Simrens homework

Simren's blog doesnt work so I will post hers on here:

Diary entry for November 28th 1582,
I have just married the girl of my dreams but i she told me after the ceremony that she is PREGNANT!!!!! She didn't tell me this before so i am very angry!!!! How could she do this?! I don't even know how i am going to support a child i haven't even fathered! 

I am thinking over this whole marraige, I mean i was too young anyway wasn't i?! I hope i haven't made the biggest mistake of my life! You know what? I will be the bigger man and father this child after all! I mean Anne has got nobody plus she is having a BABY! So it would be better to raise a family! I need to buy a new house, baby things, help out, this is going to change my life! What am i going to do? I will decide over night! 
Good night! 
By Simren

Hamnet

August 11^th, 1596.

August the worst month ever. Why did God have to take him away from me. When he died a whole part of me died. It wasn’t suppose to happen. Ultimately, parents expect to die and leave their children behind...This is the natural course of life events, the life cycle continuing as it should. Not the other way round.

How am I suppose to manage? How am I suppose to look after Judith , Suzanne and Anne? My beautiful wife lost her baby boy. I lost my baby boy. Suzanne and Judith lost a brother. I just wish he was here. Here with me now. Playing with his friends. Being a little kid not a little kid 6 feet under the ground. I still remember when the first time I saw him, his memorising big brown eyes. He were so soft and he smelt so... oh, I cant explain it... he smelt like only a baby can. I need him here. With me. I know he will always be in my heart. But I want everyone to know that I loved him, loved him with all my heart. He will always be my shining star. If you are here Hamnet remember I miss you and I love you. With stars on.
By Safiyah Nisar =]

Anne Hathaway

Dear Diary, 
I have met someone, can you believe it?!!
I love her so much, with all my heart. Her name's Anne, Anne Hathaway. She's amazing, so amazing that I made her a poem, its called A lovers complaint, here it is:


Upon her head a platted hive of straw,
Which fortified her visage from the sun,
Whereon the thought might think sometime it saw
The carcass of beauty spent and done:
Time had not scythed all that youth begun,
Nor youth all quit; but, spite of heaven's fell rage,
Some beauty peep'd through lattice of sear'd age.


I hope she likes it, were getting married on November 27th. I'm happy, very happy. There's just one thing though, she's pregnant. Yes, pregnant, and were not even married! It will be a shame to our families, to everyone. I mean, its shameful, we are not even married but were already expecting our own child! And there's another thing, she's 26 and I'm only 18! Well, the truth is, I don't really care. I love her so much, I mean, this is true love. Why should I let what people think of me get away with actual true love?
By Amrit Tanday :) 

Lost Years

First Lost Years (1578-1582)

Dear Diary,
I have spent alot of time thinking about what i am going to say so i am going to go head and say it. So here I go I am going to run away and get married to my true love Anne Hathaway I don't know if what I am going to do is good or bad but a life without risk is a life unlived. I know I am going to leave school to get married but my parents disagreed with the marriage because I am only 18 and she is 21 but i am going to listen to my heart not my brain.

Second Lost Years (1582-1598)

Dear Diary,
This is going to be the second time I am going to leave home but this time it is going to be different because i want to start my acting in the theatre and make myself a name but the only problem is that my wife w3ants me to stay home with the children and her but like my parents i am going to listen to my heart and not to what i am being told to do. It is not like they will never see me they can visit.

Anne Hathaway

1582,
Anne is pregnant. How could she NOT tell me before? This is really bad for the family. Not only is John Shakespeare is behind the mortgage, but his son got an older lady pregnant. What will the neighbors say? I will have to move out of Stratfordshire just to clear my name!
This has never happened before, pregnancy prior marriage. Imagine the gossip, the scandals. the defamation. However, don't they say 'History is made by rule breakers'. Imagine that; I, a young boy who left school early, got an elder girl pregnant, come from a family who was behind in mortage actually leave a mark in the history books? Maybe for the good, maybe for the bad. You never know.
But enough about the future, I need to think about now. I have an unborn child coming and I need to give the babe a father to look up at and a roof to shelter them from the rain. I need to make sure I am there for my baby no matter what. I need to make sure the baby has a good loving family. Oh no, Anne! What shall I do about her?
I love her with all my heart and will do anything to hunting across the endless world to find her love. However, I cannot leave her and the baby struggling. England is a hard world if you get kicked out by your family, which she will, because of me.
I know what I must do. For the baby. For Anne. For history.
I must get on one knee and give her my eternal love.
,William Shakespeare.

By Dhea Mohammed :)

Shakespeare Homework

1611 The Final Years

My final three plays were written to do with the King's Men's new dramatist , John Fletcher. Henry VIII (1613), Two Noble Kinsmen (probably also written in 1613 or 1614) and the now lost Cardenio were the plays. The first two nobody liked them combining elements of spectacle, romance, and tragicomedy. Little is known of my last play, except that in 1653 the printer Humphrey Moseley entered in the Stationers' Register several plays including "The History of Cardenio, by Mr. Fletcher and Shakespeare.", and that in 1613 Heminges received payment on two occasions for performances at court of a play at one time called "Cardenno" and another "Cardenna."

Answers to Divya's and Simran's questions.

It's for tomorrow guys and you can make it up. Just pick a time period from your timeline, pretend you are him and tell me what life was like then or what you did. You could think about the time where there is very little documented evidence about his life e.g. before and after his marriage to Anne Hathaway. Be as imaginative and creative as you want to. :)

Homework Wednesday 27/04/11

Choose any period of Shakespeare's life from your timeline and create a diary entry for him at that time. Remember you are writing as if you are Shakespeare so you be writing in 1st person. Don't forget about the period of time where he went missing and there is very little documentation about his life. These are known as his 'lost years'. You can read up about this if you google it. You may want to base your diary entry around this and tell me where you went.