William Shakespeare Research Paper

William Shakespeare, often contended as the real author of 37 plays and 114 sonnets (though not without reasonable and legitimate doubts raised about their authorship), was born during the reign of Queen Elizabeth 1 in 1564. Nicknamed ‘ the Bard of Avon’, born to John Shakespeare, a glove maker and tradesman, and Mary Arden, the daughter of an affluent farmer, William Shakespeare was baptized on April 26, 1564, in Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire, Midlands. At that time, infants were baptized three days after their birth; hence, scholars deem that Shakespeare was born on April 23, the same day on which he died at age 52. As the third of eight children, young William grew up in this insignificant town 100 miles northwest of London, far from

Shakespeare’s pater encountered pecuniary hardship throughout William’s juvenescence, denying him a university education. Rather, in the year 1582, at what time Shakespeare was 18 years of age; he acquired a warrant to espouse Anne Whateley, and then wedded Anne Hathaway the following day, albeit the latter was eight years senior than him. The plausible reason for this is that Anne Hathaway was already parturient. The evidently unhappy twosome spawned three children; the first was the bastard Susanna, and afterwards the doppelgängers, Hamnet and Judith, which Hamnet croaked at a very young age. Forgoing his spouse and progenies back in Stratford in 1588, the so-called ‘playwright’ supposedly moved to London. By 1592, he is reported to have been listed as a thespian with the Lord Strange’s Players, for whom he ostensibly wrote his first screenplay, the vastly eminent Henry VI, Part 1, followed tout de suite by the sequels Henry VI, Parts 2 & 3 during the self-same year. He thereafter joined, and became co-owner of the Lord Chamberlain’s Men, continuing his metier as an actor. In 1603, when James I ascended the throne, the Chamberlain’s Men transmogrified into the King’s Men— viz., the King became their fairy