WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE FACTS FOR KIDS

William Shakespeare Facts For Kids

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William Valentine Shakespeare (September 27, 1912 – January 17, 1974) was an American football player. He played at the halfback position, and also handled punting, for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish football teams from 1933 to 1935.

Wing Commander William Harold Nelson Shakespeare OBE MC AFC (24 August 1893 – 10 July 1976) was an English cricketer, and pilot in the Royal Flying Corps and its successor the Royal Air Force.

Shakespeare: English poet and dramatist considered one of the greatest English writers (1564-1616)

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Bard of Avon: The Story of William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare was the son of a glovemaker, a small-town boy with a grammar school education. Yet he grew up to become the greatest English-speaking playwright in the world. Bard of Avon: The Story of William Shakespeare is both his story and that of a great art rediscovered in the modern world.
Drama had been forgotten since the days of ancient Greece, but it reemerged in Elizabethan London with the building of the first modern theater. Its impact can still be imagined today. There were the theaters, open to the weather and featuring neither sets nor curtains, but equipped with dramatic special effects. There were the companies of actors–the leading men, the comedians, the boys who played women’s roles–and the playwrights who gave them all lines to say.
Best of all, there was William Shakespeare, who rubbed shoulders with noblemen and royalty as well as with the rowdy crowds at the foot of the stage. He was suspected of involvement in a treasonous rebellion, and his last play literally brought down the house when cannon effects set fire to the famous Globe theater and it burned to the ground.
Award-winning collaborators Diane Stanley and Peter Vennema have once again created a feast of words and pictures to celebrate the life of a remarkable person from the pages of history: William Shakespeare, a man for all time.”

William Shakespeare, English poet and playwright

William Shakespeare (baptised 26 April 1564; died 23 April 1616) was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world’s pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England’s national poet and the "Bard of Avon". His surviving works, including some collaborations, consist of 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and several other poems. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright.

Shakespeare was born and raised in Stratford-upon-Avon. At the age of 18, he married Anne Hathaway, with whom he had three children: Susanna, and twins Hamnet and Judith. Between 1585 and 1592, he began a successful career in London as an actor, writer, and part owner of a playing company called the Lord Chamberlain’s Men, later known as the King’s Men. He appears to have retired to Stratford around 1613, where he died three years later. Few records of Shakespeare’s private life survive, and there has been considerable speculation about such matters as his physical appearance, sexuality, religious beliefs, and whether the works attributed to him were written by others.

Shakespeare produced most of his known work between 1589 and 1613. His early plays were mainly comedies and histories, genres he raised to the peak of sophistication and artistry by the end of the sixteenth century. He then wrote mainly tragedies until about 1608, including Hamlet, King Lear, and Macbeth, considered some of the finest works in the English language. In his last phase, he wrote tragicomedies, also known as romances, and collaborated with other playwrights.

Many of his plays were published in editions of varying quality and accuracy during his lifetime. In 1623, two of his former theatrical colleagues published the First Folio, a collected edition of his dramatic works that included all but two of the plays now recognized as Shakespeare’s.

Shakespeare was a respected poet and playwright in his own day, but his reputation did not rise to its present heights until the nineteenth century. The Romantics, in particular, acclaimed Shakespeare’s genius, and the Victorians worshiped Shakespeare with a reverence that George Bernard Shaw called "bardolatry". In the twentieth century, his work was repeatedly adopted and rediscovered by new movements in scholarship and performance. His plays remain highly popular today and are constantly studied, performed and reinterpreted in diverse cultural and political contexts throughout the world.

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There was a crooked man,
who he walked a crooked mile.
He found a crooked sixpence
beside a crooked stile.
He bought a crooked cat,
who caught a crooked mouse,
and they all lived together in a little crooked house.

There was a crooked man,
who walked a crooked mile.
He carried a crooked cane,
and wore a crooked smile.

He followed a crooked path,
to his crooked house,
Where waited his crooked cat,
Clutching a crooked mouse.

There was a crooked man and he walked a crooked mile,
He found a crooked sixpence upon a crooked stile.
He bought a crooked cat, which caught a crooked mouse.
And they all lived together in a little crooked house

The origin of the Nursery rhyme "There was a crooked man" is in British history
The content of "There was a crooked man" poem have a basis in history. The origin of this poem originates from the English Stuart history of King Charles 1. The crooked man is reputed to be the Scottish General Sir Alexander Leslie. The General signed a Covenant securing religious and political freedom for Scotland. The ‘crooked stile’ referred to in "There was a crooked man" being the border between England and Scotland. ‘They all lived together in a little crooked house’ refers to the fact that the English and Scots had at last come to an agreement. The words reflect the times when there was great animosity between the English and the Scots. The word crooked is pronounced as ‘crookED’ the emphasis being placed upon the ‘ED’ in the word. This was common in olde England and many references can be found in this type of pronunciation in the
works of William Shakespeare (1564-1616).

william shakespeare facts for kids

Julius Caesar - Text of Play by Shakespeare including Summary, Famous Quotes and Shakespeare's Life Biography

The World of William Shakespeare and details of his biography have fascinated people for centuries. William Shakespeare lived for 52 years. In just 23 years, between approximately 1590 and 1613, he is attributed with writing 38 plays, Famous Shakespearean sonnets and 5 other poems.

He is the most widely read of all Authors and the popularity of the life and works of Shakespeare, in English speaking countries, is second only to the Bible. It is therefore no surprise that the work of Shakespeare sparks so much interest. Many people still use words of William Shakespeare, the Great Bard of Stratford upon Avon, in everyday life.

This book contains information on Shakespeare’s life biography; his parents, children, siblings, career even his death! A timeline has been included with information from Shakespeare’s ancestors through to his death.

The full text of his famous play – Julius Caesar has been included as well as a summary of the play, facts and famous quotes.

The book contains the following sections which can be accessed from the table of contents, extremely easy to navigate:

Summary of Play
Play Script – Act I
Play Script – Act II
Play Script – Act III
Play Script – Act IV
Play Script – Act V
Julius Caesar – Facts & Information
Julius Caesar Quotes
William Shakespeare Timeline
Who were the Ancestors of William Shakespeare?
John Shakespeare
Mary Arden
What was the religion of the Shakespeare Family?
When & Where was William Shakespeare born?
How many Brothers and Sisters did William Shakespeare have?
The Education of William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare – The Lost Years
Marriage of William Shakespeare to Anne Hathaway
William Shakespeare – His Children
William Shakespeare – Actor
William Shakespeare – ‘ Upstart Crow’
William Shakespeare – Playwright
William Shakespeare – Poems
William Shakespeare – Sonnets
Publication of William Shakespeare Plays
Performances of William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare in London
Friends and Contempories of William
Bubonic Plague and Shakespeare
Shakespeare – Chamberlain’s men and King’s men
Shakespeare Coat-of-Arms
Public plays banned in City of London
Shakespeare and Stratford-upon-Avon
Shakespeare and the Globe Theatre
William Shakespeare and Elizabethan Politics
Shakespeare and the Blackfriars Theatre
The Retirement of William Shakespeare
Globe Theatre Fire
William Shakespeare Last Will and Testament
The Death of William Shakespeare
Shakespeare – Top 10 Facts
Rumors and Facts about Shakespeare
The Comedy Themed Plays
The Tragedy Themed Plays
The History Themed Plays
First Folio
The Martin Droeshout Engraving
Shakespeare Quarto Text

The full text of his famous play – Julius Caesar has been included as well as a summary of the play, facts and famous quotes.

The book contains the following sections which can be accessed from the table of contents, extremely easy to navigate:

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE FACTS FOR KIDS