Sunday, February 14, 2016

Guess who?

Today I propose you a little game to play. I am giving you a certain number of clues to discover our mysterious man!
"Follow the rabbit" (remember Alice in the Wonderland!) in order to find out.



April 23rd 1564    

November 27th 1582    

Around 1590? He went to London   


April 23rd 1616   


























Are you still lost in the fog? Read some more hints below:

  • April 26th, 1564 recorded in the register of the Holy Trinity Parish Church the baptism, so it is agreed that he was born on April 23rd.

  • The father was a gloves maker and the mother a woman called Mary Arden.

  • November 27th 1582. Marriage licence, he married Anne Hathaway.

  • May 26th 1583 his daughter Susan was born.

  • February 2nd 1585 Hammet and Judith were born.

  • During a period known to scholars as the “ dark years”, a period for which we have no biographical information, he moved to London for career reasons. His father has suffered some financial difficulties and it was necessary for our mysterious man to find a work that would support his family. He managed to obtain a position with Pembroke’s Men and continued to work for London theatrical companies.

  • April, 23rd, 1616 death of a fever and on his tomb was written: 
“Good friends for Jesus sake forbeare

 to dig the dust enclosed here 
blessed the man that spares these bones 
and cursed be he that moves my bones”

  • You would ask what’s in the middle…  I suppose you have already discovered who we are speaking about.

  • He is considered a genius and the best playwright ever, he wrote thirty-eight plays of which the most famous ten tragedies. Let mention them:

  1. Antony and Cleopatra
  2. Coriolanus
  3. Hamlet
  4. Julius Caesar
  5. King Lear
  6. Macbeth
  7. Othello
  8. Romeo and Juliet
  9. Timon of Athens
  10. Titus Andronicus


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