William Shakespeare
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Shakespeare’s Contemporaries
Shakespearean England was a treasure-trove of historical giants – Elizabeth I, Ben Jonson, the Earl of Essex, Edward Alleyn, John…
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Playing Fast and Loose with Shakespeare’s Name
The Elizabethans cared as little for spelling as they did for the Spanish and nowhere is their comical disregard for…
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Four Periods of Shakespeare’s Life
From Halleck’s New English Literature by Reuben Post Halleck. New York: American Book Company, 1913. We may make another classification from a…
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How Many Plays Did Shakespeare Write?
The general consensus is that Shakespeare wrote thirty-seven plays (see list below). However, no one can know for certain because…
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Shakespeare’s Children
William and Anne Shakespeare had three children. Their first child was Susanna, born a mere six months after the wedding…
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Shakespeare’s Marriage
Recordings in the Episcopal register at Worcester on the dates of November 27 and 28, 1582, reveal that Shakespeare desired…
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Shakespeare’s School Days: What Did Shakespeare Read?
An invaluable work from a celebrated head-master in the early seventeenth century gives us a wealth of information regarding what…
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Shakespeare’s Education and Childhood
Shakespeare probably began his education at the age of six or seven at the Stratford grammar school, which is still…
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Shakespeare’s Burial
Shakespeare is buried in the chancel of Holy Trinity Church in his hometown of Stratford, Warwickshire. His gravestone bears an…
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Shakespeare was a famous and respected dramatist at the time of his death. Why was so little attention paid to his passing?
Shakespeare was indeed a man of fame and wealth for many years before his death, thanks in great part to…
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