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  2. Macbeth (Verdi) - Wikipedia

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    Macbeth (Italian pronunciation: [ˈmakbet; makˈbɛt]) [1] is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi, with an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave and additions by Andrea Maffei, based on William Shakespeare's play of the same name. Written for the Teatro della Pergola in Florence, Macbeth was Verdi's tenth opera and premiered on 14 March ...

  3. Shakespearean history - Wikipedia

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    The source for most of the English history plays, as well as for Macbeth and King Lear, is the well-known Raphael Holinshed's Chronicles of English history. The source for the Roman history plays is Plutarch's Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Compared Together, in the translation made by Sir Thomas North in 1579. Shakespeare's historical ...

  4. Macbeth - Wikipedia

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    Shakespeare's source for the story is the account of Macbeth, King of Scotland, Macduff, and Duncan in Holinshed's Chronicles (1587), a history of England, Scotland, and Ireland familiar to Shakespeare and his contemporaries, although the events in the play differ extensively from the history of the real Macbeth.

  5. List of translations of works by William Shakespeare - Wikipedia

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    French Le songe d'une nuit d'été: Jean-Louis Supervielle, Jules Supervielle: Paris: 1959 13439423 1231955560 Le songe d'une nuit d'été: Nicolas Briançon Paris: 2011 9782749812014 759590560 Much Ado About Nothing: Mauritian French Creole Enn Ta Senn Dan Vid: Dev Virahsawmy: Port Louis: 1995 9789990333053 40200789 Macbeth: Russian ...

  6. List of historical figures dramatised by Shakespeare - Wikipedia

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    Queen Margaret is a fairly epic character, one of the greatest in that respect in Shakespeare. She appears as a naive girl in Henry VI, Part 1 and as an embittered old woman in Richard III. She is a central character of the two intervening plays, Henry VI, Part 2 and Henry VI, Part 3, in which she is the wife of Henry VI and a leader of his ...

  7. Shakespeare's plays - Wikipedia

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    Shakespeare's plays are a canon of approximately 39 dramatic works written by the English poet, playwright, and actor William Shakespeare. The exact number of plays as well as their classifications as tragedy, history, comedy, or otherwise is a matter of scholarly debate. Shakespeare's plays are widely regarded as among the greatest in the ...

  8. 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 ...

  9. French history in the English-speaking theatre - Wikipedia

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    William Shakespeare wrote The Life and Death of King John (1596), Henry V (1599), Henry VI, part 1 (1592), Henry VI, part 2 (1591), and Henry VI, part 3 (1591), [2] based on events during the reigns of John of England, king from 1199 to 1216, Henry V of England, king from 1413 to 1422, Henry VI of England, king from 1422 to 1461 and from 1470 to 1471, Philip II of France, king from 1180 to ...