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The first written record of a story that may be recognized as Rapunzel is Giambattista Basile's Petrosinella, translating to parsley, which was published in Naples in the local dialect in 1634 in a collection entitled Lo cunto de li cunti (The Tale of Tales). [3]
The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, often shortened to Hamlet (/ ˈ h æ m l ɪ t /), is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare sometime between 1599 and 1601. It is Shakespeare's longest play.
First published in the so-called "bad" First Quarto, 1603 Earliest recorded performance of Hamlet was in June 1602, with Richard Burbage in the title role. Some scholars, such as Peter Alexander and Eric Sams , believe that the oft-attributed source work known as the Ur-Hamlet was actually a first draft of the play, written by Shakespeare ...
William Shakespeare (c. 23 [a] April 1564 – 23 April 1616) [b] was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. [3] [4] [5] He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon" (or simply "the Bard").
Edmond Malone was the first scholar to construct a tentative chronology of Shakespeare's plays in An Attempt to Ascertain the Order in Which the Plays attributed to Shakspeare were Written (1778), an essay published in the second edition of Samuel Johnson and George Steevens's The Plays of William Shakespeare.
An engrossing account of “how Shakespeare became Shakespeare” has been named the greatest-ever winner of the U.K.’s leading nonfiction book prize. James Shapiro’s “1599: A Year in the ...
Possibly written by Thomas Kyd or a 25 year-old Shakespeare himself, [13] the Ur-Hamlet would have been in performance by 1589, and was seemingly the first to include a ghost in the story. [ 14 ] [ 15 ] Shakespeare's company, the Chamberlain's Men , may have purchased that play and performed a version, which Shakespeare reworked, for some time ...
Compare this with a published story that's thematically similar to "Rapunzel," but published in Italy in 1634, and the Grimms' squeamishness is thrown into high relief. In Giambattista Basile's "Petrosinella," the long-locked princess winks at her suitor, and it's acknowledged that the two are "making love" long before they're married.