Seeking Shakespeare

A brief biographical sketch

His plays survive to witness the genius of the greatest poets and playwrights of England, but official documents on the life of William Shakespeare, in fact very few can, despite the exhaustive search for them in the last hundreds of years. There are some entries in the registers of the parish church and others, the criminal actions of some dispute, some details of the purchases of property, a reference to unpaid tax, someabove, payments from the royal treasury, he and his teammates, his testament, which is about all that was found.

We know that in 1564 William Shakespeare was born and raised in the heart of the English countryside in the town of Stratford-Upon-Avon, in the county of Warwickshire in central England. His father, John was doing in trade with the gloves and held a public office in various capacities, finally the high court byStratford in1568, a similar position today as the mayor of a small town. His mother, Mary Arden, was the youngest daughter of Richard Arden, the Ardennes were a family long prominent and distinct in the county. The Stratford City documents indicate that John Shakespeare may have suffered from years of financial setbacks during the time William was about fourteen, but seem to have fallen as a respected member of the community until his death1601, date on which in 1596 had an emblem, a symbol of honor and prestige awarded as a member of English nobility and allows the addition of the word "sir" to the masculine name of Shakespeare.

The current record of Stratford Holy Trinity Church, translated from the Latin use then show that the son of John Shakespeare was baptized April 26, 1564 While there is no trace of his actual date of birth is supposed, according to theCustom of the time, was probably his birthday a couple of days before baptism showing the date of April 23, a date that agrees well with the extension of the English patron saint day of St. George. It 'also the date of death of Shakespeare fifty-two years later in 1616.

There is no sign of education by William Shakespeare, but it is understood he attended high school, but not go to college.

Only eighteen years after the baptism records, there are officialThe reference to William Shakespeare, as November 27, 1582, after sending a substantial commitment of monetary compensation, the Bishop of Worcester Court Office issued a certificate allowing the marriage of William Shakespeare, and Anne Hathaway of Shottery, a village close in Stratford. The Hathaway and Shakespeare were the families from previous contact with any other funds. Anne was the eldest of eight children of twice married Richard Hathaway, a farmer,had died the previous year.

William and Anna were married in 1582, William was eighteen and Anne was in 2006 when the age at death is written on his tombstone on the right. Anne became pregnant two months ago, when the certificate was issued allowing the waiver of the usual three weeks after the announcement of publications in the church, which is normally required to allow a marriage.

may be asked during her pregnancy, a marriage fast, you can instead was a differentTherefore, it was a scholar suggested that the wedding will be needed as soon as possible, because William would soon rely on you to provide a job, perhaps as a mentor, a prominent family in the north of a nearby town. There is no evidence, but it is expected that the bride and groom to stay with the parents of William.

In terms of age of Anne because his tombstone the inscription, which was 67 when she died in 1623 bears, it is generally agreed that theywas eight years older than William. However, the figures 1 and 7 are easily confused and may have been 61 to his death, just two years older than her husband.

Anne Susannah gave birth on May 26.1583 and 1585 twins were born to the young couple, named Hamnet and Judith. Tragically, Hamnet died at age eleven in1596 perhaps fever, a frequent cause of death in those years. It 'was suggested, a line from Shakespeare's King John, may be aExpression of pain associated with premature death of Hamnet's. It is believed that the game on that date with his first performance in 1596, about 1597 or complete. The piece may have been changed also to take the verses later, with these changes is normal.

Grief fills the room of my absent child,
Lying in his bed, walks up and down with me
Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words,
Reminds me of all the parts of pity,
He sticks hisfree garments with his form ...

My life, my joy, my food, my whole world!

I heard him say
We'll see and to know that our friends in heaven:
If this is true, I see my son again.

A poignant description of an event that every parent fears, the death of a child before them. This is a perfect example of Shakespeare's ability to understand and to express personal feelings of every individual in every situation of life.

Following the birth of twinsNothing is heard of William Shakespeare, until 1592, when he saw the success and his contemporaries in the London theater. The following years have come to be the lost years, as is known, after a lot of speculation and arguments, as William was now occupied.

Actor and play houses disregard for city and town officials were held, were active members of society often regarded as a vagrant and attempts often follows the closuresmall theaters. It was claimed that the houses play attracted the worst elements of society in their neighborhoods, criminals and prostitutes, with drunkenness and gambling. This was true, the theaters were generally known outside of the scope of authority in areas such as the infamous South Bank, as the stew, the wrong side of the river in the sixteenth and seventeenth century London. Today, the area offers a popular tourist spot for walking out, the London Walksbrochure advertising tells us that:

"Modern Drama was born here. In short, say hello to the neighborhood of Bankside, Shakespeare's Globe (old and new) and the other Elizabethan theater, stews and bear-baiting dens and St. Saviour (where Shakespeare buried his brother Edmund) and an old, swaybacked postal station, in whose courtyard Shakespeare's plays are still performed. And a bonus: It 's also cobbled, echoing Clink Street threading between brick cliffs of warehouses whereBar probe sun shades of London, London Dickens difficult childhood 'that haunted him until his death. Bottom line: the past is high impact resistance. high impact strength than anywhere else in London. In short, this is an exciting tour! "

There was merit to the claims of local authorities, and in 1572 the Parliament approved a law to punish the homeless, a law company of actors to a noble patron who would vouch for his good conduct to obtain, as the tourLandscape helped them make respectable profession in quality and support business groups and active protection of the Queen and members of the nobility, their behalf and sponsored several companies of players, including men the Lord Chamberlain's, Shakespeare Company, and Lent found then under the royal patronage as the King's Men in both companies Shakespeare was an actor, producer, author and shareholders.

Shakespeare set in his professional theater About until his retirement in 1610 at Stratford. It is thought he enjoyed a peaceful and productive lives with his wife living in the city where her children and grandchildren lived, perhaps with occasional visits back to London, sometimes on business with his son-in-law Dr. John Hall, husband of Susannah. William Shakespeare died of unknown causes in 1616 at the age of 52 years, leaving most of his considerable fortune to his daughter Susanna. He was buried in Holy Trinity Church in> Stratford, apparently with little fanfare, although at least one literary figure of the day commented eager to enjoy a visit to the cemetery to pay homage to the poets held high in one of these, but maybe the locals were familiar with not so good or not appreciate his talents and services. Anne, his wife was buried in the cemetery nearby in 1623. Other family members were buried in this cemetery, and it is interesting to note that the inscription on the plaquedaughter Susanna, who died in 1649, compares them to his father, which reads:

Witty above her sex, but not all,
Wise to salvation was good Mistress Hall;
Something of Shakespeare was, but that these
Entirely to him with whom he now in bliss.

There have been many achievements and events of great interest and fascination in the productive life of Shakespeare, which is not possible in a short biographical sketch cover, as in this piece. to deepen furtherspeculate whether the lack of official records and documents. There is a huge amount of background information, opinions, and other questions on the life and times, contemporaries and friends, and the work of this great poet living in England of Queen Elizabeth the first. But we will touch briefly on some other aspects of death before leaving that entry.

"Sweet Swan of Avon," "It was an age but for all time"
Thus,Shakespeare called, almost four hundred years, by Ben Jonson, a younger contemporary and important poet and playwright, a friend, a critic and rival. Jonson wrote that collected at the time of publication of the First Folio collection of Shakespeare's plays together for the first time in 1623 by his friends and fellow actors Heming, Henry Condell and John, seven years after the death of the great playwrights.

And Shakespeare was an actor
Into play one of the earliest depictions of all Jonson, in his humor "
Shakespeare seemed to be a player, especially with the voices of the actors who play implementation. And as an actor, Shakespeare's name is included in the composition of many of his plays. But these references appeared in publications of plays, the play as Jonson, have been printed and released after his death. Before that time was common, no list of artists. It is normally distributed in paper formbecause copyright protects the ownership and use there and the time was the company involved, which Shakespeare belonged, that the actual owners of his works, and had every interest in manuscripts and copies for themselves instead allow them to become available to competitors to profitably play this scene.

Shakespeare acquired early indication of his career as a writer, actor and man of theater, if it brings another meaningknown playwrights of the time, Robert Greene, with intent to denigrate, Shakespeare to him as an "absolute jack-of-all trades, a handyman able to bombast of blank verse, with the best known of them."

These observations were published posthumously in a pamphlet "Greene Groatsworth of Wit bought with a million of repentance done," Greene wrote as he was dying, in which he warned bitterly other writers of his knowledge, thinking, perhaps Marlowe Nashe and belongbe wary of this "upstart Crow beautified with our feathers, wrapped in his heart Tyger hide in a player, a verse paraphrase of Shakespeare's Henry VI, Articles, Part 1 Greene's comments were quickly dismissed, the poet and playwright Thomas Nash describes the stretch where it became a "Blanch, banal, and pamphlets.

Henry Chettle preparation, a printer and later a playwright, a campaign to press Greene's essay was taken plenty of criticism for this andShortly after moving comments, admission of guilt in its publication, declaring that he had "seen and was able to witness Shakespeare in the civic behavior, and a playful grace was written," and that many others had "reported on his honesty and upright dealing. " It seems that Shakespeare's was due to defend his reputation.

It seems that he was considered good and there have been few, if appropriate, has raised criticism from anyone else. As Jonson said the publicationthe First Folio "I loved this side of idolatry, was soft words and expressions courageous." And since a poem by Jonson in the First Folio: "To the memory of my beloved, the author William Shakespeare and what he left us."

includes seven works by Shakespeare known, the first time in its entirety in the First Folio published in 1623, has spent two epic poems to the Earl of Southampton, many other poems and 154 sonnets. It carries within, there isPoems and songs. This was achieved during the life of 20 years. There is also played 12-14 times, as Shakespeare Apocrypha aware that some scientists believe can be granted. Not everything he wrote was great but most of it was certainly written with the needs of its operating company, which for a shareholder meeting, the Assembly of dialogue and action, the talents of his players and properties of the companion stage on which they run.

As has been said,many details of his life a mystery, but not for those in the theater in recent years is unusual is the same for other important playwrights of his generation, Marlowe, Jonson, Ford, Greene, Beaumont, Fletcher, Dekker, Webster, and other less known is one of them is, in fact, as we know much more about Shakespeare than any other.

His life is immense speculation and myth, every detail and the hypothesis was generated and tested forfought. A living and working analyzed, discussed and debated by scholars almost every discipline, in almost every country and language. And that continued for several hundred years. There is also a substantial number of drug conspiracy and encryption fanatics, the theory that someone other than Shakespeare was the author support the poems and plays.

Thousands of books on Shakespeare, his plays, sonnets and poems in English and other publishedLanguages. The adaptations of her works are in world production of theater, television and movies. His works provide insights into the human condition, belongs to literature and culture of the world. As Ben Jonson said, "not to age but for all time."

There is so much more to discuss, including portraits, features Anne Hathaway, Shakespeare and fell on the makeshift bed of his wife of six badly scrawledSignatures and if you really be at hand if D is the composition of Shakespeare and the writing of character roles and situations in the plays and sonnets, and have a direct impact on Shakespeare, or someone in his circle of Sir William Davenant, requests will be able to Shakespeare's illegitimate son, to be anti-Stratfordians. And much more.

And the sonnets, the source of the greatest mysteries of English literature, areto consider specific set of issues: the identity of the young that many of them are addressed, whether they are a homosexual relationship, or are just in bloom formulated and lovingly said that men in the Elizabethan age, the common was the Dark Lady to the publisher Thomas Thorpe Sonnet reference in his dedication to Mr. WH, and without the authorization and supervision of Shakespeare's sonnets were published in her rather badly cut suggestsand soon disappeared from circulation and that intent was to remove from them? And whose interests or reputation would be protected if this were the case? Discover also always so, but now we must bring this essay to an end, adding to help Puck, which could:

So goodnight to you all.
Give me your hands if we are friends,
And Robin is again changing.