https://padlet.com/renaultenzoeghenar_padilla/s8yfxf2u6xkm Interesting facts about him en-us 2018-12-17 15:10:03 UTC 2019-01-08 15:17:37 UTC hello@padlet.com renaultenzoeghenar_padilla https://padlet.com/renaultenzoeghenar_padilla/s8yfxf2u6xkm/wish/315195772 Widely regarded as the greatest ever writer of the English language, William Shakespeare wrote 38 plays, two long poems, 154 sonnets and other short poems. Often called the Bard of Avon, Shakespeare was not only a great writer, but he was also an astute businessman and, unlike many other famous poets, he made a relative fortune in his time from productions of his plays and his own acting appearances.]]> 2018-12-17 15:16:31 UTC https://padlet.com/renaultenzoeghenar_padilla/s8yfxf2u6xkm/wish/315195772 renaultenzoeghenar_padilla https://padlet.com/renaultenzoeghenar_padilla/s8yfxf2u6xkm/wish/315196918 One of the most curious facts about William Shakespeare is that his name can be reshuffled to create the sentence ‘I am a weakish speller’. We might wish for a more heroic anagram for one of our nation’s greatest playwrights, but unfortunately ‘I am a weakish speller’ does in fact ring true when applied to Shakespeare.

]]> 2018-12-17 15:18:10 UTC https://padlet.com/renaultenzoeghenar_padilla/s8yfxf2u6xkm/wish/315196918 renaultenzoeghenar_padilla https://padlet.com/renaultenzoeghenar_padilla/s8yfxf2u6xkm/wish/315197442 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.

]]> 2018-12-17 15:19:16 UTC https://padlet.com/renaultenzoeghenar_padilla/s8yfxf2u6xkm/wish/315197442 renaultenzoeghenar_padilla https://padlet.com/renaultenzoeghenar_padilla/s8yfxf2u6xkm/wish/318336241 Aside from introducing an estimated 3,000 words into the English language, there are also everyday phrases the Bard coined that we still use today, 400 years later. The British Council report if it wasn’t for Shakespeare we wouldn’t be saying “heart of gold”, “wild goose chase”, “faint-hearted”, “break the ice” or “love is blind”.

]]> 2019-01-08 15:04:44 UTC https://padlet.com/renaultenzoeghenar_padilla/s8yfxf2u6xkm/wish/318336241 renaultenzoeghenar_padilla https://padlet.com/renaultenzoeghenar_padilla/s8yfxf2u6xkm/wish/318336924 Plays in Shakespeare’s time were different to the ones we have today. There were no female actors (women’s parts were played by men!), and audiences could be very rowdy. They would shout, boo and even throw food at the actors they didn’t like!

]]> 2019-01-08 15:05:34 UTC https://padlet.com/renaultenzoeghenar_padilla/s8yfxf2u6xkm/wish/318336924 renaultenzoeghenar_padilla https://padlet.com/renaultenzoeghenar_padilla/s8yfxf2u6xkm/wish/318341637 In the few signatures that have survived, Shakespeare spelled his name “Willm Shaksp,” “William Shakespe,” “Wm Shakspe,” “William Shakspere,” ”Willm Shakspere,” and “William Shakspeare”--but never “William Shakespeare.

]]> 2019-01-08 15:12:08 UTC https://padlet.com/renaultenzoeghenar_padilla/s8yfxf2u6xkm/wish/318341637 renaultenzoeghenar_padilla https://padlet.com/renaultenzoeghenar_padilla/s8yfxf2u6xkm/wish/318343857 2019-01-08 15:14:58 UTC https://padlet.com/renaultenzoeghenar_padilla/s8yfxf2u6xkm/wish/318343857