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The Bard of Avon: Shakespeare in Stratford-upon-Avon

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The Message Board of the Bard of Avon' and 'the short message board,' your state will grow according to the numbers of your entries. I know that this is a bit silly but I wanted to introduce the life of Shakespeare with a bit of fun.

This is a guide how your 'William' may grow!!! The dates are based on records as much as possible and I added my imaginations to sounds like a narrative.



Date
Age
Events and growth
around 23/Apr/1564
0
William is born!! One of the greatest event in the history of literature!
26/APR/1564
0
William is baptised at the Holy Trinity Church.
1564
0
William crawls everywhere in the house.
1565
1

William makes his first unsteady steps!

13/Oct/1566
2
Brother, Gilbert was born.
4/Sep/1568
4
Papa, John becomes the mayor of Stratford.
15/Apr/1569
5
Sister, Joan is baptised at the Holy Trinity Church.
1569
5
Queen's Men performs in Stratford-upon-Avon.
28/Sep/1571
7
Sister, Anne is baptised.
around1571
7
William enters the Grammar School in Stratford. "Creeping like snail unwilling to school" (As You Like It)
around1571
7
Papa, John starts to face financial problems.
11/Mar/1574
10
Brother, Richard is baptised.
Jul/1575
11
Queen Elizabeth visits Kenilworth and enjoys the spectacular pageants which is one of the biggest pageants during the Elizabethan time. William might visit.
1576
12
Papa bought two houses with gardens and orchards with 40 pounds.
1576
12
Papa's fortune has fallen.
1576
12
James Burbadge built the Theatre.
1577
13
Papa stops attending the council meetings.
1577
13
Holinshed's The Chronicle of England, Scotland and Ireland is published.
14/Nov/1577
14
Papa loans 40 pounds with the mortgage of Mama's inherited property in Wilcote.
around1579
15
William gives up going to the university because of the fall of Papa's fortune.
3/May/1580
16
Brother, Edmund is baptised.
1580
16
Papa pays 20 pounds fine.
3/Aug/1581
17
Alexander Houghton in Lancashire left 2 pounds annually to William Shakeshfte. Is he Shakespeare? Some scholars believe that William was a tutor at Houghton and it is a strong Catholic connection to Shakespeare.
1582
18
Lord Berkeley's Men performs in Stratford.
Autumn/1582
18
William finds out his girlfriend is pregnant. Surprise! Surprise!
27/Nov/1582
18
William goes to Worcester to get licence to marry his girlfriend.
Dec/1582
18
William marries to Anne Hathaway.
May/1583
19
Suzanna is born!!
26/May/1583
19
The family goes to Holy Trinity Church to baptise Suzanna.
Feb/1585
21
The twin, Hamnet and Judith are born.
2/Feb/1585
21
The family goes to Holy Trinity Church to baptise the twin.
1585
21
James Burgadge runs the Curtain.
4/Sep/1586
22
Papa, John becomes a candidate for bailiff.
1587
23
Philip Henslowe builds the Rose.
1587
23
Mary Queen of Scots is beheaded.
around1587
23?
William goes to London.
1588
24
England defeats the Spanish Armada.
around1590
26
William writes Henry VI.
1591
27
London theatres close by the plague.
1592
28
Since theatres are close, William writes most of sonnets!
around1592
28
William writes The Comedy of Errors.
25/Sep/1592
28
Papa, John is included the list of recusants who do not come monthly to church.
Nov/1592
28
Robert Greene writes, 'an upstart crow beautified with our feathers that with his "tiger's" heart wrapped in a player's hide.' William hurts.
30/May/1593
29
Marlowe is killed.
1593
29
William dedicates Venus and Adonis to Southampton. It is sold at 6 pence.
1594
29
The Lord Chamberlain's Men restarts.
1594
30
The Lord Chamberlain Men reorganised. William becomes a one of shareholders.
7/Jun/1594
30
The Jewish physician in ordinary to the Queen Elizabeth, Roderigo Lopez is hung for the treason of conspiracy to murder Queen.
15/Mar/1595
31 William is listed as a payee, along with Richard Burbage and William Kempe, receiving 20 pounds for the Christmas performance before the Queen.
20/Oct/1596
32
William receives the grant of Arm which Papa has applied in 1568.
1596
32
Blackfriars theatre is built.
Aug/1596
32

Son, Hamnet dies with aged eleven.

11/Aug/1596
32
Burial of Hamnet. A sad day.
4/May/1597
33

William buys the second biggest house in Stratford called New Place with 60 pounds in silver.

1599
35
The Globe is built with the timber of the Theatre.
1599
35
The Globe opens with Henry V.
1600
36
English East India Company is founded.
1600
36
Fortune theatre opens.
1601
37
Essex orders the performance of Richard II the night before their rebellion.
1601
37
Papa, John dies.
1602
38
William buys lands in Stratford.
around1602
38
William writes Hamlet and plays the ghost of late Hamlet.
1603
39
Queen Elizabeth dies and King James succeeds.
1603
39
The Lord Chamberlain's Men becomes King's Men.
26/Dec/1604
40
The performance of Measure for Measure at Court in the Banqueting House at Whitehall.
5/Nov/1605
41
The Gunpowder Plot.
1606
42
London theatres close by the plague.
Jun/1607
43
William goes to the wedding of daughter, Sazanna to John Hall.
Feb/1607
43
Brother Edmund dies.
1608
43

William becomes granddad! His first grandchild, Elisabeth is born.

Sep/1608
43
Mama, Mary Shakespeare dies.
9/Sep/1608
43

The burial of Mary.

1608
44
Lord Chamberlain Men starts to use the Blackfriars as their winter playhouse.
1609
45
London theatres close by the plague.
1611
47
The Authorised Version of the Bible is published.
1612
48
William is busy for the preparations for the wedding performances for Princess Elizabeth.
1613
49
William buys a house near Blackfriars Theatre.
29/Jun/1613
49
The Globe burns down during the performance of Henry VIII.
1614
50
The Globe reopens.
1614
50
Hope theatre opens.
around1615
51
William goes back to Stratford.
around Jan/ 1616
52
William writes draft of his will and decides to leave Ann the second best bed.
10/Feb/1616
52
William goes the wedding of Judith to Thomas Quiney.
25/March/1616
52
William signs his will.
around 1616
52
William is wondering about how he would like his epitaph to be "GOOD FREND (=FRIEND) FOR IESVS (=JESUS) SAKE FORBARE (=FORBEAR), TO DIGG THE DVST (=DUST) ENCLOSED HERE: BLESTE BY YE(=THE) MAN YT (=THAT) SPARES THES (THESE) STONES, AND CVRST (=CURST) BE HE YT (THAT) MOVES MY BONES"
23/APR/1616
52
William goes to the Heaven.
25/Apr/1616
The burial of the Sweet Swan of Avon.
6/Aug/1623
Anne goes to the Heaven to see her William.
1623
His friends publish the First Folio!


 

 

 









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