A writer whose sonnets still replicate every human behavior in its most vivid fashion, whose poems still strike a chord in everyone’s hearts and whose plays are still enacted around the globe – WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.
Shakespeare’s life is quite a collage of the life of his various characters in plays and sonnets. His father “ John Shakespeare “ was an alderman and quite a nobleman himself like Aemilius in his sonnet Titus Andronicus. Shakespeare married Anne Hathaway at the age of 18. Their relationship have always attracted controversial statements..esp after Shakespeare’s sly mentions about Hathway using his puns in his writings. He uses words like “hate away” which maybe a pun on “Hathway” or “And saved my life” which might be a pun on “Anne saved my life” in his sonnet 145. Whatever maybe their wedded life was definitely not an Antony Cleopatra tryst.
Shakespeare’s command over Latin perhaps had roots in his school “ King’s New School which provided intensive education in Latin grammar and Literature.Infact one of his plays “The Comedy of Errors” bears similarity to” Menechaus “a play which could possibly have been performed at his school.
Then came a mystifying period in his life of which till date no one has unraveled records. Shakespeare left no historical traces quite like his character Henry VIII ( a venturer of the seas) until he is mentioned as part of the London theatrical scene. His first recorded performance was “The Two Gentlemen Of Verona” and then followed a series of plays which made Shakespeare a writer of a whole new banner. Be it Henry or Julius Caesar Shakespeare’s words stirred people to act, changed lives and gave Elizabethan Literature the recognition it deserved.
Shakespeare’s later life are home to a number of intriguing events which includes numerous trials in courts for his family and himself something portrayed pretty aptly in Merchant Of Venice. However, in spite of all the “tempests” he endured in his lifetime he died a rather honourable death and received a noble burial at chancel of Holy Trinity Church in Stratford-upon-Avon
Each year on his claimed birthday, a new quill pen is placed in the writing hand of the bust. He is believed to have written the epitaph on his tombstone.[37] Good friend, for Jesus' sake forbear, To dig the dust enclosed here. Blest be the man that spares these stones, And cursed be he that moves my bones.” The last known descendant of Shakespeare Elizabeth Hall Bernard (granddaughter) died in 1670, thus bringing an end to his family tree. Thus just like the stark end of Caesar’s dynasty, ended the life of arguably the most celebrated writer of all times…WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.
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