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    Shakespeare’s most amusing plays due to the mistakes, the up and down adventure, and it's amazing, happy ending. William Shakespeare was a man with a dream and worked hard to achieve. Shakespeare was born on April 23, 1564 in a little town of Stratford on Avon,English. Shakespeare married Anne Hathaway, who was eight years older. William was only eighteen. Anne and William had three children Suzanna,and then twins,Judith and Hamnet.…

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    William Shakespeare has been known for centuries as a literary legend. Not only were his plays and poems written with such high intelligence and creativity, but they were so memorable that people continue to study them to this day. Furthermore, one of his more significant plays that he wrote, Macbeth, has been intensely analyzed since the day it came out in 1606--and people still do not understand it entirely. This is simply because of the complex characterization he portrays throughout the…

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    William Hawkins was the captain of Hector in the third voyage set forth by the East India Company (1607). Not much is known about his early life except that, he had previously been in the West Indies and that he had been for some time in the Levant and knew Turkish. The only known person of his family is his brother Charles. Hawkins has been called and generally thought to be a professional sailor or a “bluff sea captain” as he was the commander of Hector. However this was not exactly the case…

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    Over the weekend, I had a lot of free time. It just so happened that an old (very old) friend of mine did as well. He goes by the name William Shakespeare, you might have heard of him before. When talking to Shakespeare, I realized that in the modern day high school, there are many similarities that compare well to his play, Othello. We found a common situation that occurs in the present day. This situation involves jealousy. On the quad, a common place for spending time and relaxing in-between…

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    April 26, 1564, in Stratford England. William was a part of a men’s theatrical group for his artistry. Over 20 years, Shakespeare wrote plays that conflict the complete range of “human emotion and conflict”. Nobody has any birth records of William Shakespeare, the only record they have is when he was baptized at the “Holy Trinity Church”. They think he was born around April 23rd, 1564. Williams record has no evidence or anything on his education. They know he went to Stratford and taught…

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    John Shakespeare and Mary Arden were parents to William Shakespeare. Shakespeare's birth date is not exactly known, but it is known that his birthday is celebrated on April 23 and died on April 23, 1616 William Shakespeare married Anne Hathaway on November 27, 1582 at age of 18. They had their first daughter Susanna on May 26, 1583 soon later Anne giving birth to twins, Hamnet and Judith which were baptized on February 2, 1585. Shakespeare only son Hamnet died at the age of 11, in 1596 ("William…

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    It is no secret that keeping up with the times is no easy feat as new technologies are created, new trends and memes are taking over society each day, but there is one writer who has managed to stay relevant more than 400 years after his death. The great William Shakespeare wrote many plays that tackled topics much more meaningful than the exciting adventures of grand people on fairy-tale quests to slay dragons or whatever was relevant in the times of Queen Elizabeth I or King James I. His plays…

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    How were William Shakespeare’s and Queen Elizabeth I lives intersected. Queen Elizabeth I and William Shakespeare had the same passion for the theatre, did they encounter one another ever, how did they both define their era. William Shakespeare baptized April 26, 1564-April 23, 1616, Married Anne Hathaway and had 3 kids together, some of Shakespear’s famous plays (Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer's Night Dream, Julius Caesar, As you like it, Much Ado About Nothing), famous sonnets (18, 116,…

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    William Shakespeare is a British writer and actors born on April 23, 1564. He has written many well-known plays and pieces of writing, such as Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, and Twelfth Night. Shakespeare is very inspirational and has set the bar and format for writing today, 452 years later. Many of his writings are realistic and we can relate to them to something going on around us or something in the past. Shakespeare took ideas from what was happening in his life and applied it to the writing…

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    Queen Elizabeth’s presence religiously wise did not only aid in Shakespeare’s writing but in Shakespeare’s sense of self. With the Queen establishing the nation religion to be Protestant, that is what children were forced to learn, likewise that is what Shakespeare was forced to learn and that set the tone of how society would behave as well as the physical features of society. However, many of Shakespeare’s teachers were Catholics. Most notably, Robert Dibdale, one of Shakespeare’s Catholic…

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