William+Shakespeare

=William Shakespeare = =By Emily Akers =  William Shakespeare's Home in Stratford-upon-Avon. William Shakespeare The Characters Titania the Fairy Queen and Bottom the Villager turned into a donkey. Puck, Fairy King Oberon's adviser followed orders to squeeze juice from a magic flower into her eyes to make her fall in love with a creature to embarrass her for fighting with him.

[|William Shakespeare] was born on April 26th 1564 to [|John Shakespeare] and [|Mary Arden]. Elizabeth I had been ruling for six years. He was the oldest of his five siblings. Joan, Joan, Margaret, Gilbert, and Anne. The first Joan died after two months, but the second Joan died thirty years after her big brother. He also had a third sister, Margaret who was born in 1562. She lived for a year then died of the Black Plague. Anne was born in 1571 and died when she was eight because of the black plague. Then there was Gilbert, his younger brother who was born October 13 1566. He grew up to be a great tradesman and survived the plague but died a bachelor on February 3rd 1612. William was raised in Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire, England. When he turned six he attended school at the all boys school called Stratford Grammar School for free because of his fathers position in the community. William had a short education. Half of the classroom would be filled with younger kids learning to read and write while the other half of the classroom was filled with older kids learning Greek and Latin, and memorizing long passages of poetry in those languages. It was easy for Shakespeare because he had an amazing memory. His father John was a glove maker but soon he owed so many people money that he was in debt and was poor. Sometimes his fathers’ fear of getting arrested prevented him to go to Sunday Church.

When he was 18 he married Anne Hathaway (26) and had three children: Susanna, and twins Hamnet and Judith. Hamnet died at age eleven for unknown causes. Susanna and Judith went on with their lives. Susanna grew up to be [|Susanna Hall] and married [|Dr. John Hall] who later had a daughter named Elizabeth. [|Elizabeth Hall] got married to [|Thomas Nash] but they did not have any children leaving them as one of the last descendents of William Shakespeare. Judith grew up to be [|Judith Quiney] and married [|Thomas Quincey]. They had three children; Shakespeare, Richard, and Thomas. Shakespeare Quincey died at six months of age. Richard and Thomas Quincey died within a month of each other when they were 19 and 21. Although their children died at young ages Thomas Quincey (The Father) was mad because William Shakespeare left him out of the will because of court dates two months before his daughters wedding.

William Shakespeare is famous in our day because he was a brilliant writer from the Renaissance. His surviving writings consist of [|38 plays], [|154 sonnets], two long narrative poems, and several other poems. Some of his most famous plays are [|Romeo and Juliet], [|Macbeth], [|Julius Caesar], [|A Midsummer Night’s Dream], [|The Tempest], [|Hamlet], and [|many others]; you can also most of his writings if you click on this [|**LINK**]. He wasn’t just famous because of his writings. He was famous because he wrote about things that were going on, Historical things, Romantic things, and tragic things. But most of all his wrote things in detail and looked at every prospective. He looked at things not in his time to inspire him, legends, myths, stories, other plays, music, and his surroundings. He could be inspired by anything around him, which is a very important skill. He accomplished much with that skill.

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