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  2. Sonnet 23 - Wikipedia

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    Shakespeare uses a metaphor from the theatre to express the idea of the speaker's impotence in performing the "ceremony of love’s right" (line 6). Instead, the lover must read beyond such a performance, and read “between the lines” to understand the poet's love, as it is expressed in the silences between the words.

  3. Sonnet 105 - Wikipedia

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    This theory states that the Earl, one of Shakespeare's patrons, became the subject of Shakespeare's love, and the majority of the Sonnets are addressed to him. More specifically, Sonnet 105 occupies a group of sonnets within the Fair Youth sequence, from 97 to 105, that seem to indicate happiness at the return of Shakespeare's love, the ...

  4. Influence of William Shakespeare - Wikipedia

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    William Shakespeare's influence extends from theater and literatures to present-day movies, Western philosophy, and the English language itself. William Shakespeare is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the history of the English language, [ 1 ] and the world's pre-eminent dramatist.

  5. Romeo and Juliet - Wikipedia

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    The most famous such track is Dire Straits' "Romeo and Juliet". [175] The most famous musical theatre adaptation is West Side Story with music by Leonard Bernstein and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. It débuted on Broadway in 1957 and in the West End in 1958 and was twice adapted as popular films in 1961 and in 2021.

  6. Sonnet 129 - Wikipedia

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    Shakespeare uses a similar theme again with Leontes in his play, The Winter's Tale. [7] The placement of the sonnet leads many to believe that Shakespeare had a direct relation with the "dark lady" (as referenced as the inspiration for sonnets 127-152). Many scholars believe that Shakespeare had an affair and that a mistress was his inspiration ...

  7. Sonnet 20 - Wikipedia

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    Sonnet 20 is one of the best-known of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare.Part of the Fair Youth sequence (which comprises sonnets 1-126), the subject of the sonnet is widely interpreted as being male, thereby raising questions about the sexuality of its author.

  8. William Shakespeare - Wikipedia

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    Shakespeare remains arguably the most influential writer in the English language, and his works continue to be studied and reinterpreted. Shakespeare was born and raised in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire. At the age of 18, he married Anne Hathaway, with whom he had three children: Susanna, and twins Hamnet and Judith.

  9. Shakespearean comedy - Wikipedia

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    The Duel Scene from 'Twelfth Night' by William Shakespeare, William Powell Frith (1842). In the First Folio, the plays of William Shakespeare were grouped into three categories: comedies, histories, and tragedies; [1] and modern scholars recognise a fourth category, romance, to describe the specific types of comedy that appear in Shakespeare's later works.