Keegan Cody
English 1
Rough Draft
“All The World’s a Stage”
“All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts” (As You like It, Act II, Scene VII). William Shakespeare, himself, knew these many parts. In his life he played an actor, a husband, a writer and some say he even played a thief and a fraud. “For today 's public, of course, Shakespeare is to literary genius what Mozart is to music and Leonardo to painting.”(Doug Stewart, To Be or Not to Be Shakespeare) William Shakespeare, though uneducated and from an average upbringing, has impacted the English language though his playwriting and prose.
Shakespeare 's life begins as the son of notable parents in the typical life of his time. He goes to a free grammar school and goes on to marry a local farmer’s daughter and has children. Shakespeare was born on April 23, 1564, in Stratford-upon-Avon. His parents, John and Mary, had eight kids in all, but lost three girls to the Black Plague. Shakespeare was raised by his mother and Father who ran a successful business of glove making. Despite their …show more content…
The twins, Hamnet and Judith, named after Shakespeare 's very close friends, were born two years later, in January 1585. Tragically, Hamnet, Shakespeare 's only son, would die at eleven years old. This deeply affected Shakespeare and would show later in his playwriting. The years of 1585 to 1592 are referred to as Shakespeare 's “lost years”. No one knows what he did during this time, but scholars believe that he moved to London, leaving his family to live comfortably in Stratford, to work on his dramatic skills and begin collecting sources for the plots of his plays. Shakespeare’s early life was typical, but due to a lack of recorded evidence of this time in his life, it is uncertain what actually happened in these years, but one thing is certain. His
English 1
Rough Draft
“All The World’s a Stage”
“All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts” (As You like It, Act II, Scene VII). William Shakespeare, himself, knew these many parts. In his life he played an actor, a husband, a writer and some say he even played a thief and a fraud. “For today 's public, of course, Shakespeare is to literary genius what Mozart is to music and Leonardo to painting.”(Doug Stewart, To Be or Not to Be Shakespeare) William Shakespeare, though uneducated and from an average upbringing, has impacted the English language though his playwriting and prose.
Shakespeare 's life begins as the son of notable parents in the typical life of his time. He goes to a free grammar school and goes on to marry a local farmer’s daughter and has children. Shakespeare was born on April 23, 1564, in Stratford-upon-Avon. His parents, John and Mary, had eight kids in all, but lost three girls to the Black Plague. Shakespeare was raised by his mother and Father who ran a successful business of glove making. Despite their …show more content…
The twins, Hamnet and Judith, named after Shakespeare 's very close friends, were born two years later, in January 1585. Tragically, Hamnet, Shakespeare 's only son, would die at eleven years old. This deeply affected Shakespeare and would show later in his playwriting. The years of 1585 to 1592 are referred to as Shakespeare 's “lost years”. No one knows what he did during this time, but scholars believe that he moved to London, leaving his family to live comfortably in Stratford, to work on his dramatic skills and begin collecting sources for the plots of his plays. Shakespeare’s early life was typical, but due to a lack of recorded evidence of this time in his life, it is uncertain what actually happened in these years, but one thing is certain. His