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Statue of William Shakespeare, who, according to legend, played Adam in his own play As You Like It. Aaron is an evil Moorish character in Titus Andronicus. He incites most of the other evil characters to do violence against the house of Andronicus. [1] The Abbott of Westminster (fict) supports Richard and the Bishop of Carlisle in Richard II.
William Longespée, 3rd Earl of Salisbury; William Montagu, 2nd Earl of Salisbury; Thomas Scales, 7th Baron Scales; Richard Scrope (bishop) Sebastian (Twelfth Night) Robert Shallow; John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury; Shylock; Christopher Sly; Tom Snout; Snug (A Midsummer Night's Dream) Robin Starveling; Stephano (The Tempest) Thomas Holland ...
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 remained part of the Venetian Empire until 1570. The play was written in 1603.
William Shakespeare [a] (c. 23 [b] April 1564 – 23 April 1616) [c] 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").
The Chandos portrait, believed to be Shakespeare, held in the National Portrait Gallery, London. William Shakespeare (1564–1616) [1] was an English poet and playwright. He wrote approximately 39 plays and 154 sonnets, as well as a variety of other poems. [note 1]
Sonnet 7 is a typical English or Shakespearean sonnet.This type of sonnet consists of three quatrains followed by a couplet, and follows the form's rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efef gg.
Sonnet 68 is an English or Shakespearean sonnet.The English sonnet has three quatrains, followed by a final rhyming couplet.It follows the typical rhyme scheme of the form, abab cdcd efef gg and is composed in iambic pentameter, a type of poetic metre based on five pairs of metrically weak/strong syllabic positions.
Sonnet 122 is one of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare, and first published in 1609.It is a member of the Fair Youth sequence, in which the poet expresses his love towards a young man.