Interesting People # 59 - Shakespeare

About 750 copies of Shakespeare's First Folio, which set down 18 plays for the first time, were printed 1623 - some 230 survive.

(One was recently sold for £2,808,000. Start checking your attics.)

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  1. Anonymous2:28 pm

    • Shakespeare actually wrote his sonnets for men.
    • In his will, Shakespeare left his wife his "second-best" bed.
    • The ceiling of Shakespeare's stages was called "The Heavens."
    • No one knows his actual birthday.
    • Anne Hathaway was eight years older than Shakespeare and three months pregnant when they got married!
    • Shakespeare didn’t actually publish any of his plays.
    • His father John was the mayor of Stratford.
    • We do not really know what Shakespeare looked like! Not one portrait was painted of Shakespeare whilst he was still alive!
    • His grandchildren all died.
    • Shakespeare invented the word assassination and bump.
    • Shakespeare was 17 or 18 when he married. His wife, Anne Hathaway, was 26.
    • His theatre was called the Globe. Which was also called the wooden plank.
    Here are some facts

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  2. Anonymous11:14 pm

    What the dickens!

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  3. Not Dickens, Shakespeare. ;-)

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  4. Anonymous1:57 pm

    I'm confuzed ... . com lol :P

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