Amandeep kang biography of william shakespeare
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"Capapea", "comedie", and the Amleth myth: rereading Shakespeare's French in 'Hamlet'
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You would expect a chapter on language near the beginning of a volume on Shake-speare. After all, that is what you hear and see, as soon as you open a book or watch a play. But that first encounter is deceptive in its apparent ease and obviousness, for we all bring to the book and the theatre our own language; and therein lies the problem. Reading a text is a meeting of minds; and when the minds are separated by 400 years of linguistic change, we must expect some difficulties. Sometimes the difficulties are immediately apparent: we see a word and have no idea what it means. Sometimes they are hidden: we see a word and, because it looks familiar, we think we know what it means. 'False friends', as words of this second type are called, are one of the biggest causes of error when learning a foreign language: we see demander in French and think it means 'demand', when actually it means 'ask'. And they are a major source of error in getting to grips with Shakespeare's language too. 'The Duke is humorous', we hear Le Beau say about Duke Frederick (As You Like It, 1.2.2
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William Shakespeare
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William Shakespeare, a name that needs no recognition, was the greatest dramatist of English literature. However, very few facts about his life are recorded, even if that is also a guess and not certain. There is no authentic biography of Shakespeare available.
Shakespeare was born on April 231564 in Stratford, Warwickshire. Both his father, John Shakespeare and his mother, Mary Arden, were uneducated. In his early life, perhaps Shakespeare attained grammar school where he learnt some Latin and Greek. It is considered that he never went to high school or college. Nature was his teacher, and he had a deep insight through which he learned human nature. His works were mostly based on his imagination and his perception and experience of human life. When he was 14, due to his family's economic crisis, he had to leave his school to do some job to support his family. It is not clear what kind of job he had done. There is speculation that perhaps he was a school teacher or clerk of a lawyer.
Shakespeare Married Life
Shakespeare married Anne Hathaway when he was 18 years old and she was 26. On November 27, 1582, the Diocese of Worcester's consistory court granted a permit for marriage. Two of Hathaway's neighbours placed