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  2. Women in Shakespeare's works - Wikipedia

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    Women in Shakespeare is a topic within the especially general discussion of Shakespeare's dramatic and poetic works. Main characters such as Dark Lady of the sonnets have elicited a substantial amount of criticism, which received added impetus during the second-wave feminism of the 1960s.

  3. Category:Female Shakespearean characters - Wikipedia

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  4. Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies - Wikipedia

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    Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies is a 2023 nonfiction book by journalist Elizabeth Winkler about the Shakespeare authorship question. The book uses journalism and literary criticism to explore the possibility that the works of Shakespeare were written by someone other than William Shakespeare of Stratford-upon-Avon .

  5. 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.

  6. Sexuality of William Shakespeare - Wikipedia

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    The Chandos portrait of William Shakespeare, held in the National Portrait Gallery. William Shakespeare's sexuality has been the subject of frequent debates.It is known from public records that he married Anne Hathaway and had three children with her; scholars have examined their relationship through documents, and particularly through the bequests to her in his will.

  7. Much Ado About Nothing - Wikipedia

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    According to the earliest printed text, Much Ado About Nothing was "sundry times publicly acted" before 1600. The play likely debuted in the autumn or winter of 1598–99. [ 1 ] The earliest recorded performances are two at Court in the winter of 1612–13, during festivities preceding the Wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Frederick V of the ...

  8. Ariel (The Tempest) - Wikipedia

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    The source from which Shakespeare got the idea for Ariel is not known, though there have been many candidates proposed by scholars. Sprites or demons such as Ariel were viewed during the Renaissance from either religious or scientific points of view: religion seeing them as either agents of the devil or agents of God, and science viewing them as neutral subjects which could be brought under ...

  9. Emma Smith (scholar) - Wikipedia

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    She was a script advisor to Josie Rourke's 2018 film Mary Queen of Scots and the BBC’s 2023 documentary series Shakespeare: The Rise of a Genius. She edits the Cambridge University Press journal Shakespeare Survey. Smith published This Is Shakespeare in 2019. The book was published as a guide to Shakespeare's plays.