Curious facts related to Shakespeare

Curious facts related to Shakespeare

We probably don’t spell Shakespeare’s name correctly,  but neither did he.

Shakespeare’s parents were probably illiterate, and his children almost certainly were.

Nobody knows what Shakespeare did between 1585 and 1592......

Shakespeare wore a gold hoop earring- or so it is thought.

Giuseppe Verdi spent much of his later life trying to write an opera of King Lear and Mozart nearly wrote an opera of The Tempest.

At Shakespeare’s time it was illegal for women to act in plays, as a result, even Juliet’s role was played by men.

Macbeth is the most represented play in the world.

At Shakespeare’s time, half of the children died before they were 15 years old and the average life-time of an adult was 30 years old. He lived a long life then since he died at the age of 51.

Shakespeare’s epitaph warns posible grave with a curse.

There is no descendant of Shakespeare.