No. You see, what we start with is a number of publications of play scripts as well as contemporary anecdotes and diary entries about those plays. These plays were said to have been written by William Shakespeare. Was there a real person called William Shakespeare? Yes, no question. Was he a real actor? Yes, lots of people seem to have recorded that fact. Did he act in the same company that the publishers of the plays did? Yes, unquestionably. Was his name associated with these plays as well as various poems during his lifetime as the author? Yes, and by a lot of different people, too.
So Shakespeare is not a fake in the sense that Lemony Snicket is a fake--the author of his plays and poems did not invent a fake person to name as the author. William Shakespeare was a real person, and a well-known one to boot. It is one thing to use a fake name as a pen-name (like Lemony Snicket) if your real name is Daniel Handler, but another altogether for Daniel Handler to write A Series of Unfortunate Events by J.K. Rowling. You can be sure that Ms. Rowling would raise a stink about that. And in fact the real William Shakespeare did raise a stink about people publishing other people's poetry and claiming that it was written by him.
Essentially, yes. Shakespeare based his play either directly or indirectly on a translation of a "History of the Danes" written by Saxo Germanicus. The events in the play are, however, quite different from the story of Amleth in Saxo, although one can see the similarities. And in any event, many people would say that Saxo was writing legends, not real history.
William Shakespeare was a real person. He was not a fiction. You can go and visit his grave in Stratford if you like.
As to whether the things which Shkespeare wrote are fiction or not, the answer is both. The history plays and the Roman plays Julius Caesar and Antony and Cleopatra are based fairly closely on real historical events although events have been telescoped for dramatic reasons and the biases and errors of his sources have been carried forward. Macbeth is also based on a historical person, although the facts of his life were not as Shakespeare shows them. King Lear, Cymbeline and Hamlet are based on legendary history, about as historical as the story behind Troilus and Cressida. The other plays are pure fiction.
umm yeah, william shakespeare was a real guy, in england in the 16th century.
Nope. Who wrote all the plays if he wasn't ever alive?
Nope. Who would of wrote all his plays if he wasn't alive?
I think its rather simple. they fell over and went very still. In Shakespeare's day the actors sometimes concealed a bladder filled with animal blood under their clothes so they could appear to bleed when they were stabbed.
Christopher 'Kit' Marlowe was stabbed to death in a tavern and many rumours have developed surrounding his death as he was supposedly associated with Francis Walshingham, Queen Elizabeth I's spymaster.
Susanna Shakespeare was a girl. So was Judith Shakespeare. Hamnet Shakespeare was a boy though.
No as he was a real person.
Nope. Who wrote all the plays if he wasn't ever alive?
Nope. Who would of wrote all his plays if he wasn't alive?
There is no record of a riot at any performance of the Lord Chamberlain's/King's Men. There was a riot at the Swan theatre over a fake production called "England's Joy" set up by some conmen, but Shakespeare had nothing to do with that.
I think its rather simple. they fell over and went very still. In Shakespeare's day the actors sometimes concealed a bladder filled with animal blood under their clothes so they could appear to bleed when they were stabbed.
Capulet at the fake death of Juliet. "Death lies on her like an untimely frost, upon the sweetest flower of all the field.
You mean, I suppose, during his lifetime. Shakespeare was well-known for his writing during his lifetime. One of the best examples of this is in Francis Meres's book Palladis Tamia in 1597, in which he listed all of the best writers in England at that time, and mentioned Shakespeare as a playwright, and as a composer of sonnets and epic poems. One reason we know that Shakespeare made a name for himself was that although the earliest of his plays were published anonymously, after a while the publishers thought it would sell more copies if the plays were attributed to Shakespeare. Later, they started adding Shakespeare's name to stuff that he hadn't written, which shows that his name was a real selling point. Otherwise why try to sell fake Shakespeare plays and poems?
Yes! Shakespeare's name was really Shakespeare. His whole name was William Shakespeare.
John Shakespeare (father) Mary (Arden) Shakespeare (mother) Anne (Hathaway) Shakespeare (wife) Susanna (Shakespeare) Hall (daughter) Hamnet Shakespeare (son - twin) Judith (Shakespeare) Quiney (daughter - twin) Joan (Shakespeare) Hart (sister) Gilbert Shakespeare, Richard Shakespeare, Edmund Shakespeare (brothers)
Will Shakespeare is William Shakespeare, the famous playwright.
Depends what you mean by fake. They are all real plays; they can be and are actually performed. They are not closet plays to be read and not performed. Are the stories in the plays true stories? Some of them are based on historical fact--the histories, Macbeth, and the Roman plays. If you mean by "fake" that the stories are not stories about Shakespeare's personal life, then indeed they are completely unrelated to his personal life. It is a matter of great frustration to many people that this is so, but it is certainly so. He did not write his plays because his son died, because he had a toothache or because Anne wanted a new dress; he wrote them around good stories that he had heard or read and which he thought would sell. Period.
The first person to arrive at Juliet's tomb in William Shakespeare's play "Romeo and Juliet" is Friar Laurence, who goes to retrieve Juliet after she has taken a potion to fake her death.