https://padlet.com/boulaetans512/nikwo11zqd1568fj en-us 2023-01-04 21:07:17 UTC 2025-12-06 13:58:13 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/2712.png boulaetans512 https://padlet.com/boulaetans512/nikwo11zqd1568fj/wish/2434056933 This article examines Shakespeare's "Lost Years", a seven-year period in which all accounts of that time are unreliable rendering that time non-existent or "lost". The first known biography that attempts to piece together the pieces came from Nicholas Rowe and consisted of anecdotes and gossip without any absolute validity. Accounts of the Lost Years blatantly and vaguely state that he left his family and children and left London for acting. A job which at the time was looked at as very ignoble. So it doesn't make since for him to leave. His disappearance in that time period still puzzles historians today.]]> 2023-01-04 21:32:35 UTC https://padlet.com/boulaetans512/nikwo11zqd1568fj/wish/2434056933 boulaetans512 https://padlet.com/boulaetans512/nikwo11zqd1568fj/wish/2435766630 This article also examines many theories popular for what happened to Shakespeare during this time. Some believe that he took the job of a teacher, perhaps that's why his literature was so magnificent. Others believe he enlisted in the army and has been in Italy. Yet all these theories are based on loose correlation and not causation. The theories are built around the fact that some themes and details were eerily incorporated into his play which could've possibly been known from his experience. Or simply he acquired it by reading, in the same way as his very extensive knowledge of history was acquired by his extensive reading. Perhaps ironically the greatest mystery he created was his own life for we will never be 100% sure.]]> 2023-01-06 15:30:49 UTC https://padlet.com/boulaetans512/nikwo11zqd1568fj/wish/2435766630 boulaetans512 https://padlet.com/boulaetans512/nikwo11zqd1568fj/wish/2435782203 It is quite universally known in the World of Literature that we owe Shakespeare for his many contributions to the English language. His impact was significant but how significant? Many, debate the accuracy and legitimacy of the number of words created. Some say as high as 1700 while the lowest say 420 words came directly from Shakespeare. We can't be sure because the English language at that time was quite a mess and some of the words Shakespeare used could have been common for his time but lost to history. Although we may not know for sure his true impact we do know that he truly did make a change.]]> 2023-01-06 15:45:15 UTC https://padlet.com/boulaetans512/nikwo11zqd1568fj/wish/2435782203 boulaetans512 https://padlet.com/boulaetans512/nikwo11zqd1568fj/wish/2435875733 This article also explores the method and "invention" of new words for both writers of this time and Shakespeare's unique approach. Writers of the time such as Lewis Carroll were the first to use what the article describes as "nonce words" which "aren’t just meaningless, they’re also disposable, intended to be used just once". Words like brillig, slithy, toves, and mimsy were all very much made up and had no significant meaning outside of the poem's context. On the other hand, Shakespeare was ingenious in his approach he used a mesh of conjoining two words, changing verbs into adjectives, changing nouns into verbs, adding prefixes to words, and adding suffixes to words. All brilliant and clever ways he ]]> 2023-01-06 17:17:49 UTC https://padlet.com/boulaetans512/nikwo11zqd1568fj/wish/2435875733 boulaetans512 https://padlet.com/boulaetans512/nikwo11zqd1568fj/wish/2436076898 Life during Shakespeare's time was an extremity of pure repulsion and spectacle. The City of Tudor London to say it was disgusting is an understatement. London, according to the article, had "streets (that) were narrow, cobbled, slippery with the slime of refuse". All of the living spaces were jammed together with no drainage causing the disgust to just indulge in itself making London seem in such a poor state. However also according to the article, a report from a Venetian envoy in 1500 described the place "with a wonderful quantity of wrought silver" and that it "abounds with every article of luxury, as well as with the necessities of life" so in some way or form was "livable".]]> 2023-01-06 21:46:06 UTC https://padlet.com/boulaetans512/nikwo11zqd1568fj/wish/2436076898 boulaetans512 https://padlet.com/boulaetans512/nikwo11zqd1568fj/wish/2436082077 The London streets were crowded and very loud, people were hustling for their jobs and such while traders were screaming. This article shows how "Hooves clacking on the stone, wooden wheels bouncing around, and people yelling were all common sounds." for Tudor London. During that time getting drunk at alehouses, bear baiting, gambling dens, and brothels was not uncommon nor frowned upon. It was truly a mess. Water also wasn't the main drinking source for the people of that time, instead, its substitute was Ale making people, what we would consider now, "tipsy".

]]> 2023-01-06 22:00:10 UTC https://padlet.com/boulaetans512/nikwo11zqd1568fj/wish/2436082077 boulaetans512 https://padlet.com/boulaetans512/nikwo11zqd1568fj/wish/2437300105 This article deeply delves into the grey area of William Shakespeare's plays' genres. They all were not very standard for the time. Although we can safely assume that all of them incorporated at least one of the apparent, tragedy, comedy, and history, they are very inconveniently mushed. For example,  "Much Ado About Nothing" begins like a comedy but then switches into a tragedy. On the other hand, quite ludicrously, in his tragedies, some passages or characters have the job of lightening the mood, even though the tone of the overall play is quite serious.]]> 2023-01-09 06:07:28 UTC https://padlet.com/boulaetans512/nikwo11zqd1568fj/wish/2437300105 boulaetans512 https://padlet.com/boulaetans512/nikwo11zqd1568fj/wish/2437308294 This article also expands the conversation about Shakespeare's genres. It explains that perhaps regarding it as a subgenre Shakespeare wrote of Roman Plays. For example one of his most esteemed plays "Antony and Cleopatra", as the article states "shows the ultimate genius of a mind that doesn’t respect classification boxes in that it produces a real tragic feeling from a completely comic structure." meaning that although it is produced on a very comedic element it allows it's respective characters to plunge into a tragedy. This play is only the first of 4 "Roman plays" Shakespeare wrote, of which all are enticing and intricate. ]]> 2023-01-09 06:17:56 UTC https://padlet.com/boulaetans512/nikwo11zqd1568fj/wish/2437308294