Thursday, May 3, 2012
1. or 4. Shakespeare Research
What do you want to know about William Shakespeare? He wrote Romeo and Juliet, so we need to learn more background. After doing a web quest, please comment with FIVE FACTS you learned about Shakespeare's life, his writing, the theater, or the history of England during the time he wrote. Extra points will be awarded for NEW facts. Do not copy and past the same biographical information over and over again!
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Facts about shakespeare!:)
ReplyDelete1:daughter: susanna
wife: anne hathaway
Twin son&daughter: hamnet&judith.
2:he was left handed.
3:he wrote 37 plays & 154 sonnets.
4:was born & died on the same date.
5:made 600 refrences to birds in all of his work.
6:shakespeare never published his plays.
Shakespeare married at the age of 18!
ReplyDeleteHe and his wife Anne had 3 kids.
in the begining Shakespeare wrote mainly comedies and histories.
Shakespeare retired at age 49.
He died 3 years after retiring.
1). Anne Hathaway was eight years older than Shakespeare and three months pregnant when they got married!
ReplyDelete2). William Arden, a relative of Shakespeare's mother Mary Arden, was arrested for plotting against Queen Elizabeth I, imprisoned in the Tower of London and executed!
3). Shakespeare's family were all illiterate!
4). Shakespeare and his company built TWO Globe Theatres!
5). Shakespeare never published any of his plays!
Shakespeare was a playwright, poet, and a actor. He lived during the English Renaissance. He was married to a woman by the name of Anne Hathaway. He got married at the age of 18 years old. He has three children name Susanna Hall, Hamnet Shakespeare, and Judith Quiney. Shakespeare became baptised on April 26, 1564. He died at the age of 52 years old on April 23, 1616. He was the son of John Shakespeare.
ReplyDelete1.he got married when he was 18
ReplyDelete2.he died from drinking to hard
3.he was really crazy
4.he had kids
5.two of them was twins
1. Shakespeare married Anne Hathaway when he was 17. She was 26 and she was pregnant when they married. Their first child was born six months after the wedding.
ReplyDelete2. One of Shakespeare’s relatives on his mother’s side, William Arden, was arrested for plotting against Queen Elizabeth I, imprisoned in the Tower of London and executed
3. Shakespeare is the second most quoted writer in the English language – after the various writers of the Bible.
4. Shakespeare’s original grave marker showed him holding a bag of grain. Citizens of Stratford replaced the bag with a quill in 1747.
5. There are only two Shakespeare plays written entirely in verse: they are Richard II and King John. Many of the plays have half of the text in prose.
1.He wanted to experiment with several ideas not seen in plays of his time.
ReplyDelete2.Romeo and Juliet is not one that Shakespeare is completely responsible for though he is given full credit for its creation.
3.Shakespeare attended the Christian Holy Trinity church.
4.his only son and heir who died at the age of eleven.
5.he did go to London and worked at The Globe theatre
1.He was married to Anne Hathaway on Dec. 2 , 1582.
ReplyDelete2.He wrote 154 Sonnets.
3.His plays were acted out in the yards , of bawdy inns and in the great halls of the London inns of court.
4.1564, record of baptism Shakespeare baptism is Recorded in the parish church of Stratford upon Auon dated April 26 , 1582.
5.The theatre was the first London playhouse, built in 1576.
1 he was born April 23 1564.
ReplyDelete2 died at age 52
3 married Ann Hathway
4 had three kids
5 Had seven sibilings
Shakespeare has written 37 plays and 154 sonnets. He was 25-30 years old when he started righting his plays. He had other talents to like acting. Who knew Shakespeare was an actor himself, but after acting he returned to writing plays.
ReplyDeleteShakespeare cousins were John & Mary Shakespeare
ReplyDelete-Born in Stratford-Upon-Avon, England
ReplyDelete-always wanted to be a writer
-education was good
-had 5 siblings
-childhood was rough
-didn't have any close friends
1. supposedly born on april 23
ReplyDelete2. married Ann Cathaway
3. 2 daughters one son who died at 11
4. most of his life was unknown
5.37 plays and 154 sonnet
1. He wrote 37plays
ReplyDelete2.Born on April 23, 1564
3.He worked at "The Globe Theater"
4.2nd most quoted in English History
5.Know one really knows a lot about his life.
Facts about Shakesphere (:
ReplyDelete1. He was 52 when he died.
2. He had 7 siblings
3. He married Anne Hathaway when he was 17.
4. Burrid at the Holy Trinity Church
5. Wrote 37 plays, 154 sonnets.
5 Facts about Shakespeare
ReplyDelete1. He was baptised.
2. Ann Cathaway was 24 when he got married
3. William started at the King Edward V1 Grammar School when he was seven.
4. School started at 6 in morning and ended at 6 in the evening
5. One of Shakespeare’s relatives on his mother’s side, William Arden, was arrested for plotting against Queen Elizabeth I, imprisoned in the Tower of London and executed.
PS: He got married when he was 17!! Not 18 (:
1. Died April 23 1616
ReplyDelete2. Anne Hathaway was three months pregnant when they got married
3. He never published any of his plays
4. Had 7 brothers and sisters
5. Last play he wrote was Two Noble Kinsmen
1. Had 7 brothers and sisters
ReplyDelete2. Born on April 23, 1564
3. Had three kids
4. Wrote 37 plays
5. He died 3 years after retiring
1.Consist of about 38 plays,[nb 3] 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and several other poems
ReplyDelete2.William Shakespeare was the son of John Shakespeare, an alderman and a successful glover originally from Snitterfield.
3.Shakespeare married the 26 year-old Anne Hathaway.
4.Shakespeare died on 23 April 1616
5.Shakespeare was buried in the chancel of the Holy Trinity Church two days after his death
1. Married Anne Hathaway at age 18
ReplyDelete2. Son of John Shakespeare
3. Died three years after he retired from Stratford
4. Had 3 children
5. baptised 26 April 1564
1.According to reports, Shakespeare wrote quickly and with ease; Fellow playwright Ben Jonson said “Whatsoever he penned, he never blotted out a line.”
ReplyDelete2. He died in 1616. The words “Curst be he that moves my bones” were inscribed on his grave.
3.Seven years after his death, some of Shakespeare’s fellow players published Shakespeare’s plays in a single volume, called First Folio. They wrote that their intention was “only to keep the memory of so worthy a friend, and fellow alive, as was our Shakespeare.”
4.Because they were often hastily written for performance on stage, none of Shakespeare’s original manuscripts exist.
5.Though the printing press existed and books were being mass produced all over Europe, Shakespeare had little interest in seeing his plays in print. He’d written them not to be read, but to be performed on stage.
He was a bard because bards were known to tell stories.
ReplyDeleteHe caused a lot of controversy.
it is claimed that his birthday was on april 23.
he was one out of 8.
he was Cristian as a child
1. His wife was called Anne Hathaway
ReplyDelete2. He was born & died on the same date
3. He's called "bard" because it means poet
4. He had 7 brothers and sisters
5. Got married at 17
1. William Shakespeare was born in 1564, but his exact birthdate is unknown. He was baptized on April 26 of that year, so his birth would have been shortly before.
ReplyDelete2. Shakespeare did not go to college.
3. Shakespeare was eighteen when he married Anne Hathaway in 1582. She was 26 and expecting his baby. SCANDAL! The couple had a baby girl, then had twins, a boy and a girl, in 1584.
4. Sometime in the mid 1580′s, Shakespeare moved to London from his home in Stratford-upon-Avon.
5. Almost no information exists about Shakespeare’s activities from the time he moved to London to 1592, when he was described as an up-and-coming playwright in the London theater scene. Because of this, the years 1585 to 1592 are called “the lost years”.
1.Lived during the Renaissance.
ReplyDelete2.Had three children.
3.Was left handed.
4.Was Catholic. (Pretty much everyone was then.)
5.Married Anne Hathaway.
1.William married a woman nearly twice his age
ReplyDelete2.William was born to a Stratford tanner named John Shakespeare
3.William was known as a keen businessman to many in his home town of Stratford.
4.William Shakespeare is one of the most identifiable icons of England
5.Shakespeare invented the word "assassination".
1.)Shakespeare lived to 52
ReplyDelete2.) born in April 1564 and that he died on 23rd April 1616
3.)he was baptised
4.)Shakespeare had seven siblings
5.)married Anne Hathaway when he was 17
1. Wrote 37 plays
ReplyDelete2. Got married at 17
3. Left handed
4. Born on April,23,1564
5. Had three children