Shakespeare’s plays are as popular as they are because he was perhaps the greatest writer who has ever lived. It’s partly because he was writing plays which go on being performed and therefore which can be brought freshly to life for each generation by actors of the present.

Some of Shakespeare’s work was performed in continental Europe during the 17th century, but it was not until the mid 18th century that it became widely known.

Shakespeare continues to inspire too. It is because Shakespeare’s works are a mirror of society, with their continued relevance seen not only in politics, but in all walks of life. Shakespeare’s plays are by their nature applicable to a limitless number of times and places, because their themes are timeless.

William Shakespeare was a renowned English poet, playwright, and actor born in 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon. Shakespeare was a prolific writer during the Elizabethan and Jacobean ages of British theatre (sometimes called the English Renaissance or the Early Modern Period).

Facts About Shakespeare’s Life

• Shakespeare’s father made gloves for a living.
• Shakespeare was born 23rd April 1564.
• Shakespeare had seven siblings.
• Shakespeare married an older, pregnant lady at 18.
• Shakespeare had three children.
• Shakespeare moved to London as a young man.
• Shakespeare was an actor, as well as a writer.

William Shakespeare

The Comedy of Errors

What are Shakespeare’s Most Famous Quotes?

• ” To be, or not to be: that is the question:
• “This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day,
• “Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once.”
• “Men at some time are masters of their fates:

The best known of Shakespeare’s last words are the six Julius Caesar uttered when struck down by ignoble conspirators. Sudden death stifled the articulate Roman’s tongue, and all he had time to say was, ‘Et tu, Brute! Then fall, Caesar!’ Similarly, the garrulous Lord Chamberlain, Polonius, could cry only, ‘O!

All in all, Shakespeare’s yearly income is estimated at 100 pounds. This was an extraordinary sum, which is comparable to the income of a contemporary star author by all means. And this is still accurate despite the fact that Shakespeare had to renounce the biggest source of income present-day authors have: copyright.

Latest Stories on Marketplace William went to London to act as his father’s commercial representative and subsequently took up acting and writing plays as a sideline. John bankrolled his son’s purchase of shares in a leading theatrical company and his money paid for the bulk of his son’s investments.

He left money to his daughters, he left plate – that is to say gold and silver – which eventually went to his granddaughter, so he died a relatively wealthy man.

He left the bulk of his estate to his elder daughter, Susannah Hall. He left £300 to his younger daughter, Judith. He gave his wife, Anne Hathaway, his second-best bed. Beds and other pieces of household furniture were often the sole bequest to a wife.

Shakespeare left the bulk of his property to his two daughters: Susanna Hall, his first child, and Judith Quiney.

There are only two portraits that definitively portray William Shakespeare, both of which are posthumous. One is the engraving that appears on the title-page of the First Folio, published in 1623, and the other is the sculpture that adorns his memorial in Stratford upon Avon, which dates from before 1623.

He also appears as a character in the 2018 film All Is True. The largely fictionalised plot revolves around William Shakespeare coming to terms with Hamnet’s death and his relationship with his family. British novelist Maggie O’Farrell’s 2020 book Hamnet is a fictional account of the life of Hamnet.

All Is True is a 2018 British fictional historical film directed by Kenneth Branagh, written by Ben Elton. It stars Branagh as playwright William Shakespeare. The film takes its title from an alternative name for Shakespeare’s play Henry VIII.

15 Words Invented by Shakespeare

• Bandit.
• Critic.
• Dauntless.
• Dwindle.
• Elbow (as a verb)
• Green-Eyed (to describe jealousy)
• Lackluster.
• Lonely.

While he could have chosen a different name but retained some of the original themes of the Saga, he chose to Anglicize the name of the Prince of Denmark as Hamlet. It has also been suggested that Shakespeare chose the name Hamlet in honor of his only son, Hamnet.

It describes the same players and events that were immortalized by William Shakespeare in his The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, written about 1600….From the Gesta Danorum of Saxo Grammaticus.

William Shakespeare	Saxo Grammaticus
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark	Amleth, Prince of Denmark
Hamlet’s father	Horwendil

So Shakespeare did not make up the name Hamlet, nor does it refer to a small village. It was a legendary name associated with Denmark.

Shakespeare may also have drawn on an earlier Elizabethan play known today as the Ur-Hamlet, though some scholars believe Shakespeare wrote the Ur-Hamlet, later revising it to create the version of Hamlet that exists today….

Hamlet
Genre	Shakespearean tragedy
Setting	Denmark

The thing is, they’re wrong. Saying The Lion King is only based on William Shakespeare’s play Hamlet totally misunderstands what makes Hamlet Hamlet. Instead, Simba’s quest to reclaim his animal kingdom from his evil Uncle Scar was, seemingly derived from the essential conflict of Shakespeare’s Hamlet.

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David Warner was the youngest actor ever to play Hamlet at the RSC in Stratford when cast by director Peter Hall in 1965. He was just 24 years old, in a performance that also featured Glenda Jackson as Ophelia and the great Irish actor Patrick Magee as the Ghost of King Hamlet.