William Shakespeare, una vita come una storia

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Also the life of William Shakespeare is legendary. There are no certain sources about him, somebody even says he did not properly exist, others sya it was Francis Bacon’s pen-name.

However, legends say he was born in April 1564 in Stratford upon Avon, the son of Mary Arden and John Shakespeare, a glover, a tradesman and a yeoman (farmer= coltivatore).  William studied Latin, composition and rethoric at the local Grammar School. When he was 18, he married a girl called Anne Hathaway, probably eight years older than he, and they had three children, a daughter Susanna and twins (=gemelli) Hamnet and Judith. The tradition tells that, around 1584, Shakespeare left Stratford because he had got  into trouble 8=si era messo nei pasticci) through hunting(=cacciando) in the territories of Sir Thomas Lucy, and  in order to avoid (=per evitare) punishment (=punizione) he left his native town.  The legend also narrates that the character of Justice Shallow in The Merry Wives of Windsor is a parody of  Sir Lucy. Then there are about 8 years during which it there are no news about the Bard. Probably he emerged in London as an actor and a successful playwright.  By 1594 Shakespeare had become the principal member of the company of the Chamberlain’s Men, which became  the King’s Men when James I became king. They performed at first in their own theatre the Globe, built in 1599 and later in the covered (=coperto) Blackfriars theatre. Shakespeare bought a house,

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, in Stratford where it seems he finally went to live in 1610 and where he died on April 23, 1616.

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