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Mar 18, 2016 · The wealth and connections of the merchants John and William Wilde show that the family was well established in Dublin at the very beginning of the eighteenth century. Is it possible that the family was settled in Ireland for many years, even centuries before this?
- D. Coakley
- DCOAKLEY@tcd.ie
- 2016
- Why Did Shakespeare Leave His Wife His “Second Best Bed”?
- What Did Shakespeare’s Son Die of?
- What Is The Inscription on Shakespeare’s Grave?
- Did Shakespeare Have A Coat of Arms?
- Does Shakespeare Have Descendants?
William Shakespeare wrote in his last will and testament, dated March 25, 1616, “Item I gyve unto my wife my second best bed with the furniture” (furniture is used to refer to the curtains and bedcover which formed part of the complete bed). This was not an unusual bequest, nor was it likely to have been intended as a snub. The best bed was usually...
We don’t really know how Shakespeare’s young son Hamnet died. He had a twin sister named Judith, who lived to adulthood and married, but Hamnet died at the age of 11 and a half. Child mortality was high in the 16th century; there were no antibiotics and many childhood diseases might therefore prove fatal, such as scarlet fever, whooping cough, diph...
GOOD FREND FOR JESUS SAKE FORBEARE, TO DIGG THE DUST ENCLOASED HEARE: BLESTE BE Ye [the] MAN Yt [that] SPARES THES STONES, AND CURST BE HE Yt [that] MOVES MY BONES.
Yes, William’s father, John Shakespeare, was granted a coat of arms in 1596. It was disputed in 1602 by York Herald, Ralph Brooke, saying that the arms were too similar to existing coats of arms, and that the family was unworthy. However, the challenge was unsuccessful, as the Shakespeare coat of arms appears in later heraldic collections and on Wi...
William Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway had three children. The eldest, Susanna, was baptized on May 26, 1583, and married John Hall in 1607. They had one child, Elizabeth, in 1608. Elizabeth was married twice, to Thomas Nash in 1626, and to John Bernard in 1649. However, she had no children by either husband. William and Anne also had twins, Judith ...
On a late September morning in 1891, William James walked reluctantly to his class in Harvard College’s Sever Hall. Characteristically dressed in a colorful shirt and a Norfolk jacket with a boutonniere, he must have seemed slightly bohemian.
Jun 4, 2021 · One reason was his life-philosophy — he had embraced a Darwinian, materialist view of reality in which our minds are the helpless slaves of mechanical determined processes. Nothing we do ultimately matters to the universe. We are ‘paralytic spectators’. But he managed to recover his will-to-live thanks to two things.
William James (January 11, 1842 – August 26, 1910) was an American philosopher and psychologist, and the first educator to offer a psychology course in the United States. [1] . James is considered to be a leading thinker of the late 19th century, one of the most influential philosophers of the United States, and the "Father of American psychology."
John Towner Williams (born February 8, 1932) [1] [2] [3] is an American composer and conductor. In a career that has spanned seven decades, he has composed some of the most popular, recognizable, and critically acclaimed film scores in cinema history.
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