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  2. 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 ...

  3. Hamlet - Wikipedia

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    It has a number of plot elements and major characters in common with Shakespeare's Hamlet, and lacks others that are found in Shakespeare. Belleforest's story was first published in English in 1608, after Hamlet had been written, though it is possible that Shakespeare had encountered it in the French-language version. [4]

  4. 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.

  5. Othello - Wikipedia

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    Shakespeare's direct sources for the story do not include any threat of warfare: it seems to have been Shakespeare's innovation to set the story at the time of a threatened Turkish invasion of Cyprus – apparently fixing it in the events of 1570. Those historical events would however have been well known to Shakespeare's original audience, who ...

  6. Romeo and Juliet - Wikipedia

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    Shakespeare's use of poetic dramatic structure (including effects such as switching between comedy and tragedy to heighten tension, the expansion of minor characters, and numerous sub-plots to embellish the story) has been praised as an early sign of his dramatic skill. The play ascribes different poetic forms to different characters, sometimes ...

  7. The Tempest - Wikipedia

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    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.After the first scene, which takes place on a ship at sea during a tempest, the rest of the story is set on a remote island, where Prospero, a wizard, lives with his daughter Miranda, and his two servants: Caliban, a savage monster figure, and Ariel, an ...

  8. Shakespeare Book That Was Over 100 Years Overdue Is Finally ...

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    The book, 'Shakespeare’s Life of King Henry the Fifth,' was last checked out in 1923 ... It makes it very special to hear their story, but also for their family to get together like this and ...

  9. A Midsummer Night's Dream - Wikipedia

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    It set the story against a surreal backdrop of techno clubs and ancient symbols. [citation needed] The Children's Midsummer Night's Dream (2002), directed by Christine Edzard, was produced by Sands Films at their studio in Rotherhithe, London, using 350 school children from Southwark, between the ages of eight and eleven, all theatrically ...