Life+of+Shakespeare

**Life of Shakespeare** toc
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=**I.II Birthplace and date of birth  **=

**BIRTHPLACE**   The "Man of the Millennium" William Shakespeare, was born in 1564 in the half-timbered house in Henley Street, Stratford-upon-Avon.Stratford-upon-Avon is located in the center of England, the town was (and still is) an important river-crossing settlement and market center. In the sixteenth century Stratford-upon-Avon was an important agricultural center and market town, its market being licensed in the twelfth century by Richard I. At the time of his birth, the village had a population of 1500 people, and only 200 houses.The "birth room" was not "identified" until the 18th century when the Shakespeare tourism industry was in its infancy.

Shakespeare’s birthday is a mystery; no one really knows when the great dramatist was born. His unknown birthday is traditionally observed on 23 April, St George's Day.
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He was baptized on 26 April 1564.The baptismal register of the Holy Trinity parish church shows the following entry for April 26, 1564: Gulielmus filius Johannes Shakespeare. According to the Book of Common Prayer, it was required that a child be baptized on the nearest Sunday or holy day following the birth, unless the parents had a legitimate excuse. As Dennis Kay proposes in his book Shakespeare said: If Shakespeare was indeed born on Sunday, April 23, the next feast day would have been St. Mark's Day on Tuesday the twenty-fifth. There might well have been some cause, both reasonable and great -- or perhaps, as has been suggested, St. Mark's Day was still held to be unlucky, as it had been before the Reformation, when altars and crucifixes used to be draped in black cloth, and when some claimed to see in the churchyard the spirits of those doomed to die in that year. . . .but that does not help to explain the christening on the twenty-sixth.

=**II.I Early schooling **=

The town's petty school would have been the starting point for William Shakespeare and the other five-year-olds of Stratford-upon-Avon. = = After two years in petty school, Shakespeare would have advanced to the grammar school, where he would have studied what a grammar school's name implies: grammar; It must have been at this school that he learned to look beyond the mechanics of language to the beauty of literature; The study of Latin lay at the heart of the grammar school <span style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(160,255,255)"> curriculum. All Elizabethan schoolboys were taught their lessons in the same, traditional manner, which depend ed mercilessly on their ability to memorize by rote. The teaching was based on the 'trivium' of grammar, logic, rhetoric, and the 'quadrivium' of arithmetic, geometry, music and astronomy. Although boys normally attended grammar school until age fifteen or sixteen, Shakespeare may have been forced to leave school as early as 1577, at age 13, because of his father's financial difficulties. There is no record of Shakespeare attending university.

=**<span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif">III. <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">Wife **=

<span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">**William Sakespeare's Courtship** The hamlet of Shottery was only a mile from the town of Stratford where William Shakespeare lived with his family. Anne Hathaway would have often visited the town and would have therefore had the opportunity to meet At this time Anne was 26 years old, and William was just about 18 years old. A considerable age difference, with William Shakespeare still under the age of consent 21. It is apparent that Anne Hathaway became pregnant prior to marriage which would have no doubt caused a scandal for both of the families. [|(click to see the video for Anne Hathaway's cottage)] <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">**Arrangement of Wedding** From the will of her late father it seems that Anne Hathaway brought a dowry to the marriage. The arrangements for the wedding of Anne Hathaway and William Shakespeare would have been with the local church. Weddings were always a religious ceremony, conducted by a minister. There were no Registry Office marriages or marriages conducted by a Justice of the Peace. The intention to marry must be announced in the church three times on three consecutive Sundays or holy days. This allows time for any objections to be raised or pre-contracts to be discovered. Any marriage not published before hand was considered clandestine and illegal. An alternative, faster, route to legalising a ceremony required a marriage bond which acted as security and proof to a bishop that the issue of a marriage licence was lawful with a sworn statement that there were no pre-contracts. The existence of such a marriage bond would require only one reading of the Banns, thus speeding the marriage process.

William Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway were granted a marriage licence by the Bishop of Worcester. They were married at Temple Grafton, a village approximately five miles (8 km) from Stratford. After their marriage, as was the custom, Anne Hathaway Shakespeare would have left her home at Hewland Farm to live with William Shake-speare in his father, John Shakespeare's house on Henley Street in Stratford. [|(click to see the video for William Shakespeare' house)]
 * The Marriage Of Miss Hathaway AND William Shakespeare[[image:bb_stratford_knott_612.jpg width="122" height="101" align="right"]]**

=**<span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif">IV. <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">Children **= <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif">

● <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">**Susanna** The first we hear of Susanna is in 1606 when on May 5th Susanna was named as a recusant for not attending an Easter Day Church service. When Susanna was 24 years old she announced her betrothal to Dr. John Hall. Hall had settled in Stratford around 1600, where he founded a prosperous medical practice and became one of the town's leading citizens. The wedding took place on June 5th 1607. after her wedding to Dr. John Hall. Anne and William's granddaughter, Elizabeth, was baptized February 21, 1608 at Holy Trinity Church in Stratford. William and Dr. Hall also had mutual business interests as they were known to have travelled to London on business concerning Stratford tithes.

● **Hamnet** Little is known about the life of William Shakespeare's son Hamnet. He was raised in his grandfather's house predominantly by his mother Anne as his father's work in the theatre was based in London. Neither of Hamnet's sisters had an education and neither of them were able to read or write. There were constant outbreaks of the Bubonic Plague, otherwise known as the Black Death or the Black Plague, during Elizabethan times and in 1596 Hamnet contracted the deadly disease and died at the age of eleven. Shakespeare's son Hamnet was buried in Stratford on August 11, 1596.

● **Judith** Anne and William's younger daughter, Judith, the youngest of the Bard's children was betrothed to Richard Quiney. Judith married Thomas Quiney, a vintner and tavern owner from Stratford, on February 10th 1616. Judith was 31 and Thomas Quiney was 27 years of age. The initial approval of the marriage quickly changed with the scandalous news that Thomas Quiney had made another girl pregnant. The situation was really serious and on March 12th Judith and Thomas were excommunicated. William must have been mortified with the turn of events. He summoned his lawyer and promptly modifies and signs his will on March 25th 1616. The modification of the will was to ensure that Judith would receive a sum of money inherited in her own name. Shakespeare leaves the bulk of his fortune to his daughter, Susanna. On March 26th Quiney was prosecuted for 'carnal copulation' with a woman named Margaret Wheeler. He confessed and was sentenced to perform public penance. His penalty, however, was commuted to a small fine of five shillings and private penance.


 * **<span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">Picture of William Shakespeare's family ** || <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">**Family tree of Shakespeare's family** ||
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=<span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif">V.<span style="COLOR: rgb(255,255,255)">I <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">Occupation = <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">William SHakespeare is a english poet, acter, directer ,and playwright he wrote 38 plays and 154 sonnets and two long narrative poems. He is a really famous wrieter and playwright his plays and poems has been translated to lots of language. His plays has been act out more then other people's plays. In 1594 Shakespeare was working in the Lord Chamberlain's Men this is the most important job of his life. In 1603 the Lord Chamberlain's Men change the name to King's Men.

<span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"> =**<span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif">VI. <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">Date of death **=

<span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">William Shakespeare he died on April 23, 1616 this date is based on the old style calendar of William Shakespeare’s time. In the calendar that we use today is on May 3, 1616. His wife and he two daughter take care of his before he died. His daughter Susanna marry a doctor, John Hall, in 1607, and his daughter Judith married Thomas Quiney two months before Shakespeare died. In the shakespeare's will he gave most of his property to his daughter's first son, but he died before he get married. Someone said William Shakespeare died from the sickness but someone also said he was been murder by his relative. After he died he is been buried in the Holy Trinity Church. Ther is a curse on the grave of shakespeare. It said anyone who open his grave will be curse. <span style="COLOR: rgb(255,255,255)">

=**<span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">Works Cited **=

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