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Timon of Athens by William Shakespeare

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Author Biography

Name: William Shakespeare
Birth Date: April 23, 1564
Death Date: April 23, 1616
Place of Birth: Stratford-upon-Avon, England
Place of Death: Stratford-upon-Avon, England
Nationality: English
Gender: Male
Occupations: writer

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Biography of William Shakespeare
35385 words, approx. 118 pages
"He was not of an age, but for all time." So wrote Ben Jonson in his dedicatory verses to the memory of William Shakespeare in 1623, and so we continue to affirm today. No other writer, in English or in any other language, can rival the appeal that Shake...
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Biography of William Shakespeare
30474 words, approx. 101.6 pages
"He was not of an age, but for all time." So wrote Ben Jonson in his dedicatory verses to the memory of William Shakespeare in 1623, and so we continue to affirm today. No other writer, in English or in any other language, can rival the appeal that Shake...
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Biography of William Shakespeare
10254 words, approx. 34.2 pages
William Shakespeare's reputation is based primarily on his plays. With the partial exception of the Sonnets (1609), quarried since the early nineteenth century for autobiographical secrets allegedly encoded in them, the nondramatic writings have traditio...
 


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Timon of Athens Information
3,874 words, approx. 13 pages
The Life of Timon of Athens is a play by William Shakespeare about the legendary Athenian misanthrope Timon (and probably influenced by the eponymous philosopher, as well), generally regarded as one of his most obscure and difficult works. Originally...


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The New York Observer
Farrell\'d5s Revival of Don Q, Balanchine\'d5s Gift to His Muse
7/10/2005: 1,701 words, approx. 6 pages
George Balanchine’s Don Quixote—that ambitious, mysterious work that fascinated and confused us all back when it was made in 1965—has just been restaged, by Suzanne Farrell, for the first time since it disappeared from the repertory in 1978. When it was made, Balanchine was 61,...
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The New York Observer
Farrell's Revival of Don Q, Balanchine's Gift to His Muse
7/10/2005: 1,700 words, approx. 6 pages
George Balanchine's Don Quixote-that ambitious, mysterious work that fascinated and confused us all back when it was made in 1965-has just been restaged, by Suzanne Farrell, for the first time since it disappeared from the repertory in 1978. When it was made, Balanchine was 61,...
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The New York Observer
Sensational Arts News! You Won't Find These Hot Squibs Anywhere
7/17/2005: 2,904 words, approx. 10 pages
In a way, it goes back to the spirit of the early Edgy Enthusiast columns, which were numbered riffs on cultural obsessions. Playlists, even—dare I say it? —pre-blog blogging. Not really: but …. 1 Did you know that Jorn Barger, the guy generally known...
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The New York Observer
Sensational Arts News! You Won't Find These Hot Squibs Anywhere
7/17/2005: 2,978 words, approx. 10 pages
Think of this week's column as a play list for the overeducated, the media-saturated, the culturally jaded: things you may have missed, things you ought not miss, things you still can see and hear. Things "arts journalists" have not covered. Cultural news for those people...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Jonathan Baldo
12,570 words, approx. 42 pages
In the essay below, Baldo argues that Shakespeare develops the rhetorical practice of generalizing to a new height in Timons of Athens, unprecedented in renaissance literature.
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Critical Essay by Sharon O'Dair
11,293 words, approx. 38 pages
In the following essay, O'Dair discusses Shakespeare's views on economics and social status as presented in Timon of Athens.
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Critical Essay by David Konstan
11,212 words, approx. 37 pages
In the following essay, Konstan explores concepts of misanthropy by comparing Timon of Athens to Menander's Dyscolus and Moliére's Le Misanthrope.
 
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Essay Grade: 81%
A Character Analysis of Timon of Athens
955 words, approx. 3 pages
Explores the transition of the character Timon, from Shakespeare's Timon of Athens, from a generous man to a needy man. Includes an examination of key passages from the play.


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