William Shakespeare - Poet, Playwright

William Shakespeare - Poetry Foundation While William Shakespeare’s reputation is based primarily on his plays, he became famous first as a poet. With the partial exception of the Sonnets (1609), quarried since the early 19th century for autobiographical secrets allegedly encoded in them, the nondramatic writings have traditionally been pushed to the margins of the Shakespeare industry. Yet the study of his nondramatic poetry can illuminate Shakespeare’s activities as a poet emphatically of his own age, especially in the period of extraordinary literary ferment in the last ten or twelve years of the reign of Queen Elizabeth. Shakespeare’s exact birth date remains unknown. He was baptized in Holy Trinity Church in Stratford-upon-Avon on April 26, 1564, his mother’s third child, but the first to survive infancy. This has led scholars to conjecture that he was born on April 23rd, given the era’s convention of baptizing newborns on their third day. Shakespeare’s literary and social aspirations are revealed at every turn.

Random House Children's Publishers UK. (2012). The... William Shakespeare Bio Click to listen to a podcast with the author Listen to our podcast episode on him here: A book seller that got a larger than life reputation centuries after his death. If the stories are to be believed he’s still around. I’ll bet some waiting for this one for a while. If people can name one Alchemist, it’s probably him. So let’s get one thing out of the way at the very beginning: Like some of the other’s on this podcast, Flamel was not an alchemist. He got the reputation centuries after his death.. but we’ll clarify that. First, who was the real Flamel? Nicolas Flamel probably born in Pontoise, ca 1330 – died Paris, March 22, 1418, was a successful French scrivener and manuscript-seller. According to texts ascribed to Flamel almost two hundred years after his death, he had learned alchemical secrets from a Jewish converso on the road to Santiago de Compostela. The real historical Flamel lived in Paris in the fourteenth and fifteenth century and his life is one of the best documented in the history of medieval alchemy. For instance..

William Shakespeare - Poetry & Biography of the Famous poet. All their poems! - All Poetry William Shakespeare (/ˈʃeɪkspɪər/; 26 April 1564 (baptised) – 23 April 1616) was an English poet, playwright and actor, 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 extant works, including some collaborations, consist of about 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and a few other verses, the authorship of some of which is uncertain. 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 brought up in Stratford-upon-Avon. Shakespeare produced most of his known work between 1589 and 1613. Many of his plays were published in editions of varying quality and accuracy during his lifetime.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE BIOGRAPHY INTRODUCTION TO THE BIOGRAPHY OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEAREWill lived for 52 years as his biography confirms. 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 Shakespeare's biography, or bio, sparks so much interest. William Shakespeare Biography A COMPREHENSIVE WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE BIOGRAPHYDue to amount of information available we have detailed the William Shakespeare biography in to specific sections. What do we know about the history of William Shakespeare's ancestors? THE ANSWERS TO MANY OF THESE WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE BIOGRAPHY QUESTIONS! Biography of William Shakespeare - Ancestors of the playwright - History and facts about the family tree Elizabethan Crime and Punishment Elizabethan Wedding Customs