How Does Shakespeare Affect His Work?
Just as you feel like you’re beginning to understand Shakespeare’s life, you unfold another secret that’s hidden. “Several 17th- century clay pipes found on the site of William
Shakespeare's home contained a hallucinogenic substance and others may have been used to smoke marijuana.” "WORLD." The Patriot - News, Mar 02 2001, pp. A09. ProQuest Central, https://search.proquest.com/docview/284908055?accountid=41449. Did SHakespeare have this natural talent or did he just smoke a lot of cannabis sativa to get his inspiration, which would explain why a lot of his work is hard to understand and the reason why he cuts of words just to mess with people in his play writings? (Sonnet 5), “But flowers distilled, though they with winter meet, leese but …show more content…
His life is just one big confusion to the modern people since, during Shakespeare’s time they hardly kept records we can only make hypothesis of what really went on in his life; such as what was his middle name if he even had one to begin with. He might have actually went to an actual university, loved another woman or was a total drug addict either way it made him one of the
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greatest poets ever, also paving a way for the future. At the end of William Shakespeare’s 52 years of living he actually died on his birthday, April 23, 1616. The cause of Shakespeare’s death is a mystery, but an entry in the diary of John Ward, the vicar of Holy Trinity Church in Stratford
(where Shakespeare is buried), tells us that “Shakespeare, Drayton, and Ben Jonson had a merry meeting and it seems drank too hard, for Shakespeare died of a fever there contracted.” So in the end Shakespeare died of partying too hard with his friends on his birthday, or in fact was he actually poisoned by the friends that he had a “merry meeting” with. Although knowing
Shakespeare he might have planned this or had more than just alcohol that night and didn’t know the limit of whatever drug he
Shakespeare's home contained a hallucinogenic substance and others may have been used to smoke marijuana.” "WORLD." The Patriot - News, Mar 02 2001, pp. A09. ProQuest Central, https://search.proquest.com/docview/284908055?accountid=41449. Did SHakespeare have this natural talent or did he just smoke a lot of cannabis sativa to get his inspiration, which would explain why a lot of his work is hard to understand and the reason why he cuts of words just to mess with people in his play writings? (Sonnet 5), “But flowers distilled, though they with winter meet, leese but …show more content…
His life is just one big confusion to the modern people since, during Shakespeare’s time they hardly kept records we can only make hypothesis of what really went on in his life; such as what was his middle name if he even had one to begin with. He might have actually went to an actual university, loved another woman or was a total drug addict either way it made him one of the
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greatest poets ever, also paving a way for the future. At the end of William Shakespeare’s 52 years of living he actually died on his birthday, April 23, 1616. The cause of Shakespeare’s death is a mystery, but an entry in the diary of John Ward, the vicar of Holy Trinity Church in Stratford
(where Shakespeare is buried), tells us that “Shakespeare, Drayton, and Ben Jonson had a merry meeting and it seems drank too hard, for Shakespeare died of a fever there contracted.” So in the end Shakespeare died of partying too hard with his friends on his birthday, or in fact was he actually poisoned by the friends that he had a “merry meeting” with. Although knowing
Shakespeare he might have planned this or had more than just alcohol that night and didn’t know the limit of whatever drug he