Friday, 24 July 2009

Shakespeare

There exist very few facts documented in the life of William Shakespeare. What yes can steady is that was baptized in Stratford-upon-Avon, on April 26, 1564 and that died on April 23, 1616, little before exBeginning.
The residence in Stratford known as the place of birth of Shakespeare. It is said that the poet and playwright would have born in the room with the windows to pictures. William Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon, in April, 1564. It was the third one of eight children who had John Shakespeare, a prosperous merchant who managed to reach an out-standing position in the municipality, and MaryWilliam Shakespeare dealed probably her first studies in the primary local school, the Stratford Grammar School, in the center of her natal city, which have should to her to have contributed an intensive education in grammar and Latin literature. In spite of the fact that the quality of the grammatical schools in the Elizabethan period was irregular enough, indications exist to the effect that that of Stratford was good enough. Arden, who was descending from a family of lineage.piring 52 years.
The assistance of Shakespeare to this school is a mere conjecture, stocks in the fact that legally it he had right to free education for being the son of a high place post of the local government. Nevertheless, there does not exist any document that he it credits, since the parochial files have got lost. In this epoch he was directed by John Cotton, teacher and supposedly catholic of wide humanistic formation; a Grammar School (equivalent to a study of grammar of the Spanish XVI or to the current bachillerato) he was giving educations from the eight up to fifteen years and the education was centring on the learning of the Latin; in the top levels the use of the Englishman was prohibited to foment the fluency in the Latin language; there was prevailing the study of Aesop's work translated into the Latin, of Ovidio and of Virgil, these authors that Shakespeare knew.
Later there are listed the complete tragedies of Shakespeare, arranged according to the approximate date of his composition:
Titus Andrónico (1592) Byzantine and Julieta (1595) Julio César (1599) Hamlet (1601) Troilo and Crésida (1602) Otelo (1603-1604) The king Lear (1605-1606) Macbeth (1606) Antonio and Cleopatra (1606) Coriolano (1608) Helm of Athens (unknown date

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