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2 giorni fa · William Shakespeare (c. 23 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet, and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon" (or simply "the Bard").
1 giorno fa · William Shakespeare, the renowned English playwright and poet, crafted timeless works that continue to entertain audiences worldwide with their profound insights into human nature and enduring literary brilliance.
1 giorno fa · Of all the plays that Shakespeare wrote during the reign of James I, Macbeth most clearly reflects his relationship with King James, patron of Shakespeare's acting company. It was first published in the Folio of 1623 , possibly from a prompt book , and is Shakespeare's shortest tragedy.
6 giorni fa · When Holinshed wrote his Macbeth in Elizabethan times, around 1577, Mary Queen of Scots, James’s mother, was the enemy, and no Scottish succession to the English throne could be contemplated.
1 giorno fa · Shakespeare's primary source for the plot was the story of a Moorish Captain (third decade, story seven) in Gli Hecatommithi by Cinthio (Giovanni Battista Giraldi), a collection of one hundred novellas about love, grouped into ten "decades" by theme. The third decade deals with marital infidelity.
23 mag 2024 · Little is known about Mary Arden, the mother of Shakespeare. Mary was the daughter of Robert Arden, a wealthy landowner of the Warwickshire area. The family gave their name to the nearby Forest of Arden, which William Shakespeare would later incorporate into his comedy As You Like It .
24 mag 2024 · Author. Austin Tichenor. Folger Theatre. Mary Zimmerman, whose Tony-nominated adaptation of Metamorphoses is now playing at the Folger Theatre through June 16, describes Ovid’s epic as being, at its core, about “how life inescapably contains unwanted change.”
