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Michael Smith (born 1976, in London) is an English writer, broadcaster and film-maker. He was brought up in Hartlepool , County Durham and graduated from University College London . His best-known work is The Giro Playboy .
Francis Beaumont, circa 1600. It is most likely that the play was written for the child actors at Blackfriars Theatre, where John Marston had previously had plays produced. . In addition to the textual history testifying to a Blackfriars origin, there are multiple references within the text to Marston, to the actors as children (notably from the Citizen's Wife, who seems to recognise the ...
Sonnet 26 is one of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare, and is a part of the Fair Youth sequence. The sonnet is generally regarded as the end-point or culmination of the group of five preceding poems. It encapsulates several themes not only of Sonnets 20–25, but also of the first thirty-two poems ...
Little is known of Shakespeare's personal life, and some anti-Stratfordians take this as circumstantial evidence against his authorship. [37] Further, the lack of biographical information has sometimes been taken as an indication of an organised attempt by government officials to expunge all traces of Shakespeare, including perhaps his school records, to conceal the true author's identity.
Sonnet 22 is one of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare, and is a part of the Fair Youth sequence. In the sonnet, the speaker of the poem and a young man are represented as enjoying a healthy and positive relationship. The last line, however, hints at the speaker's doubts, which becomes prominent later in ...
The Burning Oracle, Studies in the Poetry of Action (1939) The Sceptred Isle: Shakespeare's Message for England at War (1940) The Starlit Dome: Studies in the Poetry of Vision (1941) Chariot of Wrath: the Message of John Milton to Democracy at War (1942) The Olive and the Sword: a Study of England's Shakespeare (1944) The Dynasty of Stowe (1945)
As Michael Shoenfeldt points out, however, in "The Sonnets," the contextual placement of Sonnet 7, being among the first 126 that address the young man, gives the sonnet a substantially different reading: "the conventional praise of chaste beauty, and turn[s] it on its head — the young man's beauty burdens him with the responsibility to ...
Shakespeare's Sonnet 34 is included in what is referred to as the Fair Youth sequence, and it is the second of a briefer sequence (Sonnet 33 through Sonnet 36) concerned with a betrayal of the poet committed by the young man, who is addressed as a personification of the sun.