Shakespeare - "The Greatest Dramatist of All Times"

I was given the honor of interviewing the known to be "Greatest Writer of All Times", the one and only William Shakespeare. To avoid looking like a complete moron, I had been doing some research of the British poet, dramatist and actor. (Google my precious friend, he never fails.) Mainly I already knew most of the answers to the questions I would ask, but however, I was curious to hear the answers from him.

Since Google obviously didn't exsist on Shakespeare's time, I'll allow myself to imagine that he arose from the dead to answer my questions. Nice guy that Shakespeare!

How was the family situation when you grew up?

- I was my parents' third child of eight in total. We lived all lived together at a place called Stratford-upon-Avon in Great Britain.

Which school did you attend to for your education?

- In 1553 they esablished a new school called King's New School. The curriculum was strict and the school gave lessons as latin grammar and classics to offer the students a comprehensive education. To be honest, the question of which school I was thinking about going to wasn't even a question, since this school was only a half a kilometer from my house.

You got married quite young, would you mind telling me about it?
“Young? I was a man in his best age!” he says and laughs. – Well, when I got married I was 18 years old. The woman I married to, Anne Hathaway, was 26 years old. Some might say we rushed into marriage without knowing what we were doing, but Anne was already 3 months pregnant with our lovely daughter Susanna.

Susanna wasn’t your other child, could you tell me about the others?
- My daughter Susanna was my first child. She was born the early spring 1583. Nearly two years later was Anne pregnant again, this time with twins!

You have a great number of written works, how many are there?
- I have written 38 plays and 154 sonnets in total. Quite a large number, if I can say so myself.

Thanks a lot for the interview; I appreciate your kindness to take some time to answer my questions. As an end I would like to ask you a question. A question I am sure I am not the only one curious of the answer. Of all your plays and sonnets, which one is your favorite?

- You are certainly not the only one to wonder, and this is an interesting question. Well, many may think that perhaps “Romeo and Juliet” or “Hamlet” would be my favorite play, because those are the most known ones, but personally, I adore the comedy Taming of the Shrew. I can tell you that I really enjoyed writing this comedy, but I would like to make no more comment on this question. Thank you.

William Shakespeare. 1564-1616

Cupcakes

Ingredients
2 ¼ cups flour
1 cup sugar
3 teaspoons baking soda
½ teaspoon salt
½ cup milk
1 teaspoon vanilla/chocolate
2 large eggs

Directions
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. (It makes about 180 degrees Celsius.)
Mix the flour, sugar, baking soda and the salt in a large bowl. Add milk and vanilla/chocolate.
Add the eggs to the batter and stir around.
Use a spoon to pour the batter into the paper liners until 2/3 full.
Bake them for 20 to 25 minutes. A trick to check if the cupcakes are finished: put a toothpick down the center of a cupcake, if the batter does not follow, the cupcake is well enough baked.
Cool the cakes for 5 minutes, and then make the frosting on top.

Frosting
100 g butter
300 g icing sugar
1 tablespoons cocoa/strawberry/vanilla (choose your favorite)
1 teaspoon vanilla sugar
Mix it all together, and put them on the top of the cupcakes.
All pictures taken by myself.