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Shakespeare or Edward Vere ?

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Given his friendship with Richard Field it would seem reasonable that Shakespeare would have taken lodgings near his friend, in Blackfriars, when he first moved to London

Richard Field became very successful and would have been acquainted with the notable Poets and Authors in London through his Printing and Publishing business - and no doubt would have introduced Shakespeare to some of them! His brother, Jasper Field, joined Richard as an apprentice in 1592

In 1593 Shakespeare lived in Bishopsgate ( we know this because there are court records dated 1597 saying that he owed taxes here)

In 1596 he was living in the parish of St Helen's in Bishopsgate

1599 he had moved across the river to Bankside on property owned by the of the Bishop of Winchester's estate, the Liberty of the Clink, where the Globe Theatre was also built

1604 Shakespeare is known to have moved back to the city and rented lodgings at the house of Christopher and Mary Mountjoy in on the corner of Monkwell and Silver Street in Cripplegate, not far from St Paul's. Mountjoy was a refugee, a French Huguenot and a tire-maker (manufacturer of ladies' ornamental headresses)

In 1613 William Shakespeare was rich enough to purchase his own property. He invested £140 in a gate-house near the Blackfriars theater. It was located in Ireland Yard which joins Blackfriars Lane via, would you believe, Playhouse Yard!

the former gatehouse had been the main entrance to the vast monastery of the Black Friars which had been seized and sold off during the Dissolution of the Monasteries

In 1615 litigation over legal title to the gatehouse shows he has made improvements to the property

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The puritans were against theater. It was against morality because of the place which were play and the prostitute on the theater. in real the puritans were strict and they don't want that the population be entertaineming.

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Shakespeare's sonnets are cited as evidence of his bisexuality.

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Shakespeare, as the son of a leading Stratford citizen, almost certainly attended Stratford's grammar school. Like all such schools, its curriculum consisted of an intense emphasis on the Latin classics, including memorization, writing, and acting classic Latin plays. Shakespeare most likely attended until about age 15.

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William Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon in Warwickshire, in central England. His baptismal certificate is dated April 26, 1564: we baptize infants in the days following their birth, and there is agreement to include 23 avril15,16 as the date of birth of the playwright. He is the third child of the family and the oldest boy.

His father, John Shakespeare, farmer's son, is a glover and leather goods merchant, merchant of skins and prosperous wool, also taking advantage of land speculation, owner of the house now known as the Birthplace8. This is a notable of the city of Stratford in 1568, it was elected alderman and high bailiff (or mayor) in 156817. In 155718, he married Mary Arden, the daughter of aristocrat Robert Arden of Wilmcote, and the new couple moved into a house on Henley Street. The success of John Shakespeare led him to seek arms, William made him get in 1596 with the motto Non sanz droict (Not without right) 19. It is assumed that the father of the playwright stayed in the catholique8 faith.

The comfortable environment in which Shakespeare was born probably led to frequent after the elementary, high school "King Edward VI" in the center of Stratford, where education includes intensive language learning and Latin literature and history, logic and rhetoric. According to his contemporary and rival, Ben Jonson, "yet he knows little Latin and even less grec20" N 3. In 1577, the boy was removed from school, presumably to make a living or to help his father who in a bad passe12.

November 28, 1582 at Temple Grafton near Stratford, Shakespeare, who was then 18 years8 wife Anne Hathaway, daughter of a farmer of Shottery, seven or eight years his aînée21. Two neighbors of the bride, Fulk Sandalls and John Richardson, publish the banns of marriage to mean that the union does not encounter any opposition. It is likely that the ceremony was organized in haste, Anne is probably already enceinte22, since it gives rise to the following year their first daughter, Susanna, baptized 26 mai21, less than six months later.

After his marriage, Shakespeare leaves only few traces in historical records.

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This an exemple of an Elizabethan theater. We know that theater was not a healthly place. They were separation during rich an poor. Poor were at the bottom and rich at the top. The noble were above the stage. Only boy were able to play on theater. During the place they were a lot of noise. During the place they were thieves. Sometime they were baggers.

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Shakespeare ruled all of England

Did Shakespeare, a glove-maker’s son from Stratford, really shake up the Elizabethan theater scene? Many historians question whether Shakespeare was a pseudonym or even a complete invention overall. A dozen names have been put forth as the real Shakespeare—most strangely, the martyred Edmund Campion. Let’s go with the best: Shakespeare was really Queen Elizabeth I herself. I know, right?

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We probably don’t spell Shakespeare’s name correctly—but, then again, neither did he.

Sources from William Shakespeare’s lifetime spell his last name in more than 80 different ways, ranging from “Shappere” to “Shaxberd.” In the handful of signatures that have survived, the Bard never spelled his own name “William Shakespeare,” using variations or abbreviations such as “Willm Shakp,” “Willm Shakspere” and “William Shakspeare” instead. However it’s spelled, Shakespeare is thought to derive from the Old English words “schakken” (“to brandish”) and “speer” (“spear”), and probably referred to a confrontational or argumentative person.

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Shakespeare’s plays feature the first written instances of hundreds of familiar terms.

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“foregone conclusion” (“Othello”), “in a pickle” (“The Tempest”), “wild goose chase” (“Romeo and Juliet”) and “one fell swoop” (“Macbeth”). He is also credited with inventing the given names Olivia, Miranda, Jessica and Cordelia, which have become common over the years (as well as others, such as Nerissa and Titania, which have not).

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Nobody knows what Shakespeare did between 1585 and 1592.To the dismay of his biographers, Shakespeare disappears from the historical record between 1585, when his twins’ baptism was recorded, and 1592, when the playwright Robert Greene denounced him in a pamphlet as an “upstart crow.” The insult suggests he’d already made a name for himself on the London stage by then. What did the newly married father and future literary icon do during those seven “lost” years? Historians have speculated that he worked as a schoolteacher, studied law, traveled across continental Europe or joined an acting troupe that was passing through Stratford. According to one 17th-century account, he fled his hometown after poaching deer from a local politician’s estate.

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Nobody knows what Shakespeare did between 1585 and 1592.To the dismay of his biographers, Shakespeare disappears from the historical record between 1585, when his twins’ baptism was recorded, and 1592, when the playwright Robert Greene denounced him in a pamphlet as an “upstart crow.” The insult suggests he’d already made a name for himself on the London stage by then. What did the newly married father and future literary icon do during those seven “lost” years? Historians have speculated that he worked as a schoolteacher, studied law, traveled across continental Europe or joined an acting troupe that was passing through Stratford. According to one 17th-century account, he fled his hometown after poaching deer from a local politician’s estate.

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In 1588 Shakespeare disappeared to London. Rumors at the time suggested that he had run away from Stratford after being accused of deer-poaching. If caught, Shakespeare was in danger of being executed.

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Shakespeare married an older woman who was three months pregnant at the time.

In November 1582, 18-year-old William wed Anne Hathaway, a farmer’s daughter eight years his senior. Instead of the customary three times, the couple’s intention to marry was only announced at church once—evidence that the union was hastily arranged because of Anne’s eyebrow-raising condition. Six months after the wedding, the Shakespeares welcomed a daughter, Susanna, and twins Hamnet and Judith followed in February 1585. Little is known about the relationship between William and Anne, besides that they often lived apart and he only bequeathed her his “second-best bed” in his will.

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Shakespeare’s father held a lot of different jobs, and at one point got paid to drink beer.

The son of a tenant farmer, John Shakespeare was nothing if not upwardly mobile. He arrived in Stratford-upon-Avon in 1551 and began dabbling in various trades, selling leather goods, wool, malt and corn. In 1556 he was appointed the borough’s official “ale taster,” meaning he was responsible for inspecting bread and malt liquors. The next year he took another big step up the social ladder by marrying Mary Arden, the daughter of an aristocratic farmer who happened to be his father’s former boss. John later became a moneylender and held a series of municipal positions, serving for some time as the mayor of Stratford. In the 1570s he fell into debt and ran into legal problems for reasons that remain unclear.

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MYSTERIES :
-Shakespeare is an impostor : he is not the writer of his famous plays and poems, but Edward de Vere, the Seventeenth Earl of Oxford.
-Who is William Shakespeare ? : It is a big mystery in literature, we don't know his identity.

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Of all the arts in Elizabethan England, drama was the most popular, and left behind the most enduring legacy. Not a single theater existed in England until well after Elizabeth I (1533–1603) took the throne in 1558. Within two decades of the building of the first major theater in the mid-1570s, however, a huge and varied body of Elizabethan comedy, tragedy, revenge plays, and history chronicles arose. Rising Elizabethan dramatists like John Lyly (1554–1606), Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593), and Thomas Kyd (1558–1594) surpassed the limits of known drama—European theater and the classical drama of ancient Greece and Rome—by portraying complex political, psychological, and historical themes. The most noted playwright of the English language, William Shakespeare (1564–1616), was only twelve years old when the first theater was built in England. With his plays Shakespeare brought Elizabethan drama—and English culture in general—to unexpected new heights.

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For centuries, academics have questioned whether William Shakespeare actually wrote the plays attributed to him. Shakespeare was the son of a glove maker, and never attended college. But his plays feature a vocabulary of more than 29,000 words, and his plays make it clear that Shakespeare had a pretty good knowledge of politics, law, and foreign languages.

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Between 1583-1592 there are no records of his activities, rumors include he was a law clerk, held horse reins at the theatre, theatre page...

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Elizabethan theaters were makeshift, dirty, and loud, but nevertheless they attracted audiences as large as 3,000 from all social classes. Performances were usually given in the afternoons, lasting two to three hours. As in both ancient and contemporary theaters, each section of the
theater bore a different price of admission, with the lowest prices in
the pit below stage level where patrons stood to watch the play.

Most performance spaces were arranged “in-the-round,” giving spectators the opportunity to watch both the play and the behavior of other spectators.
Etiquette did not prohibit the audiences from freely expressing their distaste or satisfaction for the action on stage.

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We do not really know what Shakespeare looked like! Not one portrait was painted of Shakespeare whilst he was still alive!

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Shakespeare attended the local grammar school, King's New School, where the curriculum would have stressed a classical education of Greek mythology, Roman comedy, ancient history, rhetoric, grammar, Latin, and possibly Greek. Throughout his childhood, Shakespeare's father struggled with serious financial debt. Therefore, unlike his fellow playwright Christopher Marlowe, he did not attend university. Rather, in 1582 at age 18

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There are rumours that Shakespeare left Stratford-upon-Avon to avoid prosecution for poaching a deer!

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A rumor says that William's father, John Shakespeare was the Mayor of Stratford.

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we know almost nothing about the man who created some of the world famous dramas.

beausce of the lack of informations about Shakespeare, a controverse in the mid 19th century about who is the writer of the plays happened Some people, intellectual snobs perhaps think that the philosopher Francis Bacon is the real author

here is nothing to connect the man from Stratford with the plays and poems he is supposed to have written - no manuscripts or letters or any documentation of any literary life.

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1. SHAKESPEARE STOLE A POWERFUL MAN’S DEER

2. SHAKESPEARE STOLE HIS BEST ACTOR’S GIRL

3. SHAKESPEARE WAS GODFATHER TO HIS OWN ILLEGITIMATE SON

4. SHAKESPEARE WAS GOD’S OWN SPY

5. SHAKESPEARE RULED ALL OF ENGLAND

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During the Elizabethan Age, people live a really short life.
Children lived to fifteen years not much because of the poor society where they left.
The average of people life was thirty years old ; antibiotics and antiseptics didn't exist.

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In a time when antiseptics and antibiotics weren't known, doctors used somewhat primitive forms of medication. One thing that really tested the medical knowledge was the bubonic plague.

The disease that often plagued England always appeared suddenly and spread quickly. Ignorant of the disease, doctors typically prescribed anything from amulets to sweet-smelling things. One was to temporarily close all London theaters when the death rate was high.

By 1592, aged 28, Shakespeare was in London and already established as both an actor and a dramatist. He is first mentioned as a man of the theatre.

There is little evidence for Shakespeare's London career. Between 1592 and 1594, when the theatres were frequently closed because of the plague, he wrote his earliest poemsVenus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece. They were published in 1593 and 1594 respectively, and dedicated to his patron the 3rd Earl of Southampton.

The chronology of Shakespeare's early plays is very difficult to determine. His first plays have been dated to 1590 or even earlier, when he may have been a member of the Queen's Men. Shakespeare was probably a founder member of the Lord Chamberlain's Men, the acting company established under the patronage of Henry Carey. He is first mentioned as a leading member of that company in the accounts of the Treasurer of the Queen's Chamber in March 1595, when he and others received payment for performances at court during the Christmas period of 1594-1595. He was both a player and a shareholder in the company, as well as its leading dramatist. Shakespeare wrote the majority of the 37 plays which are now accepted as his, as well as collaborating on several more, between 1594 and 1613. As an actor, he was associated with the parts of kings and old men. His roles may have included the Ghost in Hamlet and old Adam in As You Like It.

The bubonic plague

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Elizabethan theatre and the name of William Shakespeare are inextricably bound together, yet there were others writing plays at the same time as the bard of Avon. One of the most successful was Christopher Marlowe, who many contemporaries considered Shakespeare's superior. Marlowe's
career, however, was cut short at a comparatively young age when he died in a tavern fight in Deptford, the victim of a knife in the eye.

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The first proper theatre as we know it was the Theatre, built at
Shoreditch in 1576. Before this time plays were performed in the
courtyard of inns, or sometimes, in the houses of noblemen. A noble had
to be careful about which play he allowed to be performed within his
home, however. Anything that was controversial or political was likely
to get him in trouble with the crown!
After the Theatre, further open air playhouses opened in the London
area, including the Rose (1587), and the Hope (1613). The most famous
playhouse was the Globe (1599) built by the company in which Shakespeare
had a stake.

The Globe was only in use until 1613, when a canon fired during a performance of Henry VIII caught the roof on fire and the building burned to the ground. The site
of the theatre was rediscovered in the 20th century and a
reconstruction built near the spot.

These theatres could hold several thousand people, most standing in
the open pit before the stage, though rich nobles could watch the play
from a chair set on the side of the stage itself.

Elizabethan Theatre facts:
The Amphitheatres were designed as an open arena

Size of Elizabethan Theatre: Up to 100 feet in diameter.
Shapes of Elizabethan Theatre: Octagonal or circular in shape having between 8 and 24 sides.
Building materials used in the construction of Elizabethan Theatres: Timber, nails, stone (flint), plaster and thatched roofs. Later amphitheatres had tiled roofs.
Building Duration: 6 months.Overall design of the Elizabethan Theatre:
The open air arena of the amphitheatre was called the 'pit' or the
'yard'. The stage of the amphitheatre projected halfway into the 'pit'.
It had a raised stage at one end which was surrounded by three tiers of
roofed galleries with balconies overlooking the back of the stage.

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Elizabethan theaters were makeshift, dirty, and loud, but nevertheless they attracted audiences as large as 3,000 from all social classes. Performances were usually given in the afternoons, lasting two to three hours. As in both ancient and contemporary theaters, each section of the theater bore a different price of admission, with the lowest prices in the pit below stage level where patrons stood to watch the play. Most performance spaces were arranged “in-the-round,” giving spectators the opportunity to watch both the play and the behavior of other spectators. Etiquette did not prohibit the audiences from freely expressing their distaste or satisfaction for the action on stage.

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No one knows the actual birthday of Shakespeare!
Shakespeare never published any of his plays!

One of Shakespeare’s relatives was arrested for plotting against the queen.

Shakespeare laid a curse on his own grave. Many Shakespeare life facts are unknown - these are referred to as the "Lost Years".

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Shakespeare was considered as the greatest playwright in history of English litterature . He was a english dramatic, a poet and a playwright. He wrote at least 38 plays  and over 150 poems. His work has been translated in lot of languages. The first folio was published postumousthly in 1663. He wrote Romeo and Juliet early in his caerer between 1594/1595.

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-Shakespeare was a poacher : a rebellious deer poacher ( in a Knight's land and wrote some lines about it and his revenge on the Knight who prosecuted him).

-Shakespeare was a "unlearned" : some authors said that he didn't know latin and greek.

-Shakespeare was a rake : He called himself "William the Conqueror" and he was a womanizer.

-Shakespeare was a reveller : the cause of his death is unknown, but there were rumours which said that he died on his 52nd birthday from drinking too much.

-Shakespeare was godfather to his own illegitimate son

-Shakespeare was God's own spy : Shakespeare’s plays are full of conspiracies, even the comedies. The idea that he didn’t just write conspiracies but lived one as well is an enticing theory of his early life.

- Shakespeare ruled all of England : Some people thought Shakespeare was really Queen Elizabeth I herself

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Elizabethan theatre, refers to the theatre of England between 1562 and 1642. This is the style of the plays of William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe and Ben Jonson.
The phrase Elizabethan theatre is used at times improperly, especially in languages other than English, to mean English Renaissance theatre, even though in a strict sense this only applies to 1603. Strictly speaking one distinguishes within English Renaissance theatre between Elizabethan theatre from 1562 to 1603, Jacobean theatre from 1603 to 1625 and Caroline theatre from 1625 to 1642.

Fun facts :
- Most plays were seen at two o'clock in the afternoon.
-  Some of the most expensive seats in a modern theater
are the orchestra seats, which are directly in front of the stage.
The cheapest seats are in the back of the theater because they
have the worst view of the stage.
- There were no Elizabethan Theatres until 1576 - plays were performed in the courtyards of inns
- Elizabethan theatres were also used for bear baiting, gambling and for immoral purposes