On April 23, 2564 William Shakespeare was baptized in Stratford-upon-Avon, three days before their was an outbreak of plague recorded by their local paper the Parish Register. Because his birth occurred during the old Julian Calender, April 23 was actually May 3.
Shakespeare's father John was a leather worker who became a high bailiff, which was at the time, the highest elected office in Stratford. During that time he was prosecuted, and/or threatened prosecution four times for lending money and trading wool illegally. He married Anne Whatelely which historians now believe (her name) was a scribal error and it was actually Anne Hathawy on November 39, 1582. She was pregnant at the time.
Between 1585 and 1592, as productive as Shakespeare was at the time, there is no record of anything he did. Many scholars believe it could have been writers block and he went into seclusion. Though he is known today as playwright, he listed himself on documents, now known as resumes as "an actor", taking bit roles in plays, such as the ghost in Hamlet, giving him time for writing plays.
The first definite reference to Shakespeare as a playwright is in a pamphlet by Robert Greene, who wrote, "There is an upstart Crow, beautified with our feathers, that with his Tiger's heart wrapped in a Player's hide, supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you: and being an absolute Johannes fac totum, is in his own conceit the only Shake-scene in a country." "Tiger's heart wrapped in a Player's hide" is an allusion to a line from Henry VI, Part 3. Although Shakespeare is usually considered an Elizabethan playwright, much of his greatest work was produced after James I took the throne. Thus, Shakespeare could be more accurately considered Jacobean.
Most of Shakespeare's plays are based on his diaries and poems which was commonplace during that period. During his time, theaters did not use curtains and had nothing but a bare stage. The playwright's responsibility was to "set up the scenery through the actor's script by describing what the setting should be. Ticket-buyers to Elizabethan plays, including Shakespeare's were allowed to buy and eat pears and apples during the show. If they were not satisfied with the performance, they more often than not threw them at the actors.
Shakespeare leased a theater for 31 years, The Globe, which burned to the ground on June 29, 1613, set fire by a cannon shot during a performance of Shakespeare's Henry VIII.d In 1603, Shakespeare's company became the official player for King James I and renamed the troupe The King's Men.
In 1608, The King's Men opened the Blackfriar's Theater, the template on which all later indoor theaters are based.
On May 20, 1609, Thomas Thorpe published Shakespeare's sonnets in a quarto volume, apparently without the poet's permission. It was one of the first known copyright violations. Almost nothing is known about when the 154 sonnets were written, to whom they were addressed, or whether they are assembled in the correct order. Sonnets are typically love poems, but Shakespeare's are often self- loathing, bitter, and even homo-erotic.
There are many different kinds of property - residential, commercial offices, retail premises, land, industrial, manufacturing, warehouse stratford office spaces and sub-categories of these as well. There are rules and regulations that govern how land and property can be used. Most of us mean house prices when we talk about property values though the other categories and how usage may be changed can impact on house prices too. Searches conducted when you buy a house should investigate any planning submissions that might affect the area in which you intend to buy your house. Moving from a largely residential area to one that sees burgeoning shopping centres and retail outlets may affect the property value adversely. Building new schools, hospitals and roads can change the character of an area and lessen the appeal of the location because of increased traffic and noise levels. Those living near airports are always wondering will another runway be built and more planes be flying overhead.
Not all changes are detrimental to property values. There are at least four positive factors that could help increase property values in an area; a change to infrastructure like new rail links thereby reducing commute time or increasing a better range of destinations on the line could attract more buyers to an area and when demand is greater than supply, property values increase; a new employer opening an office in the area offering 1000+ jobs to the locale may well attract greater demand for property thus increasing values; regeneration projects through public and private funds that gentrify or upgrade run-down areas make them more appealing and create demand for homes in that area and basic demographics - an increase in population perhaps due to migrant relocation or simply the birth rate would create an increased demand on the market making property values rise. All of these factors relate to supply and demand. If demand is greater than supply property values will increase and vice versa. If a previously industrial area sees that industry close down and little prospect for employment of local residents, people will relocate to an area where they can find work and their previous location no longer has any demand for housing - the property values drop accordingly. All four of these factors came into play when Stratford in East London was announced as the main site for the Olympic stadium for the 2012 games. House prices soared at an unbelievable rate. Prices of 1-bedroom flats in the district went up from 30,000 pounds in 1997 to 130,000 pounds and are holding their value.
There is a fragile dynamic between ownership of a property and residence in it. If the owners reside in the property they are likely to contribute to the micro economy of the area through their purchases at local retail outlets, garages, pubs and restaurants. If it is merely a 'holiday home' to them, the oft-despised 'blow-ins', little is brought to the local community in terms of real economic benefits from their weekly spend and property prices can be unrealistically inflated for local potential buyers.