The mystery of his identity has tantalized generations of biographers and critics, who have generally argued either that W.H. was also the “fair youth” to whom many of the sonnets are addressed or that he was a friend or patron who earned the gratitude of one or both parties by procuring Shakespeare’s manuscript for …
Q. How did William Shakespeare change the world?
William Shakespeare is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the history of the English language, and the world’s pre-eminent dramatist. He transformed European theatre by expanding expectations about what could be accomplished through innovation in characterization, plot, language and genre.
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- Q. How did William Shakespeare change the world?
- Q. Why were Shakespeare’s plays so popular?
- Q. What was Shakespeare’s most popular play in his lifetime?
- Q. Who is Shakespeare’s patron?
- Q. Who is Shakespeare’s fair youth?
- Q. What did Shakespeare leave to his wife?
- Q. What is Shakespeare’s date of death?
- Q. Did William Shakespeare marry his cousin?
- Q. Did Queen Elizabeth attend Shakespeare’s plays?
- Q. What play did Shakespeare write for Queen Elizabeth for Christmas?
- Q. Did members from the royal family attend Shakespeare’s performances?
- Q. What disease wiped out much of the population of the time of Shakespeare?
Q. Why were Shakespeare’s plays so popular?
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.
Q. What was Shakespeare’s most popular play in his lifetime?
Hamlet
Q. Who is Shakespeare’s patron?
Henry Wriothesley, 3rd earl of Southampton
Q. Who is Shakespeare’s fair youth?
Henry Wriothesley
Q. What did Shakespeare leave to his wife?
Shakespeare famously left his wife, Anne Hathaway, his ‘second best bed’.
Q. What is Shakespeare’s date of death?
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Q. Did William Shakespeare marry his cousin?
Today’s AJ Cousin Connection is Anne Hathaway, the wife of playwright William Shakespeare. Anne Hathaway was born in 1555/6 and died on this day, August 6, in 1623. Anne was 26 when she married the then 18 year old William in November of 1582.
Q. Did Queen Elizabeth attend Shakespeare’s plays?
When Shakespeare was born in 1564, Elizabeth had been Queen of England for just 5 years. While most of his plays were written after her death, we do know she saw a few of Shakespeare’s plays performed and that he performed at Court.
Q. What play did Shakespeare write for Queen Elizabeth for Christmas?
Tradition has it that The Merry Wives of Windsor was written at the request of Queen Elizabeth I. After watching Henry IV Part I she asked Shakespeare to write a play showing Falstaff in love.
Q. Did members from the royal family attend Shakespeare’s performances?
The Royal Palaces and Inns of Court The royal family did not, for obvious reasons, attend plays with the common populous in the playhouses, and so Shakespeare and the Chamberlain’s Men would, on occasion, be requested to perform at court.
Q. What disease wiped out much of the population of the time of Shakespeare?
Shakespeare lived his life in plague-time. He was born in April 1564, a few months before an outbreak of bubonic plague swept across England and killed a quarter of the people in his hometown. Death by plague was excruciating to suffer and ghastly to see.
