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 subject of much debate. Some have suggested that the young man is the same as the "Mr. W. H." referred to in the publisher's dedication, possibly William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke, a patron of the stage. The rival poet is sometimes identified with Christopher Marlowe or George Chapman. However, there is no hard evidence whatsoever that any of the sonnets' characters have real-life counterparts. The narrator himself could even be a fictional device an ...

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In William Shakespeare's Henry V, Scrope is portrayed as the character Lord Scroop. In Martha Rofheart's Fortune Made His Sword (G.P.Putnam's Sons, 1972), Scrope appears as the friend of Sir William Poultney, who dresses as a woman. ...

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Sir William Davenant was born in late February, 1606 in Oxford, England, the son of Jane Shepherd Davenant and John Davenant, proprietor of the Crown Tavern (or Crown Inn) and mayor of Oxford. He was the godson of William Shakespeare, who had stayed frequently at the Crown during his travels between London and Stratford-upon-Avon. It was even rumored that he was the Bard's biological son as well. However, it seems that this rumor stemmed from a comment attributed to Davenant by Samuel Butler: "It seemed to him [Davenant] that he writ with the very same spirit that Shakespeare [did], an ...

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In 1951, another English-language bookstore was opened in Paris' left bank by American George Whitman, under the name of Le Mistral. Much like its predecessor (which was at a different location), the store served as a focal point for literary culture in bohemian, left-bank Paris. Upon Sylvia Beach's death, the store's name was changed to Shakespeare and Company. In the 1950's, the shop served as a base for many of the writers of the beat generation like Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso and William Burroughs. Whitman's daughter, Sylvia, now assi ...

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The play's authorship is also complex. On the manuscript, three crossed-out attributions in seventeenth century hands attribute it to Thomas Goffe, William Shakespeare, and George Chapman. However, stylistic analysis indicates very strongly that the true author was Thomas Middleton, and the play fits very well with Middleton's other work. In a further complication, a professional handwriting expert has claimed in a recent book that The Second Maiden's Tragedy play is in fact Shakespeare's manuscript of the lost play Cardenio ...

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Francis Bacon

(1561-1626) The ghost-writer for William Shakespear, and the English Poet=Lauriate who finished the King James Version of the Bible.

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After Twelfth Night the Carnival season starts, which lasts through Mardi Gras. In some places such as New Orleans, Louisiana, the night of January 6 with the first Carnival celebrations is called Twelfth Night. In some places, Twelfth Night celebrations include food traditions such as the king cake or tortell. Twelfth Night is when all Christmas Decorations should be removed so as not to bring bad luck upon the home. If decorations are not rem ...

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The cathedral is used by London South Bank University for its annual honorary degree ceremony. There is another cathedral in Southwark — the Roman Catholic St George's Cathedral Southwark. The Cathedral contains a large stained glass window dedicated to William Shakespeare, depicting scenes from all of the plays he wrote. At the base of the window is a statue of a reclining William Shakespeare holding a quill. ...

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William Shakespeare's play Macbeth is loosely based upon the history in Raphael Holinshed's Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland. Unfortunately its account of Macbeth was based on Hector Boece's 1527 Scotorum Historiae which flattered the antecedents of Boece's patron, king James IV of Scotland. This greatly maligned the real Macbeth, and his Queen Gruoch (a princess royal reduced to the status of a mere "Lady"). But the principal objective of Shakespeare's play is political patronage, not history. James VI & ...

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Archetypes are often discussed in literature. William Shakespeare, for example, is known for popularizing many archetypal characters. Although he based many of his characters on existing archetypes from fables and myths, Shakespeare's characters stand out as original by their contrast against a complex, social literary landscape. A pastiche is an imitation of an archetype or prototype in orde ...

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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 this proverb is attributed to British playwright Ben Jonson in his 1598 play, Every Man in His Humour (performed first by British playwright William Shakespeare). ...Helter skelter, hang sorrow, care will kill a cat, up-tails all, and a pox on the hangman. In this instance, "care" was defined as "worry" or "sorrow." William Shakespeare used a similar quote in his circa 1599 play, Much Ado About Nothing: What, courage man! what t ...

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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. Saviour's, Southwark.) He went to Corpus Christi College, Cambridge University at the age of eleven, but it is not known whether he took a degree, though he had some reputation as a scholar. After William Shakespeare and Ben Jonson, John Fletcher was arguably the most gifted and influential of the Jacobean dramatists. In succession to Shakespeare, he became the chief dramatist for the leading compan ...

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10 Things contains many relatively subtle references to Shakespeare's works. Careful comparison of The Taming of the Shrew and 10 Things I Hate About You reveals some similarities, mostly in character names and general plot ideas. When Cameron sees Bianca, he says 'I burn, I pine'; this is a line from William Shakespeare's play 'The Taming of The Shrew' upon which this movie was based. For instance, the two sisters in The Taming of the Shrew are named Katherina and Bianca, while the two sisters in See also:

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William Shakespeare, like many of his contemporaries, wrote poetry and drama in iambic pentameter. Here is an example from his Sonnet XVIII: Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date: There is some debate over whether works such as Shakespeare's were originally performed with the rhythm prominent, or whether it was embedded in the patterns of normal speech as is common today. In either cas ...

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The play concerns the misadventures and musings of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, two minor characters from William Shakespeare's Hamlet who are friends of the Prince, focusing on their actions while the events of Hamlet occur as background. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead is structured as the inverse of Hamlet; the title characters are the leads, not minor players, and Hamlet himself has only a small part. The duo appears on stage here when they are off-stage in Shakespeare's play, with the exception of a few short ...

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The play concerns the misadventures and musings of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, two minor characters from William Shakespeare's Hamlet who are friends of the Prince, focusing on their actions while the events of Hamlet occur as background. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead is structured as the inverse of Hamlet; the title characters are the leads, not minor players, and Hamlet himself has only a small part. The duo appears on stage here when they are off-stage in Shakespeare's play, with the exception of a fe ...

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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 former mayor of Charlotte and founder of Belk Department Store, was a casualty of this decision, resigning in protest after more than six decades of affiliation with the college. Stephen Smith also resigned. The Royal Shakespeare Company was in residency for most of the month of March 2005 at Davidson College, performing The Two Gentlemen of Verona and Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare, as well as nu ...

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Battle of Agincourt - Were archers as effective as traditionally thought?. Recent experiments at Agincourt and elsewhere suggest that the English archers may have inflicted less damage than traditionally assumed on the heavily armoured French knights and men-at-arms, because of the recent adoption of steel (rather than iron) armour. A series of tests carried out for a television programme about Agincourt had limitations, such as: The draw weight of the English longbows used may or may not have ...

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Hofstra is known not only for its liberal-arts offerings, but for its schools of business and law and its emerging School of Communication. It is also world-renowned for its annual festival of William Shakespeare plays, which have been held for more than half a century. Hofstra also has its very own Globe Theatre replica in the John Cranford Adams Playhouse which has been used every spring for the Shakespeare productions. (The playhouse is named for the educator who served as ...

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