100 incredibly useful links for teaching Shakespeare

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100 Incredibly Useful Links for Teaching and Studying Shakespeare.

Though it’s not the birthday of Shakespeare or the date of his birth which is on the same date ,it’s quite challenging because it’s easy to choose from 100 links.

If you go to this site, you’ll find materials how to teach about and how to teach Shakespeare.

http://www.onlinecollege.org

Here there is a part of a very interesting article about Shakespeare:

William Shakespeare was born on April 23 and died on April 23, evidence indicates.

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In his will, Shakespeare left his wife his "second-best" bed.

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Shakespeare's name may have meant "Shaker of Spears," indicating warrior ancestry

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Boys and men played all the parts in Shakespeare's plays in Elizabethan times.

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Dictionaries as we know them today were not available in Shakespeare's time.

Sir William Davanant (1606-1668), godson of Shakespeare and poet laureate of England, claimed to be Shakespeare's illegitimate son.

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The ceiling of Shakespeare's stages was called "The Heavens."

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Shakespeare was said to have enjoyed playing the part of the ghost in Hamlet.

Shakespeare also performed as Adam in As You Like It.

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Actors performing in Shakespeare's time usually received only copies of their parts, not entire plays.

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Shakespeare was seventeen or eighteen when he married. His wife, Anne Hathaway, was twenty-six.

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The Globe Theatre burned down in 1613 after a canon was fired to announce the entrance of King Henry VIII. The canon fire ignited the thatched roof. The Globe was rebuilt soon thereafter but torn down in 1644 in response to Puritan zealotry against theatre performances.

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Shakespeare's first child was born six months after his marriage.