Shakespeare (5)

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William Shakespeare is renowned as the English playwright and poet whose body of works is considered the greatest in history of English literature (absoluteshakespeare.com). For me he is a really great man. His mind is way ahead of the time. He is very creative in writing good plays and really very creative in describing each and every character in his plays. I wonder how it feels like to have a great mind like Shakespeare. I mean does it make him feel happy because he is brilliant? Does it make him feel proud of himself? Or does it make him feel being use for his skill? Before this, I didn’t really care about all these literature things and didn’t want to know about Shakespeare at all even if I’ve heard so many people were talking about his great plays. But recently, I’ve fall in love with his artistic work till’ I look up for his biography to know more about this great man, and here is some interesting fact (for me)that I  found about him.

William Shakespeare Facts: 1

Shakespeare lived to 52. It is known that he was born in April 1564 and that he died on 23rd April 1616. We know that he was baptised on 26th April 1564 and scholars now believe that he was born on April 23rd. He therefore died on his fifty-second birthday, coinciding with St George’s Day.

William Shakespeare Facts: 2

Shakespeare had seven siblings. They were: Joan (1558); Margaret (1562); Gilbert (1566); Joan II (1569); Anne (1571); Richard (1574) and Edmund (1580)

William Shakespeare Facts: 3

Shakespeare married Anne Hathaway when he was 17. She was 26 and she was pregnant when they married. Their first child was born six months after the wedding. Shakespeare and Anne Hathawy had three children together – a son, Hamnet, who died in 1596, and two daughters, Susanna and Judith. His only granddaughter Elizabeth – daughter of Susanna – died childless in 1670. Shakespeare therefore has no descendants.

William Shakespeare Facts: 4

Shakespeare was buried in the Holy Trinity Church, Stratford-upon-Avon. He put a curse on anyone daring to move his body from that final resting place. His epitaph was:
Good friend for Jesus’ sake forbear,
To dig the dust enclosed here:
Blest be the man that spares these stones,
And curst be he that moves my bones.
Though it was customary to dig up the bones from previous graves to make room for others, Shakespeare’s remains are still undisturbed.

William Shakespeare Facts: 5

One of Shakespeare’s relatives on his mother’s side, William Arden, was arrested for plotting against Queen Elizabeth I, imprisoned in the Tower of London and executed.

William Shakespeare Facts: 6

All Uranus’ satellites are named after Shakespearean characters.

William Shakespeare Facts: 7

‘William Shakespeare’ is an anagram of ‘I am a weakish speller’.