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18 adaptaciones de las obras de Shakespeare

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I'm a pretty big nerd when it comes to Shakespeare, no matter how crazy his plays can get. I have my mom's college copy of The Riverside Shakespeare on my bookshelf, and I sometimes take it out for a bit of light reading from time to time. This "light reading" usually turns into solo performances of my favorite Shakespearean monologues. Who hasn't done a Lady M speech or two when insomnia strikes at 3 a.m.? Just me? Okay then, never mind...

The problem with reading Shakespeare is that it's not meant to be read - it's meant to be performed. There's a reason why so many high schoolers dread the day they have to plod through Hamlet. They're struggling to read words that are supposed to be spoken (shout out to all those awesome English teachers who forced us to do reader's theater for Shakespeare - you all are true stars).

For those who want to truly enjoy Shakespeare, but 1) aren't actors and 2) can't go to the Globe every night to see a show, there are movies based on Shakespeare's plays. By watching them, we can enjoy the works the way they were meant to be enjoyed - though, sadly, if we're not watching the plays live we can't yell at the actors like the peasants of the past. Darn.

In addition to making Shakespeare's plays more accessible, film adaptations also show just how amazing his work really was. These stories are still relevant today, even when translated into different countries, time periods, or settings. And there are a lot of Shakespeare films out there. If you don't even know where to begin, here's a ranking to help you get started. To watch or not to watch, that is the question...

Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton star as Kate and Petruchio in this version of Taming of the Shrew. They have great chemistry, but Elizabeth Taylor's very serious delivery of Kate's final speech knocks the film down several notches for me (other actresses have given the speech a more sarcastic, wink-wink tone, playing up the comedy and staying true to Kate's spirit and strong character). Also, the taglines for this movie were gross.

This adaptation is pretty and sparkly and glamorous. It also changes Shakespeare's words. Yes, Romeo and Juliet has been adapted many times and subsequently changed around, but in this version, most of the lines are the same. So why change just some of them??? It was branded as Romeo and Juliet for "the next generation," but there are some writers whose words are timeless no matter your age. Shakespeare is one of them.

Laurence Olivier directed this version of Hamlet. He also played Hamlet. He also made a ton of changes to the script, cutting out entire characters, and had Eileen Herlie playing Hamlet's mother Gertrude even though she was eleven years younger than Olivier. So... there are a lot of things going on in this version.

Zeffirelli, an icon of the Shakespeare world, directed this version of Hamlet. It has a star-studded cast (Mel Gibson plays Hamlet, Glenn Close plays Gertrude, Helena Bonham Carter is Ophelia) and definitely plays up the vibes between Hamlet and Gertrude. You mostly remember this one, though, because Cher talks about it in Clueless .

14. Titus (1999)

Julie Taymor, another Shakespeare film icon, directed this adaptation of Titus Andronicus. Most would agree it's very well done, but I think most would also agree that the subject matter would stop you from rewatching it over and over. And it will also stop you from ever eating pie again.

Judi Dench plays Titania in this adaptation, and she should just be a queen forever because she's a star. Overall, though, the quick pace and lack of laughs make this version less memorable.

Though it adds a few scenes that aren't in the play (and you can tell how I feel about unnecessary additions or subtractions of Shakespeare's work), this is a solid adaptation of Othello. Laurence Fishburne is excellent in the titular role, and iconic Shakespeare actor Kenneth Branagh is great as usual in the role of Iago.

Baz Luhrmann. Leo DiCaprio. Claire Danes. You probably watched this modernized version of Romeo and Juliet a lot during your teenage years. It's worth going back for Mercutio, who's the real star.

Joss Whedon's black and white adaptation of this classic Shakespeare comedy is the perfect film to watch on a calm summer night. It's set in modern times, but retains Shakespeare's original script, and even has original music for two songs Shakespeare wrote into the play. If you're a Whedon fan, you won't be disappointed.

Emotional and visually beautiful, this adaptation of one of Shakespeare's most well-known works is definitely worth a watch. And it stars Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard, in case you needed more encouragement to watch it.

Prospero becomes Prospera in this Julie Taymor-directed adaptation of The Tempest, starring Helen Mirren. It's visually stunning, like all Taymor's projects, and the twist keeps the story fresh and interesting. This is one of Shakespeare's more bizarre tales, but if anyone can handle telling it, it's Taymor.

7. Richard III (1995)

This adaptation is set in 1930s Britain. It stars Ian McKellen. It's extremely well done. Go watch it.

The Taming of the Shrew gets remade into a '90s teen movie, and it's fantastic. The lines may be different, but the spirit of the original play is there. And if you listen closely, you'll hear one "I burn, I pine, I perish."

Kenneth Branagh knows Shakespeare, which is why his version of Hamlet is my favorite. He shines as the titular role, and the star-studded cast even includes the talented Kate Winslet as Ophelia. It's visually stunning, unabridged, and just all around extremely well done.

Teen movies mix well with Shakespeare, apparently. Twelfth Night becomes She's the Man in this modern adaptation. Amanda Bynes is hilarious as the soccer-playing, feminist Viola - I like cheese, and I like this movie.

I'm cheating by putting this movie on here, because it's not ~really~ an adaptation - it's an imagining of Shakespeare's inspiration for Twelfth Night. But it also kind of retells Twelfth Night and Romeo and Juliet. It's equal parts funny and tragic and romantic, and I think Shakespeare would approve.

You had to watch this in high school, and you couldn't get over how much Romeo looked like Zac Efron. Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet will always be iconic.

What can I say, I love Kenneth Branagh. In my mind, his beautiful adaptation of Much Ado About Nothing is the perfect Shakespeare film. It's funny and bittersweet. Emma Thompson and Branagh have the perfect banter. The whole thing is shot in Tuscany, and it's just so beautiful that it will make you want to sit on a hillside reading sonnets forever.
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I'm a pretty big nerd when it comes to Shakespeare, no matter how crazy his plays can get. I have my mom's college copy of The Riverside Shakespeare on my bookshelf, and I sometimes take it out for a bit of light reading from time to time. This "ligh...

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Crítica de la película Shakespeare in love

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Shakespeare in Love (1998) was directed by John Madden, written by Marc Norman and playwright Tom Stoppard. It stars Gwyneth Paltrow, Joseph Fiennes, Gwyneth Paltrow, Geoffrey Rush, Colin Firth, Ben Affleck and Judi Dench. Running time: 123 minutes; certificate 15.
'He was just like any other man, but that he was like all other men." Thus William Hazlitt on William Shakespeare, unwittingly pinpointing the peculiar problem of portraying him: to get a sense of a genius that was generic but that was housed within the mind of an ordinary man - a single sensibility that yet encompassed all sensibilities. To imagine Shakespeare is in some ways as tricky as putting a face and features on God, and John Madden's Shakespeare in Love, working from a script by Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard, solves the dilemma by refusing to be reverent.

The Will Shakespeare (Joseph Fiennes) we see is a jobbing actor and struggling writer, whose inspiration runs dry when his love life falters. He's working on a play, unpromisingly titled Romeo and Ethel the Pirate's Daughter, eagerly awaited by a penurious theatre owner (Geoffrey Rush). The marketplace then - and now - being what it is, Shakespeare is mainly appreciated for his fight scenes and gags involving dogs. But one person sees his poetry for what it is and knows it by heart: the beautiful Viola De Lesseps (Gwyneth Paltrow), who dresses as a man and wins the part of Romeo in the writer's slow-gestating new work. Soon - disguise rumbled - she's also winning his heart, in a love that, with familiar echoes, has obstacles strewn in its way.

This thwarted love affair comes to dominate the later stages of the film. But until then the tone is light and racy. Norman and Stoppard's script flirts gaily with anachronism (a Stratford-upon-Avon souvenir mug sits on Shakespeare's desk), always aware of how much we are aware of its hero. Cleverly, the screenplay also keeps faith with Shakespeare's own wit and humour. The movie's surprisingly frank sexual high jinks are in keeping with Shakespeare's own bawdiness. And its punning dialogue reflects a writer and a time that prized wordplay as a form of refinement quite apart from humour.

Fiennes and Paltrow are more impressive as individuals than as lovers, but they hold the ensemble together. You have to believe with any actor playing Shakespeare that he actually wrote the plays. In Fiennes's hard, swift intelligence and loquacious infatuation with words, you get a hint that he just might have. Paltrow's haughty English accent has long been such that she could pass herself off as a duchess at Ascot. But, used to playing feminine guile and graft, she here adds a rueful self-mockery to her repertoire.

These two are supported by a cast that (like those in other heritage hits, such as Sense and Sensibility) is a tribute to the glory of English stage acting. Simon Callow is a harrumphing Sir Edmund Tilney, Master of the Revels, and a sort of censor of his day. Imelda Staunton gives her usual turn of self-effacing comic brilliance as Viola's nurse. Best of all is Judi Dench's Queen Elizabeth, a white-faced Gloriana tartly trumping her obsequious courtiers. Surprisingly, the only actor to give Dench a run for her money is Ben Affleck, whose Ned Alleyn is a small masterpiece of actorly vanity.

All these funny, frenetic performances make for an enjoyable romp, close to a classier Carry On film - "Carry On Will". But the movie does have a more serious subtext, often embedded within the jokes themselves. A running gag, for instance, of Shakespeare finding lines leaping out of everyday life for his plays (a preacher railing at the two local theatres, "A plague on both your houses") not only flatters the audience's erudition, it also hints at the mysterious, magpie nature of artistic creation. The film's point is that Shakespeare drew thoughts and language from all around him, but for his deepest insights and emotions he had to draw from within himself, as exemplified by his ecstatic, agonised (and, of course, so far as we know, imaginary) affair with Viola.

Any work of art that has Shakespeare as its subject is going to find Shakespeare used as its yardstick - and, inevitably, fall short. And there are times that Shakespeare in Love comes over as middlebrow tosh beside the gravity and greatness of its subject matter. Its view of Romeo and Juliet diminishes the play by presenting as a monolithically romantic view of love a work that is multifaceted in its view. Affleck's Alleyn hilariously cavils at playing the relatively small role of Mercutio, but there is no sense in the film of Mercutio's own scoffing treatment of love and sex.

That may be to treat too earnestly a movie whose virtue lies in its lightness. I have seen Shakespeare in Love twice, in England and America (where it is a strong Oscar contender), and it continues to grow on me, revealing hidden details and subtleties. The Los Angeles audience I saw it with got few of the scholarly (presumably Stoppardian) in-jokes, but loved it all the same. In its marriage of farce and sentiment, there is an undeniable magic - a comic spirit that can fairly be called Shakespearean.

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Shakespeare in Love (1998) was directed by John Madden, written by Marc Norman and playwright Tom Stoppard. It stars Gwyneth Paltrow, Joseph Fiennes, Gwyneth Paltrow, Geoffrey Rush, Colin Firth, Ben Affleck and Judi Dench. Running time: 123 minutes; certificate 15. 'He was just like any other man, but that he was like all other men."

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Activities, materials, and games for kids about Shakespeare, his plays, his life, and his times.

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For its first eighteen seasons, performances were engineered to duplicate the original environment of Shakespeare's Globe; there were no spotlights, and plays were staged during daylight hours and in the evenings (with the help of interior floodlights), there were no microphones, speakers or amplification.

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About William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare was a famous English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist.He is often called England's national poet and the Bard of Avon. His extant works, including some collaborations, consist of about 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, two epitaphs on a man named John Combe, one epitaph on Elias James, and several other poems. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright.
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William Shakespeare was a famous English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist.He is often called England's national poet and the Bard of Avon.

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1. Literature

2. Shakespeare For Dummies Cheat Sheet

These lists break down William Shakespeare's works by type and provide you a brief summary of each play. Also find terms commonly used in relation to Shakespeare's writing, covering styles of poetry, types of plays, and stage direction.

A Shakespeare Mini Glossary

These terms help when you're reading Shakespeare's works to keep track of different types and parts of plays, the poetry styles Shakespeare often employed, and stage direction.

blank verse: Poetry in which the lines do not rhyme. Shakespeare used a mixture of prose, rhymed verse, and blank verse in his plays, but mostly he used blank verse.

comedy: A play in which the heroes do not die, but usually get married. Most comedies are lighthearted, but a few are somber until the final scene, when everyone is reconciled.

couplet: A pair of lines that rhyme. A couplet often marks the end of a scene or act.

exeunt ("eg-ZOONT"): Plural form of exit, used in stage directions when many people leave the stage at once.

flourish: A stage direction for a fanfare of drums and trumpets, usually announcing the entrance or exit of a king or queen.

history: A play that recounts historical events. Shakespeare's history plays are historical fiction. He altered time, people, and events.

iambic pentameter: A form of verse in which every other syllable is stressed (as in "dah-DUM") and each line contains five stressed syllables.

quatrain: A stanza of four lines, usually rhyming on alternate lines.

rhyme royal: A verse form of seven-line stanzas rhyming in the pattern ababbcc.

sennet: A stage direction for a trumpet fanfare, like a flourish.

soliloquy: A monologue that reveals a character's inner thoughts and feelings.

sonnet: A poem of 14 lines that follows a particular rhyme scheme. Shakespeare included sonnets in a few of his plays, and he wrote 154 sonnets as a series. Most of Shakespeare's sonnets rhyme in the pattern abab cdcd efef gg.

tragedy: A play in which the hero has a character flaw, such as pride, that leads to his death.

Shakespeare's Plays

This list breaks down Shakespeare's plays by type. You'll also get a brief summary of each play by Shakespeare, if you need help remembering what a specific play is about.

Comedies

All's Well That Ends Well: Bertie runs away to avoid his new wife, Helena, but she follows him and tricks him into being her faithful husband.

As You Like It: A romp in the Forest of Arden, where everyone falls in love.

The Comedy of Errors: Two sets of twins turn the town of Ephesus upside down.

Cymbeline: A jealous husband believes a false story about his wife. She runs away and meets her long-lost brothers.

Love's Labour's Lost: The King of Navarre and his court try to study in seclusion but succumb to the temptations of love.

Measure for Measure: Power corrupts Angelo, the substitute duke, who tries to seduce the sister of a condemned man.

The Merchant of Venice: Moneylender Shylock tries to recover his "pound of flesh" collateral for a loan.

The Merry Wives of Windsor: Sir John Falstaff puts the moves on the Merry Wives, who turn the tables on him.

A Midsummer Night's Dream: Mix-and-match couples in the woods near Athens. "Lord, what fools these mortals be!"

Much Ado About Nothing: Claudio loves Hero. Benedick doesn't like Beatrice. Then Claudio hates Hero, and Benedick loves Beatrice. Eventually, everyone gets married.

Pericles: Pericles lives, loves, loses, and regains his family while touring the Mediterranean Sea.

The Taming of the Shrew: Petruchio "tames" his wife, Katherina.

The Tempest: Prospero uses magic to reclaim his dukedom and find a husband for his daughter, Miranda.

Troilus and Cressida: In ancient Troy, Troilus and Cressida vow undying love, which dies all too quickly.

Twelfth Night: Orsino loves Olivia. Olivia loves Cesario. Cesario is really Viola, who loves Orsino.

The Two Ge ntlemen of Verona: Nothing can come between best friends Valentine and Proteus, except a girl, Sylvia.

The Two Noble Kinsmen: Two brothers fight for love in ancient Greece.

The Winter's Tale: Jealous husband Leontes drives away his wife, children, and best friend.

Histories

King John: John turns over England to the Pope.

King Richard II: Henry Bolingbroke deposes King Richard and becomes King Henry IV.

King Henry IV, Part 1: Henry wonders why his son can't be more like that nice Hotspur boy, until Hotspur rebels against the king.

King Henry IV, Part 2: Henry's son Hal continues to act up, and rebels still threaten the throne, but Hal comes out all right in the end and becomes King Henry V.

King Henry V: Henry invades France.

King Henry VI, Part 1: Joan of Arc leads the French army against England. The Houses of York and Lancaster start a spat that lasts through the next three plays.

King Henry VI, Part 2: Peasants and the House of York rebel against King Henry.

King Henry VI, Part 3: The House of York deposes King Henry, despite help from France. Edward, son of the Duke of York, takes the throne as King Edward IV.

King Richard III: Edward's brother, Richard, kills everyone in his way and seizes the throne, only to lose it and his life.

King Henry VIII: King Henry divorces his wife, starts a new church, remarries, and fathers a daughter who becomes Queen Elizabeth I.

Tragedies

Antony and Cleopatra: Antony tries to balance love and war but sacrifices everything for love.

Coriolanus: Rome's best general feels slighted, so he switches sides.

Hamlet: A young prince plans revenge against his murdering uncle.

Julius Caesar: Brutus and others kill Caesar to prevent him from becoming king.

King Lear: Lear gives up his kingdom to his daughters and then gives up his mind.

Macbeth: Witches' prophecies prompt Macbeth to seize the throne of Scotland.

Othello: Iago preys on Othello's jealousy and drives him to murder.

Romeo and Juliet: Forbidden love tempts and destroys a young couple.

Timon of Athens: Overgenerous Timon learns who his true friends are when he runs out of money.

Titus Andronicus: Bloody revenge in ancient Rome, with the emphasis on bloody.

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Literature Shakespeare For Dummies Cheat Sheet These lists break down William Shakespeare's works by type and provide you a brief summary of each play. Also find terms commonly used in relation to Shakespeare's writing, covering styles of poetry, types of plays, and stage direction.

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Complete list of Shakespeare's plays, by genre :|: Open Source Shakespeare

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I can't promise I won't be posting new Twenty Things... lists throughout this week. We're all about breadth of knowledge here on PW Homeschooling! No depth...just breadth. That's my motto.

Okay, so it's not really my motto. As far as you know.

I also can't promise some of these facts (and those from all Twenty Things... posts) won't show up in a possible Smartypants quiz

Let's learn more about Slick Willie, also known as The Bard!

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.

2. 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".

6. According to reports, Shakespeare wrote quickly and with ease; Fellow playwright Ben Jonson said "Whatsoever he penned, he never blotted out a line."

7. Because of the plague outbreak in Europe, all London playhouses were closed between 1592 and 1594 because it was thought that crowded places helped facilitate the spread of the disease.

8. During this period, because there was no demand for Shakespeare's plays, he began to write poetry.

9. In 1594, Shakespeare became one of the founders of Lord Chamberlain's Men, an acting/theater group that soon became the leading player's company in London.

10. In 1597, the theater in which The Lord Chamberlain's Men performed was forced to close since it had been built on leased land. Many partners invested in a new theater built on the south bank of the Thames river. The new theater was called The Globe.

11. Plays were performed only in the afternoon, by daylight.

12. Laws at the time prohibited people from dressing above their rank in life. Players (actors) were the only exception to this rule, and could dress as noblemen on stage without being arrested and locked in the stocks.

13. Women were not allowed to act in plays during Shakespeare's time, so in all of his plays, women's roles were performed by boys/young men. (This meant that in As You Like It, the boy player had to play Rosalind, a woman who pretends to be a man pretending to be...a woman! [If I described that correctly, someone bring me a doughnut.)

14. 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.

15. Because they were often hastily written for performance on stage, none of Shakespeare's original manuscripts exist.

16. Shakespeare returned to Stratford after he finished work on The Tempest, in 1611.

17. He died in 1616. The words "Curst be he that moves my bones" were inscribed on his grave.

18. 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."

19. The following commonly used phrases are thought to be originally coined by William Shakespeare (many say these combinations of words did not appear in print before Shakespeare's works):
All that glitters is not gold
All's well that ends well

Bated breath

Dead as a doornail

Fancy-free

Fool's paradise

For goodness' sake

Good riddance

Heart of gold

In a pickle

Knock knock! Who's there?

Laughing stock

Love is blind

Naked truth

Neither rhyme nor reason

One fell swoop

Star-crossed lovers

Pomp and circumstance

Pound of flesh

Primrose path

Too much of a good thing

Wear my heart upon my sleeve

What's in a name?

Wild goose chase
The world's my oyster
20. Shakespeare's was said to have an extensive vocabular; his works contained more than 30,000 different words.

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1. 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.

2. 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.

3. Shakespeare's parents were probably illiterate, and his children almost certainly were.

Nobody knows for sure, but it's quite likely that John and Mary Shakespeare never learned to read or write, as was often the case for people of their standing during the Elizabethan era. Some have argued that John's civic duties would have required basic literacy, but in any event he always signed his name with a mark. William, on the other hand, is thought to have Stratford's local grammar school, where he would likely have mastered reading and Latin. His wife and their two children who lived to adulthood, Susanna and Judith, are thought to have been illiterate, though Susanna could scrawl her signature.

4. 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.

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

William Shakespeare is believed to have influenced the English language more than any other writer in history, coining-or, at the very least, popularizing-terms and phrases that still regularly crop up in everyday conversation. Examples include the words "fashionable" ("Troilus and Cressida"), "sanctimonious" ("Measure for Measure"), "eyeball" ("A Midsummer Night's Dream") and "lackluster" ("As You Like It"); and the expressions "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).

6. We probably don't spell Shakespeare's name correctly-but he may not have either.

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's name is never spelled "William Shakespeare." Instead, there are variations and 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.

7. Shakespeare's epitaph wards off would-be grave robbers with a curse.

William Shakespeare died on April 23, 1616, at the age of 52-not bad for an era when the average life expectancy ranged between 30 and 40 years. We may never know what killed him, although an acquaintance wrote that the Bard fell ill after a night of heavy drinking with fellow playwright Ben Jonson. Despite his swift demise, Shakespeare supposedly had the wherewithal to pen the epitaph over his tomb, which is located inside a Stratford church. Intended to thwart the numerous grave robbers who plundered England's cemeteries at the time, the verse reads: "Good friend, for Jesus' sake forbeare, / To dig the dust enclosed here. Blessed be the man that spares these stones, / And cursed be he that moves my bones." It must have done the trick, since Shakespeare's remains have yet to be disturbed.

8. Shakespeare wore a gold hoop earring-or so we think.

Our notion of William Shakespeare's appearance comes from several 17th-century portraits that may or may not have been painted while the Bard himself sat behind the canvas. In one of the most famous depictions, known as the Chandos portrait after its onetime owner, the subject has a full beard, a receding hairline, loosened shirt-ties and a shiny gold hoop dangling from his left ear. Even back in Shakespeare's time, earrings on men were trendy hallmarks of a bohemian lifestyle, as evidenced by images of other Elizabethan artists. The fashion may have been inspired by sailors, who sported a single gold earring to cover funeral costs in case they died at sea.

9. North America's 200 million starlings have Shakespeare to thank for their existence.

William Shakespeare's works contain more than 600 references to various types of birds, from swans and doves to sparrows and turkeys. The starling-a lustrous songbird with a gift for mimicry, native to Europe and western Asia-makes just one appearance, in "Henry IV, Part 1." In 1890 an American "bardolator" named Eugene Schiffelin decided to import every kind of bird mentioned in Shakespeare's oeuvre but absent from the United States. As part of this project, he released two flocks of 60 starlings in New York's Central Park. One hundred twenty years later, the highly adaptable species has taken over the skies, becoming invasive and driving some native birds to the brink of extinction.

10. Some people think Shakespeare was a fraud.

How did a provincial commoner who had never gone to college or ventured outside Stratford become one of the most prolific, worldly and eloquent writers in history? Even early in his career, Shakespeare was spinning tales that displayed in-depth knowledge of international affairs, European capitals and history, as well as familiarity with the royal court and high society. For this reason, some theorists have suggested that one or several authors wishing to conceal their true identity used the person of William Shakespeare as a front. Proposed candidates include Edward De Vere, Francis Bacon, Christopher Marlowe and Mary Sidney Herbert. Most scholars and literary historians remain skeptical about this hypothesis, although many suspect Shakespeare sometimes collaborated with other playwrights.

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Who Was William Shakespeare?

William Shakespeare was an English poet, playwright and actor of the Renaissance era. He was an important member of the King's Men company of theatrical players from roughly 1594 onward.

Known throughout the world, Shakespeare's writings capture the range of human emotion and conflict and have been celebrated for more than 400 years. And yet, the personal life of William Shakespeare is somewhat a mystery.

There are two primary sources that provide historians with an outline of his life. One is his work - the plays, poems and sonnets - and the other is official documentation such as church and court records. However, these provide only brief sketches of specific events in his life and yield little insight into the man himself.

When Was Shakespeare Born?

No birth records exist, but an old church record indicates that a William Shakespeare was baptized at Holy Trinity Church in Stratford-upon-Avon on April 26, 1564. From this, it is believed he was born on or near April 23, 1564, and this is the date scholars acknowledge as Shakespeare's birthday.

Located about 100 miles northwest of London, during Shakespeare's time Stratford-upon-Avon was a bustling market town along the River Avon and bisected by a country road.

Family

Shakespeare was the third child of John Shakespeare, a leather merchant, and Mary Arden, a local landed heiress. Shakespeare had two older sisters, Joan and Judith, and three younger brothers, Gilbert, Richard and Edmund.

Before Shakespeare's birth, his father became a successful merchant and held official positions as alderman and bailiff, an office resembling a mayor. However, records indicate John's fortunes declined sometime in the late 1570s.

Childhood and Education

Scant records exist of Shakespeare's childhood and virtually none regarding his education. Scholars have surmised that he most likely attended the King's New School, in Stratford, which taught reading, writing and the classics.

Being a public official's child, Shakespeare would have undoubtedly qualified for free tuition. But this uncertainty regarding his education has led some to raise questions about the authorship of his work (and even about whether or not Shakespeare really existed).

Wife and Children

Shakespeare married Anne Hathaway on November 28, 1582, in Worcester, in Canterbury Province. Hathaway was from Shottery, a small village a mile west of Stratford. Shakespeare was 18 and Anne was 26, and, as it turns out, pregnant.

Their first child, a daughter they named Susanna, was born on May 26, 1583. Two years later, on February 2, 1585, twins Hamnet and Judith were born. Hamnet later died of unknown causes at age 11.

Shakespeare's Lost Years

There are seven years of Shakespeare's life where no records exist after the birth of his twins in 1585. Scholars call this period the "lost years," and there is wide speculation on what he was doing during this period.

One theory is that he might have gone into hiding for poaching game from the local landlord, Sir Thomas Lucy. Another possibility is that he might have been working as an assistant schoolmaster in Lancashire.

It's generally believed he arrived in London in the mid- to late 1580s and may have found work as a horse attendant at some of London's finer theaters, a scenario updated centuries later by the countless aspiring actors and playwrights in Hollywood and Broadway.

The King's Men

By the early 1590s, documents show Shakespeare was a managing partner in the Lord Chamberlain's Men, an acting company in London with which he was connected for most of his career.

Considered the most important troupe of its time, the company changed its name to the King's Men following the crowning of King James I in 1603. From all accounts, the King's Men company was very popular. Records show that Shakespeare had works published and sold as popular literature.

Although the theater culture in 16th century England was not highly admired by people of high rank, some of the nobility were good patrons of the performing arts and friends of the actors.

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Actor and Playwright

By 1592, there is evidence Shakespeare earned a living as an actor and a playwright in London and possibly had several plays produced.

The September 20, 1592 edition of the Stationers' Register (a guild publication) includes an article by London playwright Robert Greene that takes a few jabs at Shakespeare: "...There is an upstart Crow, beautified with our feathers, that with his Tiger's heart wrapped in a Player's hide, supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you: and being an absolute Johannes factotum, is in his own conceit the only Shake-scene in a country," Greene wrote of Shakespeare.

Scholars differ on the interpretation of this criticism, but most agree that it was Greene's way of saying Shakespeare was reaching above his rank, trying to match better known and educated playwrights like Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Nashe or Greene himself.

Early in his career, Shakespeare was able to attract the attention of Henry Wriothesley, the Earl of Southampton, to whom he dedicated his first and second published poems: "Venus and Adonis" (1593) and "The Rape of Lucrece" (1594).

By 1597, Shakespeare had already written and published 15 of his 37 plays. Civil records show that at this time he purchased the second-largest house in Stratford, called New House, for his family.

It was a four-day ride by horse from Stratford to London, so it's believed that Shakespeare spent most of his time in the city writing and acting and came home once a year during the 40-day Lenten period, when the theaters were closed.

Globe Theater

By 1599, Shakespeare and his business partners built their own theater on the south bank of the Thames River, which they called the Globe Theater.

In 1605, Shakespeare purchased leases of real estate near Stratford for 440 pounds, which doubled in value and earned him 60 pounds a year. This made him an entrepreneur as well as an artist, and scholars believe these investments gave him the time to write his plays uninterrupted.

Shakespeare's Writing Style

Shakespeare's early plays were written in the conventional style of the day, with elaborate metaphors and rhetorical phrases that didn't always align naturally with the story's plot or characters.

However, Shakespeare was very innovative, adapting the traditional style to his own purposes and creating a freer flow of words.

With only small degrees of variation, Shakespeare primarily used a metrical pattern consisting of lines of unrhymed iambic pentameter, or blank verse, to compose his plays. At the same time, there are passages in all the plays that deviate from this and use forms of poetry or simple prose.

William Shakespeare's Plays

While it's difficult to determine the exact chronology of Shakespeare's plays, over the course of two decades, from about 1590 to 1613, he wrote a total of 37 plays revolving around several main themes: histories, tragedies, comedies and tragicomedies.

Early Works: Histories and Comedies

With the exception of the tragic love story Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare's first plays were mostly histories. Henry VI (Parts I, II and III), Richard II and Henry V dramatize the destructive results of weak or corrupt rulers and have been interpreted by drama historians as Shakespeare's way of justifying the origins of the Tudor Dynasty.

Julius Caesar portrays upheaval in Roman politics that may have resonated with viewers at a time when England's aging monarch, Queen Elizabeth I, had no legitimate heir, thus creating the potential for future power struggles.

Shakespeare also wrote several comedies during his early period: the whimsical A Midsummer Night's Dream, the romantic Merchant of Venice, the wit and wordplay of Much Ado About Nothing and the charming As You Like It and Twelfth Night.

Other plays written before 1600 include Titus Andronicus, The Comedy of Errors, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Taming of the Shrew, Love's Labour's Lost, King John, The Merry Wives of Windsor and Henry V.

Works after 1600: Tragedies and Tragicomedies

It was in Shakespeare's later period, after 1600, that he wrote the tragedies Hamlet, Othello, King Lear and Macbeth. In these, Shakespeare's characters present vivid impressions of human temperament that are timeless and universal.

Possibly the best known of these plays is Hamlet, which explores betrayal, retribution, incest and moral failure. These moral failures often drive the twists and turns of Shakespeare's plots, destroying the hero and those he loves.

In Shakespeare's final period, he wrote several tragicomedies. Among these are Cymbeline, The Winter's Tale and The Tempest. Though graver in tone than the comedies, they are not the dark tragedies of King Lear or Macbeth because they end with reconciliation and forgiveness.

Other plays written during this period include All's Well That Ends Well, Measure for Measure, Timon of Athens, Coriolanus, Pericles and Henry VIII.

When Did Shakespeare Die?

Tradition holds that Shakespeare died on his 52nd birthday, April 23, 1616, but some scholars believe this is a myth. Church records show he was interred at Trinity Church on April 25, 1616.

The exact cause of Shakespeare's death is unknown, though many believe he died following a brief illness.

In his will, he left the bulk of his possessions to his eldest daughter, Susanna. Though entitled to a third of his estate, little seems to have gone to his wife, Anne, whom he bequeathed his "second-best bed." This has drawn speculation that she had fallen out of favor, or that the couple was not close.

However, there is very little evidence the two had a difficult marriage. Other scholars note that the term "second-best bed" often refers to the bed belonging to the household's master and mistress - the marital bed - and the "first-best bed" was reserved for guests.

Did Shakespeare Write His Own Plays?

About 150 years after his death, questions arose about the authorship of Shakespeare's plays. Scholars and literary critics began to float names like Christopher Marlowe, Edward de Vere and Francis Bacon - men of more known backgrounds, literary accreditation, or inspiration - as the true authors of the plays.

Much of this stemmed from the sketchy details of Shakespeare's life and the dearth of contemporary primary sources. Official records from the Holy Trinity Church and the Stratford government record the existence of a Shakespeare, but none of these attest to him being an actor or playwright.

Skeptics also questioned how anyone of such modest education could write with the intellectual perceptiveness and poetic power that is displayed in Shakespeare's works. Over the centuries, several groups have emerged that question the authorship of Shakespeare's plays.

The most serious and intense skepticism began in the 19th century when adoration for Shakespeare was at its highest. The detractors believed that the only hard evidence surrounding Shakespeare from Stratford-upon-Avon described a man from modest beginnings who married young and became successful in real estate.

Members of the Shakespeare Oxford Society (founded in 1957) put forth arguments that English aristocrat and poet Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford, was the true author of the poems and plays of "William Shakespeare."

The Oxfordians cite de Vere's extensive knowledge of aristocratic society, his education, and the structural similarities between his poetry and that found in the works attributed to Shakespeare. They contend that Shakespeare had neither the education nor the literary training to write such eloquent prose and create such rich characters.

However, the vast majority of Shakespearean scholars contend that Shakespeare wrote all his own plays. They point out that other playwrights of the time also had sketchy histories and came from modest backgrounds.

They contend that Stratford's New Grammar School curriculum of Latin and the classics could have provided a good foundation for literary writers. Supporters of Shakespeare's authorship argue that the lack of evidence about Shakespeare's life doesn't mean his life didn't exist. They point to evidence that displays his name on the title pages of published poems and plays.

Examples exist of authors and critics of the time acknowledging Shakespeare as the author of plays such as The Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Comedy of Errors and King John.

Royal records from 1601 show that Shakespeare was recognized as a member of the King's Men theater company and a Groom of the Chamber by the court of King James I, where the company performed seven of Shakespeare's plays.

There is also strong circumstantial evidence of personal relationships by contemporaries who interacted with Shakespeare as an actor and a playwright.

Literary Legacy

What seems to be true is that Shakespeare was a respected man of the dramatic arts who wrote plays and acted in some in the late 16th and early 17th centuries. But his reputation as a dramatic genius wasn't recognized until the 19th century.

Beginning with the Romantic period of the early 1800s and continuing through the Victorian period, acclaim and reverence for Shakespeare and his work reached its height. In the 20th century, new movements in scholarship and performance have rediscovered and adopted his works.

Today, his plays are highly popular and constantly studied and reinterpreted in performances with diverse cultural and political contexts. The genius of Shakespeare's characters and plots are that they present real human beings in a wide range of emotions and conflicts that transcend their origins in Elizabethan England.

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