Shakesapeare curiosities #11

rebebezs
12 de jun. de 2015
5 min de leitura

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as I promise today we will have the last post of #theplays only today will be different will have some curiosities spbre shakesapere! lets see below!

26 fun facts about Shakespeare:

fact 1:Shakespeare lived fifty-two years. It is known that he was born in April 1564 and died on April 23, 1616. He was baptized on April 26, 1564 and scholars now believe has also born in one day April 23. Therefore, he died at fifty-two, coinciding with the Day of Saint George.

fact 2:Shakespeare had seven children: Joan (1558); Margaret (1562); Gilbert (1566), Joan II (1569), Anne (1571), Richard (1574) and Edmund (1580).

fact 3:The author has produced 37 plays (they are, 10 dramas, 10 tragedies, comedies and 17) and 157 sonnets, which is equivalent to about 1.5 part per year, since when he started writing them, ie , 1589. his last piece, entitled "the two noble kinsmen", was written in 1613, at age 49, three years before his death.

fact 4:Few people know that in addition to writing numerous plays and sonnets, Shakespeare was also an actor and has appeared in many of his own pieces as well as in other playwrights

fact 5:Some researchers have argued that Shakespeare did not write all the plays attributed to him. At least fifty are identified as other writers. However, there are currents that argue that the evidence of Shakespeare have written all his plays is very strong.

fact 6:Shakespeare is the second most quoted writer in the English language, second only to the authors of the Bible.

fact 7:At Google, almost 400 years after Shakespeare's death, there are 157 million pages devoted to it, against 132 million for God 2.7 million to Elvis Presley and 14.7 million to George W Bush.No Google, após mais de 400 anos apos a morte de Shakespeare, há 157 milhões de páginas referentes ao autor

fact 8:Suicide occurs thirteen times (unlucky number?) In Shakespeare's plays, such as "Romeo and Juliet" in both commit suicide, and "Julius Caesar" in which Cassius and Brutus die by stabbing consensual, and his wife Brutus, Portia.

fact 9:Some Shakespeare signatures appear on original documents. In neither, however, it is graphed as it has become usual. Among them appear Shakespe, Shakspe, Shakspere e Shakespear.

fact 10:Although it was illegal to be Catholic in Shakespeare's time, the Anglican Archdeacon Richard Davies of Lichfield wrote sometime after Shakespeare's death that he had been a Catholic.

fact 11:Candles were too expensive in Shakespeare's day and were used only for emergencies, for a short time. Most writers wrote during the day and socialized overnight. There is no reason to think that Shakespeare was different from his contemporaries.

fact 12:It was illegal for women to act in the theater in Shakespeare's day. All the female characters were played by young people. The text of certain parts, such as "Hamlet" and "Antony and Cleopatra" refer to it. It was only much later, during the Restoration, the first woman appeared in an English stage.

fact 13:There are only two Shakespeare plays written entirely in verse: are "Richard III" and "King John." Many of the pieces feature of the prose.

fact 14:Shakespeare wrote a lot more parts than we know. Admittedly he wrote a piece entitled "Cardenio," that was lost, but researchers believe that wrote about twenty texts that remain missing.

fact 15:Two plays of Shakespeare, "Hamlet" and "Much Ado About Nothing", have been translated into Klingon. The Klingon Language Institute aims to translate more.

(http://www.capituwithlasers.com.br/2013/04/20-curiosidades-sobre-shakespeare.html)

fact 16:It is found that there are plots similar to that of Romeo and Julita before Shakespeare. The Greek Xenophon, the British William Paynter, and the Italian Luigi in Porto, have written similar stories to this. It is said also that there was a similar drama in the city of Verona in Italy ...

fact 17:... By the way, did you know that Capeletti and Montecchi families, really exist?

fact 18:By the end of the twentieth century, it was produced more than 400 films based on the works of Shakespeare.Appears in the "Guinness Book - The Book of Records" as the author of greater number of film adaptations.

fact 19:The work of the English playwright was studied by several intellectuals, among them Arthur Schopenhauer, Sigmund Freud (The "Father" of psychology "), Goethe, and even the Brazilian Machado de Assis.

fact 20:US President Abraham Lincoln was a great lover of Shakespeare and often recited passages composed by the author, to your friends. Ironically, he was killed by John Wilkes Booth, a famous Shakespearean actor.

fact 21:He became the first person outside the British royal family, stamping a seal in the UK. It was printed to commemorate the 400th anniversary of his birth in 1964

fact 22:In 2005, experts from the Portrait Gallery announced that the most famous portrait Shakespeare was a fraud, and second found, the picture was painted after more than 200 years after his departure for heaven

fact 23:The remains of Shakespeare were buried in Holy Trinity Church in his hometown, and his tomb shows a vibrant statue in literary pose, more alive than ever, and, every year, in celebration of his birth , a new feather bird on the right hand of the author's statue is placed. It is believed that Shakespeare feared the custom of his time, where there was probably a need to empty the older graves, to open spaces to new, and so there is an epitaph on your tombstone, announcing the curse who move their bones.

fact 24:Shakespeare died a rich man. Distributed goods among several people, but left his property to his daughter Suzanne. For the woman left only bedding, and the only mention of the wife was "I gyve unto my wief my second best bed with the furniture." The causes of death of the "genius", are unknown

fact 25:Shakespeare not only wrote the plays, but also the "sold", indeed without your permission, for the British public, and assist them also had the habit of reading them

fact 26:Shakespeare wrote his works in the period of the reign of Queen Elizabeth, the Virgin, and King James I, of Stuart, because at that time thrived poetry and performing arts

(http://visaoderebeca.blogspot.com.br/2013/07/curiosidades-sobre-william-shakespeare.html)