William Shakespeare (). English poet and playwright &#; Shakespeare is widely considered to be the greatest writer in the English language. He wrote 38 plays and sonnets.
Short bio of William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon on 23rd April
His father William was a successful local businessman, and his mother Mary was the daughter of a landowner. Relatively prosperous, it is likely the family paid for Williams education, although there is no evidence he attended university.
In William, aged only 18, married an older woman named Anne Hathaway. They had three children, Susanna, Hamnet and Juliet. Their only son Hamnet died aged just
After his marriage, information about the life of Shakespeare is sketchy, but it seems he spent most of his time in London &#; writing and acting in his plays.
Due to some well-timed investments, Shakespeare was able to secure a firm financial background, leaving time for writing and acting. The best of these investments was buying some real estate near Stratford in , which soon doubled in value.
It seemed Shakespeare didn’t mind being absent from his family &#; he only returned home during Lent when all the the
Antarctic achievements
Australian explorer, geographer, and aviator Hubert Wilkins pioneered flight at both Poles. Having participated in Arctic expeditions, including a trans-Arctic flight for which he was knighted, Wilkins first visited Antarctica in on the British Graham Land Expedition led by John Lachlan Cope. The following year, Wilkins joined Ernest Shackleton’s Quest expedition to sub-Antarctic South Georgia, making ornithological observations on the way.
Inspired by the success of his flight over the Arctic, Wilkins carried out the first aerial exploration of Antarctica at Graham Land in /9. Although many of his observations were disproved by later expeditions, his bird’s eye view influenced further exploration.
In , Wilkins joined American Lincoln Ellsworth’s three private attempts on the first trans-Antarctic flight. In , Ellsworth, together with pilot Herbert Hollick-Kenyon, successfully completed the first flight across the continent from Dundee Island to the Ross Ice Shelf.
In , Wilkins again joined Ellsworth’s Antarctic expedition sailing on the Wyatt Earp with two aircraft. Before departure, Ellsworth had assured Wilkins that he had no intention of claimi
Sir George Hubert Wilkins
Sir George Hubert Wilkins inducted into the Hall of Fame in
Sir George Hubert Wilkins was born in to a family of pioneer settlers and sheep farmers at Mount Bryan, kilometers north of Adelaide SA. Wilkins is widely regarded as one of the most remarkable explorers in history; for no one saw with his own eyes more undiscovered land and sea. Wilkins became a celebrated newsreel cinematographer in the early s, as well as a reporter, pilot, spy, war hero, scientist, and adventurer, capturing with his camera the first ever motion picture film of soldiers in battle, and shot the first moving pictures from an aircraft, he witnessed famine, cheated death repeatedly, met Kings, Queens, Presidents and Dictators, and circled the globe on a Zeppelin. Wilkins willingness to take risks made him Gaumont British News star cameraman and earned him a world-wide reputation.
Most Australians do not know of Wilkins. Along with the greats of polar exploration, including Shackleton in the Antarctic, Wilkins recognized the importance of new technologies such as the aeroplane and submarine. He helped map the Canadian Arctic and plumbed the ocean depths from the icecap. A pio
Play Productions:
- Henry VI, part 1, London, unknown theater (perhaps by a branch of the Queen's Men), circa
- Henry VI, part 2, London, unknown theater (perhaps by a branch of the Queen's Men), circa
- Henry VI, part 3, London, unknown theater (perhaps by a branch of the Queen's Men), circa
- Richard III, London, unknown theater (perhaps by a branch of the Queen's Men), circa
- The Comedy of Errors, London, unknown theater (probably by Lord Strange's Men), circa ; London, Gray's Inn, 28 December
- Titus Andronicus, London, Rose or Newington Butts theater, 24 January
- The Taming of the Shrew, London, Newington Butts theater, 11 June
- The Two Gentlemen of Verona, London, Newington Butts theater or the Theatre,
- Love's Labor's Lost, perhaps at the country house of a great lord, such as the Earl of Southampton, circa ; London, at Court, Christmas
- Sir Thomas More, probably by Anthony Munday, revised by Thomas Dekker, Henry Chettle, Shakespeare, and possibly Thomas Heywood, evidently never produced, circa
- King John, London, the Theatre, circa
- Richard II, London, the Theatre, circa
- Romeo and Juliet, London, the Theatre, circa
- A Midsummer Night'
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