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the plays of William Shakespeare are universally acknowledged as Timeless Classics but his life is shrouded in mystery no Play Riders ever found a wider audience for all the world is indeed a stage for William Shakespeare the bar does he's called his larger-than-life he wrote plays of such magnitude passion and comedy and drama that they continue today it went through all audiences all over the world actors Revere Inman sing his Praises audience the light that is wonderful use of the English language Shakespeare explored all the man's vanities flaws passions desires he brought tragic Heroes and overbearing buffoons to life so now biography takes a look at life of William Shakespeare William Shakespeare the greatest play the English language is ever known his play is his poetry his every word and become the very essence of our culture Shakespeare lives on today for the words of his plays for reviews on his genius has never been surprised his drama takes the English language and runs with it right spot a walking shadow on the stage and then is heard no more Shakespeare's writing shows an extraordinary level of insight into The Human Experience our innermost bulbs get his own life remains an enigma shrouded in the Mysteries complexities of Elizabeth William Shakespeare lived in a time of expansion Conquest exploration I'm Discover It England was a rising international power Queen Elizabeth the first reign with a firm hand and a Clear Vision ringing England to the edge of glory it was a time of new Pride app for perhaps the first time a pride in the English language I think it was right for the arrival of the genius of Shakespeare Shakespeare was born in the spring of 1564 he was baptized in Holy Trinity Church in the market town of Stratford upon avin on the 26th of April to register record his name with the Latin Greek Animas Fabius Johannes Shakespeare Elizabethan baptisms took place three days after birth so Shakespeare was born on St George's day the year he was born Stratford was struck by outbreak of plague people died in their thousands cruel and painful deaths the names of the dead or listed in the 16th century records zika husband in the marching hick in Thibodaux Estes a begins to play when you can stay as you turn the page is the entries get more more frequent throughout July August September terrible month by the end of the year. Break it passed away about 6 American descent the chase we even lift about the face he did William what's the third child and first son of John and Mary Shakespeare his two Elder sisters have died in infancy well tricks with a child of a pipe welder who found a particular at the age of material of first come to school his father had to come to Stratford from Citi Field from the little village close by substantial farming family before he came here and when he got straight to the office they made good John Shakespeare was a Glover and leatherworker a shrewd man he improved his living by money lending and will dealing making his way up the social eventually becoming High Bayless a Stratford Williams mother Mary was a lively and intelligent woman brought up on a farm at William kit she was important influence on the boy as a child Shakespeare lead a very disciplined life in the summer if you got up between 3 and 4 in Aurora Community in the winter is at 5. Would cut off he would clean his teeth Swiss assault awesomeness sweet paste he would go downstairs and hope to get his father's blessing and a side of approval he might go off to help his father at the Thursday Market otherwise he would go to school for quite a number of hours. and the day John Shakespeare's position in the town meant that William was allowed to go to the local school the elizabethans took education seriously and the school day was long and demanding here Shakespeare translate text from English to Latin and Latin to English example it would have a switch. It became one of his favorite books Spectra. Shoot to speak Latin from the age of about it and he would have been whacked if he didn't speak in that in this was a requirement of the school I suppose but I saw that signs like a classical author rather dreary matter people think of in fact of it is a very exciting or forever who will have Phil shakes his mind with images of violence on the one-handed romance on the other Shakespeare's interest in the lives of the great Roman play for in his life in the plays Julius Caesar Antony and Cleopatra and coriolanus Shakespeare's first taste of the theater come down early watching The Traveling players who came to Stratford every year performing there plays and songs in any available Hole Tavern or Market when Shakespeare was a child it was a great nearby Kenilworth Castle it belongs to Robert Dudley the Earl of Leicester a suture of the Virgin Queen Elizabeth Dudley arrange the festival in the hope of charming her with its amazing site let's plays music singing and dancing as an 11 year old boy at the time of the entertainment which was famous throughout the kind in the toria's which people would f****** to I don't die at that shakes his father took him over to come up with I saw these events was aware of their immense appeal these childhood memories perhaps inspired and when he wrote his plays there's an episode in A Midsummer Night's Dream we're over on the seams to describe the sites what is Splendid festival at the castle we know Shakespeare did not go to university his family were badly off is his father's business dealings and going from bad to worse but little else is known about his life at the time these early years have become known as The Lost years I think the most plausible explanation that he was withdrawn from school at the age of 14 or 15 I became an apprentice to his father in his father's Brothers business in Stratford only a mile away in the village of chakra let the woman who is to become Shakespeare's wife Anne Hathaway and was 8 years older than Shakespeare and fell pregnant with his child he was only 18 they obtained a special license to marry dated November 28th 1582 6 months before the child was born ecclesiastical collage could have asked Shakespeare and his wife to apologize for their sexual activity before marriage by standing up in church in a white sheet and making a statement to the Hulk location this would have been difficult really not only for Shakespeare but for his father I would have been a slightly black mark against the family John Hathaway we do know the Ten Years Later Shakespeare was working in London there are hundreds of conflicting stories about what he was doing throughout his twenties some people think he might have been a soldier because some people think things for his plays there is a failure Legend where he spent that time as a as a school in Lobster in the country we do know he had three children his daughter Susanna had been born the summer after his wedding and two years later how much in Judith were born William Shakespeare had a growing family but it seems these ties were not enough to keep him he just thought he began writing in Stratford perhaps some solids and during the 15 he left home and headed for London and it was in the hustle and bustle of the new professional theaters did William Shakespeare was about to launch what was to be the most Sensational playwriting career in the history the English language why 1592 William Shakespeare was in London making his Mark as an actor and writer he joined the group of act the new theaters return to writing his first plays Two Gentlemen of Verona and Henry the 6th he was a great success and a literary establishment took against him this startlingly talented young man brother Gray who is dying of alcohol in the 1592 lost with a big enough retentions in which Shakespeare and a couple of other playwrights so being ineffective in use there is an upstart Crow beautified without feathers with his Tigers heart wrapped in a player's hide supposes he is will able to bombast out of blank verse that's the best of you and being an absolute Johannes factotum is in his own conceit the only Shake scene in the country green attack Shakespeare being tight with money for being a waspish little room for being ungrateful egotistical mean minded the line from Henry the 6th part 3 about to Tiger's heart wrapped in a woman's hide in which he talked about a tiger's heart wrapped in a player's High Green's Outburst is the first evidence we have of Shakespeare as a playwright it proves that by 15 you to Shakespeare had already written the third part of Henry the 6th and was established as a playwright his career was going from strength to strength he was hoping to see any great success what is Shakespeare's first play is one that we hardly ever take any notice of these has Henry the vi one produced she is from 10006 Sesame Street that was the first soda Credo the public Advocate how is sick to Shakespeare's plays with Shakespeare's Talent played his ability to write a vast range of material throughout the 1590s he wrote poems sonnets and play the early comedies and the history plays the oldest seems to set out to show that he can write a clever comedy comedy of errors based on a room and play for example holiday the Two Gentlemen of Verona they started Italian Northville a deeply serious Gori tragedy Titus andronicus full of references to the early history of Rome a very profoundly ambitious work for young man and there was an English History plays the plays about Henry the sixth followed by Richard the third culminating in Richard the Third now is the winter of our 10th made glorious Summer by this sun of York I know the clouds that allowed Upon Our House in the deep ocean Shakespeare's success in the theater during the day mission of a number of great nobleman and then in the last group of song that says they will eventually printed there is a woman who's always known as the dark lady my mistress's eyes are nothing like the sun Coral is far more red than her lips red 2 + about the dark lady for an obsessive love which the despises himself at so feeling Allen tangle into the emotional entanglement does he really intense emotional unhappiness I have seen roses dumbest red and white Lucent roses CI in the cheeks I need some perfumes is that molded lights than in the breath that from my mistress reeks the beautiful young man and the dark woman are both presented both considered treacherous duplicitous she is a bay where old man ride ugly and Dreadful solid speaker that I'm attached too early break off my relationship now the young man is supposed to be very beautiful and very consoling but he to prove to be fickle so Shakespeare is Raging through the speaker at people who made apparently likes and that's right disturbing but it was the theater they told him back again and again demanding more and better scripts each time his plays were popular and successful and above all commercial Shakespeare have to be better than the best of them the theater was very greedy for scripts at that bay we have ever done solve the theater proprietes actually knocking on the doors of play right saying is the script finished yet and get a Shakespeare would have been sensitive to that kind of pressure and that the 37 plays that he produced in the well was it 20 years that he was in London is quite a lot of praise while living in London Shakespeare very much kept himself to himself he worked hard rehearsing in the mornings and performing in the afternoons that's right in the evenings not men huge costs which itself is a huge expensive item in candles and type does me some pubs because there you go. take light lonely the deal that you had to me if you would send me the cheapest into work in the pub then it would have been to work in his lodging Shakespeare was living away from the family they were growing up in stratford-upon-avon without he was writing new plays Love's Labour's lost Romeo and Juliet and A Midsummer Night's Dream does an actor in the member that can company have to be on call every day of the week throughout the. 19 realistic time to ride up to Stratford which would have taken 2 3 days from London anyway would have been through the 40 days of Lent when acting loose officially end perhaps Shakespeare's marriage was indeed Loveless there are not many happy marriages in his plays in Twelfth Night his character orsino gives this advice don't marry older woman that's still the woman take an elder self so where's she to him so sweet she level in her husband's heart that I love Bianca the nice elf section cameltoe the bent for women are as roses whose fat flower being once displayed. Pol that very hour 1590 is London was threatened by several serious outbreaks of the plague at its height it was killing a thousand people a week if you showed the symptoms you still have 70% chance of dying those who could fled the city and the theaters were closed Shakespeare's new play writing career was repeatedly halted by these devastating outbreaks of plague is government and the city together could decide to close down the theaters for any length of time because of a plague alert that is if the number of deaths in London from play plague was always more less present but if it reached a certain number maybe 20 or 30. So weak that the visitors could be closed Thomas Dekker a writer of the day described this terrible disease that swept through London a stiff and freezing horror  up the rivers of my blood my hair stands on end with the punching of my brains my eyeballs are ready to start out being beaten with the Bellas in my tears how to buy weeping pen does he can come on play add more pictures later than gold drop on the pale-faced paper even when I do but think of the bowels of my stick Country Have Been Told a fascination with death resonates throughout Shakespeare's plays the tunes of Romeo and Juliet the bones of the Charnel house the graveyard in Hamlet Shakespeare's darkest fears we're about to be realized in the summer of 1596. open Stratford Shakespeare his family was stricken with grief Jack August a disaster struck the cruelest thing happened to Shakespeare imaginable the very worst I'd life this register record the burial of Hamlet Shakespeare's only son Hamlet feel is William Shakespeare Hamlet son of William Shakespeare & Nevin August 1596 aged 11 die off whatever Shakespeare did matter how much how much land he acquired it would all be dissipated grief fills the room up of my absent child lies in his bed walks up and down with me puts on his pretty looks repeats his words remembers me about his gracious Park stop sound his Breaking Dawn Swedish full George can do the 1590s Shakespeare plays of a greater depth it seem to reflect the experiences of his life the death of his some m-net is interesting when you think you are too great great but I could have that and Eddie loved Hamlet announce to be answer the question weather it is nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of Outrageous Fortune how to take arms deceived and by opposing and then Shakespeare's troubles were not yet over the actors could not renew the lease in the land with their London theater stood the city fathers had objected to this popular new form of entertainment they saw it was his own Godly and immoral undaunted Shakespeare's troop tore down the old theater and transported it plank by plank South Across the River Thames and builds a new theater amongst the bear gambling houses and brothels of Southern this was to be the new Globe Theatre it was one of the most splendid it was Porto by William Shakespeare his 10% share was valuable and made him his fortune the theater company one going to claim first play performed at the globe was Shakespeare's Julius Caesar he was riding for a V without scenery with simple costumes under the Moonlight and so he had to use the one tool he had which was like s*** what uses what to create the world so there are a lot of in his language to detail in the language there a lot of stage directions in the language persuaded in language into imagining themselves into the situation there in is it cold and that was something people were told what are the afternoon in broad daylight Shakespeare's audiences relied on their imaginations during every performance the simple stage reverberated only with Shakespeare's words X-Men the greater adult men very experienced adult male actors in Romeo and Juliet a boy whose voice is not yet broken switch is understandable and one of the King Louie pop you most certainly did play with the ghost of Hamlet's father a nice Row the ghost that instigates the whole story time to walk the night add a confined to fast in files till the foul crimes done in my days of nature are burnt and purged away and it was his experience isn't that added so much to his skill as a playwright he brings an act to sensibility that he brings an actor's common sense he brings an actor's skill to the donation of of character that's how he described himself most play Raj I'm wishing for another forget that she there is something in the distillation of language the condensation of experience into words that the poet's can do on like anybody else Shakespeare's words written at this time of great linguistic invention transformed the English language forever the subjects of his plays however we're taking from many different sources even from existing players Lightworks to isabeth Shakespeare Shakespeare's genius for telling a story provided somebody else into two to him fixed that was a characteristic bit of shavian which but this is a lot of Truth in that almost all of Shakespeare's plays all based on history or on Rickson fictions Richard the third most popular villain and Henry V was a popular hero so that one more play about both of them Spitzer freshness that Shakespeare's adding to it another version of Hamlet's will be thankful Rapunzel 1600 something was beginning to happen to his work Shakespeare was becoming a better and better Observer of life adding more profound more disturbing plays Brittany extremely tragedy of Hamlet these Powers is a Brahma just when I was so developed he was about to create some of the greatest dramas that have ever been risk in 1603 King James the first was crowned King of England Shakespeare's players became the King's Men actress of the core and the King Shakespeare was the beating dramatist of the time his family had been granted a coat of arms several years before and he was now a gentleman these last years were perhaps the greatest of these player Korea between 1604 and 1607 Shakespeare wrote The Tragedy of Othello Macbeth and King Lear Shakespeare's tragedies are somewhere close to the very center of his work and so they must have been close to the center of his imagination the violence of plays the attention samso personalities LeBron gets in the tragedies must have had a distinct appeal appreciates bear it must have been something within Shakespeare that was urging you to write in this way but it's part of an interior Journey a development of the Soul if you like to hear all their old fashioned phrase the interest in human psychology which is evidence for example in Othello with the very Vivid and intensely felt for trailer of as  is jealousy or the tragedy of Leo with the tragedy of an option to give up power you would see me here you go that's me with no more that's not woman's weapon water no you are natural I will have such revenges on you both that all the world you didn't try to play it out of the depths of the profundity and significance of King Lear just because somebody says it's too who wrote a serious man you write it because you've been meditating for Rob for a long time for all the Deep they on the issues that they play like that raises to the surface he shows his people obsessed and rage very unusual King there would be an obvious example but what about gentle Prince Hamlet how much rage is there will hold fight so the writer of these plays was the man who understood anger very well the tragedies give us a tent wising twins into Shakespeare's character his innermost thoughts and deepest emotions he's right seeing scenes which reflect situations take Hamlet for example the morning for Ophelia Hamlet's morning over a few Tia the days are full of things which go on speaking to people as long as human beings are human beings and have sufferings and longings in middle age Shakespeare became more and more concerned with his relationship with his daughters time and time again throughout his later plays he presented us with a father who is goodbye with his daughters in Pericles symbol in the Winter's Tale and the Tempest when they turn into props the greatest tragedy ever written all the most most affecting old work of the jacobean era which is King Lear the whole tragedy begins with a different room this way moving ending when Lear final recognizes cordelia's worth animal where are good Lord sloth turn off the off at me 9 this lady to be my try perhaps in the last play he wrote alone The Tempest we can see the clearest picture of Shakespeare in his final years in the character of Prospero Prosper puts on a mask and entertainment in the course of the and you can draw a parallel between Prospero as the creator of that mask and Shakespeare as the creator of dramatic entertainment but above all Prospero is a character who has magical part but she's also somebody who gives up his magic at the end of the play he says he smokes and he pretends to being an old person again all Rebels now these are actors as I foretold World spirits and I'm melted into Into Thin Air I'd like the baseless fabric of this Vision the Cloud Cap towels the gorgeous palette is the solemn temples the great Global self and like this insubstantial pageant faded leave now we are such stuff dreams are made on and I'm little life is rounded with a sleep in the summer of 1613 the globe was destroyed it burn to the ground forms of Henry the 8th leaving nothing behind a new Globe Theatre was Bill but without William Shakespeare the fire Mark the end of his career and he retired to Stratford William Shakespeare retired a wealthy man the gentleman a businessman and the landowner he owned the second largest house in Stratford and was respected figure in the town the desperate struggles of his days as an actor the red light districts of London were forgotten but still he had no some no male heir to inherit his fortune his will is an angry document into Parts showing a tremendous amount of worry over what what is the and after his death drink spinner had made out one version of his will apparently early in 16 16 made out of later not long before he died I'm powering Susana his older Walter susana's husband John Hall who was a physician and really leaving no power to either Judith for two french braids on one This Bitter Rift and his family life perhaps shown by the big quest to his wife Anne of the second-best bed in the Stratford home it seems curious layoff hand and it seems somehow I'm so sensitive to the use of words occupation that I wasn't using words to use the phrase without the without excuse so that apology might leave to my wife my second-best bed seems somehow to suggest that maybe the pair aloe reasonably well matched in terms of sexual since I may not have been emotionally very close over the period of their marriage one night after drinking session with his old theater friend the story is written down that Shakespeare ate too many pickled herrings and drink too much one he called a fever and fell sick he died on his birthday and was buried on the 25th of April 16 16 age 52 perhaps some of the 40 Road where his own appetite good friend for Jesus sake forbear to dig the dust up close at 8 blessed be the man with spares these stones and text Bae but moves my phone William Shakespeare died without seeing his plays officially published on quarters that appeared during his lifetime some scribble down hurry I did not come with me during performances he's plays were brought together for the first time in 1623 7 years after his death carefully gathered by his fellow actors and Friends Ben Johnson a man who's been his severest critics greatest rival and good friend was instrumental in putting together the folio it was filled with versus region tributes to Shakespeare perhaps the greatest gift ever bestowed on the English language Johnson describes him as gentle Shakespeare & Suites Juan of Aven these verses in the Feria of pay tribute to expect and the greatest all of them is the poem by Ben Jonson In Praise of Shakespeare which she has the famous phrase he he was not of an age but for all time it's an eloquent tribute from one artist to another to the memory of my beloved the author Mouse to William Shakespeare and what he have left us while I confess by writings to be such as neither man nor Muse can phrase too much soul of the age the Applause Delight the Wonder last stage. Lots of Monument without your tune and daughter live still just live and we have which to read appraise to give without these efforts we might never have known William Shakespeare's plays 18 out of the 36 plays gathered in the folio had never been published these play putting Macbeth Twelfth Night In The Tempest might have been lost forever in 1899 the first film version of a Shakespeare play was made starring Harvard. Country Escape job since then Cowboys movies and television films have been made and shown throughout the world and every continent his plays are performed in the best theaters to packed houses the highest alkaline used to perform the great Shakespearean Heroes Richard Burton Elizabeth Taylor Laurence Olivier Orson Welles Sir John gielgud Kenneth Branagh greatest of them have all played Shakespeare the whatever it is 400 years Shakespeare still has the power to trans old people's lives I've Saturn Four Seasons shops on and I've watched shows about rich from the back of the store old and you can sometimes witness something happening in the fit which is very profound and clearly the stories the words of Shakespeare affect people in a way that no other playwright can do reason for the simplest the Elizabethan stage Shakespeare's plays have taken on a life and influence way beyond their original intention the constant renewal Shakespeare the way in which a new ways of staging and always being invented exactly want to see reasons why we have to say he is the greatest playwright his plays a Morpher tiled they actually generate more exciting ways of doing it an exciting things exciting ideas then any the play this is this is the ultimate testimony remember who commended the Yellowstone I wish to see the ads go to it I wasn't made it I'm just tired of this to be soon summer madness Shakespeare is a supreme manipulator of language his team's interweave the major and minor the universal and the particular he writes about love death happiness sorrow jealousy hate Crossing oil International boundary is he is a poet would more than that he's a storyteller a dramatist Shakespeare around us even though we may not because she's off he's in the water to die to sleep perchance to Dream by there's the rub for in that sleep of death What Dreams May Come when we have shuffled off this Mortal coil must give us pause William Shakespeare Remains The Very greatest enduring for old-time his writing is his legacy tour

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