Saturday, March 1, 2008

William Shakespeare's Accomplishments

William Shakespeare had many accomplishments.From 1594 to 1608, he worked for the London Theater World.In this theater,they played some of his plays like Hamlet,Romeo and Juliette,and Richard The Third.All of those plays were only Tragedies.They also played one that was comedy, it was named The Midsummer Night's Dream.When it was 1609,he made and published 154 sonnet's,126 sonnet's were concentrated by a young noble man.Another 26 were concentrated by a woman.After his death on April 23,1616,his folio was published by his friend's.This folio was included by his 154 sonnet's,37 plays and 2 long poem's.What William Shakespeare also did is invented and changed words.He made up spelling and a lyrical language.The vocabulary that he invented is still being used.

My Reflection

What inspired me about William Shakespeare is that he accomplished all of his hopes and dreams.And that he always never gives up and never let ANYBODY make fun of him.Because when a playwright told people that he borrow and didn't really makes his own plays.And that he stood up to him and told him that he does make his own plays.Also that it was really weird that when he got married,he was 18 and Anne Hathaway was 26.But what also inspired me about him is that also that makes his own ideas and always do the right thing.It was alot of work of finding information about William Shakespeare.But in the end,I found information about my person.

William Shakespeare's Death and Burial

In 1610,William Shakespeare retired from work and went back to Stratford.When he died at his birthday on April 23,1616,he was buried in The Church of the Holy Trinity on April 25John Aubrey, an English antiquarian, wrote about Shakespeare 65 years after the poet's death. He evidently used information furnished by the son of one of Shakespeare's fellow actors. He described him as a handsome, well-shaped man, very good company, and of a ready and pleasant smooth wit.But in 1623,Anne Hathaway dies.

Friday, February 29, 2008

William Shakespeare's childhood and adulthood life

William Shakespeare was born on April 23,1564.He was the third child born of John Shakespeare and Mary Arden.His father was a Glover and leather merchant.Her mother was a local heiress.When he was little,he was attended to a free grammar school in Stratford.His knowledge in school was Latin and Classic Greek.When he married Anne Hathaway,he was only 18 years old!And Anne was 26 years old and was also pregnant.Then they had Susanna first in May 26,1583.Then later,they had a pair of twins called Judith and Hamnet Shakespeare on February 2,1585.Sadly,Hamnet died at age 11 on August 11 1596.

In 1588 he arrived in London.Then began being a actor,a leading poet,and a playwright.Shakespeare garnered envy early on for his talent, as related by the critical attack of Robert Greene, a London playwright, in 1592.In 1607,her daughter Susanna married Dr. John Hall.With all of his success in his career,he had purchased New House and retired in comfort in 1611.

William Shakespeare's Play's

Comedies:
"Comedy of Errors" 1592
"The Taming of the Shrew" 1592-94
"Love's Labor's Lost" 1594-95
"Two Gentlemen of Verona" 1594-95
"A Midsummer Night's Dream" 1595-96
"The Merchant of Venice" 1596-97
"Much Ado About Nothing" 1598-99
"As You Like It" 1599-1600
"Twelfth Night" 1599-1600
"Merry Wives of Windsor" 1601-02
"Troilus and Cressida" 1601-02
"All's Well That Ends Well" 1602-03
"Measure for Measure" 1604-05

Historical:
"Henry VI" parts I, II, III 1590-92
"Richard III" 1590-92
"King John" 1594-96
"Richard II" 1597-(?)
"King Henry IV" part I, part II 1597-98
"Henry V (1599)" 1598-99
"Julius Caesar" 1599-1600
"Henry VIII" 1613-(?)
"Antony and Cleopatra" 1606-07
"Coriolanus" 1607-08

Tragedies
"Titus Andronicus" 1593-94
"Romeo and Juliet" 1594-95
"Hamlet" 1600-01
"Othello" 1604-05
"The Tragedy of King Lear" 1605-06
"Macbeth" 1605-06

Tragicomedies
"Timon of Athens" 1607-(?)
Cymbeline" 1609-10
"The Winter's Tale"1610-11
"Tempest" 1611-12

William Shakespeare's Timeline

1564-William Shakespeare is born on April 23 on Stratford-On-Avon

1582-He married Anne Hathaway on November [27 or 28]

1583-They had their first child named Susanna Shakespeare on May 26

1585-They later had twins named Judith and Hamnet Shakespeare on February 2

1592-When he left Stratford for London,they recognized him as a actor,a leading poet, and playwright.He was a member of "The Chamberlain's Men".

1596-Her daughter Hamnet Shakespeare dies at age 11.She died in August 11.He later became a "gentlemen" when the College of Heralds grants his father a coat of arms

1597-He later buys a large house called "The Great House of New Place""

1599-The Globe Theater was built into pieces of "The Theater" in July

1603-"The Chamberlain's Men" later became "The King's Men" on May 19

1607-His daughter Susanna gets married to Dr. John Hall

1613-In "The Globe Theater" they performed of Henry VII.But then a cannon fired and burned the roof.It was still rebuilt, but he later retires.

1616-His daughter Judith gets married

1616-On April 23, in Stratford, on his birthday he dies.He died when he was 52.