William Shakespeare

chapter four

Chapter four: The tragic incident

Throughout his career, Shakespeare divided his time between London and Stratford. In 1596, the year before he bought New Place as his family home in Stratford, Shakespeare was living in the parish of St. Helen's Bishopsgate, north of the River Thames. He moved across the river to Southward by 1599, the same year his company constructed the Globe Theatre. By 1604, he had moved north of the river again, to an area north of St Paul's Cathedral with many fine houses and he became a business man and a land owner. The 46th beginning and ending word of psalms 46 in King James Version is "shakes" and "spear" which was published in the year 1611, on William's 46th birthday. On April 23 1616, the most tragic incident occurred! The legendary poet who was nicknamed "Bard of Avon", writer and actor died due to heavy drinking with his fellow playwright. He willed his 2nd best bed and its furniture to his wife and cursed his grave so treasure hunters wouldn't take his bones. By 2016, scientist went to check the legends grave and discovered his headless skeleton. Our wonderful legend always wrote his name in many different ways which was never the same. He invented 3000 words and phrases in English. He called his plays sonnets. His major genres were: tragic-comedy, comedy (his most popular book was a midsummer's night dream), tragedy (his most popular book was Romeo and Juliet). He will always live in our hearts and in history as the greatest writer and poet who ever existed and we will forever be grateful and live happily till eternity because of a hero like Shakespeare.