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This was called The King’s New School, and was just a five-minute walk from his home on Henley Street. He continued to collaborate with younger playwrights, participating in the writing of Henry VIII, Two Noble Kinsmen, and also the lost play, Cardenio, with his friend John Webster.
Shakespeare’s Death
We aren’t sure of the exact date of his death but it is assumed, from a record of his burial two days later at Holy Trinity Church, Stratford-Upon-Avon that he died on his 52nd birthday on 23rd April 1616.
It probably wasn’t but we don’t know for sure.
Despite all of the theories, the cause of Shakespeare’s death at the age of just 52 will likely remain a mystery. We acknowledge here our reference to the following established secondary sources:
Bill Bryson. Evidently Shakespeare garnered some envy early on, as related by the critical attack of Robert Greene, a London playwright, in 1592: "...an upstart crow, beautified with our feathers, that with his Tiger's heart wrapped in a player's hide, supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you: and being an absolute Johannes fac totum, is in his own conceit the only Shake-scene in a country."
Greene's bombast notwithstanding, Shakespeare must have shown considerable promise.
Historians use the following primary sources to piece together his life:
- Shakespeare’s works — the plays, poems and sonnets.
- Official records such as church and court records.
- Written commentary about Shakespeare and his work from contemporaries such as Robert Green and Ben Johnson.
Biographers over the years have amassed an immense amount of knowledge and information Some fact, some opinion.
The father bathed first, followed by any other men who lived in the house, then the women, and finally the children, in order of their age. Other theories are that Shakespeare toured with an acting troupe possibly in Italy. It was in this area Shakespeare and his business partners Kempe and Burbage built their own theater on the south bank of The Thames river, which they called the Globe Theater.
There is no record of Shakespeare going to university. Hamnet died of unknown causes at 11 years old, but William’s daughters and wife outlived him. It is also claimed that shortly before she died, Elizabeth requested to see A Midsummer’s Night Dream.
When Elizabeth died in 1603, Shakespeare was publicly chided for not properly eulogizing the Virgin Queen.
The scene is a sly reference to the oft-repeated notion that Shakespeare didn’t actually write his own plays.
“To have that scene where Marlowe and Shakespeare meet in the pub and they are kind of talking shop is a fanciful representation that scholars have long held of Marlowe influencing Shakespeare’s work,” Hooks says. Since Shakespeare’s father, John, was a local dignitary, he would have no doubt been called upon to join in the festivities, which included pageants, masques and skits performed on an artificial lake.
Shakespeare was involved with this company of actors in London for most of his career, as actor, producer, theatre owner and, of course, a very popular playwright.
It’s evident that Shakespeare was earning good money from his theatre business, as civil records show that in 1597 he bought New Place, one of Stratford’s biggest houses, and moved his family into it.
There are other reports that Michael Drayton and Ben Johnson visited Shakespeare a week before he died and spent the evening eating and drinking together.
This may be true, but there is a further theory that Shakespeare was sick for over a month before he died. According to Dennis, William Shakespeare’s theater troupe, the Lord Chamberlain’s Men, had performed the Henry IV plays at the court of Elizabeth I.
So taken was the Queen with the comic and wise character of Falstaff, she requested a play in which the character fell in love. The Queen’s friendships were always a topic of intense gossip, and there is no record of any whispers about the two.
Young William was born of John Shakespeare, a glover and leather merchant, and Mary Arden, a landed local heiress. “She was so eager to see it acted,” Dennis wrote, “that she commanded it be finished in 14 days.” Shakespeare obliged, and the result was the comic Merry Wives of Windsor. Read more about Shakespeare’s birthplace.
Shakespeare’s family home on Henley Street, Stratford-upon-Avon
Shakespeare’s Childhood and Education
During Shakespeare’s time it was typical for boys to start their education at grammar school at seven and be taught a curriculum with Latin at is centre.
In March 1595, Shakespeare and two associates were paid 20 pounds for “two comedies shown before Her Majesty in Christmas last.”
In 1598, the title of a printed edition of Love’s Labor’s Lost read:
A pleasant conceited comedie called, Love’s Labor’s Lost. William and Anne went on to have twins Hamnet (a boy) and Judith (a girl), born on the 2nd February 1585.