Shakespeare's plays
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Do you believe in Shakespeare? Poll...for real? guardian.co.uk, Monday 23 November 2009 14.34 GMT Shakespeare's authorship of Shakespeare's plays is just about as well documented and authenticated as it could get. The man was rich and famous in his own time. I guess,... In this article: William Shakespeare, Edward de Vere, and Shakespeare's plays |
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Times Online | November 19, 2009
The hunt for the real Shakespeare is a fruitless act
...over by one of our leading Shakespearean actors, 130 of us are spending a rather weird day deciding who other than Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare's plays and sonnets. Our presence here in a padded lecture theatre comes courtesy of a...
In this article: William Shakespeare, Robin Williams, Edward de Vere, Mark Rylance, Brunel University, and Mary Sidney
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L.A. Times - The Arts | 6 days ago
Theater review: 'Love's Labour's Lost' at the Broad Stage
...with jam. Shakespeare's Globe Theatre of London, an outdoor venue on the south bank of the River Thames, strives to give its audience an imaginative approximation of the way Shakespeare's plays were performed in their own time. The...
In this article: Love's Labour's Lost, William Shakespeare, Harold Bloom, Buoyancy, and Much Ado About Nothing
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ResourceShelf | November 17, 2009
Just Released: Shakespeare Quartos Archive Opens Access to Hamlet
...Hamlet in quarto in an interactive interface. The project, which began in April 2008, reunites all 75 pre-1642 quarto editions of Shakespeare's plays into a single online collection. The prototype interface is at present fully...
In this article: Hamlet, William Shakespeare, University of Oxford, National Endowment for the Humanities, UK, and US
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The Daily Reflector | October 29, 2009
Everything Shakespeare in less than two hours
...at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at Wright Auditorium. "The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)" is all 37 Shakespeare plays in an irreverent, fast-paced 97-minute romp. The production was London's longest-running comedy with...
In this article: William Shakespeare, Reduced Shakespeare Company, Daniel Singer, London, Ophelia, Hamlet, Seattle Repertory Theatre, and Gertrude
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The Australian | October 26, 2009
The right age to lose a kingdom
...better." He has studied Shakespeare's plays and is aware that the late plays -- such as The Tempest, A Winter's Tale and Pericles -- concern the relationship between fathers and daughters: their conflicts, their reconciliations. Some...
In this article: Lear, William Shakespeare, King Lear, Sandwich, State Theatre Company of South Australia, and Dementia
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thestar.com | November 18, 2009
Knelman: What the theatres' press releases forgot
...the Stratford Shakespeare Festival instead of just the plain old Stratford Festival. In 2009, there were only three Shakespeare plays out of 14 shows. Julius Caesar played to half-empty houses, Macbeth got negative reviews, and A Midsummer...
In this article: Stratford Shakespeare Festival, Live Nation, New York, West Side Story, Stratford, Broadway, Toronto, and The Importance of Being Earnest
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The Australian | August 21, 2009
Prints of darkness
...booklet. Already brilliantly discussed by Samuel Johnson, Shakespeare's plays were equally perceptively analysed by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Hazlitt, respectively an archetypal poet and critic of the age. Shakespeare did...
In this article: William Blake, William Shakespeare, Copper, Henry Fuseli, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Canaletto
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Wikipedia | November 05, 2009
Shakespeare's plays
...Earl of Oxford. While it is generally accepted in academic circles that Shakespeare's plays were written by Shakespeare of Stratford and not another author, popular interest in the subject, particularly the Oxfordian theory, During...
In this article: William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, Macbeth, Hamlet, First Folio, John Fletcher, Lewis Theobald, and Thomas Middleton
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Centre Daily Times | August 26, 2009
Christopher Plummer tackles `Tempest' at Stratford
...creating a role of great complexity, richness and paradox," McAnuff said. "The Tempest," directed by McAnuff, will be joined by three other Shakespeare plays: "As You Like It," "The Winter's Tale" and "The Two Gentlemen of Verona," as well as...
In this article: Christopher Plummer, Stratford, Des McAnuff, Prospero, The Tempest, William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Brent Carver, Kiss Me, Kate, and Evita
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William Shakespeare's plays have the reputation of being among the greatest in the English language and in Western literature. Traditionally divided into the genres of tragedy, history, and comedy, they have been translated into every major living language, in addition to being continually performed all around the world.
Among the most famous and critically acclaimed of Shakespeare's motion pictures are Romeo and Juliet, King Lear, Macbeth, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Taming of the Shrew, Hamlet, Julius Caesar, Othello, The Tempest, Twelfth Night, The Merchant of Venice and Richard III.
Many of his plays appeared in print as a series of quartos, but approximately half of them remained unpublished until 1623, when the posthumous First Folio was published. The traditional division of his plays into tragedies, comedies, and histories follows the categories used in the First Folio. However, modern criticism has labelled some of these plays "problem plays" which elude easy categorization, or perhaps purposefully break generic conventions, and has introduced the term romances for what scholars believe to be his later comedies.
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