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None of the theatres Shakespeare was involved in changed their names.
Just one, Richard Burbage's company. They started out as the Lord Chamberlain's Men but changed patrons and names to the King's Men. They were still the same company though.
Shakespeare had no pen names.
Just to make it clear, Shakespeare was associated with only one acting company for almost all of his career. It was the only company he was actually a partner in. But it did have two names. The reason for this is that the names for acting companies in Shakespeare's day were never chosen by anyone. It's not like nowadays where if you start an acting company you can call it anything you want. In those days the name of your company was the name of your patron. Period. If you changed patron, or if the patron changed his name or his job, your company's name would change, and you had nothing to say about it. If a group of actors in Shakespeare's day tried to say "We're the Happy Day Players", they would get a visit from the police who would say "Happy Day Players, eh? That means you have no patron" and throw them all in jail.
They are two names for the acting company that William Shakespeare was part of. It was called the Lord Chamberlain's Men 1594-1603 and The King's Men after 1603.
None of the theatres Shakespeare was involved in changed their names.
Just one, Richard Burbage's company. They started out as the Lord Chamberlain's Men but changed patrons and names to the King's Men. They were still the same company though.
Shakespeare had no pen names.
Lord Hunsdon's Men, the Lord Chamberlain's Men, and the King's Men were all names of the same company to which Shakespeare belonged at different times in its history.
Just to make it clear, Shakespeare was associated with only one acting company for almost all of his career. It was the only company he was actually a partner in. But it did have two names. The reason for this is that the names for acting companies in Shakespeare's day were never chosen by anyone. It's not like nowadays where if you start an acting company you can call it anything you want. In those days the name of your company was the name of your patron. Period. If you changed patron, or if the patron changed his name or his job, your company's name would change, and you had nothing to say about it. If a group of actors in Shakespeare's day tried to say "We're the Happy Day Players", they would get a visit from the police who would say "Happy Day Players, eh? That means you have no patron" and throw them all in jail.
They are two names for the acting company that William Shakespeare was part of. It was called the Lord Chamberlain's Men 1594-1603 and The King's Men after 1603.
Shakespeare = Shakespeare(names are usually the same in all languages)
Elizabethan acting companies took the names of their patrons--by law, no acting company could exist unless it was sponsored by a noble or royal patron. This was automatic; neither Shakespeare nor anyone else could change the name of the company. The name of the company did not "honor" anyone, it showed who was giving the actors legal protection.
Susanna Shakespeare was a girl. So was Judith Shakespeare. Hamnet Shakespeare was a boy though.
William Shakespeare had one son , named Hamnet
William Shakespeare's parents names are Mary and John Shakespeare
His name was William Shakespeare. No middle name.