William Shakespeare
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How to Analyze a Shakespearean Sonnet
Writing an essay on a Shakespearean sonnet can be quite a challenge. The following are a few tips to help…
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Shakespeare’s Writing Style
Shakespeare used a metrical pattern consisting of lines of unrhymed iambic pentameter, called blank verse. His plays were composed using…
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Going to a Play in Shakespeare’s London: Simon Forman’s Diary
Renaissance records of Shakespeare’s plays in performance are exceedingly scarce. However, those few contemporary accounts that have survived provide brief…
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Violence in Shakespeare: Suicide, Murder, and Combat in Shakespeare’s Plays
Introduction Elizabethan and Jacobean audiences reveled in shocking drama. While patrons liked a good comedy, they consistently packed the theatres…
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Shakespearean Scholars
Joseph Quincy Adams (1881-1946). Adams was a professor at Cornell University and the director of the Folger Shakespeare Library from 1931…
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100 Famous Quote by William Shakespeare
To be, or not to be, that is the question. A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise…
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Biography – The Ancestors of William Shakespeare
WHAT’S IN A NAME? (DERIVATIONS OF THE NAME SHAKESPEARE)“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose By any…
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William Shakespeare Biography – The Parents of William Shakespeare
JOHN SHAKESPEARE ( FATHER ) – THE EARLY YEARSJohn Shakespeare was born in 1531. His father, Richard Shakespeare, was a…
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The Brothers & Sisters of William Shakespeare
THE SIBLINGS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEAREWilliam was the third of eight children, although the two born before him had died. Details…
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Elizabethan Education – The Childhood & Education of William Shakespeare
THE CHILDHOOD AND EDUCATION OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEAREThere are no specific records relating William Shakespeare’s attendance at school but the following…
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