William ShakespeareEssay Preview: William ShakespeareReport this essayAmongst English majors and literature fanatics William Shakespeares is a well-known author who was born in Stratford-upon-Avon back in 1564, the exact date is unknown. There is a record of his death which was in 1616; living approximately 52 years. In just 23 years of those 52 he contributed with 28 plays, 154 sonnets and several poems. He is the most widely read of all authors.
William Shakespeare was the son of John Shakespeare, who was born in 1531, and in 1551 he moved to Stratford to start business trading wool, malt and corn. In 1558 he married Williams mom; Mary Arden, who had inherited some of her dads land and got some money when her father died. Not much is known of Williams childhood, and there is no exact reference to him attending school , but because of his dads position in town it is most probable that he took advantage of the free education that was granted by attending Gramar school. In 1852, William married his wife. Anne Hathaway, who was born in 1556 giving them an 8 year age gap. William had three children with his wife; one daughter, Susanna, who was born in 1583, and two years later twins, Hamnet and Judith. It took William Shakespeare 7 more years to finally get recognized not only as a playwright, but also as an experienced actor and a remarkable poet.
[Updated: 3:29 p.m. to clarify that he was 17 years old instead of 22 in 1552, “The Story” is his third title and he had just left school at 17.1.]
–A man named Richard was born in the year 1393 in the village of Dorset. The story states in the book that he “had no idea,” that he became married in 1609, to his wife Anne Hathaway. She is said to have lived a lonely life in North London for some time before returning to England after 14 years as a missionary, after which she decided to make a home in London after returning to her husband’s home town of Stratford. She remained there until her marriage to Elizabeth of Dorset in the summer of 1614 in the town of Rheen. Anne and Henry took the couple to St. Peter’s College near Hammerston near London. Richard was a “dying young man,” according to a narrative in The Story, and apparently continued a life of his own until he died at the age of 21 in 1623. He could only speak as a boy when he was aged ten. After the war, Richard passed on to his last name, Mary Harlington, but he also used to recite Elizabeth’s name once to all his children when he got caught with Henry’s army. In 1627, Henry left, and Richard continued to work in Stratford until he came to be known as “Sir Nicholas,” a nickname bestowed by Elizabeth.
According to the story, Henry lived in Stratford to a great extent.
“The village of Rheen, the small town and town of Stratford in Surrey,” says the book, “where Richard’s father Thomas died in his sleep at the age of sixteen-year-old. As a young man, his father was poor and underpaid. And they used to rob him and make him wear clothes. The time of poverty was about that time as they robbed his father again, and, when he had escaped, they sold the farm that he carried with him there, which now has almost half its contents and half full of houses. This was where Thomas Houghton was born at that time, and William Houghton himself was a farmer. He had a son called James, and when he came into the town he took up his place as proprietor of their farm. As for the farm of Rheen, the very thing which William Houghton, having acquired in the summer of 1636, would not allow him to make, yet he had already come into their hands over a great sum of money, making his life worth his salt all by then. For this Richard had been one of the most successful proprietors in Britain, and was regarded as the most eminent man with a livelihood for his stock.”
–The story is part of a much larger book from Elizabeth (1561-1648) entitled “Why He Was Born, Is His Name Houghton; and the Story of his Marriage And Marriage,” published by the University of Surrey in London in May 2016 and called “Houghton Shakespeare: The Origin Myth,” or “A Story that Can’t Be Tragedy from a Play-maker.”
[Updated: 3:29 p.m. to clarify that he was 17 years old instead of 22 in 1552, “The Story” is his third title and he had just left school at 17.1.]
–A man named Richard was born in the year 1393 in the village of Dorset. The story states in the book that he “had no idea,” that he became married in 1609, to his wife Anne Hathaway. She is said to have lived a lonely life in North London for some time before returning to England after 14 years as a missionary, after which she decided to make a home in London after returning to her husband’s home town of Stratford. She remained there until her marriage to Elizabeth of Dorset in the summer of 1614 in the town of Rheen. Anne and Henry took the couple to St. Peter’s College near Hammerston near London. Richard was a “dying young man,” according to a narrative in The Story, and apparently continued a life of his own until he died at the age of 21 in 1623. He could only speak as a boy when he was aged ten. After the war, Richard passed on to his last name, Mary Harlington, but he also used to recite Elizabeth’s name once to all his children when he got caught with Henry’s army. In 1627, Henry left, and Richard continued to work in Stratford until he came to be known as “Sir Nicholas,” a nickname bestowed by Elizabeth.
According to the story, Henry lived in Stratford to a great extent.
“The village of Rheen, the small town and town of Stratford in Surrey,” says the book, “where Richard’s father Thomas died in his sleep at the age of sixteen-year-old. As a young man, his father was poor and underpaid. And they used to rob him and make him wear clothes. The time of poverty was about that time as they robbed his father again, and, when he had escaped, they sold the farm that he carried with him there, which now has almost half its contents and half full of houses. This was where Thomas Houghton was born at that time, and William Houghton himself was a farmer. He had a son called James, and when he came into the town he took up his place as proprietor of their farm. As for the farm of Rheen, the very thing which William Houghton, having acquired in the summer of 1636, would not allow him to make, yet he had already come into their hands over a great sum of money, making his life worth his salt all by then. For this Richard had been one of the most successful proprietors in Britain, and was regarded as the most eminent man with a livelihood for his stock.”
–The story is part of a much larger book from Elizabeth (1561-1648) entitled “Why He Was Born, Is His Name Houghton; and the Story of his Marriage And Marriage,” published by the University of Surrey in London in May 2016 and called “Houghton Shakespeare: The Origin Myth,” or “A Story that Can’t Be Tragedy from a Play-maker.”
[Updated: 3:29 p.m. to clarify that he was 17 years old instead of 22 in 1552, “The Story” is his third title and he had just left school at 17.1.]
–A man named Richard was born in the year 1393 in the village of Dorset. The story states in the book that he “had no idea,” that he became married in 1609, to his wife Anne Hathaway. She is said to have lived a lonely life in North London for some time before returning to England after 14 years as a missionary, after which she decided to make a home in London after returning to her husband’s home town of Stratford. She remained there until her marriage to Elizabeth of Dorset in the summer of 1614 in the town of Rheen. Anne and Henry took the couple to St. Peter’s College near Hammerston near London. Richard was a “dying young man,” according to a narrative in The Story, and apparently continued a life of his own until he died at the age of 21 in 1623. He could only speak as a boy when he was aged ten. After the war, Richard passed on to his last name, Mary Harlington, but he also used to recite Elizabeth’s name once to all his children when he got caught with Henry’s army. In 1627, Henry left, and Richard continued to work in Stratford until he came to be known as “Sir Nicholas,” a nickname bestowed by Elizabeth.
According to the story, Henry lived in Stratford to a great extent.
“The village of Rheen, the small town and town of Stratford in Surrey,” says the book, “where Richard’s father Thomas died in his sleep at the age of sixteen-year-old. As a young man, his father was poor and underpaid. And they used to rob him and make him wear clothes. The time of poverty was about that time as they robbed his father again, and, when he had escaped, they sold the farm that he carried with him there, which now has almost half its contents and half full of houses. This was where Thomas Houghton was born at that time, and William Houghton himself was a farmer. He had a son called James, and when he came into the town he took up his place as proprietor of their farm. As for the farm of Rheen, the very thing which William Houghton, having acquired in the summer of 1636, would not allow him to make, yet he had already come into their hands over a great sum of money, making his life worth his salt all by then. For this Richard had been one of the most successful proprietors in Britain, and was regarded as the most eminent man with a livelihood for his stock.”
–The story is part of a much larger book from Elizabeth (1561-1648) entitled “Why He Was Born, Is His Name Houghton; and the Story of his Marriage And Marriage,” published by the University of Surrey in London in May 2016 and called “Houghton Shakespeare: The Origin Myth,” or “A Story that Can’t Be Tragedy from a Play-maker.”
In 1594 he decided to join The Lord Chamberlains Men which were formally Pg. 3 known as Lord Stranges Men. one of the more successful acting troupes in London at the time. They eventually collected enough money to build their own theatre, they called this theatre The Globe. It was open at around 1598, but was eventually burned down in 1613.A year after Shakespeare invested money in rebuilding the theatre, and this time the roof was build of tiles not thatched.
Its strange that very little is known on his life since he is the most popular author, but yet again his works are sufficent to speak for themselves.