Lil late topic 13

Technology... Im not gunna say I dont like technology because that would be a lie. But it scares me, that if technology gets so big, it will start to run our lives. It has already advanced so much from what it started from. I like to have a cell phone and have computers and such, but at some point I think taechnology is going to get so big it will start to have power over us if that makes sense. Idk really..

Topic 12 late ooopppppss

Responsibility. Well I think its probably one of the most important things you learn in life. Everyone learns it diferently and everyone has different ways of being responsible. I think responsibility is a huge factor in my life, if I wasn't responsible I wouldn't get to have the privlages I have, I wouldnt get the grades I do, and I wouldnt have the relationships I do. Idk for me theres not much to say about it. I think everyone at some point in their life is going to realize how important responsibility is. If your irresponsible your whole life, I dont think you will get very far.

The Early Years of Shakespeare.

Shakespeare's life is believed to have began on April 23rd 1564, and it is known as a fact that he was baptized into the church three days later on the 26th. Not much is known about Shakespeare's early childhood. In those days as soon as you were a teenager you were hurled into an adult life. Children were considered miniature adults and were therefore treated that way. There really was no distinct "teenage" group like there is in today's society. There was child and adult, no clear in between. Marriage was the next step in a young adults life and typically occurred as soon as you were no longer a child.
Shakespeare started at the King Edward V1 Grammar School when he was seven. Most boys of his status attended these types of grammar schools. The boys had a long and hard day starting around five in the morning and ending around five or six in the evening. They did not have physical education or even vacations. Church on Sunday was mandatory. Latin was at the heart of the curriculum and the method of learning was to memorise long passages of Latin prose and poetry. Latin was the international language of Europe and it was used in the law, the medical profession and Church. If you wanted to enter any sort of profession in that time you had to be fluent in Latin. Shakespeare would also have been drilled in grammar, logic, math, and astronomy. They were also taught music. There were intense tests every week and if you didn't pass you were given physical punishment.
When he was fourteen Shakespeare's father somehow became disliked and his sons had to leave grammar school. There is no real record of what happened to him at this point in his life. The next time we hear of him is when he is eighteen and marrying a twenty-six year old named Anne Hathaway. Anne just so happened to be three months pregnant on her wedding day. Back then it wasn't unusual to be pregnant on your wedding day. When a boy knocked a girl up he was bound to marry her or the child would be coined a "bastard", looked down on for the rest of its life and given no legal rights whatsoever.
So at this point Shakespeare is a penniless, teenage father, married to a women eight years his senior. It is unclear how he was supporting his little family but we know that he must have made money somehow. A few years later, after the birth of twins, another girl, and a boy, Shakespeare made his way to London where he began a career in theatre. He did really well in that and was able to send money to his family and visit them frequently. Eleven years after the birth of the twins he had become so rich that he bought a house for his family which was one of the biggest houses in their city. Amidst all this joy and wealth one of the twins, the boy named
Hamnet, died at the age of eleven.
A random side note about Shakespeare and his life at this time that I thought was disgusting; Since hygiene wasn't that big of a deal back then, Shakespeare only bathed once a year in the month of May. It was a huge ordeal. The water was fetched and boiled into the largest tub where he then bathed, followed by any other man in the household, then the women and the children. By the time the kids entered the tub it was thick with the dirt and nastiness of the other people. Eww.
So it seems that not much is really known about Shakespeare's earliest years, other than the major events in his life, we can really only infer what his life was like as a kid according to the lifestyles of the other people in that time period. No one really knows when he started to write poetry and plays, but it must have started sometime in his schooling years and manifested into something greater when he ventured into the world of theater. I guess you could say that the rest is history.


Resources:

Shakespeare's Early Childhood. No Sweat Shakespeare : Modern Shakespeare Resources & Translations. May 23rd, 2010. http: com="" resources="" htm="">http://www.nosweatshakespeare.com/resources/shakespeare-childhood.htm

Shakespeare Facts: Read Facts About Shakespeare. No Sweat Shakespeare : Modern Shakespeare Resources & Translations. May 23rd 2010. http://www.nosweatshakespeare.com/resources/shakespeare-facts.htm

Shakespeare's School Years & Teenage Years. No Sweat Shakespeare : Modern Shakespeare Resources & Translations. May 23rd, 2010. http://www.nosweatshakespeare.com/resources/shakespeare-teenage-school-years.htm

What I Believe to be an Average Day for Shakespear

William Shakespeare on an average day, probably wouldn't be suffering. Since William owned three estates, he obviously had no small amount of money. My guess is that he was a middle class citizen if not upper class. Although he had one of the thought to be lowest jobs at the time, he probably lived in an upper class fashion; upper class meaning wealthy. He would have bathed, eaten, and dressed probably more like a wealthier man. When he wasn't composing something or acting, his entertainment activities were most likely as a wealthier person's were. Another thing that I would like to point out is that his furniture would have probably been more extravagant than a commoners furniture at that time. In a possible day of Shakespeare, he would have had many, what was considered at that time, luxuries.

In the Seventeenth century, bathing was available to all, but not all could afford it and not all people chose to bath at what is now considered proper. Shakespeare had the money to bathe everyday, but most likely bathed every week or longer. Shakespeare, like everyone else, would have bathed for cleanliness and social purposes. Baths were considered social occasions and were attended by males and females. Private bathes were available for those who could pay for them.
William would have eaten meals full or protein. This is because vegetables were considered commoner's food. Shakespeare, being the money holder that he most likely was, would have eaten meat and dairy products. The poor needed the animals alive to provide them with things such as milk and eggs, but the rich could afford to take the animals meat. The midday meal, lunch, would have been the biggest meal of the day. Shakespeare would have been served beef, mutton, or venison first. Then, he would have been served poultry, an assortment of fish dishes, and yeast bread. Finally, he would have eaten Cheese, pealed fruit, and possibly some kind of pastries. Along with this, he would would have drunken wine, beer, ale, or porter. No one at that time drank water. There was too high of a possibility of contamination. All of this food might have been served on glass, china, or other dishes made of precious metals. The utensils more than likely were made out of silver. The table cloth underneath all this was basically a large napkin. Singular napkins hadn't been invented at this time. William Shakespeare's meals would have resembled something like this.

Shakespeare's furniture would have been hand crafted and good quality. The wood used was usually oak, mahogany, or walnut. William's furniture would have been in-lade with mother of pearl, lacquered, and/or upholstered. These heavy creations would have been in style and in high demand for those who had money.

When Shakespeare was engaging in recreational activities, he might have played various board games or sporting activities. possibly, he might have partaken in chess, draughts (checkers), backgammon, or fox and geese. These game's were invented by the Normans and taken in by the local people. William would have possibly gone hunting for dear, wild boar, games birds, or wolves. Gambling over cock fights and bear/bull baiting were also popular at the time. The wealthy sought these animals and activities because England's forests were rich with life.
Clothing in the seventeenth century included several pieces for both male and female. Shakespeare would most likely have worn a waistcoat with a frock over it or a linen shirt with a doublet. His pants would have been breeches. Williams wife would have worn a nightie, called a shift, with a long dress over it. The dress consisted of two pieces: a bodice and a skirt. These cloths were in fashion at the time.

All of these components could have made up William Shakespeare's average day. However, a large chunk of William's time would have been occupied by his work. No on can know how much he actually spent in recreational activities. I concluded that William Shakespeare was a wealthier citizen, because he owned three properties. Owning three properties shows that he would of had to have had a suitable abount of money, and thus being able to afford a higher life style. Whether he lived this life style out is unknown.

Everyday Life in the 17^th Century (Lambert)

A World’s Story Encyclopedia (Western European History)

http://www.localhistories.org/stuart.html

Lifestyles of the Rich and Poor in the Seventeenth Century (Lifestyles)

Chris’ Home Port (Seventeenth Century Lifestyles)

http://www.canaan.demon.co.uk/roleplaying/venice/RArsm-C17th.html

Queen Elizabeth/Shakespeare essay

Um.... It's not letting me copy and paste it from my Word Document that i typed it up in. So I'll print it out and turn it in to you tomorrow, Mr. Humphrey =) hope that works ok.

Clearing Shakespeare's Name

 Clearing Shakespeare's Name

    “Love is blind” For those who know a little bit about Shakespeare this quote may be instantly recognized as part of The Merchant of Venice, but those who know a bit more about Shakespeare will know that this now famous quote did not originate with Shakespeare's play but in The Canterbury Tales, published long before Shakespeare wrote his play. Was Shakespeare, the most famous author in the English language, a plagiarizer? Did the Bard, a fairly unschooled man, even write the plays at all? Thankfully for all admirers of Shakespeare, the evidence points in his favor.
    There is some rather convincing evidence in favor of Shakespeare being a plagiarizer. And it has misled many people. For example, in Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra, his famous description of Cleopatra on her barge is taken almost word for word from Plutarch's life of Mark Antony. How can that help but be plagiarizing? Shakespeare also used one of John Heywood Proverbs, “All is well that ends well,” as the title to one of his plays. It would seem that the Bard was a plagiarizer.
    The most convincing evidence, however, that the Bard was a plagiarizer comes from a collection of poems compiled by W. Jaggard. All of the poems in the collection were put down under the name of W. Shakespeare; however, many of them were written by other authors. It seems that the evidence could not be more blunt and clear.
    Even though the evidence which seems to prove Shakespeare a plagiarizer is all accurate, there are some often overlooked facts which clear his name. He no more pirated those two lines for his plays than I would be pirating if I used the saying “A penny saved is a penny earned” in a book. That saying has become part of our culture; it is so well known that it is unnecessary to cite it. The Bard was just using some common sayings of his time in his plays.
    The seemingly pirated description of Cleopatra is not much different than the quotes. In Shakespeare's time such works as Plutarch's life of Mark Antony were studied much and people knew bits and pieces of them by heart. Shakespeare writing down his interpretation of the work was no more pirating it than Vincent Price acting out the well known poem “The Raven,” or the writing down of countless variations of the Bard's “To be or not to be” speech from Hamlet.
    Shakespeare may also be acquitted of charges from pirating other's poems. In fact it was W. Jaggard who falsely put them all down under the Bard's name. One of the authors who wrote some of the poems in that collection said that Shakespeare was furious about having his name put down for other's works.
    Shakespeare certainly didn't plagiarize, but there are people who question whether or not he wrote the plays at all. He was fairly unschooled and it seems very unlikely that he possessed the ability to write the plays at all. Many people think that Edward de Vere, the seventeenth Earl of Oxford, more likely wrote them. Many scholars have suggested that since playwrites were scorned upon, de Vere may have written Shakespeare's names on the play allowing the Bard to take the credit for them to keep the de Vere family name. This theory, however, is entirely based on conjecture and has much evidence against it.
    Choosing Shakespeare as the fake author of the plays would have been a strange move for de Vere. Shakespeare helped in the producing of the plays and frequently would have been asked questions about them. From his inability to answer some questions, people would have soon learned that he hadn't really written them. Clearly Shakespeare would not have been de Vere's first choice as someone to attribute the plays to.
    Another problem with the conjecture is that de Vere has been historically shown to be both egotistical and publicly involved in plays and writing himself. From what we know about him from history, he would be too vain to attribute such masterpieces to someone else. He also did not seem to worry that he was publicly known to be involved in plays. He openly sponsored the Oxford's men, an acting company, and wrote poems which he signed with his own name.
    The most convincing evidence, however, that de Vere did not write Shakespeare's plays is that he died before they were all written. Supporters of de Vere maintain that he wrote all of the plays by himself, but masterpieces like the Tempest, Macbeth, and a dozen or so other shakespearian plays were all written from 1605 to 1613. De Vere, however, died earlier in 1604. Clearly he did not write these plays.
    When there are men as great and renowned as Shakespeare but with little known about them, their lives, and their times it is unavoidable that many myths and misconceptions will arise around them. Shakespeare was, however, just a man with the incredible gift and talent to make such wonderful works in the English language.

Resources

Cummings, Mike. "Authorship Question." www.cummingsstudyguides.net. 22 Oct. 2009. Web. 23 May 2010. .

Cummings, Mike. "Did Shakespeare Plagiarize?." www.cummingsstudyguides.net. 6 Sep. 2008. Web. 23 May 2010. .

William Shakespeare Esssssaaayyyyyy :)

William Shakespeare Essay
By Sarah Hanna

William Shakespeare’s birthday is unknown. They have records at a church from when he got baptized. According to The Book of Common Prayer, it was required for children to get baptized on the nearest Sunday or holy day to their birth date. William Shakespeare’s birthday has been set on April 23, St. George’s Day and a house in Stratford, owned by William’s father, has been his accepted birth place. But nobody actually knows when the great writer was born. Shakespeare’s true birthday will remain unknown but if he was in fact born on April 23, he would have died on the same day of the month.

It is said that from 1578-82 and 1585-92 are Shakespeare’s “lost years”. The first period covers the time he left school to when he got married. The second period covers the seven years he was writing and perfecting his plays. We know very little about these two periods in Shakespeare’s life, it’s interesting that he didn’t write anything down about his life and but wrote 39 or more plays. This also is just an estimate because no one really knows how many plays he wrote and he could have wrote plays that were never found or he didn’t have performed.

Recordings in the Episcopal register at Worcester on November 27 and 28, 1582, reveal Shakespeare desired to marry a young girl named Anne. There are two different documents recorded, it’s still a debate on who William was really going to marry. Were there two Anne’s? There are three possibilities; Anne Whateley and Anne Hathwey could be the same women. The Wm Shaxpere and the Annam Whateley who wished to marry in Temple Grafton were two different people from the Wm Shagspere and Anne Hathway who were married in Stratford. The women Shakespeare loved and the women Shakespeare actually married could be two different Anne’s. What ever argument one chooses, William Shakespeare got married to Anne Hathway who was twenty-six and already several months pregnant.

William Shakespeare died on April 23, 1616 in Stratford Parish; it was his fifty-second birthday. His burial was recorded on April 25 and was buried at the Holy Trinity Church in Stratford. William Shakespeare’s tomb lies beneath the floor in the church, it’s covered with stone inscribed with a curse:

Good friend for Jesus sake forbearTo dig the dust enclosed here!Blest be the man that spares these stones,And curst be he that moves my bones.

Shakespeare’s cause of death is unknown, like many other things, it’s been suggested that he had been drinking too hard with his fellow play writers and died of a fever. But it’s said that Shakespeare had been ill prior to his death. Shakespeare had retired as a play writer in 1612 or 1613 three or four years before his death. Because of plague, syphilis, typhus, scurvy, tuberculosis, smallpox, malaria, dysentery and toothaches Londoner’s life expectancy was 35 years, so Shakespeare actually lived a relatively long and healthy life.



Resources


http://www.bardblog.com/how-many-plays-did-shakespeare-write/

http://www.shakespeare.online.com/biography/shakespearelostyears.html


http://www.enotes.com/william-shakespeare/how-did-shakespeare-die



*I didn’t write about only one topic. Because I kept reading and wanted to know more about his life and everything so I hope this is ok.