Posted on 04/23/2016 1:18:02 PM PDT by sodpoodle
William Shakespeare died three days before his 52nd birthday. He died within a month of signing his will, a document which he begins by describing himself as being in "perfect health".
Wondering if this notable date has been reported in the MSM, seeing as how they are all students of literature/s
Google has a doodle on this.
interesting that he died on the day called St Georges day which is like paddies day in Ireland.
He was an old man in his time.
Cervantes died that day too.
Nobody’s really sure about Shakespeare’s birth date, they assume it from the baptismal date, iirc.
In 1616, one could be healthy today...and dead within a week. 56 was pretty good back then.
As I walked around cemeteries in New England there were lots of folks dead in their thirties. And some that lasted into their eighties. That’s was hard living will do to you.
Could have been appendicitis.
In honor of Shakespeare’s death, I’m sleeping in my second best bed tonight.
“In 1616, one could be healthy today...and dead within a week. “
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That is also true in 2016, but less often.
We’ve all seen it happen.
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He died within a month of signing his will, a document which he begins by describing himself as being in “perfect health”.
Sad. Lot of people are dying these days.
I don't think literature is on the syllabus of the "Columbia School of Broadcasting" where most of the MSM hacks matriculated.
Actually not so much. The story I heard was that he drank himself into a stupor, fell in a ditch, got a chill, and died.
Alas, poor William.
Very doubtful that the man from Stratford was the author of the Shakespeare opus all by himself, or even in part by him.
It really doesn’t matter in a sense, what we have we have.
But Shakespeare’s “life” is interesting because there appears to be so little of it we know, and what we know is not compatible with the breadth and depth of the plays, which suggest collaboration.
See? People were dying 400 years ago too. It didn’t just start with Prince.
He hath passed on, James.
I always heard he went on an all day drinking spree with some friends.
from Wikipedia:
“No extant contemporary source explains how or why he died. Half a century later, John Ward, the vicar of Stratford, wrote in his notebook: “Shakespeare, Drayton and Ben Jonson had a merry meeting and, it seems, drank too hard, for Shakespeare died of a fever there contracted”,[66][67] not an impossible scenario, since Shakespeare knew Jonson and Drayton.”
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