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April 4, 2007 at 3:33 pm
Okay, I have two facts and they are: Shakespeare invented the word assasination and Shakespeare died when he was only 52 in 1616 (Absolute Shakespeare).
April 4, 2007 at 5:05 pm
Here are a few interesting facts I found out about Shakespeare (I hope they are accurate-you never know!)
- Shakespeare never published any of his plays
- Shakespeare’s family were all illiterate
- We don’t really know what Shakespeare exactly looked like because there was not one portrit painted of him while he was still alive
William Shakspeare Facts. April 3, 2007. http://www.william-shakespeare.org.uk/facts-about-william-shakespeare.htm
April 4, 2007 at 6:22 pm
Did YOU know….
~No play of Shakespeare’s was published before 1594?
~He married an hieress named Anne Hathaway (no joke) at age 18? She was 6 or 7 years older than him and was pregnant.
~He completed and signed his will on March 25, less than a month before he died?
…..Nor I
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Ackroyd, Peter /The Complete Works of Shakespeare/. HarperCollins Publishers: Bishopbriggs. 2006.
April 4, 2007 at 6:52 pm
William Shakespeare died on April 23, 1616 and that day is his birthday, too. Each year on his death day and birthday, a new quill pen is placed in the writing hand of a statue of him in his funerary monument in Stratford-upon-Avon (William Shakespeare 4).
April 4, 2007 at 6:58 pm
My favorite Shakespeare fact is that his family was illiterate (William Shakespeare Facts). I find it interesting that his family was illiterate because he was a great playwright, and I believed that he would have had his family educated.
April 4, 2007 at 7:05 pm
Romeo and Juliet was one of Shakespears most famous tradegys, and it was written in 1595. (http://library.thinkquest.org/19539/randj.htm)
April 4, 2007 at 7:18 pm
Shakespeare put a curse on his grave to anyone who disturbed his remains.
“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.”
Amazingly his corpse has remained untouched,(Not really amazing.)
Thank you http://www.nosweatshakespeare.com/shakespeare_facts.htm
for citation purpouses and the wonderfull fact.
April 4, 2007 at 7:18 pm
William Shakespeare was born in Stratford-Upon-Avon England in 1564. (Packer, 5)
April 4, 2007 at 7:28 pm
“Throughout his working life Shakespeare worked as an actor in the midst of a troupe.” (“Shakespeare’s Globe Theater:The Season of Star-crossed Lovers.” The International Shakespeare Globe Centre, Ltd. 2004.)
April 4, 2007 at 7:31 pm
Shakespeare wrote approximately 37 plays and 154 sonnets (http://absoluteshakespeare.com/trivia/biography/shakespeare_biography.htm)
April 4, 2007 at 7:50 pm
during drama I learned that shakespear wrote over 20 plays (24).
April 4, 2007 at 8:08 pm
Here are some facts on Shakespeare
1. His whole family was illiterate
2. All his grandchildren died he has no decendents.
3. No one really knows his real birthday
http://www.william-shakespeare.org.uk/facts-about-william-shakespeare.htm
thats the URL i got it from.
April 4, 2007 at 8:14 pm
Engraved on Shakespeare’s gravestone are the words
“Good friend for Jesus’ sake forbear,
To dig the dust enclosed here!
Blessed be the man that spares these stones,
And cursed be he that moves my bones.”
I found this at:
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/ucl-views/grave
April 4, 2007 at 8:18 pm
Shakespeare and wife had eight children, including daughter Susanna, twins Hamnet, Judith, and Edmund. Susanna received most of the Bard’s fortune when he died in 1616, age 52. Hamnet died at age 11, Judith at 77. Susanna dies in 1649, age 66.
yeah thought it was intresting
http://absoluteshakespeare.com/trivia/facts/facts.htm
April 4, 2007 at 8:48 pm
Amazing Shakespeare Facts:
–He was part owner of the Globe Theatre and the Blackfriars Playhouse taking 10% of the profits.( “William Shakespeare and Stratford-upon-Avon”)
– The first case of the common cold was diagnosed in 1611 in Stratford, England. The patient? John Common, who coincidentally gave his cold to William Shakespeare who said the new malady exacerbated his lovesickness, thereby inspiring several of his most fondly remembered sonnets.(“Amazing but True Facts”)
Wow! The first one I had no idea about, and I’m not quite sure whether to believe the second!
April 4, 2007 at 8:58 pm
Few people realize that aside from writing 37 plays and composing 154 sonnets, William was also an actor who performed many of his own plays as well as those of other playwrights (Ben Jonson).
http://absoluteshakespeare.com/trivia/facts/facts.htm
April 4, 2007 at 9:04 pm
Very little was known about shakespear, but of the few things that are known came from Church records, Land titles, and the written oppinions of others. Also that William Shakespear was babtized on April 26, 1564
http://absoluteshakespeare.com/william_shakespeare.htm
April 4, 2007 at 9:19 pm
Shakespeare Facts:
-If Shakespeare couldnt find a persise word for what he was trying to describe he simply made one up
-In just 23 years, he wrote 38 plays, 154 sonets, and 5 other poems.
-Four of his siblings died from the bubonic plague.
April 4, 2007 at 9:20 pm
oops here is my url for my facts:http://www.william-shakespeare.org.uk/
April 5, 2007 at 8:02 am
He wrote a midsummer nights dream
April 5, 2007 at 8:43 am
Shakespeare left his family to move to London and write.
April 5, 2007 at 10:02 pm
Mrs G. I have no idea what to go to in the blog to find out were to write sorry it was so late we got back at 10 sorry thanks
April 5, 2007 at 10:28 pm
hey i thought that the first part was ok it was about the two differernt families fighting then getting stopped and threatend then they go to the separate families and they talk about different things one talked about how much they hated the other family and the other talked about how romeo wanted to see juilet.
April 5, 2007 at 10:50 pm
I know that he made up half the words he wrote doewn in his plays!
April 6, 2007 at 2:19 pm
hi i read about how juliet and romeo meet and they are at the same party together romeo is in love with juliet from first sight and wants to take her hand then juliet likes him back and that night after romeo leaves he hides in a bush and waits so he can see juliet some more. he talks with her for a very long time after that.
April 10, 2007 at 8:02 pm
Shakespeare and his wife had 8 children