All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players
Born in Stratford-upon-Avon. Father John was a glove maker and alderman. Mother Mary Arden came from minor gentry -- she brought the land, he brought the craft. I wrote 37 plays, 154 sonnets, and invented roughly 1,700 words in the English language. Assassination. Eyeball. Lonely. Manager. You're welcome. I was an actor, a playwright, a shareholder in the Globe Theatre, and a businessman. I bought the second-largest house in Stratford with my theatre money. The conspiracy theorists say I didn't write the plays because a glove maker's son from the countryside couldn't be a genius. They're snobs. Genius doesn't need a pedigree. It needs a stage.
Playwriting
Art · 25y
Acting
Art · 25y
Poetry
Art · 30y
Theatre Management
Other · 20y
Inventing Words
Other · 25y
Learn to perform Shakespeare without being terrified of the language. We start with the insults (those are the fun part), work through the monologues, and end with a scene. No experience needed. Just ...
€12 per_session
Every play, every sonnet, every poem. Annotated with historical context, word definitions, and stage directions. 1,200 pages. This is the entire human condition bound in leather. Borrow it, read one p...
€2 per_week
Stratford-upon-Avon, GB
Exported from BorrowHood · 2026-03-10