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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.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 11 December 2024. The Chandos portrait, believed to be Shakespeare, held in the National Portrait Gallery, London William Shakespeare was an actor, playwright, poet, and theatre entrepreneur in London during the late Elizabethan and early Jacobean eras. He was baptised on 26 April 1564 [a] in Stratford ...
David John Daniell (17 February 1929 – 1 June 2016) was an English literary scholar who became Professor of English at University College London.He was founder of the Tyndale Society, a specialist in William Tyndale and his translations of the Bible, and author of a number of studies of the plays of Shakespeare.
LONDON (AP) — An engrossing account of “how Shakespeare became Shakespeare” has been named the greatest-ever winner of the U.K.’s leading nonfiction book prize.
The Globe Theatre was a theatre in London associated with William Shakespeare. It was built in 1599 at Southwark, close to the south bank of the Thames, by Shakespeare's playing company, the Lord Chamberlain's Men. It was destroyed by fire on 29 June 1613.
Shakespeare: A Biography (1963) Who's Who in Shakespeare (1971) Casanova in London (1971), essays; Marcel Proust, 1871–1922: A Centennial Volume (1971) Samuel Johnson: His Friends and Enemies (1973) A History of English Literature (1973) The Marble Foot: An Autobiography, 1905–1938 (1977), vol. 1 of autobiography
The book, 'Shakespeare’s Life of King Henry the Fifth,' was last checked out in 1923 Shakespeare Book That Was Over 100 Years Overdue Is Finally Returned to New Jersey Library Skip to main content
Queen Victoria: A Biography (1902) Great Englishmen of the Sixteenth century (1904), [5] based on his Lowell Institute lectures at Boston, Massachusetts, in 1903; Shakespeare and the Modern Stage (1906) [1] Principles of Biography, London: Cambridge University Press, 1911, Wikidata Q107333538 "Shakespeare and the Italian Renaissance".