, many of Shakespeare's plays were released in cheap quadruples. Of the remaining 21, 12 were considered good copies of the original manuscript and 9 were considered bad, meaning they appeared to have been produced by memory.
There are three versions of Shakespeare's Hamlet: a quarter of the 2200 lines with a difference of 1603, a quarter of the 3800 lines with a difference of 1604, and a quarter of the first Folio version of 1623 with 3570 lines. Some scholars believe that a bad quartet is probably the quartet that is closest to the played play.
There are two versions of Shakespeare's King Lear. The four-folio edition contains 300 lines and a complete scene that does not appear in the first folio. These two versions make important speeches about different characters, thus changing the nature of the three key characters. The ending is also markedly different.
It is thought that Shakespeare's King Lear may have been rewritten as an indoor stage when his company, The King's Man, moved to the BlackFrial Theatre.
In addition to the first folio, a second, third and fourth collection of Shakespeare's works was produced. The Third Folio contains six plays that Shakespeare almost certainly did not write (although he may have contributed to at least two of them), but was the first to include Pericles.
Some commentators claim that Shakespeare did not write his play. It has been suggested that some 50 candidates have written his plays. But there is more evidence that Shakespeare wrote his own work than there was none.
Edward de Vere, Earl Earl of Oxford, was a leading candidate for a true writing theory about Shakespeare's plays. De Vere, sometimes referred to as the "Spear Shaker," died in 1604, before many of Shakespeare's plays were not published. Since De Vere leads a rival theatre company, scholars who support Shakespeare's work argue that De Vere is unlikely to dedicate his best work to Lord Chamberlain's Men and The King's Man.
The writer Sir Francis Bacon was blunt about Shakespeare's failure to write his own work
Sir Francis Bacon, the main contender who believes That Shakespeare did not write his own work, left a large number of works. His style and way of using words was very different from Shakespeare's, and his poetry was considered more determined.
Even though Shakespeare wrote his own works, he didn't always write alone. Many of his later plays are believed to have collaborated with other writers— including Two Noble Kingsman, written with John Fletcher, Thomas of Athens, and Thomas Middleton, and Pericles with George Wilkins.
Shakespeare's son Hamnet died in 1596. His daughter Susanna died in 1649. His youngest daughter, Judith, had three children, all of whom died from their mothers and had no children. His granddaughter Elizabeth, the daughter of Susanna, died in 1670 without children, ending William Shakespeare's lineage.