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The children: Susanna, Hamnet & Judith Shakespeare and his wife had three children, daughter Susannah, Hamnet and Judith. Susannah received most of the fortune when he died in 1616, age 52-years-old. Hamnet died at age 11, Judith at 77. Susanna died in 1649, age 66. Anne Hathaway, Shakespeare's wife Shakespeare married a much older woman. Anne Hathaway was 26-years-old (and three months pregnant) when he married her at age 18-years-old. Martin Droeshout's engraving of Shakespeare |
Shakespeare: Bard facts
1, William was popular with King James I who acceded the throne after Elizabeth. He was so taken with the Bard’s skill that he gave his acting company, The Lord Chamberlain’s Men a patent allowing them to perform and also made these actors Grooms of Chamber. The Bard returned the favor by renaming his company, The King’s Men. This title made William a favorite for Court performances and with the new King of England. 2. In Elizabethan times many of Shakespeare’s plays were performed at The Globe Theatre in London. To get in, you put one penny in a box by the door. Then you could stand on the ground in front of the stage. To sit on the first balcony, you put another penny in the box held by a man in front of the stairs. To sit on the second balcony, you put another penny in the box held by the man by the second flight of stairs. Then when the show started, the men went and put the boxes in a room backstage - the box office. 3. The Globe Theatre didn’t just show plays. It acted as a bear pit, brothel, and a gambling house. 4. Actors' toil In Shakespeare’s time copyright didn’t exist, so the actors only got their lines as the play was in progress. They only got to know who else was paying what the day of the performance. Many times they didn't even get their own lines. They did cue acting, which meant that there was a person backstage that whispered the lines to the person right before he was going to say them. Actors were not considered trustworthy people, and the market for good plays was large. 5. The actors were all men in Shakespeare's day. The parts of women were played by boys who still had light voices. 6. Nobody knows Shakespeare’s true birthday. By tradition and guesswork, he is assumed to have been born on 23 April, a date now commonly used to celebrate the famous Bard's birthday. 7. There are only two authentic portraits of William Shakespeare. An engraving of him by Martin Droeshout, first published on the title page of the 1623 First Folio, and the monument of the great playwright in Stratford's Holy Trinity Church in Stratford. |
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