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| ARTICLES RELATED TO Henry Condell | | | |  Henry Condell: Encyclopedia II - Sexuality of William Shakespeare - Sexuality in the SonnetsShakespeare's Sonnets are the principal evidence for his possible bisexuality. The poems were initially published, perhaps without his approval, in 1609. One hundred and twenty-six of them appear to be love poems addressed to a young man (known as the "Fair Lord"), and twenty-six are addressed to a married woman (known as the "Dark Lady").
There are numerous passages in the Sonnets that can be read as homosexual or bisexual. In Sonnet 13, the young man is called "dear my love" and Sonnet 15 announces that the poet is at "war with Time ...
See also:Sexuality of William Shakespeare, Sexuality of William Shakespeare - Elizabethan sexual identities, Sexuality of William Shakespeare - Sexuality in the Sonnets, Sexuality of William Shakespeare - Sexuality in the plays, Sexuality of William Shakespeare - Biographical evidence, Sexuality of William Shakespeare - Authorship doubters, Sexuality of William Shakespeare - Notes, Sexuality of William Shakespeare - Additional reading Read more here: » Sexuality of William Shakespeare: Encyclopedia II - Sexuality of William Shakespeare - Sexuality in the Sonnets |
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| | | | Henry Condell: Encyclopedia II - Elizabethan theatre - History Elizabethan theatre derived from several sources. A crucial source was the mystery plays that were part of religious festivals in England and other parts of Europe during the Middle Ages. The mystery plays were complex retellings of legends based on biblical themes, originally performed in churches but later becoming more linked to the secular celebrations that grew up around religious festivals. Other sources include the morality plays that evolved out of the mysteries, the "University drama" that attempted to recreate Greek tragedy. ...
See also:Elizabethan theatre, Elizabethan theatre - History, Elizabethan theatre - Performances, Elizabethan theatre - Writers, Elizabethan theatre - Finale, Elizabethan theatre - Genres, Elizabethan theatre - List of playwrights, Elizabethan theatre - List of players, Elizabethan theatre - Other significant people, Elizabethan theatre - List of playhouses, Elizabethan theatre - List of playing companies, Elizabethan theatre - External link Read more here: » Elizabethan theatre: Encyclopedia II - Elizabethan theatre - History |
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| | | | Henry Condell: Encyclopedia II - Shakespeare Apocrypha - The Problem In his own lifetime, Shakespeare saw only about half of his plays enter print. Some individual plays were published in quarto, a small, cheap format. In 1623, seven years after Shakespeare's death, his fellow actors John Heminges and Henry Condell put together a collection of his complete plays. Heminges and Condell were in a position to compile Shakespeare's complete plays, because they, like Shakespeare, worked for the King's Men, the London theatre company that produced all of Shakespeare's plays (in Elizabethan England, plays belonged to the company that per ...
See also:Shakespeare Apocrypha, Shakespeare Apocrypha - The Problem, Shakespeare Apocrypha - Plays attributed to Shakespeare during the 17th century but not included in the First Folio, Shakespeare Apocrypha - Plays attributed to Shakespeare after the 17th century, Shakespeare Apocrypha - Hoaxes Read more here: » Shakespeare Apocrypha: Encyclopedia II - Shakespeare Apocrypha - The Problem |
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| | | | Henry Condell: Encyclopedia II - Sexuality of William Shakespeare - Sexuality in the plays Some readers have found similar evidence in Shakespeare's plays. The most often-cited evidence is several comedies, including Twelfth Night and As You Like It, which contain comic situations in which a woman poses as a man, a device which exploits the fact that in Shakespeare's day women's roles were played by boys. While the situations thus presented are heterosexual in terms of the story, the stage image of men wooing and kissing may well have been titillating to those of a homosexual orientation, and while other dramatists occasionally used the same device, Shakespeare seems t ...
See also:Sexuality of William Shakespeare, Sexuality of William Shakespeare - Elizabethan sexual identities, Sexuality of William Shakespeare - Sexuality in the Sonnets, Sexuality of William Shakespeare - Sexuality in the plays, Sexuality of William Shakespeare - Biographical evidence, Sexuality of William Shakespeare - Authorship doubters, Sexuality of William Shakespeare - Notes, Sexuality of William Shakespeare - Additional reading Read more here: » Sexuality of William Shakespeare: Encyclopedia II - Sexuality of William Shakespeare - Sexuality in the plays |
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| | | | Henry Condell: Encyclopedia II - Sexuality of William Shakespeare - Biographical evidence There is little in the historical record about Shakespeare's sexuality. However, it has often been noted that despite their three children, he and his wife may not have been close. Shakespeare spent much of his life in London, away from her and the children. He and his Anne were buried in separate (but adjoining) graves. In additon, it has often been noted that Shakespeare's will makes no specific bequeath to his wife aside from "the second best bed with the furniture". This may seem like a slight, but many historians contend that the second ...
See also:Sexuality of William Shakespeare, Sexuality of William Shakespeare - Elizabethan sexual identities, Sexuality of William Shakespeare - Sexuality in the Sonnets, Sexuality of William Shakespeare - Sexuality in the plays, Sexuality of William Shakespeare - Biographical evidence, Sexuality of William Shakespeare - Authorship doubters, Sexuality of William Shakespeare - Notes, Sexuality of William Shakespeare - Additional reading Read more here: » Sexuality of William Shakespeare: Encyclopedia II - Sexuality of William Shakespeare - Biographical evidence |
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| | | | Henry Condell: Encyclopedia II - Elizabethan theatre - Genres Genres of the period included the history play, which depicted English or European history. Shakespeare’s plays about the lives of kings, such as Richard III and Henry V belong to this category, as do Christopher Marlowe's Edward II.
Tragedy was a popular genre. Marlowe's tragedies were exceptionally popular, such as Dr Faustus and The Jew of Malta. The audiences particularly liked revenge dramas, such as Thomas Kyd’s The Spanish Tragedy. John Webster’s The Duchess of ...
See also:Elizabethan theatre, Elizabethan theatre - History, Elizabethan theatre - Performances, Elizabethan theatre - Writers, Elizabethan theatre - Finale, Elizabethan theatre - Genres, Elizabethan theatre - List of playwrights, Elizabethan theatre - List of players, Elizabethan theatre - Other significant people, Elizabethan theatre - List of playhouses, Elizabethan theatre - List of playing companies, Elizabethan theatre - External link Read more here: » Elizabethan theatre: Encyclopedia II - Elizabethan theatre - Genres |
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| | | | Henry Condell: Encyclopedia II - Elizabethan theatre - Performances The stage on which Elizabethan plays were performed was essentially a platform surrounded on three sides by the audience, only the rear being open for entrances, exits, and seating for musicians to accompany the frequent songs. The first purpose-built theatre for plays in England since Roman times was The Theatre, built in Shoreditch by James Burbage in 1576, and was rapidly followed by the nearby Curtain Theatre. By 1600, there were several theatres, each with an upper level which could be used as a balcony, as in Romeo and Juliet, or as a position f ...
See also:Elizabethan theatre, Elizabethan theatre - History, Elizabethan theatre - Performances, Elizabethan theatre - Writers, Elizabethan theatre - Finale, Elizabethan theatre - Genres, Elizabethan theatre - List of playwrights, Elizabethan theatre - List of players, Elizabethan theatre - Other significant people, Elizabethan theatre - List of playhouses, Elizabethan theatre - List of playing companies, Elizabethan theatre - External link Read more here: » Elizabethan theatre: Encyclopedia II - Elizabethan theatre - Performances |
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| | | | Henry Condell: Encyclopedia II - Elizabethan theatre - Writers The growing population of London, the growing wealth of its people, and their fondness for spectacle produced a dramatic literature of remarkable variety, quality, and extent. Although most of the plays written for the Elizabethan stage have been lost, over 600 remain extant.
The men (no woman, so far as is known, wrote for the stage in this era) who wrote these plays were primarily self-made men from modest backgrounds. Some of them had educations at either Oxford or Cambridge, but many did not. The university men often looked down o ...
See also:Elizabethan theatre, Elizabethan theatre - History, Elizabethan theatre - Performances, Elizabethan theatre - Writers, Elizabethan theatre - Finale, Elizabethan theatre - Genres, Elizabethan theatre - List of playwrights, Elizabethan theatre - List of players, Elizabethan theatre - Other significant people, Elizabethan theatre - List of playhouses, Elizabethan theatre - List of playing companies, Elizabethan theatre - External link Read more here: » Elizabethan theatre: Encyclopedia II - Elizabethan theatre - Writers |
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| | | | Henry Condell: Encyclopedia II - Elizabethan theatre - Finale The rising Puritan movement was hostile to the theatres, which the Puritans considered to be sinful for several reasons. The most commonly cited reason was that young men dressed up in female costume to play female roles. Theatres were located in the same parts of the city in which brothels and other forms of vice proliferated. When the Puritan faction of Parliament gained control over the city of London at the beginning of the English Civil War, it ordered the closing of all theatres in 1642 — though this was largely because the stage was ...
See also:Elizabethan theatre, Elizabethan theatre - History, Elizabethan theatre - Performances, Elizabethan theatre - Writers, Elizabethan theatre - Finale, Elizabethan theatre - Genres, Elizabethan theatre - List of playwrights, Elizabethan theatre - List of players, Elizabethan theatre - Other significant people, Elizabethan theatre - List of playhouses, Elizabethan theatre - List of playing companies, Elizabethan theatre - External link Read more here: » Elizabethan theatre: Encyclopedia II - Elizabethan theatre - Finale |
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