Twelfth Night
Lola Adegbesan, Ana Manchala
A Little Bit on Shakespheare
Shakespheare is a very important man of the 15th-16th century. He was a very creative man. Therefore, we believe that it is only fair and right to provide a little bit of information about him.
William Shakespeare is considered to be the greatest playwright of all time, although many facts about his life remain a mystery. He lived during the reigns of Elizabeth I and James I and made up hundreds of new words and phrases that we use today! We are now going to tell you about him, but not us, shakespeare will tell you himself, if only we could go back in time.......
'Good dawning to thee friend, lest I William Shakespeare, but for some reason mine name keepeth being spelt in comical ways....... concluded, be it! I wilt tell thee a bit about myself as thou art so keen to knowe. I wast born in Stratford apon aven and baptised on 26th April 1564. mine mother wast a very much lovely lady going by the name of Mary arden and mine father named John Shakespeare. I married Anne Hathaway, on November 28, 1582. twas such a joyous day. the lady wast eight years older than me and our first issue, Susanna, wast born six months after our wedding. Two years anon, we hadst twins, Hamnet and Judith, but our son hath kicked the bucket at which hour our son wast 11 years of age. (sniff... ), wilt thee excuse me for a minute...
I hadst begun to beest recognized for mine talent but not everyone wast joyous contemporary critic, Robert Green,
described me as an, "upstart Crow" in the papers. I Shakespeare wast eke one of the managing partners of the Lord Chamberlain's Company who eke hath included the famous Richard Burbage. We mainly performed in the Globe and the Black friars theater. In 1593 and 1594, mine first poems, 'Venus and Adonis' and 'The Rape of Lucrece', wast published in Southampton. I eke wroteth most of mine sonnets at this time. I am eke a playeth writeth, with records of mine first playeth beginning to appeareth in 1594 and more playeth anon on. mine worketh apace hath paid off, and I slowly got more and more wage after I published some of mine first playeth. By 1596 mine father hadst been granted a coat of arms as well! Mine earlier playeth wast mainly histories and comedies such as 'Henry VI', 'Titus Andronicus', 'A Midsummer Night's Dream', 'The Merchant of Venice' and 'Richard II'. I eke published the tragedy 'Romeo and Juliette'. I becameth known as a famous poet and playwright and wast hath called upon to perform several of mine playeth ere the Queen. aye the Queen! The highest of the high! In 1598 the author Francis Meres described me as England’s greatest writer. I am probably still known in the future.
In 1602, I wast so successefull that I could afford to moveth up to Silver Street, near whither the Barbican is situated in thy time, and I wast living hither at which hour that gent wroteth some of his greatest tragedies such as 'Hamlet', 'Othello', 'King Lear' and 'Macbeth'.
I then hath spent the last five years of his life in a New lodging in Stratford. And that's mine story!