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The 2008 edition of the AQA Anthology. The Assessment and Qualifications Alliance (the AQA) has produced Anthologies for GCSE English and English Literature studied in English schools. This follows on from AQA's predecessor organisations; Northern Examinations and Assessment Board (NEAB) and Southern Examining Group (SEG).
Portrait miniature of an unknown woman, possibly Emilia Lanier Bassano, c. 1590, by Nicholas Hilliard [1]. The Emilia Lanier theory of Shakespeare authorship contends that the English poet Emilia Lanier (née Aemilia Bassano; 1569–1645) is the actual author of at least part of the plays and poems attributed to William Shakespeare.
English literature is literature written in the English language from the English-speaking world.The English language has developed over more than 1,400 years. [1] The earliest forms of English, a set of Anglo-Frisian dialects brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlers in the fifth century, are called Old English.
His short story 'The Mill' featured as the extract in the first paper of the AQA English Language GCSE in 2019. Notes Eads, Peter, 1990, H.E.BATES, A ...
Instead, "Ode to a Nightingale" was an original poem, [62] as White claimed, "The poem is richly saturated in Shakespeare, yet the assimilations are so profound that the Ode is finally original, and wholly Keatsian". [63] Similarly, Spiegelman claimed that Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream had "flavored and ripened the later poem". [64]
Shakespeare's writing features extensive wordplay of double entendres and clever rhetorical flourishes. [27] Humour is a key element in all of Shakespeare's plays. His works have been considered controversial through the centuries for his use of bawdy punning, [ 28 ] to the extent that "virtually every play is shot through with sexual puns."
The Chandos portrait, believed to be Shakespeare, held in the National Portrait Gallery, London. William Shakespeare (1564–1616) [1] was an English poet and playwright. He wrote approximately 39 plays and 154 sonnets, as well as a variety of other poems. [note 1]
Appropriating Shakespeare: contemporary critical quarrels (1993) (ed.) The history of the reign of King Henry VII and selected works by Francis Bacon (1998) (ed.) The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral by Francis Bacon (1999) (ed.) English Renaissance Literary Criticism (1999) Shakespeare, Co-author: a historical study of the five ...