Tuesday, October 23, 2007

His Young Adult and Adult Hood

On November 28, 1582 William Shakespeare and Ann Hathwey of Stratford were married. Some of his famous writing were said that they were about his love life. Examples are

Midsummer Night's Dream:
Lysander: The course of true love never did run smooth;But either it was different in blood...Or else misgraffed in respect of years--Hermia: O spite! too old to be engage'd to young.

Or in Twelfth Night:
Duke: Then let thy love be younger than thyself,Or thy affection cannot hold the bent;For women are as roses, whose fair flow'rBeing once display'd doth fall that very hour.


On May 26, 1583 their first daughter, Susanna was baptised. Then two years later, Hamnet and Judith were born they were twin. They were named after Hamnet and Judith Sadler, They were supposed to be friends to Shakespeare

There other famous writings or quotes were:
King John refer to this event:
Grief fills the room up of my absent child,Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me,Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words,Remembers me of all his gracious parts,Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form.Then have I reason to be fond of grief.

Our revels now are ended. These our actorsAs I foretold you were all spirits andAre melted into air, into thin air;And like the baseless fabric of this vision,The cloud-capped tow'rs, the gorgeous palaces,The solemn temples, the great globe itself,Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve,And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuffAs dreams are made on, and our little lifeIs rounded with a sleep.

Duke Vincentio: Now, as fond fathers.Having bound up the threat'ning twigs of birch,Only to stick it in their children's sightfor terror, not to use; in time the rodBecomes more mocked than feared; so our decrees.Dead to infliction, to themselves are dead,And Liberty plucks Justice by the nose;The baby beats the nurse, and quite athwartGoes all decorum.

Shakespeare may also have spent time traveling to distant towns and maybe even foreign countries. His plays suggest that he visited Italy, for more than a dozen of them–including The Merchant of Venice, Romeo and Juliet, All's Well That Ends Well, Othello, Coriolanus, Julius Caesar, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Taming of the Shrew, Titus Andronicus, Much Ado About Nothing, and The Winter's Tale all have scenes set in Italy

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