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  2. Shakespeare's plays - Wikipedia

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    For Shakespeare, as he began to write, both traditions were alive; they were, moreover, filtered through the recent success of the University Wits on the London stage. By the late 16th century, the popularity of morality and academic plays waned as the English Renaissance took hold, and playwrights like Thomas Kyd and Christopher Marlowe revolutionised theatre.

  3. List of Shakespearean scenes - Wikipedia

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    The play opens on board a ship having as passengers a king and his courtiers. The resources of the crew are taxed to the utmost in trying to cope with a storm which, evidently arising suddenly, eventually drives the vessel on a lee shore, apparently wrecked with loss of all hands.

  4. Richard III (play) - Wikipedia

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    David Garrick (1717–1779), as Richard III (from Shakespeare's 'Richard III'), Nathaniel Dance-Holland (1771) Poster, c. 1884, advertising an American production of the play, showing many key scenes African-American James Hewlett as Richard III in a c. 1821 production. Below him is quoted the line "Off with his head; so much for Buckingham", a ...

  5. William Shakespeare - Wikipedia

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    William Shakespeare (c. 23 [a] April 1564 – 23 April 1616) [b] 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.

  6. Romeo and Juliet - Wikipedia

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    Romeo and Juliet is one of Shakespeare's most-illustrated works. [186] The first known illustration was a woodcut of the tomb scene, [187] thought to be created by Elisha Kirkall, which appeared in Nicholas Rowe's 1709 edition of Shakespeare's plays. [188]

  7. List of works by William Shakespeare - Wikipedia

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    This was most likely Shakespeare's play. There is no immediately obvious alternative candidate. (While the story of Julius Caesar was dramatised repeatedly in the Elizabethan/Jacobean period, none of the other plays known are as good a match with Platter's description as Shakespeare's play.) [4] Summary

  8. The 10 best modern Shakespeare movie adaptations, ranked - AOL

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    The film is based on characters and stories from Shakespeare's famous "Henriad" series of plays – Henry IV pt 1, Henry IV pt 2, Henry V — and tracks the life of a young prince named Hal ...

  9. List of Shakespearean settings - Wikipedia

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    Canon Street is the setting for Act 4, scene VI of the play Henry VI, Part 2. [4] Corioli; The plays that William Shakespeare saw in Coventry during his boyhood or 'teens' may have influenced how his plays, such as Hamlet, came about. [5] Cyprus and Venice are the two main settings for Othello. Cyprus was formally annexed by Venice in 1489, and ...