Segun agbaje biography of william shakespeare for kids

Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon in and married Anne Hathaway in They had three children. In , the acting company built the Globe Theatre. Writer, poet, player and his story begins right here in London. Female presenter: Seriously, forget it.

Bola Agbaje, FRSL, is a screenwriter and dramatist.

We know his family was well off and that he was well educated; and that he got married at 18 and then he had three kids; and then he became a private tutor; and maybe a sailor in Italy or a poacher, or a fitness instructor. Female presenter: Okay, maybe not. No one wrote about regular people. Female presenter: Loads of people would write stuff about kings and queens or write stuff just to please them, including Shakespeare, who was a right suck-up.

A fair vessel throned by the West. Most playwrights borrowed from history books or older stories. The cheekier writers would go and see a play, copy down the words and put on a pirate version just down the road, which I think is disgusting. And my personal favourite, The Twelfth Knight Rises.

Title: A Winter's Tale (found in Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare).

The Bardman Trilogy continues. Relax, I made it up. William Shakespeare used different spellings of his name. He signed himself Shakespe, Shakspe, Shakspere and Shakespear.