Encyclopedia - William Shakespeare: Encyclopedia - William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare (baptised April 26, 1564 – April 23, 1616) was an English poet and playwright. Shakespeare is considered by many to...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - William Shakespeare: Encyclopedia Ii - William Shakespeare - Bibliography
William Shakespeare - Comedies. Main articles: Shakespearean comedies, and [[]], and [[]], and [[]], and [[]] ... See also:William Sha...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - William Shakespeare: Encyclopedia Ii - William Shakespeare - Life
William Shakespeare - Early life. William Shakespeare (also spelled Shakspere, Shaksper, and Shake-speare, due to the fact that Elizabe...   » Read the article

Article - Angel Quotes: Wisdom About Angels
Angels always try to paint a rosy picture. Angels and ministers of grace defend us.   William Shakespeare      » Read the article

Article - Angel Quotes: Wisdom About Angels
Angels always try to paint a rosy picture. Angels and ministers of grace defend us.   William Shakespeare      » Read the article

Article - Life And Death: The World Is A Stage
"All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: They have their exits and their entrances...” wrote Wil...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - William Shakespeare: Encyclopedia Ii - William Shakespeare - Speculations About Shakespeare
William Shakespeare - Identity. Main articles: Shakespearean authorship, and [[]], and [[]], and    » Read the article

Encyclopedia - William Shakespeare: Encyclopedia Ii - William Shakespeare - Speculations About Shakespeare
William Shakespeare - Identity. Main articles: Shakespearean authorship, and [[{{{2}}}]], and [[{{{3}}}]], and [[{{{4}}}]]   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bard: Encyclopedia - Bard
A bard is a poet or singer, in religious or feudal contexts. Bard - Etymology. The word is a loanword from Proto-Celtic *bardos, ultimat...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Shakespeare Anthony Burgess: Encyclopedia - Shakespeare Anthony Burgess
Shakespeare, a biographical study of William Shakespeare by Anthony Burgess, was published in 1970. Other related archivesAnthony Burges...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bell Shakespeare Company: Encyclopedia - Bell Shakespeare Company
The Bell Shakespeare Theatre Company is a famous Australian theater company specialising in the works of William Shakespeare. It is named...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Shakespeare's Reputation: Encyclopedia - Shakespeare's Reputation
In his own time, William Shakespeare (1564–1616) was seen as merely one among many talented playwrights and poets, but ever since the l...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anne Hathaway Shakespeare's Wife: Encyclopedia - Anne Hathaway Shakespeare's Wife
Anne Hathaway (1556 – August 6, 1623) was the wife of William Shakespeare. Little is known about her. Anne Hathaway Shakespeare's wife ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Complete Works Of Shakespeare: Encyclopedia - Complete Works Of Shakespeare
The Complete Works of Shakespeare is the standard name given to any volume containing all the plays and poems of William Shakespeare. The...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anthropophagi: Encyclopedia - Anthropophagi
The anthropophagi (cannibals) are creatures from English folklore with no heads and a mouth in their chests. Their diminutive brain was l...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - As You Like It: Encyclopedia - As You Like It
William Shakespeare's As You Like It is a pastoral comedy written for a popular audience, in 1599 or early 1600. As You Like It was liste...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - All Shook Up: Encyclopedia - All Shook Up
"All Shook Up" is one of the many hit songs of Elvis Presley. It reached the top of all three U.S. charts (pop, country and r&b), sta...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Coriolanus Play: Encyclopedia - Coriolanus Play
Coriolanus is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, based on the life of the legendary Roman leader. This is one of Shakespeare's later plays...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chandos Portrait: Encyclopedia - Chandos Portrait
The "Chandos" portrait is one of the most famous portraits believed to depict William Shakespeare (1564–1616). The portrait is named fo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - All's Well That Ends Well: Encyclopedia - All's Well That Ends Well
All's Well That Ends Well is a comedy by William Shakespeare, and is often considered one of his problem plays, so-called because they ca...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - A Lover's Complaint: Encyclopedia - A Lover's Complaint
A Lover's Complaint is a narrative poem usually attributed to William Shakespeare, although the poem's authorship is a matter of critical...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1595: Encyclopedia - 1595
1595 - Events. January 30 - William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is performed for the first time. William Shakespeare writes A Midsu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cymbeline: Encyclopedia - Cymbeline
The Mythical British King Cymbeline is identified with Cunobelinus Cymbeline is a play by William Shakespeare. Critics often put it in a ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1560s: Encyclopedia - 1560s
1530s 1540s 1550s - 1560s - 1570s 1580s 1590s 1560 1561 1562 1563 1564 1565 1566 1567 1568 1569 Events and Trends In 1564 William Shakes...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cressida Moon: Encyclopedia - Cressida Moon
Cressida (kres'-i-da) is a moon of Uranus. It was named after the Trojan daughter of Calchas, a tragic heroine who appears in William Sha...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Faggot: Encyclopedia - Faggot
Faggot derives through the Old French fagot from the Latin facus ("bundle") (see also fasces), coming into Middle English on or around th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1604: Encyclopedia - 1604
1604 - Events. January 14 – Hampton Court conference with James I of England, the Anglican bishops and representatives of Puritans S...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ariel Shakespeare: Encyclopedia - Ariel Shakespeare
Ariel is a fictional sprite who appears in William Shakespeare's play The Tempest. He is bound to serve the magician Prospero, who rescue...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Caratacus: Encyclopedia - Caratacus
Caratacus (also spelled Caractacus) was a historical British chieftain of the Catuvellauni tribe, who led the British resistance to the R...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cockpit: Encyclopedia - Cockpit
A cockpit was originally a pit used for cockfighting, where owners would pit fighting birds against each other for the purpose of gamblin...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Battle Of Agincourt: Encyclopedia - Battle Of Agincourt
The Battle of Agincourt was fought on 25 October 1415, (Saint Crispin's Day), in northern France as part of the Hundred Years' War. The c...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Antony And Cleopatra: Encyclopedia - Antony And Cleopatra
Antony and Cleopatra is a historical tragedy by William Shakespeare, first performed in 1607 or 1608 and printed in the First Folio, 1623...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cardenio: Encyclopedia - Cardenio
Cardenio is a lost play, known to have been performed by the King's Men, a London theatre company, in 1613. It is believed to have been w...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sexuality Of William Shakespeare: Encyclopedia Ii - Sexuality Of William Shakespeare - Sexuality In The Sonnets
Shakespeare's Sonnets are the principal evidence for his possible bisexuality. The poems were initially published, perhaps without his ap...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Shakespeare's Life: Encyclopedia Ii - Shakespeare's Life - Early Life
William Shakespeare (also spelled Shakspere, Shaksper, and Shake-speare, due to the fact that Elizabethan spelling was very erratic[1]) w...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Shakespeare's Plays: Encyclopedia Ii - Shakespeare's Plays - Canonical Plays
Shakespeare's plays - Comedies. Main articles: Shakespearean comedies, and [[{{{2}}}]], and [[{{{3}}}]], and [[{{{4}}}]]   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sexuality Of William Shakespeare: 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 childre...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sexuality Of William Shakespeare: 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 Nig...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Shakespeare's Life: Encyclopedia Ii - Shakespeare's Life - London And Theatrical Career
By 1592 Shakespeare was a playwright in London and had enough of a reputation for Robert Greene to denounce him as "an upstart Crow, beau...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Shakespeare's Life: Encyclopedia Ii - Shakespeare's Life - Later Years
Shakespeare retired in about 1611. His retirement was not entirely without controversy. He was drawn into a legal quarrel regarding the e...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Shakespeare's Plays: Encyclopedia Ii - Shakespeare's Plays - Shakespeare And The Textual Problem
Unlike his contemporary Ben Jonson, Shakespeare did not have direct involvement in publishing his plays and produced no overall authorita...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Shakespeare's Plays: Encyclopedia Ii - Shakespeare's Plays - Stylistic Groupings Of The Plays
While there is some dispute about the exact Chronology of Shakespeare plays, the plays tend to fall into three main stylistic groupings. ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Shakespeare's Plays: Encyclopedia Ii - Shakespeare's Plays - The Plays
Shakespeare's plays have the reputation of being among greatest in the English language and in Western literature and cover the genres of...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - William Shakespeare Hays: Encyclopedia Ii - William Shakespeare Hays - Biography
Hays was born in Louisville, Kentucky, a town where he would spend most of his life. He published his first poetry in 1856 and 1857 throu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bard: Encyclopedia Ii - Bard - Etymology
The word is a loanword from Proto-Celtic *bardos, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gwerh2: "to raise the voice; praise". The word ent...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - William Shakespeare Hays: Encyclopedia Ii - William Shakespeare Hays - Hays And Dixie
In his later years, Hays claimed to have written the lyrics to "Dixie", a song that had enjoyed unprecedented popularity since before the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gentleman: Encyclopedia Ii - Gentleman - William Harrison
William Harrison, writing a century earlier, says "gentlemen be those whom their race and blood, or at the least their virtues, do make n...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Shakespeare On Screen: Encyclopedia Ii - Shakespeare On Screen - Comedies
Shakespeare on screen - All's Well That Ends Well. BBC Television Shakespeare All's Well That Ends Well (TV, UK, 1980) Released in t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gentleman: Encyclopedia Ii - Gentleman - Superiority Of The Fighting Man
The fundamental idea of "gentry", symbolised in this grant of coat-armour, had come to be that of the essential superiority of the fighti...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gentleman: Encyclopedia Ii - Gentleman - A Line Between Classes
A frontier line between classes so indefinite could not be maintained, especially as in England there was never a "nobiliary prefix" to s...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Shakespeare On Screen: Encyclopedia Ii - Shakespeare On Screen - Tragedies
Shakespeare on screen - Antony and Cleopatra. BBC Television Shakespeare Antony and Cleopatra (TV, UK, 1981) Released in the USA as...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bard: Encyclopedia Ii - Bard - Uses
In modern Wales the Gorsedd of Bards is a society whose honorary membership is those who have done great things for Wales. In the 20th ce...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gentleman: Encyclopedia Ii - Gentleman - Gentleman By Conduct
Chaucer in the Meliboeus (circa 1386) says: "Certes he sholde not be called a gentil man, that ... ne dooth his diligence and bisynesse, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Shakespeare On Screen: Encyclopedia Ii - Shakespeare On Screen - Histories
Shakespeare on screen - Henry IV Part 1. BBC Television Shakespeare Henry IV Part I (TV, UK, 1979) Released in the USA as part of t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gentleman: Encyclopedia Ii - Gentleman - Modern Usage
The word "gentleman" as an index of rank had already become of doubtful value before the great political and social changes of the 19th c...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gentleman: Encyclopedia Ii - Gentleman - Gentry
The fundamental social cleavage in the middle ages was between the nobiles, i.e. the tenants in chivalry, whether earls, barons, knights,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Windsor Great Park: Encyclopedia Ii - Windsor Great Park - History
Windsor Castle was begun in the 11th Century by William the Conqueror as it afforded a good defensive point over the Thames River. A vast...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Shakespeare In Love: Encyclopedia Ii - Shakespeare In Love - Synopsis
At an audition for a play—"Romeo and Ethel, the Pirate's Daughter"—that he actually has not yet written a word of, young William Shak...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Windsor Great Park: Encyclopedia Ii - Windsor Great Park - Features
The park may be clearly divided into a number of distinct regions. At the north is the Home Park on the southern side of the 11th Century...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - William F. Friedman: Encyclopedia Ii - William F. Friedman - Initial Work In Cryptology
Another of Fabyan's pet projects was research into secret messages which Sir Francis Bacon had allegedly hidden in various texts during t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Shakespearean Authorship: Encyclopedia Ii - Shakespearean Authorship - Terminology
Shakespearean authorship - Stratfordians and anti-Stratfordians. Those who question whether William Shakespeare of Stratford-upon-Avon ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - William Shatner's Musical Career: Encyclopedia Ii - William Shatner's Musical Career - The Transformed Man
Shatner's musical career began in 1968 with the release of his first album, The Transformed Man. Shatner used the album to compare contem...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ben Jonson: Encyclopedia Ii - Ben Jonson - Reputation
Jonson has been criticised for being inferior in poetic power to William Shakespeare, and lacking Shakespeare's gift for creating realist...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Shakespeare's Sonnets: Encyclopedia Ii - Shakespeare's Sonnets - Subject
Most of the sonnets deal with a beautiful "Young Man" (the Fair Lord), a rival poet, and a Dark Lady whose identities have been the subje...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Henry Scrope 3rd Baron Scrope Of Masham: Encyclopedia Ii - Henry Scrope 3rd Baron Scrope Of Masham - Scrope In Fiction
In William Shakespeare's Henry V, Scrope is portrayed as the character Lord Scroop. In Martha Rofheart's Fortune Made His Sword (G.P.Putn...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - William Davenant: Encyclopedia Ii - William Davenant - Biography
Sir William Davenant was born in late February, 1606 in Oxford, England, the son of Jane Shepherd Davenant and John Davenant, proprietor ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Shakespeare And Company: Encyclopedia Ii - Shakespeare And Company - George Whitman Years
In 1951, another English-language bookstore was opened in Paris' left bank by American George Whitman, under the name of Le Mistral. Much...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Second Maiden's Tragedy: Encyclopedia Ii - The Second Maiden's Tragedy - Authorship
The play's authorship is also complex. On the manuscript, three crossed-out attributions in seventeenth century hands attribute it to Tho...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Francis Bacon: New Age Spirituality Dictionary On Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon (1561-1626) The ghost-writer for William Shakespear, and the English Poet=Lauriate who finished the King James Version o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Twelfth Night Holiday: Encyclopedia Ii - Twelfth Night Holiday - Traditions
After Twelfth Night the Carnival season starts, which lasts through Mardi Gras. In some places such as New Orleans, Louisiana, the night ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lyric Poetry: Encyclopedia Ii - Lyric Poetry - Sixteenth Century
Lyric poetry - English poets. Thomas Campion Walter Raleigh William Shakespeare Philip Sidney Edmund Spenser Lyric poetry - French p...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Southwark Cathedral: Encyclopedia Ii - Southwark Cathedral - Other Information
The cathedral is used by London South Bank University for its annual honorary degree ceremony. There is another cathedral in Southwark â€...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mark Rylance: Encyclopedia Ii - Mark Rylance - Filmography
Mark Rylance - As himself. Changing Stages (2001) (mini) TV Series .... Himself William Shakespeare (2000) .... Artistic Director, Sha...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Macbeth Of Scotland: Encyclopedia Ii - Macbeth Of Scotland - Macbeth In Fiction
William Shakespeare's play Macbeth is loosely based upon the history in Raphael Holinshed's Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland....   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Archetype: Encyclopedia Ii - Archetype - Literature
Archetypes are often discussed in literature. William Shakespeare, for example, is known for popularizing many archetypal characters. Alt...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Curiosity Killed The Cat: Encyclopedia Ii - Curiosity Killed The Cat - Curiosity Killed The Cat.
This is a well-known proverb to warn against being too inquistive lest you come to harm. The earliest printed reference to the origin of ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - John Fletcher Playwright: Encyclopedia Ii - John Fletcher Playwright - Biography
Fletcher was born in December, 1579 (baptized December 20) in Rye, Sussex, and died of the plague in August 1625 (buried August 29 in St....   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 10 Things I Hate About You: Encyclopedia Ii - 10 Things I Hate About You - Shakespearean References
10 Things contains many relatively subtle references to Shakespeare's works. Careful comparison of The Taming of the Shrew and 10 Things ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Iambic Pentameter: Encyclopedia Ii - Iambic Pentameter - History In English
William Shakespeare, like many of his contemporaries, wrote poetry and drama in iambic pentameter. Here is an example from his Sonnet XVI...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead: Encyclopedia Ii - Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead - Synopsis
The play concerns the misadventures and musings of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, two minor characters from William Shakespeare's Hamlet w...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead: Encyclopedia Ii - Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead - Synopsis
The play concerns the misadventures and musings of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, two minor characters from William Shakespeare's Hamlet w...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Davidson College: Encyclopedia Ii - Davidson College - Recent News
In early 2005, the College's Board of Trustees voted in a 31-5 decision to allow 20% of the board to be non-Christian. John Belk, the for...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Battle Of Agincourt: Encyclopedia Ii - Battle Of Agincourt - Modern Re-assessment Of Agincourt
Battle of Agincourt - Were archers as effective as traditionally thought?. Recent experiments at Agincourt and elsewhere suggest that t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Real People Appearing In Fictional Context: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Real People Appearing In Fictional Context - Artists Writers Musicians
List of real people appearing in fictional context - Ahmad ibn Fadlan. Eaters of the Dead by Michael Crichton The 13th Warrior List ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hofstra University: Encyclopedia Ii - Hofstra University - Academic Programs And The Campus
Hofstra is known not only for its liberal-arts offerings, but for its schools of business and law and its emerging School of Communicatio...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Real People Appearing In Fictional Context: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Real People Appearing In Fictional Context - Explorers
List of real people appearing in fictional context - Captain William Bligh. Mutiny on the Bounty - Book and movies The Bounty - a musi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Battle Of Agincourt: Encyclopedia Ii - Battle Of Agincourt - Popular Myths
It is said that the British famous "two-finger salute" derives from the gestures of Welsh archers, fighting alongside the English at Agin...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Real People Appearing In Fictional Context: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Real People Appearing In Fictional Context - Unclassified
List of real people appearing in fictional context - Erzsébet Báthory. The Blood Countess Daughters of Darkness (1971 movie) Doctor ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Battle Of Agincourt: Encyclopedia Ii - Battle Of Agincourt - The Campaign
Henry V had invaded France for several reasons. He hoped that by fighting a popular foreign war he would strengthen his position at home....   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hecate: Encyclopedia Ii - Hecate - Hecate In Literature
Hecate makes several appearances in William Shakespeare's tragedy Macbeth (c 1606); she is represented as a goddess or demon who commands...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Real People Appearing In Fictional Context: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Real People Appearing In Fictional Context - Actors & Entertainers
List of real people appearing in fictional context - Alec Baldwin. Team America: World Police List of real people appearing in ficti...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Real People Appearing In Fictional Context: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Real People Appearing In Fictional Context - Scientists & Thinkers
List of real people appearing in fictional context - Aristotle. Time Squad List of real people appearing in fictional context - Conf...   » Read the article

Dictionary - A Short Biographical Dictionary Of English Literature: Encyclopedia - A Short Biographical Dictionary Of English Literature
A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature is a collection of biographies of writers by John William Cousin (1849-1910), publi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - William Shakespeare: Encyclopedia Ii - William Shakespeare - Works
William Shakespeare - Plays. Main article: Shakespeare's plays A number of Shakespeare's plays have the reputation of being among the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - William Shakespeare: Encyclopedia Ii - William Shakespeare - Works
William Shakespeare - Plays. Main articles: Shakespeare's plays, and [[]], and [[]], and [[]]   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - William Shakespeare: Encyclopedia Ii - William Shakespeare - Life
William Shakespeare - Early life. Willaim Shakespeare (also spelled Shakspere, Shaksper, and Shake-speare, due to the fact that Elizabe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - William Shakespeare: Encyclopedia Ii - William Shakespeare - Reputation
Shakespeare's reputation has grown considerably since his own time. During his lifetime and shortly after his death, Shakespeare was well...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - William Shakespeare: Encyclopedia Ii - William Shakespeare - Style
Shakespeare's impact on modern theatre cannot be overestimated. Not only did Shakespeare create some of the most admired plays in Western...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - William Shakespeare: Encyclopedia Ii - William Shakespeare - Works
William Shakespeare - Plays. Main articles: Shakespeare's plays, and [[{{{2}}}]], and [[{{{3}}}]], and [[{{{4}}}]]   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - William Shakespeare: Encyclopedia Ii - William Shakespeare - Bibliography
William Shakespeare - Comedies. Main articles: Shakespearean comedies, and [[{{{2}}}]], and [[{{{3}}}]], and [[{{{4}}}]]   » Read the article