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14 de mar. de 2010 · Five years ago, James Shapiro, an American academic teaching at Columbia university in New York took the international world of Shakespeare by storm with a brilliant idea, an intimate history of...
- This Was a Man
The prolific brilliance makes it more likely, not less, that...
- Jerusalem
Apollo, LondonMark Rylance's brilliant performance is just...
- Vanessa Redgrave
The Observer Profile: Vanessa Redgrave . The following...
- Juliet and Her Romeo
A t 76, Siân Phillips has reached the age when male actors...
- Ben Jonson
Shakespeare played jealous husband in 1598 Ben Jonson drama,...
- This Was a Man
Sometime between 1585 and 1592, he began a successful career in London as an actor, writer, and part-owner ("sharer") of a playing company called the Lord Chamberlain's Men, later known as the King's Men after the ascension of King James VI of Scotland to the English throne.
- Overview
- Life
Shakespeare married Anne Hathaway, eight years his senior, when he was 18. They had three children: Susanna and twins Judith and Hamnet. Hamnet died at the age of 11.
Read more below: Shakespeare the man: Life
How many plays did Shakespeare write?
There is some dispute about how many plays Shakespeare wrote. The general consensus is 37.
Read more below: Chronology of Shakespeare’s plays
First Folio
Although the amount of factual knowledge available about Shakespeare is surprisingly large for one of his station in life, many find it a little disappointing, for it is mostly gleaned from documents of an official character. Dates of baptisms, marriages, deaths, and burials; wills, conveyances, legal processes, and payments by the court—these are the dusty details. There are, however, many contemporary allusions to him as a writer, and these add a reasonable amount of flesh and blood to the biographical skeleton.
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2 de abr. de 2024 · Known throughout the world, Shakespeare’s works—at least 37 plays, 154 sonnets, and 2 narrative poems—capture the range of human emotion and conflict and have been celebrated for more than 400...
16 de mar. de 2018 · The William Shakespeare of Stratford-upon-Avon and the William Shakespeare working in London were two separate people. They have been falsely connected by historians. Someone called William Shakespeare did work with Burbage’s theater company at The Globe, but did not write the plays.
- Lee Jamieson
Shakespeare’s works. title page of Shakespeare's First Folio. Title page of the First Folio, the first published edition (1623) of the collected works of William Shakespeare; it was originally titled Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories & Tragedies. (more)
Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, was a patron of literature, music, and theatrical players, hailed by other writers of his time as a fine playwright and poet. He was at the center of Elizabethan literary life, acquainted with key personalities depicted in the works of “Shakespeare.”.
