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"Shakespeare's only son, Hamnet, died in 1596 at the age of 11." HAHA He probably named Hamlet after his son??? Who knows. Also  "The family subsequently died out, leaving no direct descendants of Shakespeare." So it's interesting that such an influential and (for reasons unknown) widely studied poet has no family in the world.
http://www.folger.edu/shakespeares-life

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"This cellar was probably as big as the two stages combined above it, and it was accessed by two or more trap-doors on the outer stage and one trap door (nicknamed "the grave trap") on the inner stage." It's interesting how the construction and design itself helped contribute to the performances in the Globe Theatre.
http://www.shakespeare-online.com/theatre/globe.html

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The newly excavated Curtain Theatre may be one of the earliest purpose-built theaters built in London.

Credit: Museum of London Archaeology (MOLA)

Archaeologists have uncovered one of William Shakespeare's first theaters, offering insight into the famed productions.

Before the famous Globe Theatre, Shakespeare's plays were performed at the Curtain Theatre - one of the earliest purpose-built theaters in London, according to the Museum of London Archaeology (MOLA). After three months of archaeological digs at the theater's site in East London, discoveries at the site could "completely transform our understanding of the evolution of Elizabethan theatres," MOLA researchers wrote in a blog post about the discovery.

The excavation revealed that the rectangular theater was built for performance and entertainment. Rather than a repurposed space with a stage added, the Curtain Theatre was built as a performance space with viewing galleries and a general audience courtyard, MOLA researchers said. In fact, the archaeologists also discovered fragments of ceramic money boxes, suggesting that the Curtain Theatre was one of the first Elizabethan playhouses where audience members paid money for the entertainment, the researchers said. [ The 25 Most Mysterious Archaeological Finds on Earth]

Another discovery from the excavation was the theater's long, rectangular stage, which housed an unusual passageway running beneath it - possibly used by actors to exit from one side of the stage and enter from the other without being seen by the audience, according to MOLA.

"The early stages of the dig confirmed that the theatre was not the polygonal structure we had anticipated, but this latest set of discoveries give us more detail about this early Elizabethan theatre," the archaeologists wrote. "The discovery of an oblong stage which is far longer than expected and the mysterious passageway offers a tantalizing glimpse into the secrets that are still to be uncovered."

Small glass beads and pins found at the site may have been from actors' costumes, offering a behind-the-scenes glimpse of the productions. The dig also unearthed drinking vessels and clay pipes, likely used by theatergoers and actors, the researchers said.

Post-excavation research is now underway, during which the MOLA researchers will further explore the relationship between the unusual shape of the stage and its passageway; the production and staging of performances; and the overall theatergoing experience.

Original article on Live Science.

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Excavations at Shakespeare's Curtain Theatre Reveal Elizabethan Secrets

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Archaeologists have uncovered one of William Shakespeare's first theaters, offering insight into the famed productions. Before the famous Globe Theatre, Shakespeare's plays were performed at the Curtain Theatre - one of the earliest purpose-built theaters in London, according to the Museum of London Archaeology (MOLA).

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Shakespeare had twins named Hamnet and Judith
http://www.biography.com/people/william-shakespeare-9480323#early-life

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https://scholarblogs.emory.edu/gravematters/2013/10/19/ophelia-making-suicide-beautiful/The fact that Shakespeare in his play hamlet made Ophelia's death be, or look beautiful is quite interesting ,because it is actually similar to a podcast form a New York Public Radio’s Radio-lab called the death mask. Like in hamlet  the story is about this girl who "was abandoned by her lover and because of her misery she flung herself in the Seine River." Making both stories being in a way quite similar.

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Shakespeare's "Hamlet" was the beginning of his great tragedies in the 1600's. http://eds.a.ebscohost.com/eds/detail/detail?vid=14&sid=68c09370-5f87-4399-841e-cfd63d951dcc%40sessionmgr4008&hid=4105&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWRzLWxpdmUmc2NvcGU9c2l0ZQ%3d%3d#AN=39031723&db=lfh

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Did Shakspear misunderstand what he wrote about?
http://stuy.enschool.org/ourpages/auto/2012/10/29/67457272/IRC_Shakespeare_in_the_Bush1.pdf

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The original Globe was an Elizabethan theatre which opened in Autumn 1599 in Southwark, on the south bank of the Thames, in an area now known as Bankside. It was one of several major theatres that were located in the area, the others being the Swan, the Rose and The Hope. The Globe was the principal playhouse of the Lord Chamberlain's Men (who would become the King's Men in 1603). Most of Shakespeare's post-1599 plays were staged at the Globe, including Julius Caesar, Macbeth, Othello, King Lear and Hamlet.

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http://benz.nchu.edu.tw/~intergrams/intergrams/112/112-cyc.pdf "Madness in Hamlet is one of the crucial themes for Shakespeare." All of his works seem to be in a way crazy. Like how every thing ended in his play hamlet, and how things ended with Ophelia, but despite this madnessin his play. His characters reveal internal struggles. for example " Ophelia's madness reveals particularly the struggle of the female character that endeavors to have a voice of her own."

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did my main man willi Shakespeare roll up like snoop dogg? http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2015/08/shakespeare-smoked-pot

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Shakespeare had only one son that died 11 years after he was baptized.
https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-Shakespeare

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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.
-Jada Mardis

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https://elizabethan-theater.wikispaces.com/Acting+style

explains what attending a play at the globe theatre would be like

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The story of the original Globe's construction might be worthy of a Shakespearean play of its own.
http://www.bardweb.net/globe.html

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Shakespeare was supposed to be apprenticed to his father, a merchant, but because of financial difficulties ended up with a different career

.http://proxygsu-smad.galileo.usg.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=lfh&AN=39031723&site=eds-live&scope=site

Most people believe Shakespeare became a teacher based on the academic style of his first few plays.

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Shakespeare was lefthanded
http://www.elizabethanenglandlife.com/10-interesting-facts-about-william-shakespeare.html

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Shakespearean verse has been adapted in a novel therapy for children with autism spectrum disorder
http://qz.com/809771/autistic-kids-are-thriving-in-shakespearean-therapy-designed-by-a-british-actress-for-the-royal-shakespeare-company/

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Shakespeare has no birth record, so his birthday, April 23, 1564, is a completely estimated fact.
http://www.biography.com/people/william-shakespeare-9480323#synopsis

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Hamlet” is about desire. The real engine of the play is Oedipal. Caught up in Hamlet’s quest to kill Claudius—and reassured.
http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/hamlet-a-love-story

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Shakespeare had seven siblings: Joan (b 1558, only lived 2 months); Margaret (b 1562); Gilbert (b 1566); another Joan (b 1569); Anne (b 1571); Richard (b 1574) and Edmund (b 1580).

http://www.nosweatshakespeare.com/resources/shakespeare-facts/

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The sketch at left is perhaps one of the most important in theatrical history.

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The sketch at left is perhaps one of the most important in theatrical history.

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http://www.bardweb.net/globe.html
Amber Lapczynski

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https://www.britannica.com/topic/Hamlet-by-
Shakespeare
Shakespeare's version of Hamlet was a combination of many different sources such as Books III and IV of Saxo Grammaticus's 12th-century Gesta Danorum and volume Histoires tragiques.

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The Globe was built in 1599 using timber from an earlier theatre, The Theatre, that had been built by Richard Burbage's father, James Burbage, in Shoreditch in 1576.

- Jada Mardis

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surprisingly according to http://www.history.com/news/history-lists/10-things-you-didnt-know-about-william-shakespeare it is most likely that the very talented Shakespeare's parents were illiterate(common during elizabethan era ) but he attended a near by grammar school

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The timber for The Globe Theatre was actually reused wood from “The Theatre” – an earlier theatre owned by Richard Burbage’s father.

http://www.nosweatshakespeare.com/resources/shakespeares-theatres/shakespeare-globe-facts/

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The words of Shakespeare were used to help rehabilitate prisoners, mental health patients, and people with Dementia.
http://qz.com/809771/autistic-kids-are-thriving-in-shakespearean-therapy-designed-by-a-british-actress-for-the-royal-shakespeare-company/

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Shakespeare died on April 23, 1616 at his house in Stratford-upon-Avon.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/04/23/arts/shakespeare-obituary.html?_r=0

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Shakespeare was baptized on April 26, 1564.
http://eds.b.ebscohost.com/eds/detail/detail?vid=1&sid=98c363fc-cf04-43ae-9845-da945d71995f%40sessionmgr107&hid=113&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWRzLWxpdmUmc2NvcGU9c2l0ZQ%3d%3d#AN=SH093700&db=funk

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Today, many people believe that there are as many as twenty missing works of Shakespeare. http://eds.a.ebscohost.com/eds/ebookviewer/ebook/bmxlYmtfXzc2MDMyNV9fQU41?sid=68c09370-5f87-4399-841e-cfd63d951dcc@sessionmgr4008&vid=11&format=EK&ppid=Page-__-11

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Many of his records since very old were lost or never existed. Amber Lapczynski

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There was no heating in the Globe theatre. Plays were performed in the summer months and transferred to the indoor playhouses during the winter

http://www.elizabethan-era.org.uk/globe-theatre-facts.htm

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Hamlet itself, fat is used in ways that reference fullness and death.
basically is calling hamlet fat.http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/theater/2015/09/is_hamlet_fat_the_evidence_in_shakespeare_for_a_corpulent_prince_of_denmark.html

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http://www.biography.com/people/william-shakespeare-9480323#early-life

describes Shakespeare's life in detail and gives details about his plays and poems

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His plays were performed in countless hamlets, villages, cities and metropolises for more than 400 years. Amber LApczynski

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Many of the boy actors died of poisoning due to the vast quantities of lead in their make-up

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Many of the boy actors died of poisoning due to the vast quantities of lead in their make-up

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- Elizabethan Era.org
- from Kayla Saxon

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http://www.nosweatshakespeare.com/resources/shakespeare-facts/

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according to http://internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/Library/SLT/life/fastfacts.html William Shakespeare's first published play was  Henry VI, Part Two in 1594

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This new Globe Theatre was built using 1,000 oak trees from English forests and 6,000 bundles of reeds from Norfolk for the thatched roof.
http://www.nosweatshakespeare.com/resources/shakespeares-theatres/shakespeare-globe-facts/
from carlie

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http://www.theatrehistory.com/british/hamlet007.html
It's believed that Shakepeare wasn't the only writer to contribute to Hamlet.

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Outbreaks of the Bubonic Plague in the early 17th-century forced the Globe to close, as it was feared that when full – it had a capacity of 3,000 – it would speed up the spread of the disease.

http://www.historyextra.com/article/5-facts-about-globe-theatre

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After burning down in 1613 The Globe Theatre was rebuilt on the same spot in 1614.
http://www.nosweatshakespeare.com/resources/shakespeares-theatres/shakespeare-globe-facts/

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 Colour coding was used to advertise the type of play to be performed - a black flag meant a tragedy , white a comedy and red a history. - Elizabethan Era.org 

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 Colour coding was used to advertise the type of play to be performed - a black flag meant a tragedy , white a comedy and red a history. - Elizabethan Era.org 

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From Kayla Saxon

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 Colour coding was used to advertise the type of play to be performed - a black flag meant a tragedy , white a comedy and red a history.

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 Colour coding was used to advertise the type of play to be performed - a black flag meant a tragedy , white a comedy and red a history.