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	In Search of Shakespeare . John Shakespeare \| PBS
		John also refused to pay a levy imposed on the town for strengthening the local militia – presumably to fight off the much anticipated Catholic threat from overseas.
		John, the once popular and successful Stratford citizen, seems by act of will or necessity to be opting out of the increasingly Protestant society.
		John may never have learned to write, but was educated enough to be able to read and conduct his affairs at the height of his powers in Stratford.
	www.pbs.org /shakespeare/players/player26.html (860 words)

	Shakespeare, William - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Shakespeare had a tremendous vocabulary and a corresponding sensitivity to nuance, as well as a singular aptitude for coining neologisms and punning.
		Shakespeare was criticized for mixing comedy and tragedy and failing to observe the unities of time and place prescribed by the rules of classical drama.
		In 2005 a new candidate, Sir Henry Neville, a courtier, diplomat, and distant relative of Shakespeare, was proposed.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-shakespe.html (2821 words)

	William Shakespeare - Books and Biography
		Shakespeare was the eldest son of Mary Arden, the daughter of a local landowner, and her husband, John Shakespeare (c.
		John Aubrey (1626-1697) tells in Brief Lives that Shakespeare's father was a butcher and the young William exercised his father's trade, "but when he kill'd a Calfe he would do it in a high style, and make a speech." In 1568 John Shakespeare was made a mayor of Stratford and a justice of peace.
		Shakespeare is assumed to have been educated at Stratford Grammar School, and he may have spent the years 1580-82 as a teacher for the Roman Catholic Houghton family in Lancashire.
	www.readprint.com /author-69/William-Shakespeare (1331 words)

	John Shakespeare - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Richard Shakespeare of Snitterfield who was given land for his services to King Henry VII of England.
		John Shakespeare was a very successful man during the early part of his career.
		In the eighteenth century, a tract signed by John Shakespeare, and promising to remain a Catholic in his heart, was found in the rafters of the house on Henley Street.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Shakespeare (365 words)

	Shakespeare's family
		Shakespeare's mother was born Mary Arden, the daughter of a well-to-do landowner in a lesser branch of an aristocratic family.
		In 1596, John Shakespeare applied for, and was granted, a coat of arms, which would then make him and his family members of the gentry; in 1597 William bought the splendid house New Place on the main street of Stratford.
		Edmund Shakespeare was born in Stratford in 1580.
	ise.uvic.ca /Library/SLT/life/family.html (631 words)

	William Shakespeare - Biography and Works
		John Shakespeare was a local businessman and also involved in municipal affairs as Alderman and Bailiff, but a decline in his fortunes in his later years surely had an effect on William.
		Shakespeare's series of historical dramas, based on the English Kings from John to Henry VIII were a tremendous undertaking to dramatise the lives and rule of kings and the changing political events of his time.
		Shakespeare spent his life writing about a feeling he had felt upon his marriage and the birth of his children, but without feeling other opposite and equally emotional feelings as love, he didn't know the true meaning of the word or the complexities behind it.
	www.online-literature.com /shakespeare (4043 words)

	ARTSEDGE: Romeo and Juliet: Shakespeare's England: About Shakespeare
		His father, John Shakespeare, was a burgess of the borough who later became bailiff, and his mother, Mary Arden, was the heiress to land that had been passed down for many generations.
		Shakespeare's success as a writer can be garnered from the fact that his plays were published in octavo editions called "penny-copies," and he was able to retire to his Stratford home in 1611.
		Shakespeare died on April 23, 1616 and was buried at the parish church in Stratford-upon-Avon.
	artsedge.kennedy-center.org /exploring/randj/england/about_shake.html (519 words)

	Shakespeare King John Summary
		John seems unprincipled when he is willing to bargain away part of his country in exchange for holding on to the throne.
		Royal Lineage in John's era: Henry II ruled 1154-1189, was married to Eleanor of Aquitaine, and was son of Geoffrey of Anjou (nicknamed "Plantagenet").
		John claimed the throne on the death of Richard I in 1199 and ruled 1199-1216.
	www.mcgoodwin.net /pages/otherbooks/ws_kingjohn.html (2436 words)

	The Academy of American Poets - William Shakespeare
		The son of John Shakespeare and Mary Arden, he was probably educated at the King Edward IV Grammar School in Stratford, where he learned Latin and a little Greek and read the Roman dramatists.
		Shakespeare may have taught at school during this period, but it seems more probable that shortly after 1585 he went to London to begin his apprenticeship as an actor.
		While Shakespeare was regarded as the foremost dramatist of his time, evidence indicates that both he and his world looked to poetry, not playwriting, for enduring fame.
	www.poets.org /poet.php/prmPID/122 (722 words)

	Shakespeare's Life: Was Shakespeare Homosexual? How did Shakespeare die?
		Shakespeare's style of writing and metre choice were typical of the day, and other writings of the time influenced how he structured his compositions.
		His first attempt was unsuccessful; however, near the very end of John Shakespeare's life, he once again applied to the College of Heralds for a coat-of-arms, and, likely due to the success of William in London, this time his wish was granted.
		Shakespeare's parents, however, were very likely covert Catholics and Shakespeare's father, John, was close friends with William Catesby, the father of the head conspirator in the gunpowder plot to blow the Protestant monarchy to smithereens.
	www.shakespeare-online.com /faq/lifefaq.html (1521 words)

	Shakespeare's Biography: Information on Shakespeare's Parents, Siblings, Career as Actor, Children, Marriage, Death, ...
		Genealogists claim to have discovered one man related to Shakespeare who was hanged in Gloucestershire for theft in 1248, and Shakespeare's father, in an application for a coat of arms, claimed that his grandfather was a hero in the War of the Roses and was granted land in Warwickshire in 1485 by Henry VII.
		Shakespeare probably began his education at the age of six or seven at the Stratford grammar school, which is still standing only a short distance from his house on Henley Street and is in the care of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust.
		Shakespeare's daily activities after he left school and before he re-emerged as a professional actor in the late 1580s are impossible to trace.
	www.shakespeare-online.com /biography (6020 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: The Religion of Shakespeare (Was Shakespeare Catholic?)
		John Shakespeare had held municipal office in Stratford-on-Avon during Mary's reign at a time when it seems agreed that Protestants were rigorously excluded from such posts.
		It is also certain that in 1592 John Shakespeare was presented as a recusant, though classified among those "recusants heretofore presented who were thought to forbear coming to church for fear of process of debt".
		Again Shakespeare was buried in the chancel of the parish church, though it is admitted that no argument can be deduced from this as to the creed he professed (Lee, op.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/13748c.htm (1132 words)

	William Shakespeare's Father John Shakespeare
		The seventeenth-century diarist John Aubrey, one of the first to visit Stratford in search of Shakespeare evidence, reported unequivocally that the poet's father was a butcher.
		John Shakespeare, again like his son after him, was also something of a property dealer.
		John's first recognition came in September 1556, within three years of the borough's incorporation, when he was chosen as one of its two ale-tasters — an office for 'able persons and discreet', whose duties were to check that bakers made loaves of regulation weight, and brewers 'wholesome' ales and beers at regulation prices.
	www.englishhistory.info /Shakespeare/shakespeares-father.html (1259 words)

	Shakespeare in American Communities (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		William is born to John Shakespeare, a glove-maker, and Mary Arden of Stratford-upon-Avon, their third child and first son.
		John Shakespeare, the dramatist's father, is granted a coat of arms.
		Shakespeare is part owner through shares divided between the Burbage family of actors (half) and five others, including the dramatist.
	www.shakespeareinamericancommunities.org /about/chronology.html (1664 words)

	William Shakespeare: King John
		The tragedy of "King John," though not written with the utmost power of Shakspeare, is varied with a very pleasing interchange of incidents and characters.
		So long as John is the impersonator of England, of defiance to the foreigner, and opposition to the Pope, so long is he a hero.
		The character which to me stands foremost in "John" is Constance, with that most touching expression of grief for the son she had lost.
	geocities.com /litpageplus/shakmoul-kingjohn.html (943 words)

	"After Shakespeare" by John Gross, ed. - Salon
		Then Shakespeare went on, in measured verse, to say that he read Hugo's writing regularly up in heaven, often aloud for the benefit of the other immortals.
		Shakespeare's contemporaries were wary of lavishing too much praise, perhaps for fear of diminishing the magnitude, or undermining the endurance, of their own accomplishments.
		Gross' miscellany is of the sort that few scholars have dared undertake since the 19th century, an antidote to academic tomes that throws together extracts on Shakespeare and his plays from sources as varied as the bard's 400 years of readers.
	dir.salon.com /story/books/review/2002/08/07/shakespeare/index.html (370 words)

	Shakespeare Biography at AbsoluteShakespeare.com
		From baptism records, we know William's father was a John Shakespeare, said to be a town official of Stratford and a local businessman who dabbled in tanning, leatherwork and whittawering which is working with white leather to make items like purses and gloves.
		John also dealt in grain and sometimes was described as a glover by trade.
		The proof most often cited that Shakespeare authored his plays however, was the First Folio (1623) where Henry Condell and John Hemminges who were actors in the Bard's theatre company, claim in a dedicatory verse within the Folio that they recorded and collected his plays as a memorial to the late actor and playwright.
	absoluteshakespeare.com /trivia/biography/shakespeare_biography.htm (1766 words)

	Masterpiece Theatre \| The Merchant of Venice \| Who Was Shakespeare?
		The generally accepted facts are as follows: Shakespeare was born in 1564, the third child and first son of John Shakespeare and his wife Mary Arden, in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England.
		John Shakespeare was a landowner, a merchant, a glovemaker, and a man on a political track.
		Around 1588 Shakespeare and his family moved to London and within a few years he had achieved some success as an actor, a poet and a playwright.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/masterpiece/merchant/shakespeare.html (648 words)

	Shakespeare Biography
		Shakespeare’s life can be divided into three periods: the first 20 years in Stratford, which include his schooling, early marriage, and fatherhood; the next 25 years as an actor and playwright in London; and the last five in retirement back in Stratford where he enjoyed moderate wealth gained from his theatrical successes.
		In 1596, John Shakespeare was granted a coat of arms, almost certainly purchased by William, who the next year bought a sizable house in Stratford.
		Shakespeare probably left school at 15, which was the norm, and took some sort of job, especially since this was the period of his father’s financial difficulty.
	www.enotes.com /william-shakespeare/shakespeare-biography (1145 words)

	Cordula's Web. William Shakespeare
		Shakespeare's influence on the English-speaking world shows in the ready recognition afforded many quotations from Shakespearean plays, the titles of works based on Shakespearean phrases, and the many adaptations of his plays.
		Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon, England, in April 1564, the son of John Shakespeare, a glove-maker, and of Mary Arden.
		Shakespeare married Anne Hathaway, eight years his senior, on November 28, 1582 at Stratford-upon-Avon in a ceremony witnessed by Fulk Sandalls and John Richardson; the bride's pregnancy appears to have hastened the marriage.
	www.cordula.ws /authors/shakespearew.html (2076 words)

	Shakespeare as a man
		Shakespeare was interested in the world around him and had a great knowledge of humans and their interactions with each other.
		Shakespeare was known as the Bard, an Irish singing poet.
		William Shakespeare died in Stratford-upon-Avon the same date that he was born, April 23, 1616 at the age of 52.
	library.advanced.org /19539/saam.htm (1622 words)

	Shakespeare, William. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Among Shakespeare’s most important sources, Raphael Holinshed’s Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland (1587) is significant for the English history plays, although Shakespeare did not hesitate to transform a character when it suited his dramatic purposes.
		Some have thought these letters to be the transposed initials of Henry Wriothesley, 3d earl of Southampton, to whom Shakespeare dedicated Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece; or they are possibly the initials of William Herbert, 3d earl of Pembroke, whose connection with Shakespeare is more tenuous.
		Other important trends in 20th-century criticism include the Freudian approach, such as Ernest Jones’s Oedipal interpretation of Hamlet; the study of Shakespeare in terms of the Elizabethan world view and Elizabethan stage conventions; and the study of the plays in mythic terms.
	www.bartleby.com /65/sh/Shakespe.html (2157 words)

	John Shakespeare
		John's father, Richard Shakespeare, was a tenant farmer of Robert Arden of Wilmecote
		In 1557 John Shakespeare was obtained Public Office when he was elected as ale-taster of the Borough of Stratford (an important role as people drank ale which was safer to drink than water!)
		John became important and was elected Chamberlain of Stratford in 1561, Alderman in 1565 and Mayor in 1568
	www.william-shakespeare.org.uk /john-shakespeare.htm (525 words)

	King John - Everything Shakespeare Summaries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		John orders Hubert to return to England with Arthur and to kill him, hoping Arthur's death will secure John's title to the throne (reminiscent of Richard III).
		Hubert then tells John that Arthur is in truth alive, cheering him up, though unbeknownst to anyone, Arthur has leapt to his own death from a castle wall.
		King John repents to the Pandulph and is reinstated into the church.
	www.field-of-themes.com /shakespeare/summaries/histories/Sjohn.htm (625 words)

	Amazon.com: King John (Folger Shakespeare Library): Books: William Shakespeare,Paul Werstine,Dr. Barbara A. Mowat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C., is home to the world's largest collection of Shakespeare's printed works, and a magnet for Shakespeare scholars from around the globe.
		While certain parties feel John's nephew Arthur is the true king, the truth of the matter is that the terms of succession had not been fully established.
		John's enemies calculate that John will kill Arthur and alienate his own people, and that will turn the tide in France's favor.
	www.amazon.com /King-John-Folger-Shakespeare-Library/dp/0743484983 (1602 words)

	Shakespeare in Love (1998) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Plot Outline: A young Shakespeare, out of ideas and short of cash, meets his ideal woman and is inspired to write one of his most famous plays.
		Even though the movie didn't portray the actual life of William Shakespeare, it is a very interesting interpretation of what his life might have been like.
		This movie, unlike many others I have been forced to watch in school, has not been a waste of time and has informed us more about the concepts and details that could not be seen just by reading the play.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0138097 (397 words)

	John Shakespeare Biography - Biography.com
		After his apprenticeship, John Shakespeare set up a business in Stratford, was elected burgess in 1559, and six years later became an alderman.
		His wool business failed (1576–7), and he was deprived of his alderman's gown, but in 1592 he was rescued by his son William, whose earnings in the London theatre were enough to restore the family's position.
		In 1596 John was awarded a coat of arms, and died a gentleman.
	www.biography.com /search/article.jsp?aid=9480311 (131 words)

	English 24-Shakespeare's Time
		Birth of William Shakespeare at Stratford-upon-Avon, son to glover John Shakespeare and Mary Arden Shakespeare.
		Shakespeare publishes his two long narrative poems, Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece, both dedicated to the Earl of Southampton (see H.
		Shakespeare retiring to Stratford; Fletcher taking over as principal playwright for the King's Men.
	www.dartmouth.edu /~engl24/chrono.html (1979 words)

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