William Shakespeare
Actor, Author, and Playwright
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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: William Shakespeare, Brian Vickers, Edward III, Literature, Thomas Kyd, Homer, London, and Injunction |
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Entertainment Weekly | 2 days ago
Modernizing Shakespeare
If William Shakespeare were around today it's unclear whether he'd have made it as a playwright. My guess is that he'd probably be credited as "Will Shakes," and would be penning Off-Off-Broadway plays about the Iraq War and submitting spec...
In this article: Julia Stiles, Hamlet, Ethan Hawke, Suicide, Macbeth, A Midsummer's Night Dream, Iraq War, and Romeo & Juliet
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BBC News | 2 days ago
Law's Hamlet proves Broadway hit
...which transferred from London's West End, opened in New York's Broadhurst Theatre in October. "It's heartening to see that Shakespeare can be a commercial success on Broadway," said the show's producer. She added that the...
In this article: Hamlet, Broadway, Jude Law, Michael Grandage, Ben Brantley, and London
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San Francisco Chronicle | 2 days ago
Dromgoole finds life lessons in Shakespeare
Article:Dromgoole finds life lessons in Shakespeare:/c/a/2009/11/04/DDVL1A9AU3. DTL Dominic Dromgoole is obsessed with Shakespeare. He describes his lifelong love affair in his 2006 book, "Will and Me: How Shakespeare Took Over My...
In this article: Globe Theatre, Ideology, Love's Labour's Lost, Will, Shakespeare's plays, Osama bin Laden, Rupert Murdoch, and United States
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Boston Globe -- Today's paper A to Z | 2 days ago
Picture Shakespeare in new format
...and father alike. Tomorrow at 6 p.m. at the Wellesley Booksmith shop, the Watertown resident will read from his adaptation of the Shakespeare classic. Hinds has distilled all of the play's betrayal, passion, action, and poetry into...
In this article: King Lear, Beowulf, The Odyssey, The Merchant of Venice, Grendel, Candlewick Press, Bard, and Homer
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AP Online | 3 days ago
Jude Law's 'Hamlet' goes from red to black
...fellow cast mates in Broadway's production of "Hamlet" have no reason to be melancholy: They are an official hit. Producers of the Shakespeare classic now playing at the Broadhurst Theatre said Wednesday they've recouped the show's $2.5...
In this article: Jude Law, Hamlet, Hugh Jackman, Daniel Craig, and NEW YORK
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BBC News | 3 days ago
State school qualification ban
...non-funding are hard to understand. Yet again, we see a perpetuation of the misunderstanding that Shakespeare is off the syllabus. One of this year's Shakespeare texts is Much Ado About Nothing." But Dr Dunford, leader of the ASCL head...
In this article: Much Ado About Nothing, UK, and Cambridge
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OK! Magazine | 3 days ago
Gerard Butler Signs On For Ralph Fiennes' Shakespeare Movie
...adaptation of the violent political drama. Gerard, 39, will play Tullus Aufidius, commander of the Volscian army from Shakespeare's play, while Ralph, 46, will take the title role. The hot Scot joins a cast that includes William...
In this article: Gerard Butler, Ralph Fiennes, Glee, New Moon, Coriolanus, Ugly Truth, Khloe Kardashian, and Lamar Odom
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The Daily Mustang | 5 days ago
Shakespeare at the New Wyly Theater
Old English meets Billboard's Top 20 in the Dallas Theater Center's neon, new-age production of William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream directed by the company's visionary Artistic Director Kevin Moriarty. This playful,...
In this article: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Puck, Nick Bottom, Joshua Prince-Ramus, Rem Koolhaas, Baz Luhrman, and Keri Hilson
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Telegraph.co.uk - Arts | 5 days ago
Shakespeare's greatest hits from Robeson to Russell Beale
...David Tennant as Hamlet Photo: ALASTAIR MUIR A former colleague became so tired of jumped-up directors imposing their own vision on Shakespeare that he declared that he would rather watch the actors standing on a bare stage in evening...
In this article: Simon Russell Beale, Paul Robeson, Royal Shakespeare Company, David Tennant, God, and Coriolanus
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The Daily Reflector | October 29, 2009
Everything Shakespeare in less than two hours
...Shakespeare (Abridged)" 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...
In this article: Reduced Shakespeare Company, Daniel Singer, London, Ophelia, Hamlet, Seattle Repertory Theatre, and Gertrude
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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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