Mix and match the lines of Shakespeare's sonnets to create your own original poem.

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"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...

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...

The English playwright, poet, and actor William Shakespeare (1564-1616) is generally acknowledged to be the greatest of English writers and one of the most extraordinary creators in human history. The most crucial fact about William Shakespeare's...

Dommermuth-Costa, Carol William Shakespeare 2002. 112pp. $25.26 hc. Lerner Publishing Group. 0-8225-4996-4. Grades 6-12 A new title from A&E Biography provides an attractive and well-written overview of Shakespeare's life and times. Because relatively little is known about Shakespeare's life, but much is...

"Words, words, words," proclaims Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark (Act II, Sc. 2), and who would know better than the character who speaks more lines than any other of Shakespeare's dramatic personae? Surely more words have been written about Hamlet's creator than about any...

Today is Monday, April 23, the 113th day of 2007. There are 252 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:April 23, 1564, is believed to be the birthdate of English poet and dramatist William Shakespeare; he died 52 years later, also on April 23.On...

The bard, or not the bard, that is the question.Some of Britain's most distinguished Shakespearean actors have reopened the debate over whether William Shakespeare, a 16th century commoner raised in an illiterate household in Stratford-upon-Avon, wrote the plays that bear his name.Acclaimed actor Derek Jacobi...

In the following essay, Cook discusses many of the particulars of Elizabethan marriage laws and customs and then explores the way in which Shakespeare's plays address or correspond to real-life contemporary matrimonial issues. Cook concludes that Shakespeare represents courtship and marriage in a variety of positive and negative ways and that there is no easy way to determine what his own views on the subject were.

In the following essay, Wikander examines the nature of Shakespeare's historiography in the English history plays, demonstrating the way in which Shakespeare incorporated elements of the medieval, providential view of history and humanist historiography in his approach to English history.

In the essay below, Foreman diagrams the variety of ways in which Shakespeare's tragic protagonists meet their ends. Looking closely at the deaths of the central characters in both the minor and major tragedies, he considers the depth of the characters' understanding of themselves and the world, their sense of identity, their will to be in control of their fates, and the creativity of their confrontations with death.

William Shakespeare's genius, in part, lies with the immense vocabulary he employs, going so far as to create new words that are in today's English language. His influence on culture extends to how society uses his phrases as cliches and his enormous affect on poetry.

Nine years before "The Merchant of Venice" was performed, "The Jew of Malta" was written by Christopher Marlowe. The play also reflects themes of racial hatred and religious conflict which mirror the parallels of sixteenth century England and it is fair to say that Marlowe inspired "The Merchant of Venice."

Voice in William Shakespeare comedies and histories.