William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's preeminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon."
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William Shakespeare's theatre company was The Chamberlain's Men, named after The Lord Chamberlain, an official responsible for...
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AnswerWilliam Shakespeare, the great English playwright, poet and actor, was born in April 1564, and died on 23 April 1616.The...
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The theatre most often associated with William Shakespeare is the The Globe Theatre, which opened in 1599 in Southwark, London....
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William Shakespeare, the great playwright and poet, was born in Stratford-Upon-Avon, in Warwickshire, England in April 1564. Very...
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In the first officially published versions of Shakespeare's plays, known as The First Folio, the plays were categorised as...
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William Shakespeare's children William Shakespeare, the great playwright, poet and actor, married Anne Hathaway in November...
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William Shakespeare's plays are categorised as Histories, Comedies and Tragedies. Details of each on the links...
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William Shakespeare wrote plays, narrative poems and a particular type of poem called sonnets. William Shakespeare wrote 154...
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Nobody is really sure which is Shakespeare's first play. The only thing we can say for sure is that it was written at some time...
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Thomas Hardy was once invited to join a committee to establish a Shakespeare Memorial Theatre. His reply was that he was feeling...
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The line is said by Adam, Orlando's elderly and faithful retainer. Adam is applying for the job as Orlando's servant. He says:Let...
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they used a flag. A flag was raised on the day of the performance that sometimes showed a symbol or picture that indicated what...
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Mostly water or tea, or, juices if they had the resources. Also, they enjoyed mead, or ale to relax.Actually neither coffee nor...
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He doesn't know of any plot against Caesar but he fears it could happen. He's going to talk to Caesar
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No. Shakespeare simply wrote the play to entertain, and entertain it did. It deals with love, hate, jealousy, racism, authority,...
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We know astonishingly little about Shakespeare's character. It is dangerous to try to identify his sentiments with those of the...
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A German movie of it was made in 1964. The BBC did it as part of their project to make a film of every single Shakespeare play,...
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Very few. The only convention which he adheres to strictly is the convention that an actor should not exit at the end of one...
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A "pard" is an older form of our word "leopard". At some point someone added the Latin word for lion ("leo") to the front of...
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Otto Nicolai composed the opera of this name.
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It's a metaphor. Romeo is comparing Juliet to an earring which dangles against a person's cheek. The person's skin, like the...
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We don't know whether Shakespeare actually helped with the construction of any theatres but he did have a share in two of them,...
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Noplace. This is not a quote from Romeo and Juliet. It was said by the Roman poet Sextus Propertius.
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Music and songs have special implications in the play Twelfth Night. They help to create the festive atmosphere of the play. It...
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Alas, no playbills survive from the Elizabethan era, but we do know these few facts: The right to print playbills was a monopoly,...
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It meant someone of African extraction. It especially meant people from North Africa, but the same word was used to describe...
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Something like "the twenty-sixth day of January in the year of our Lord two thousand and twenty", I should think.
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There are a lot of plays which are at least partly set in Italy. The reason for this may well have to do with Shakespeare's...
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Shakespeare wrote in English. "The" in English is "the". Ninety-nine percent of the words Shakespeare uses mean exactly what you...
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We have no way of knowing what food and drink Shakespeare was particularly fond of. For all we know he may have hated cheese. As...
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It doesn't symbolize anything really, but it does tell us something about the character that is speaking. Shakespeare had his...
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Following are the names and baptism dates of William and his siblings, born to Mary and John Shakespeare. Actual birth dates were...
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Justice, verity, temperance, stableness, bounty, perseverance, mercy, lowliness, devotion, patience, courage, fortitude. He left...
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Shakespeare often set his plays in more than one place: Henry V starts in England then moves to France; Othello starts in Venice...
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Shakespeare's son Hamnet died at the age of 11 in 1596 but most scholars think Shakespeare had already written Romeo and Juliet...
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Your question is perhaps a bit ambiguous. If you are talking about reading silently to yourself, you can just ignore the format...
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Polonius, Hamlet, Laertes, Gertrude and Claudius all die onstage. Ophelia, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern all die offstage.
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It's much easier to say who doesn't die: Marcus Andronicus, Lucius Andronicus and Young Lucius.The ones who do die are Titus and...
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Yes, and no. Shakespeare uses many different styles of language, such as blank verse, rhyming couplets and ordinary "vernacular"...
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A Collection of Shakespeare's plays was published by his colleagues in 1623, seven years after Shakespeare's death. This was...
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willaim shakephere wrote the story in 1590-1594. People believed that it took place in 1592.
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Mary Arden married John Shakespeare and their most famous son is, of course, William Shakespeare.
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it is unknown, but some where in between 1560-1564
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He knows Othello is looking on and thinks that they are talking about Desdemona. The kinds of things Cassio is likely to say...
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Since Shakespeare wrote in modern English, it should come as no surprise that the word for "sex" is "sex". An example is Helena...
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Not really. He could not offend the monarch of course, and the king or queen might command a performance of a play. However,...
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William Shakespeare William Shakespeare is best known as a playwright. His plays are still performed in Theatres all over the...
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Caesar was a power-hungry egomaniac and never did anything except to boost his own power and prestige. Brutus was a nostalgic...
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Twelfth Night "If music be the food of love, play on.", 1.1.1 "Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve...
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Shakespeare at no time wrote anything about himself. His character and opinions are a complete mystery. Some people try to guess...
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James Mason.
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Its way of saying the eyes see all, gives love and provides warm feeling. just 5 words "eyes are like the sun". some will add...
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No. Because it was done at about the same time, there are similarities in style and vocabulary, but Shakespeare was not a scholar...
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In means "since". "I do not know why I live to say this thing's to do sith I have cause and will and strength and means to do...
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An 18-year-old William Shakespeare married 26-year-old Anne Hathaway in November 1582. At the time, she was pregnant with his...
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The value of old books is determined by their rarity and condition. To know the answer to this question one would have to know...
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I belive you are refering to the old saying "Beware the ides of March" refering to the date in time that Julius Caesar was...
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O-thell-oThe first syllable rhymes with pot, the second rhymes with hell and the last rhymes with go. The is the usual anglicized...
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Shakespeare's plays are being played constantly throughout the English-speaking world. Every day, one of his plays is being...
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Shakespeare was not an impressario--his plays were put on by theatre companies and theatre owners like Philip Henslowe. In his...
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It has been played in theatres all over the world from time to time. Its first performance was a private performance for some law...
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As in most literature, it probably symbolizes life.
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All 38 plays which we recognize as Shakespeare's were published before 1634 in some form. We are very fortunate in that two...
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History does not seem to record which of Shakespeare's plays was his favourite. Regrettably, History does not seem to record...
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The Lord Chamberlain's Men was formed in 1594 and Shakespeare was one of its charter members, so he didn't actually join it. He...
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William Shakespeare's Comedies The plays of William Shakespeare are usually categorised as Histories, Tragedies and Comedies. ...
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William Shakespeare's plays are commonly categorised as Histories, Comedies and Tragedies. These categories were given in the...
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First look to see if the predominant rhythm is iambic--do the words have a ti-DUM ti-DUM feel to them. If so, the rhythm is...
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The dialect of English that Shakespeare wrote in is often called Elizabethan, or Shakespearean, English, after two of the most...
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He has been given the nicknames the Swan of Avon, the Bard of Avon, or just "The Bard".
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William Shakespeare's Tragedies William Shakespeare's plays are usually categorised as Histories, Comedies and Tragedies. The...
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Do not edit spelling. On His Gravestone Written by Shakespeare himself, this is on his gravestone: This is exactly the way it...
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homework, right?
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It means 'God's little body!' It is a minced oath. In Shakespeare's day, saying 'God's body!' would be crude. Odds bodkins was a...
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Pretty subjective but some of my favorites are 18 (shall I compare thee), 119 (what potions have I drunk), 121 ('tis better to be...
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As their name suggests, vendors sold things, primarily things to eat.
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For about four days late in July.
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No, Camelot is a Broadway musical, and Shakespeare did not write Broadway musicals. It was written in 1960, almost 400 years...
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here Orlando is firstly talking with Adam for his 1000 crowns which have been left by his father and given to Oliver for...
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Hamlet sees Laertes acting like a jerk, putting on a big show of grief, with himself the center of attention, instead of being...
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It is illegal to fight in the streets; Benvolio is trying to keep the peace and uphold the law. He has already warned Mercutio...
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Act 2, Scene 1: He begins hallucinating and thinks he sees a dagger pointing to Duncan's room.In the Banquet Scene, Act 3 Scene...
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Sonnet 116 has the central idea or argument of the eternity of love. "Let me not to the marriage of true minds/ admit...
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He did it for over 20 years. He didn't have to do it if he didn't want to (he was still an actor and part owner of the theatre)....
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William Shakespeare was born on 23rd of April 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England. It is a market town and civil...
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Probably in 85 BC or just before.
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The word is used twice by Shakespeare in both his Roman history plays, Julius Caesar and Antony and Cleopatra. The meaning in...
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William Shakespeare died on 23rd April 1616 at his home in Stratford-upon-Avon, and was buried on 25 April. It is often said...
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William Shakespeare wrote a lot of words, and many of them had to do with what he called "life." Here is a sampling of them, and...
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Rosaline, apparently. But it may have just been Rosaline being coy, or giving the cold shoulder to Romeo.
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"Bloody, bawdy villain! Remorseless, treacherous, lecherous, kindless villain!" I guess that about sums it up.
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Hamlet is told that his father was murdered by a ghost. In the Elizabethan period ghosts were seen as omens and not to be...
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A very good question. Plot SourcesShakespeare's plots are Shakespeare used a variety of books, histories, and earlier...
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