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2 giorni fa · Shakespeare's mother, Mary Arden, certainly came from a pious Catholic family. The strongest evidence might be a Catholic statement of faith signed by his father, John Shakespeare, found in 1757 in the rafters of his former house in Henley Street.
5 giorni fa · Most of your students will be familiar with the Droeshout etching from Shakespeare's First Folio, where we see Shakespeare as a balding old man, but the most recently discovered portraits are making him younger and younger.
2 giorni fa · The Tempest is a play by William Shakespeare, probably written in 1610–1611, and thought to be one of the last plays that he wrote alone.
5 giorni fa · The Merchant of Venice, comedy in five acts by William Shakespeare, written about 1596–97. In the play, a merchant named Antonio borrows money from Shylock, a Jewish moneylender, and is unable to repay the loan.
5 giorni fa · King Lear, tragedy in five acts by William Shakespeare, written in 1605–06 and published in a quarto edition in 1608, evidently based on Shakespeare’s unrevised working papers.
3 giorni fa · Characters appearing in the plays of William Shakespeare whose names begin with the letters A to K include the following. Characters who exist outside Shakespeare are marked " (hist)" where they are historical, and " (myth)" where they are mythical.
2 giorni fa · You've heard of Shakespeare, but have you heard of his contemporary Mary Sidney, the first person to translate the Book of Psalms into English poetry? Or what about Elizabeth Cary, who published the first original play known to be written by a woman in English? In her new book Shakespeare's Sisters: Four Women Who Wrote the Renaissance, Ramie Targoff delves into the lives of four fascinating ...
