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    William Shakespeare Interview With Ghost Me - Hello Mr. Shakespeare, the first question i would like to ask is what are the basic factors that made you who you are? Mr. Shakespeare - Geoffrey Chaucer made me want to become a writer, he was my inspiration for a long time when i was young. Some of the plays that i created were based on his poems and his perspective and how he saw things.. Another factor that made me who i am is that i loved plays and acting in them. Me - Alright, my second…

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    The Relevancy of William Shakespeare Students all over the U.S. are taught about the works of the great poet, William Shakespeare. The question asked by many is “Why is this really necessary? Is Shakespeare even relevant anymore?”. To answer these questions what must be understood is what Shakespeare has done and how he has affected people based off his many unique plays, poems, and stories. Due to the great span of time from Shakespeare’s lifetime to ours, much of the vocabulary he uses is…

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    Topic Since the eighteenth century, scholars have debated whether William Shakespeare, high school dropout and glove maker’s son from the backwoods town of Stratfordupon-Avon, would have had the education, sophistication and literary skill to have written plays that are considered the most important works of literature in English. In the course of this debate, scholars have put forward many contenders as the “real author” of the plays, Queen Elizabeth I, Francis Bacon, and Christopher Marlowe.…

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    William Shakespeare was known to have no birth records. But he was baptized on April 26th, 1564, which makes scholars think he was born near or on April 23rd, 1564. Most scholars think he was born on that date so thats what they refer to when he was born. William Shakespeare was about 5’9 and around one hundred and fifty pounds according to scholars. He was right handed. He had long curly hair and a trimmed beard. He had green eyes, and he was white. William Shakespeare's home town was about…

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    author, actor, and business men, William Shakespeare known and will be known probably for the rest of time as the greatest Poets and plat writers, with his Creative, inventive, and intuitive style of writing in every one of his plays and poems. Throughout the entirety of his life we see his creative genius in the beginning, middle, and end of his life, always expressing his genius in everything he did throughout his life. Early life, William Shakespeare, born in 1564, in Stratford upon Avon.…

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    house/I could a tale unfold whose lightest word/Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood” (Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act I, scene v). The people who would interpret this as a hyperbolic autobiography of “Shakespeare” are the same people who are convinced that “William Shakespeare” is a pseudonym. There are hundreds of different theories about who really penned the plays attributed to Shakespeare, and though lots of money has been devoted to research this intricate problem, no conclusive…

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    Today, William Shakespeare is one of the biggest names in English poetry and literature. He was a poet, playwright, and actor. He is often referred to as “England’s national poet, however much of his childhood and education is commonly unknown. The purpose of this essay is to reveal lesser known information about Shakespeare’s early life, including information about his family and interests. In April of 1564, William Shakespeare was born and baptized. “William Shakespeare was born in…

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    The life of Shakespeare is still a big deal today. Scientists to this day, still try to solve the mysteries of Shakespeare life. Were his plays written by someone else, but given the great name of Shakespeare? Shakespeare’s life is based on the theories and guess work. Shakespeare’s birthday is known to be around April 23, 1564, in Stratford. Out of seven siblings only four grew to adulthood. Shakespeare was obvious one of the lucky four to survive. His sister Joan was the first child and she…

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    . Rationale: More than 400 years later, we can relate to the everyday life and situations that Shakespeare and his contemporaries wrote about for people from all walks of life during the Elizabethan era. The plays and poems have universal themes that are as relevant today as they were then, and students will read and explore love, hate, jealousy, anger, contempt, fear, joy, sadness, ambition, evil, guilt and conscience, conflict, madness, and courage as they are transported back in time to…

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    Shakespeare lived during the reign of Elizabeth the first, a period where women wore makeup made of poisonous lead and people believed the body was composed of 4 humors, blood, phlegm, yellow bile and black bile. Given this information it’s hard to believe that anything written during this time could possibly keep people enthralled but Shakespeare has endured the test of time. His work has been imitated, modernized but never duplicated. Love was a theme Shakespeare frequently wrote about.…

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