E. NESBIT
Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare
MP3 CD
(IDB Productions Sept. 3, 2019)
Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare
A BRIEF LIFE OF SHAKESPEARE.
In the register of baptisms of the parish church of Stratford-upon-Avon,
a market town in Warwickshire, England, appears, under date of April 26,
1564, the entry of the baptism of William, the son of John Shakspeare.
The entry is in Latin--“Gulielmus filius Johannis Shakspeare.”
The date of William Shakespeare's birth has usually been taken as three
days before his baptism, but there is certainly no evidence of this
fact.
The family name was variously spelled, the dramatist himself not always
spelling it in the same way. While in the baptismal record the name is
spelled “Shakspeare,” in several authentic autographs of the dramatist
it reads “Shakspere,” and in the first edition of his works it is
printed “Shakespeare.”
Halliwell tells us, that there are not less than thirty-four ways in
which the various members of the Shakespeare family wrote the name,
and in the council-book of the corporation of Stratford, where it is
introduced one hundred and sixty-six times during the period that
the dramatist's father was a member of the municipal body, there are
fourteen different spellings. The modern “Shakespeare” is not among
them.
Shakespeare's father, while an alderman at Stratford, appears to have
been unable to write his name, but as at that time nine men out of
ten were content to make their mark for a signature, the fact is not
specially to his discredit.
The traditions and other sources of information about the occupation
of Shakespeare's father differ. He is described as a butcher, a
woolstapler, and a glover, and it is not impossible that he may have
been all of these simultaneously or at different times, or that if
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A BRIEF LIFE OF SHAKESPEARE.
In the register of baptisms of the parish church of Stratford-upon-Avon,
a market town in Warwickshire, England, appears, under date of April 26,
1564, the entry of the baptism of William, the son of John Shakspeare.
The entry is in Latin--“Gulielmus filius Johannis Shakspeare.”
The date of William Shakespeare's birth has usually been taken as three
days before his baptism, but there is certainly no evidence of this
fact.
The family name was variously spelled, the dramatist himself not always
spelling it in the same way. While in the baptismal record the name is
spelled “Shakspeare,” in several authentic autographs of the dramatist
it reads “Shakspere,” and in the first edition of his works it is
printed “Shakespeare.”
Halliwell tells us, that there are not less than thirty-four ways in
which the various members of the Shakespeare family wrote the name,
and in the council-book of the corporation of Stratford, where it is
introduced one hundred and sixty-six times during the period that
the dramatist's father was a member of the municipal body, there are
fourteen different spellings. The modern “Shakespeare” is not among
them.
Shakespeare's father, while an alderman at Stratford, appears to have
been unable to write his name, but as at that time nine men out of
ten were content to make their mark for a signature, the fact is not
specially to his discredit.
The traditions and other sources of information about the occupation
of Shakespeare's father differ. He is described as a butcher, a
woolstapler, and a glover, and it is not impossible that he may have
been all of these simultaneously or at different times, or that if
h
- ISBN
- 1776823486 / 9781776823482
- Weight
- 3.5 oz.
- Dimensions
- 7.5 x 5.5 in.
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