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He was born in Stratford-upon-Avon, where he was baptised on 26 April 1564. His date of birth is unknown but is traditionally observed on 23 April, Saint George's Day . [ 1 ] This date, which can be traced to William Oldys and George Steevens , has proved appealing to biographers because Shakespeare died on the same date in 1616.
The Bard (1778) by Benjamin West. In Celtic cultures, a bard is an oral repository and professional story teller, verse-maker, music composer, oral historian and genealogist, employed by a patron (such as a monarch or chieftain) to commemorate one or more of the patron's ancestors and to praise the patron's own activities.
Shakespeare has been known as "the Bard" since the eighteenth century. [2] One who idolizes Shakespeare is known as a bardolator. The term bardolatry , derived from Shakespeare's sobriquet "the Bard of Avon" and the Greek word latria "worship" (as in idolatry , worship of idols ), was coined by George Bernard Shaw in the preface to his ...
The Bard; The Bard of Avon; Swan of Avon; Bard of Avon. Description: English playwright: Date of birth/death: April 1564 : 23 April 1616 (in Julian calendar)
The Chandos portrait, believed to be Shakespeare, held in the National Portrait Gallery, London. The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the life and legacy of William Shakespeare, an English poet, playwright, and actor who lived during the 17th century.
William Shakespeare (1564–1616), the Bard of Avon or the Bard; Robert Burns (1759–1796), the Bard of Ayrshire or the Bard; Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941), the Bard of Bengal; John Cooper Clarke (born 1949), the Bard of Salford; Richard Llwyd (1752–1835), the Bard of Snowdon; Thomas Rowley (poet) (1721–1796), the Bard of the Green ...
Thomas Arne composed the song Soft Flowing Avon for the Jubilee. Stratford was at the time a town with around 2,200 inhabitants. [ 2 ] Garrick, Britain's most famous Shakespearean actor and most influential theatre owner-manager, had the idea for the Jubilee when he was approached by the town's leaders who wanted him to fund a statue of ...
The Bard; The Bard of Avon; Swan of Avon; Bard of Avon. Description: English playwright: Date of birth/death: April 1564 : 23 April 1616 (in Julian calendar)