William Shakespeare
Actor, Author, and Playwright
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Macbeth and other guilty souls in literature...could only be "justified by faith," freed him from his obsession with guilt and became the cornerstone of the Protestant Reformation. Shakespeare (who was a psychologist before there were psychologists) provides compelling insights into... In this article: Oedipus, Macbeth, Culpability, Scrupulosity, Suicide, Oedipus complex, Catholic Church, Lady Macbeth, and Confessions |
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St. Petersburg Times | 1 day ago
Dunedin High's production of Shakespeare's 'The Tempest' has a twist
"I knew by my fourth year here I wanted to start doing Shakespeare and the classics every other year." This year's production is William Shakespeare's The Tempest, which will be performed today and Saturday at the high school. It features a...
In this article: Dunedin High School, The Tempest, Prospero, Miranda, Shakespeare's plays, and Once Upon a Mattress
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L.A. Times - The Arts | 1 day ago
Theater review: 'Equivocation' at Geffen Playhouse
All the Arts, All the Time Were William Shakespeare one of today's bloviating Beltway pundits, would he rather appear on conservative Obama-bashing Fox News or liberal Obama-smooching MSNBC? Inquiring academic minds have long tried to...
In this article: Joe Spano, Harry Groener, Ideology, Los Angeles Times, and Connor Trinneer
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West Coast Players stage the Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)
...Site Web Archives - back to 1987 Google Newspaper Archive - back to 1901 The West Coast Players present The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged), a convoluted farce of the bard's works portrayed by three actors in one...
In this article: Tampa Bay
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Times Online | 1 day ago
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: Robin Williams, Edward de Vere, Mark Rylance, Brunel University, and Mary Sidney
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Wired Top Stories | 2 days ago
Robots Perform Shakespeare
...university's computer science, electrical engineering and performance studies departments. Purists may balk at reworking one of Shakespeare's most popular plays to include robots, but director Amy Hopper jumped at the chance. "What's great...
In this article: Texas A&M University, Pizza, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Midsummer Night, Carbon, and NASA
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Playbill.com | 3 days ago
A New Shakespeare History Play Emerges in Equivocation, With Groener & Spano in L.A.
...the nation, officially makes its Los Angeles-area premiere, opening Nov. 18 at Geffen Playhouse. Joe Spano stars as William Shakespeare. In Bill Cain's historical fiction, King James asks Shakespeare to write a history play - and the...
In this article: Joe Spano, Harry Groener, Connor Trinneer, King Lear, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, David Esbjornson, and Crazy for You
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TIME | 4 days ago
How Plagiarism Software Found a New Shakespeare Play
...he's yet to convince all of his fellow Shakespeare experts. Says Stanley Wells, chairman of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, the largest Shakespeare preservation group in Britain, "I'm not yet sure we've reached the stage yet that we can be...
In this article: Brian Vickers, Edward III, Literature, Thomas Kyd, Homer, London, and Injunction
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L.A. Times - The Arts | 5 days ago
Shakespeare, now starring at Geffen Playhouse
..."King Lear" and "Macbeth." But they're also called on to flesh out the court intrigues of James, who was Shakespeare's artistic patron. "Shakespeare did very well, very, very well," Cain said. "He became a rich man writing for a corrupt...
In this article: James I, David Esbjornson, Macbeth, and King Lear
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Shakespeare's R&J Bows at Hartford TheaterWorks Nov. 12
Adam Barrie and Ashley Robinson are the star-crossed lovers at the center of Shakespeare's R&J, which begins performances at Hartford TheaterWorks Nov. 12. Advertisement Rob Ruggiero directs the play by Joe Calarco that transforms...
In this article: Romeo and Juliet
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Guardian | November 06, 2009
Letters: Shakespeare is still relevant in schools
...school with at best a vague memory of one or two plays and at worst no connection with Shakespeare at all. Young people don't have to like Shakespeare, but they do need to be given the chance to make an informed decision about his work.
In this article: Democracy
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William Shakespeare (baptised 26 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's preeminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon" (or simply "The Bard"). His surviving works consist of 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and several other poems. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright.
Shakespeare was born and raised in Stratford-upon-Avon. At the age of 18, he married Anne Hathaway, who bore him three children: Susanna, and twins Hamnet and Judith. Between 1585 and 1592, he began a successful career in London as an actor, writer, and part owner of a playing company called the Lord Chamberlain's Men, later known as the King's Men. He appears to have retired to Stratford around 1613, where he died three years later. Few records of Shakespeare's private life survive, and there has been considerable speculation about such matters as his physical appearance, sexuality, religious beliefs, and whether the works attributed to him were written by others.
- Birth Date:
- April 01, 1564
- Birthplace:
- Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England
- Death Date:
- April 23, 1616
- Place of Death:
- Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England
- Occupation:
- Playwright, poet, actor
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