What were William Shakespeare's favorite things?

Answer 1

One of the problems in talking about someone who has been dead for 400 years is that unless someone wrote down facts about him, we just don't know. Did Shakespeare like smoking tobacco? I don't know--nobody said he did, and nobody said he didn't. Did Shakespeare dislike fat blonde women? He may have, but nobody said either way.

We have no information at all about what Shakespeare was like as a person, except that he seemed to be able to get on well with everyone and was never in any kind of trouble. (Except when he found that he was about to become a father at the age of 18!) Nobody who knew him personally thought that it was worth their while to write that sort of thing down. We can guess some things from what he did (we know that social status was important to him or he wouldn't have gone to such trouble to get a coat of arms) but that is all.

One place which we should not try to use as a source of information are the lines the characters say in his plays. Otherwise we could use the line "Now could I drink hot blood" to justify our theory that Shakespeare was a vampire.

Answer 2

Writting Poems

Writting Plays

here are some facts about him:

- Born 23April 1564

- Died 1616

- was a poet and a play writer

- wrote 165 Sonnets (a 14 line poem)

and loads more.....

Answer 3

History does not seem to record which of Shakespeare's plays was his favourite.

We have no way of knowing what food and drink Shakespeare was particularly fond of. For all we know he may have hated cheese. As likely as not, he ate about the same things that people did back then in England: ale, mulled wine, capons, beef, fish, salads (sallets). He did not drink cocoa, or coffee, or fresh milk, and did not eat potatoes, or tomatoes, or peppers, or fast food of any kind. These things were not available at that time. (Milk was not available to city dwellers because it went bad so quickly without pasteurization or refrigeration.)

Answer 4

We have no way of knowing this. We cannot go by the plays because the characters say what they say because of who they are not who Shakespeare was. So, even though Shakespeare wrote "Now could I drink hot blood", it is not evidence that he was a vampire.

Answer 5

We don't know enough about Shakespeare's personal life to answer this question.

Answer 6

Nobody knows. Shakespeare did not consider it to be important to write about his personal life and nobody else thought that it was important either.

Answer 7

He's been dead for 400 years and is long past liking anything.