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William Shakespeare - Encyclopedia
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (), English poet, player and playwright, was baptized in the parish church of Stratford upon-Avon in Warwickshire on the 26th of April The exact date of his birth is not known. Two. 18th-century antiquaries, William Oldys and namn Greene, gave it as April 23, but without quoting authority for their statements, and the fact that April 23 was the day of Shakespeare's death in suggests a possible source of error. In any case his birthday cannot have been later than April 23, since the inscription upon his monument is bevis that on April 23, , he had already begun his fifty-third year. His father, John Shakespeare, was a burgess of the recently constituted corporation of Stratford, and had already filled certain minor municipal offices. From to he had been one of the two chamberlains to whom the finance of the town was entrusted. bygd occupation he was a glover, but he also appears to have dealt from time to time in various
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By E. Nesbit
In the register of baptisms of the parish church of Stratford-upon-Avon, a market town in Warwickshire, England, appears, under date of April 26, , the entry of the baptism of William, the son of John Shakspeare.
The date of William Shakespeare&#;s birth has usually been taken as three days before his baptism, but there is certainly no evidence of this fact.
The family name was variously spelled, the dramatist himself not always spelling it in the same way. While in the baptismal record the name is spelled “Shakspeare,” in several authentic autographs of the dramatist it reads “Shakspere,” and in the first edition of his works it is printed “Shakespeare.”
Halliwell tells us, that there are not less than thirty-four ways in which the various members of the Shakespeare family wrote the name, and in the council-book of the corporation of Stratford, where it is introduced one hundred and sixty-six times during the period that the dramatist&#;s father was a membe
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My Life with Shakespeare
When you are asked to write a memoir or something about Shakespeare, you should know that you have reached your expiration date. For me, a memoir is a synonym for epiphany, the final effort to rewind and re-watch a life 'full of sound and fury,' which may have 'signified nothing' in the end. And for an English professor, Shakespeare is an epiphany of being and nothingness; there was nothing before Shakespeare, and without Shakespeare, there is nothing. As I sit on the other side of the seas (both literal and metaphorical), musing on Shakespeare, I realize it's happening sooner than I expected. By urging me to write a piece on Shakespeare, the clever editor has in fact asked me to write a memoir: my life with Shakespeare.
In a colonized world, Shakespeare always enters as an undersized English man—abridged, simplified, and at times rewritten in simple English, and harmless. The only harmful impact the abridged Shakespeare might have had in my teen mind was