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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
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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... summary from source:
 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... summary from source:
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...
Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 William Shakespeare Information
11,102 words, approx. 37 pages
 William Shakespeare Shakespeare.jpg}} | The Chandos portrait , artist and authenticity unconfirmed. National Portrait Gallery, London . Born April 1564 (exact date unknown) Stratford-upon-Avon , Warwickshire , England Died 23 April 1616...
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 AP News Today in history - April 23
4/23/2007: 596 words, approx. 2 pagesToday 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... summary from source:
AP News Coalition aims to expose Shakespeare
9/8/2007: 438 words, approx. 2 pagesThe 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.
Featured Essays
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 Essay Grade: 92%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. summary from source:
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