Shakespeare Review : Use at least three different web sites to research information

about his life/work/contributions to society/other tidbits of interest.

Provide the web sites where you found this information:

Describe 5 things you learned about this person from the first website:

www.natgeokids.com/uk/discover/history/general-history/shakespeare-facts/

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Shakespeare wrote around 37 plays for the theatre and over 150 poems.
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Shakespeare’s plays had the royal seal of approval. Both Queen Elizabeth I and James VI.
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Shakespeare married a farmer’s daughter called Anne Hathaway.

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Shakespeare had 3 children, Susanna, Judith and Hamnet.

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Shakespeare was born in 1564, during the Tudor era in England, in Stratford-upon-Avon.
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Describe 5 different things you learned from the second website:

greatbritishmag.co.uk/uk-culture/10-strange-facts-about-shakespeare/

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No one’s dared to go close to Shakespeare’s tomb since 1747.

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2.

Shakespeare often wrote about suicide.

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3.

Shakespeare never published any of his own plays.

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4.

Shakespeare wrote a play that has been entirely lost to time. According to available information, he
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authored the play Cardenio, which was played in England.

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5.

Most of the moons that orbit the planet Uranus bear the names of Shakespearean actors, including
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Oberon, Ariel, and Juliet.

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museumhack.com/shakespeare-facts/

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Describe 5 more things you learned from the third website:

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At Shakespeare’s death, he left Anne his “second-best bed.”

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Shakespeare’s father was paid to drink beer.

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3.

Shakespeare sometimes performed in his own plays.

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4.

Shakespeare mentioned 600+ times birds in his plays and also 200+ dogs.

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5.

The pair (Willian and Anne) married when Anne was already three months pregnant with her rst child.

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Second to last, what would you say is the most interesting thing you learned about him?

I discovered that he invented some words that were a mix of Latin and Greek and some of them we still use

like bloodstained, frugal, eyeball and hint.

Lastly, find and label 5-10 pictures from your research to show more about Shakespeare: