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He was born at Stratford-on-Avon in 1564, married when he was eighteen, went to London probably in 1587, and became an actor, play writer, and stockholder in the company which owned the Blackfriars and the Globe theaters. He seemingly prospered, and retired about 1609 to Stratford, where he lived in the house that he had bought some years before, and where he died in 1616.
"And surely some of the playwrights would be better dead. They must see that themselves." "They have had their chance," said the president. Despite his nationality, Andrew had not heard the story, so the president told it him. "Many years ago, when the drama was in its infancy, some young men from Stratford-on-Avon and elsewhere resolved to build a theatre in London.
Whose name was lauded and whose poem was recited at every Fourth of July celebration, that the very children might learn it and honor its composer! Stratford-on-Avon is not prouder of Shakespeare than Brampton of Miss Lucretia, and now she was come back, unheralded, to her birthplace. Mr.
So far as anybody actually knows and can prove, Shakespeare of Stratford-on-Avon never wrote a play in his life. So far as anybody knows and can prove, he never wrote a letter to anybody in his life. So far as any one knows, he received only one letter during his life. So far as any one knows and can prove, Shakespeare of Stratford wrote only one poem during his life. This one is authentic.
"It may be for them, but it does not console me much just now." "But you don't make allowance enough for the rich. Perhaps they are under a necessity of doing something. I was reading this morning in the diary of old John Ward of Stratford-on-Avon this sentence: 'It was a saying of Navisson, a lawyer, that no man could be valiant unless he hazarded his body, nor rich unless he hazarded his soul."
Stratford-on-Avon stands first on the itinerary of nearly every American who proposes to visit the historic shrines of Old England. Its associations with Britain's immortal bard and with our own gentle Geoffrey Crayon are not unfamiliar to the veriest layman, and no fewer than thirty thousand pilgrims, largely from America, visit the delightful old town each year.
Our reveries were rudely interrupted by the shriek of the English locomotive like an exaggerated toy whistle and, with a mere glimpse of town and river, we were brought sharply up to the unattractive station of Stratford-on-Avon.
Hilbery had evolved a theory that Anne Hathaway had a way, among other things, of writing Shakespeare's sonnets; the idea, struck out to enliven a party of professors, who forwarded a number of privately printed manuals within the next few days for her instruction, had submerged her in a flood of Elizabethan literature; she had come half to believe in her joke, which was, she said, at least as good as other people's facts, and all her fancy for the time being centered upon Stratford-on-Avon.
Early in his Ambassadorship he was spending a few days at Stratford-on-Avon, his hostess being an American woman who had beautifully restored an Elizabethan house; the garden contained a mulberry tree which she liked to think had been planted by Shakespeare himself. "Yes." "All?" "Yes." "Are you sure?" "Yes." "Then let's take hands and dance around the mulberry tree!" The great service in St.
Paris, 4 vols. 8vo, 1827. See Croker, vol. i. p. 352. This story is told also in Lord Stanhope's Conversations with the Duke of Wellington. 8vo, London, 1888, p. 54. Hugh, third Duke of Northumberland. Dr. Bethell, who had been tutor to the Duke of Northumberland, held at this time the See of Gloucester. Launcelot Brown, 1715-1782. Mr. Archdeacon Singleton. From Stratford-on-Avon.
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