William Shakespeare Facts: 1
Shakespeare’s life fifty-two years. 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 coinciding with St George’s Day. How fitting that the great is so closely identified with the patron saint of England!
William Shakespeare Facts: 2
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: 3
During his life, Shakespeare wrote 37 plays and 154 sonnets!
William Shakespeare Facts: 4
Shakespeare died in 1616 at the age of 52. He wrote 1.5 plays a year since he first started in 1589. His last play The Two Noble Kinsmen is reckoned to have been written in 1613 when he was 49 years old. When you t was amazing. While he was writing the plays at such a pace he was also conducting a family life, a social life and a full life, running an acting company and a theatre. And he was practising his profession as an actor He was also writing poems. If he wrote at night he was doing it in poor lighting and using a quill and ink.
William Shakespeare Facts: 5
Few people realise that apart from writing thirty-seven plays and composing one hundred and fifty-four sonnets, Shakespeare was also an actor who performed many of his own plays as well as those of other playwrights.
William Shakespeare Facts: 6
Almost 400 years after Shakespeare’s death there are . There are 132 million for God, 2.7 million for and coming up on Shakespeare’s heels, George W Bush with 14.7 million.
William Shakespeare Facts: 7
As an actor performing his own plays, Shakespeare performed before Queen I and later before James I who was an enthusiastic patron of his work
William Shakespeare Facts: 8
Suicide occurs an unlucky thirteen times in Shakespeare’s plays. It occurs in Romeo and Juliet where both commit suicide, in Julius Caesar where both Cassius and Brutus die by consensual stabbing, as well as Brutus’ wife Portia, inread even more Shakespeare facts!
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