William Shakespeare Research Papers
Do you think you know Shakespeare well enough to write a research paper on him or make a presentation about him? Who did he marry? What did he do for a living? Did he have kids? What was his muse? How did he support his family? Did he really invent new words like everyone says? Simple things like that is hard to learn about a person that died WAY back then,
1616 to be correct. That is almost over 400 years ago! They never really wrote anything down or stored things like we do today. Everything that they had during that time is basically destroyed by now. Here’s a little knowledge of the well-known William Shakespeare.
William Shakespeare, a well-known playwright and poet in the sixteenth century, has wrote many heart-stopping romances and tragedies. …show more content…
To this day in modern society, his works are taught to high school students across the nation. He is known for his famous writings of
Macbeth, Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, and Julius Caesar, just to name a few. He married Anne
Hathaway at the age of eighteen and they had three children together, Hamnet Shakespeare,
Susanna Hall, and Judith Quiney. Shakespeare supposedly came into this world April 23, 1564 and was baptized three days later by Holy Trinity and supposedly died April 23, 1616, the same day that he was born. In Holy Trinity’s “burial register lists him as ‘Gulielmus, filius JOhannes
Shakespeare,’([William Shakespeare, son of John Shakespeare])”(Leeman). Shakespeare did not come from a poor family, his father, John Shakespeare, and his mother, Mary Shakespeare, were
Knotts 2 a very wealthy family. John Shakespeare was a successful businessman. He was a glove maker, a farmer that sold timber and barley off of his property, a “brogger” (an unlicensed wool dealer), an ale taster (ensuring weights and measures), High Bailiff (president-day mayor), and he applied for a coat of arms. Women during this time only cared for the children and husband, basically a housewife. Mary Shakespeare fed the kids, cared for the kids and made sure food was ready when the husband came back from work. Women are basically the child bearers, that has always been the case from then till the 1920s, when the women started to rebel and became
“flappers.”
William Shakespeare fell in love with this beautiful woman at the age of eighteen. This woman’s name is Anne Hathaway. Shakespeare and Hathaway had known each other through school and their family. The Hathaway and Shakespeare family were really close people since
John Shakespeare, William’s father, had paid off Richard Hathaway’s, Anne’s father, debt. The
Shakespeare family are financially stable while the Hathaway’s were not so much but they still respected each other (Scheil, The Shakespeare Courtship in the Millennium). Despite their age difference, Shakespeare had a deep love for Anne, her being the older one in the relationship, being 26 of age when they first married.
Many people know that Shakespeare and his wife had kids together, three to be exact.
The oldest one was Susanna Hall. She was the first one to get married out of all three children.
She married a local physician by the name John Hall and they had a daughter by the name
Elizabeth Barnard. She died 33 years after her beloved father died at the age of 66. Two years later, a set of fraternal twins came into this world, a boy and a girl, Hamnet and Judith. Judith
Quiney was the last one to get married and she married a local man in Stratford-upon-Avon by
Knotts 3 the name Thomas Quiney. They had three children together by the names of Richard Quiney,
Thomas Quiney, and Shakespeare Quiney.
Last but not least, Shakespeare’s only son, Hamnet
Shakespeare, did not live too long. Poor little Hamnet died at the age of eleven, possibly due to the famous Bubonic Plague. Some people say that Hamnet’s death has some connections to some of his plays (Hamlet, King John, Julius Caesar, Romeo and Juliet, and Twelfth Night).
Shakespeare started writing plays because he needed some way to support his wife and kids. It was an easy task whenever Susanna came along, but when the twins, Judith and Hamnet, it started to be more problematic. He was more concerned that he would take too much time and would have trouble trying to catch up and make up lost time with the kids. He would take anything and everything to get as much money for his family so they can live happily.
Shakespeare did not like what he was doing since he was basically hardly ever around his family but it was what was best for his family. (Scheil, The Shakespeare Courtship in the Millennium).
Rumor has it that Hamnet’s death is the main reason why Shakespeare wrote Hamlet, the play about how the son, Hamley, gets revenge for the death of the King, his father, and basically everyone dies at the end except Horatio. “In treating the great tragedies, Greenblatt
blends psychobiography and psychohistory to argue that another episode in Shakespeare's life, the death of his son Hamnet, was crucially important to his newly-developing mode of writing. As in his earlier Hamlet in Purgatory, the case is made that drastically-curtailed Protestant rites of mourning for his dead son Hamnet forced Shakespeare's grief underground while also spurring a specific strategy of source appropriation. In each of the great tragedies, Greenblatt argues,
Shakespeare removes some crucially needed causal link in his sources in order to undermine a smooth sense of causality. The result is a kind of dismembering or dislocating of the source that
Knotts 4 shifts the search for motivation to inner, psychological channels (much as the maimed rites of the
Protestant funeral service did with human grieving, forcing underground the working-through).
What is removed from the Hamlet sources is the reason for the Prince's madness: King Hamlet's murder is public knowledge, Hamlet's revenge expected, and feigned madness a protective guise.
Making the murder a ghastly state secret was a crucial source deformation that allowed
Shakespeare to create a ghostly purgatorial figure, a disembodied voice of Shakespeare's son
Hamnet, and his father, whose external revenge message is now eclipsed by the inner command
‘remember me.’” (Magnus, Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare).
Basically what Magnus’s quote said was that in the play, Hamnet was the dead King while
Shakespeare was the Hamlet. Shakespeare really could not show his emotion because he had work to do. He mostly showed his emotions through the writings of his plays, especially Hamlet.
There is many versions of Shakespeare. There is the “hardworking, family man”
Shakespeare depicted by Honan in his work, Shakespeare: A Life, the “ungentle” Shakespeare depicted by Duncan-Jones in her work, Ungentle Shakespeare: Scenes from his Life, and the
“artistry successful” Shakespeare depicted by Greenblatt in his work, Will in the World: How
Shakespeare Became Shakespeare. The “hardworking, family man” Honan depicted basically is that the only reason why he writes plays is because he needed someway to support his wife and kids. Later on, he decided to quit so he could spend time with his family at home because he started to feel the pain from being away from the kids and not spending enough time with them.
The “ungentle” Shakespeare that Duncan-Jones depicted basically is about how he just married
Anne Hathaway just for his sexual needs. “Hathaway was a 'free and independent' woman as a result of her father's death, which lefther 'without much parental care or control.'” (Scheil, The
Knotts 5
Shakespeare Courtship in the Millennium). Duncan-Jones states that Shakespeare was a
“layabout husband good for nothing but spinning verses”. What she means by “spinning verses” is that the only good thing he is good at is writing and directing plays, over forty of them to be exact. The ‘artistry successful” Shakespeare that Greenblatt depicted basically says that
Shakespeare’s and Hathaway”s marriage was not like an actual marriage. They really did not love each other, Shakespeare was basically trapped in this marriage. Hathaway did not care for the love of art like Shakespeare did. Greenblatt also say that he eventually escapes the marriage, most likely cheating on her, to find love, success, and sexual satisfaction. “Although this
Shakespeare may have been sexually attracted to Anne, his parents objected to the marriage because he 'was not making a great match' (121); a reluctant and unwilling Shakespeare was thus
'dragged to the altar' to marry a woman he viewed with 'distaste, and contempt' and who 'filled him with revulsion' (124, 123, 129).” (Scheil, The Shakespeare Courtship in the Millennium). It was an arranged marriage, which was indeed common in that period of time
1616 to be correct. That is almost over 400 years ago! They never really wrote anything down or stored things like we do today. Everything that they had during that time is basically destroyed by now. Here’s a little knowledge of the well-known William Shakespeare.
William Shakespeare, a well-known playwright and poet in the sixteenth century, has wrote many heart-stopping romances and tragedies. …show more content…
To this day in modern society, his works are taught to high school students across the nation. He is known for his famous writings of
Macbeth, Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, and Julius Caesar, just to name a few. He married Anne
Hathaway at the age of eighteen and they had three children together, Hamnet Shakespeare,
Susanna Hall, and Judith Quiney. Shakespeare supposedly came into this world April 23, 1564 and was baptized three days later by Holy Trinity and supposedly died April 23, 1616, the same day that he was born. In Holy Trinity’s “burial register lists him as ‘Gulielmus, filius JOhannes
Shakespeare,’([William Shakespeare, son of John Shakespeare])”(Leeman). Shakespeare did not come from a poor family, his father, John Shakespeare, and his mother, Mary Shakespeare, were
Knotts 2 a very wealthy family. John Shakespeare was a successful businessman. He was a glove maker, a farmer that sold timber and barley off of his property, a “brogger” (an unlicensed wool dealer), an ale taster (ensuring weights and measures), High Bailiff (president-day mayor), and he applied for a coat of arms. Women during this time only cared for the children and husband, basically a housewife. Mary Shakespeare fed the kids, cared for the kids and made sure food was ready when the husband came back from work. Women are basically the child bearers, that has always been the case from then till the 1920s, when the women started to rebel and became
“flappers.”
William Shakespeare fell in love with this beautiful woman at the age of eighteen. This woman’s name is Anne Hathaway. Shakespeare and Hathaway had known each other through school and their family. The Hathaway and Shakespeare family were really close people since
John Shakespeare, William’s father, had paid off Richard Hathaway’s, Anne’s father, debt. The
Shakespeare family are financially stable while the Hathaway’s were not so much but they still respected each other (Scheil, The Shakespeare Courtship in the Millennium). Despite their age difference, Shakespeare had a deep love for Anne, her being the older one in the relationship, being 26 of age when they first married.
Many people know that Shakespeare and his wife had kids together, three to be exact.
The oldest one was Susanna Hall. She was the first one to get married out of all three children.
She married a local physician by the name John Hall and they had a daughter by the name
Elizabeth Barnard. She died 33 years after her beloved father died at the age of 66. Two years later, a set of fraternal twins came into this world, a boy and a girl, Hamnet and Judith. Judith
Quiney was the last one to get married and she married a local man in Stratford-upon-Avon by
Knotts 3 the name Thomas Quiney. They had three children together by the names of Richard Quiney,
Thomas Quiney, and Shakespeare Quiney.
Last but not least, Shakespeare’s only son, Hamnet
Shakespeare, did not live too long. Poor little Hamnet died at the age of eleven, possibly due to the famous Bubonic Plague. Some people say that Hamnet’s death has some connections to some of his plays (Hamlet, King John, Julius Caesar, Romeo and Juliet, and Twelfth Night).
Shakespeare started writing plays because he needed some way to support his wife and kids. It was an easy task whenever Susanna came along, but when the twins, Judith and Hamnet, it started to be more problematic. He was more concerned that he would take too much time and would have trouble trying to catch up and make up lost time with the kids. He would take anything and everything to get as much money for his family so they can live happily.
Shakespeare did not like what he was doing since he was basically hardly ever around his family but it was what was best for his family. (Scheil, The Shakespeare Courtship in the Millennium).
Rumor has it that Hamnet’s death is the main reason why Shakespeare wrote Hamlet, the play about how the son, Hamley, gets revenge for the death of the King, his father, and basically everyone dies at the end except Horatio. “In treating the great tragedies, Greenblatt
blends psychobiography and psychohistory to argue that another episode in Shakespeare's life, the death of his son Hamnet, was crucially important to his newly-developing mode of writing. As in his earlier Hamlet in Purgatory, the case is made that drastically-curtailed Protestant rites of mourning for his dead son Hamnet forced Shakespeare's grief underground while also spurring a specific strategy of source appropriation. In each of the great tragedies, Greenblatt argues,
Shakespeare removes some crucially needed causal link in his sources in order to undermine a smooth sense of causality. The result is a kind of dismembering or dislocating of the source that
Knotts 4 shifts the search for motivation to inner, psychological channels (much as the maimed rites of the
Protestant funeral service did with human grieving, forcing underground the working-through).
What is removed from the Hamlet sources is the reason for the Prince's madness: King Hamlet's murder is public knowledge, Hamlet's revenge expected, and feigned madness a protective guise.
Making the murder a ghastly state secret was a crucial source deformation that allowed
Shakespeare to create a ghostly purgatorial figure, a disembodied voice of Shakespeare's son
Hamnet, and his father, whose external revenge message is now eclipsed by the inner command
‘remember me.’” (Magnus, Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare).
Basically what Magnus’s quote said was that in the play, Hamnet was the dead King while
Shakespeare was the Hamlet. Shakespeare really could not show his emotion because he had work to do. He mostly showed his emotions through the writings of his plays, especially Hamlet.
There is many versions of Shakespeare. There is the “hardworking, family man”
Shakespeare depicted by Honan in his work, Shakespeare: A Life, the “ungentle” Shakespeare depicted by Duncan-Jones in her work, Ungentle Shakespeare: Scenes from his Life, and the
“artistry successful” Shakespeare depicted by Greenblatt in his work, Will in the World: How
Shakespeare Became Shakespeare. The “hardworking, family man” Honan depicted basically is that the only reason why he writes plays is because he needed someway to support his wife and kids. Later on, he decided to quit so he could spend time with his family at home because he started to feel the pain from being away from the kids and not spending enough time with them.
The “ungentle” Shakespeare that Duncan-Jones depicted basically is about how he just married
Anne Hathaway just for his sexual needs. “Hathaway was a 'free and independent' woman as a result of her father's death, which lefther 'without much parental care or control.'” (Scheil, The
Knotts 5
Shakespeare Courtship in the Millennium). Duncan-Jones states that Shakespeare was a
“layabout husband good for nothing but spinning verses”. What she means by “spinning verses” is that the only good thing he is good at is writing and directing plays, over forty of them to be exact. The ‘artistry successful” Shakespeare that Greenblatt depicted basically says that
Shakespeare’s and Hathaway”s marriage was not like an actual marriage. They really did not love each other, Shakespeare was basically trapped in this marriage. Hathaway did not care for the love of art like Shakespeare did. Greenblatt also say that he eventually escapes the marriage, most likely cheating on her, to find love, success, and sexual satisfaction. “Although this
Shakespeare may have been sexually attracted to Anne, his parents objected to the marriage because he 'was not making a great match' (121); a reluctant and unwilling Shakespeare was thus
'dragged to the altar' to marry a woman he viewed with 'distaste, and contempt' and who 'filled him with revulsion' (124, 123, 129).” (Scheil, The Shakespeare Courtship in the Millennium). It was an arranged marriage, which was indeed common in that period of time