![]() We’ll never know the precise experiences that were combined with a specific literary and theatrical sensibility and transmuted into Hamlet, The Tempest, As You Like It, or, for that matter, The Taming of the Shrew. ![]() (In her well-regarded 2001 biography, Shakespeare: An Ungentle Life, Katherine Duncan-Jones points out that the £10 Shakespeare left to Stratford’s poor was less than he paid the lawyer who wrote his will.) We know he was a hoarder of malt and grain in times of shortage, and - especially considering the extent of his own wealth - failed to adequately support his wife, whom he kept in Stratford while he spent most of his adult life in and around London.īut however much we learn about Shakespeare’s biography, we will always be ignorant on the subject of his inner life and how it informed his plays and poetry. ![]() Olave, where he often failed to pay his taxes. While he grew quite prosperous and purchased a coat of arms and a great deal of real estate, including a mansion called New Place in his hometown of Stratford-on-Avon, he gave little to charity, either in Stratford or in his London domicile in the parish of St. We know that he was fond of money and position. ![]() ![]() We know, for example, a great deal about his contemporary reputation readers and playgoers as well as his fellow artists left many expressions of praise and criticism, admiration and jealousy. BY THIS POINT, we know quite a lot about William Shakespeare. ![]()
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