Raghu karnad biography of william shakespeare
In , when Girish Karnad was about to leave for Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, he felt compelled to read the epics and the Puranas before his....
Three years later, in , This Life At Play was published.Shakespeare's Biography
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Shakespeare's Last Will and Testament
For all his fame and celebration, William Shakespeare remains a mysterious figure with regards to personal history.
There are just two primary sources for information on the Bard: his works, and various legal and church documents that have survived from Elizabethan times. Naturally, there are many gaps in this body of information, which tells us little about Shakespeare the man.
William Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon, allegedly on April 23, 1564.
Church records from Holy Trinity Church indicate that he was baptized there on April 26, 1564.
For I myself have been teaching and writing about Shakespeare, off and on, for fifty-odd years, and am even older than the author of the book I.
Young William was born of John Shakespeare, a glover and leather merchant, and Mary Arden, a landed local heiress. William, according to the church register, was the third of eight children in the Shakespeare householdthree of whom died in childhood.
John Shakespeare had a remarkable run of success as a merchant, alderman, and high bai