Shakespeare
Everything there is to know about shakespeare
Biographical Background
William shakespreare allegedly died on April 23, 1616 on his birthday.
Globe Theatre
Shakespeares Legacy
Elizabethan England
In most houses there was also a nurse who would take care of young infants and children.
City of London
Another thing about the city of London is that not a lot of people drank water and drank mostly alcohol. This meant that most of the people would walk around the city drunk which sometimes caused commotion and violence.
Shakespear Plays
A few examples of his plays are Richard 11, King Lear and As you like it.
One of shakespeares most known plays "Romeo and Juliet", which is about two star crossed lovers lovers whose deaths ultimately reconcile their feuding families. This play was a tragedy.
Part of the Prologue from Romeo and Juliet
"Two households, both alike in dignity,
In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,
From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,
Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.
From forth the fatal loins of these two foes
A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life;
Whose misadventured piteous overthrows
Do with their death bury their parents' strife._
In 1996 a film was made based off the play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare.
Sickness in Elizabethan England
When this outbreak happened in 1347 it killed a third of the human population.
The symptoms of this disease usually appear 2-5 days after exposure to the bacteria.
Some of the symptoms of the bubonic plague is
-Chills
-Seizures
-Muscle cramps
-High fever
-Smooth, painful lymph gland swelling (the most obvious sign that you have this disease)
If someone in a family caught the virus the family was not allowed to leave their homes, nobody was allowed to enter and the houses were locked and bolted from the outside. The only interaction the people from the house had with the outside world is when they were delivered food by the Watchman threw a basket that was lowered from the window.
This disease was so so serious that is caused the Globe theatre to close 3 times, from serious outbreaks in 1593, 1603 and 1608.
Twelfth Night
Twelfth Night; or, What You Will is a comedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written around 1601–02.
Twelfth Night
(Line 1905)
I know of none;
Nor I know you by voice or any features:
I hate ingratitude more in a man,
Than lying, vainess, babbling,drunkenness
or any taint of vice whose strong corruption
inhabits our frail blood.
In my opinion this line in the play discusses that Shakespeare dislikes people who have a lack of appreciation, or thanklessness.