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The manuscript of "To the Queen by the Players". "To the Queen" (or "To The Queen by the players") is a short 18 line poem praising Queen Elizabeth I attributed to William Shakespeare. It was included in 2007 by Jonathan Bate in his complete Shakespeare edition for the Royal Shakespeare Company. [1]
The Queen in "Hamlet" by Edwin Austin Abbey "The lady doth protest too much, methinks" is a line from the play Hamlet by William Shakespeare.It is spoken by Queen Gertrude in response to the insincere overacting of a character in the play within a play created by Prince Hamlet to elicit evidence of his uncle's guilt in the murder of his father, the King of Denmark.
The Duke of Suffolk (William de la Pole) is a manipulative character, loved by Queen Margaret, in Henry VI, Part 1 and Henry VI, Part 2. Polixines is the King of Bohemia in The Winter's Tale . Leontes wrongly believes that Polixines and Hermione are having an affair.
William Shakespeare [a] (c. 23 [b] April 1564 – 23 April 1616) [c] 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").
Scene from 'The Winter's Tale' (Act IV, Scene 4) (from the play by William Shakespeare), Augustus Leopold Egg (1845) Eric Ives, the biographer of Anne Boleyn (1986), [4] believes that the play is meant to parallel the fall of that queen, who was beheaded on false charges of adultery on the orders of her husband Henry VIII in 1536.
Margaret is a major character in William Shakespeare's first tetralogy of History plays. Henry VI, Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 3 and Richard III . She is the only character to appear alive in all four plays, but due to the length of the plays, many of her lines are usually cut in modern adaptations. [ 42 ]
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Titania (/ t ɪ ˈ t ɑː n i ə /) [1] is a character in William Shakespeare's 1595–1596 play A Midsummer Night's Dream. In the play, she is the Queen of the fairies and wife of the Fairy King, Oberon. The pair are depicted as powerful natural spirits who together guarantee the fertility or health of the human and natural worlds.