Life Of William Shakespeare
Around 1568, a group of actors visited Stratford and put on a play before the
entire town, with permission from John Shakespeare, the mayor of the town. The
people loved the play, especially the small children. All of them looked up to
the actors, as they returned each year to perform different plays. They had
dreams of one day becoming actors, but only one of these children fulfilled this
dream. This child was the mayor's son, William Shakespeare.
At this time, actors in England usually spent their careers traveling to new
towns, performing plays at city buildings or local inns. However, with the help
of James Burbage, this all changed. James Burbage designed and built the ...
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to represent anything from a city wall to a mountain. The next level
contained pulleys which could raise or lower anything from above. The top level
was used for creating sounds of rain or thunder, or dropping important objects
from the sky.
William Shakespeare married Anne Hathaway at age 18. In two years, they had
three children, a daughter named Susanna, and twins, Hamnet and Judith. He
didn't stay in Stratford long after this though. He left his family to pursue a
career as an actor in London.
Shakespeare wrote his first play in 1592. It was a historical play called Henry
VI, which was one of the biggest successes of the year. Some scholars
criticized him because he did not have a university education like most
playwrites, but probably the only reason he was criticized for this was because
his play was so popular.
After the success of his historical play, he wrote a tragedy called Titus
Andronicus, and then The Comedy of Errors, a humorous comedy. Not ...
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Taming of The Shrew, and Romeo and Juliet. Some
said he could turn a flat, one-sided plot into a masterpiece. In Romeo and
Juliet, Shakespeare mixes the humor of Mercutio and Juliet's nurse into a
serious tragedy. Not many playwrites of this time mixed comedy with tragedy,
but he did this because the two elements combine in real life and he felt they
were free to combine in his plays.
None of the critics who had praised his poems ever mentioned his plays. However,
he was singled out by Francis Meres, a London writer. Meres stated,
"Shakespeare among the English is the most excellent in both kinds of the
stage." Meres was not a distinguished literary critic, but he reassured ...
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