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Shakespeare
52,800 words, approx. 176 pages
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Irresistible Shakespeare
24,000 words, approx. 80 pages
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Getting to Know Shakespeare
19,200 words, approx. 64 pages
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| 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
35,385 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...
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Biography of William Shakespeare
10,254 words, approx. 34 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...
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Biography of William Shakespeare
3,100 words, approx. 10 pages
 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...



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William Shakespeare Quotes
49,511 words, approx. 165 pages
 William Shakespeare (born April 1564 , traditionally celebrated on 23 April ; baptised 1564-04-26 ; died 1616-05-03 { 1616-04-23 O.S. }) was an English playwright and poet . Contents 1 Works of Shakespeare 2 Sourced 3 Misattributed 4 Quotes about...


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William Shakespeare Information
11,102 words, approx. 37 pages
 William Shakespeare (baptised 26 April 1564 – 23 April 1616)[a] was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist.[1][2] He is often called England's national...




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William Shakespeare.
05/01/2002: 445 words, approx. 2 pages 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...
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Shakespeare.(author William Shakespeare)(Bibliography)
02/01/2004: 376 words, approx. 1 pages "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...
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Today in history - April 23
4/23/2007: 596 words, approx. 2 pages 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...
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Coalition aims to expose Shakespeare
9/8/2007: 438 words, approx. 2 pages 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...




Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Ann Jennalie Cook
21,041 words, approx. 70 pages
 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.
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Critical Essay by Matthew H. Wikander
18,860 words, approx. 63 pages
 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.
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Critical Essay by Walter C. Foreman, Jr.
18,065 words, approx. 60 pages
 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.
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The Language of Shakespeare
3,504 words, approx. 12 pages
 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.
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Discuss the Ways in Which Shakespeare Presents Anti-semitism
2,418 words, approx. 8 pages
 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."
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