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  2. Life of William Shakespeare - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 30 January 2025. 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 ...

  3. William Shakespeare - Wikipedia

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    By William Blake, c. 1786. Shakespeare's early classical and Italianate comedies, containing tight double plots and precise comic sequences, give way in the mid-1590s to the romantic atmosphere of his most acclaimed comedies. [111] A Midsummer Night's Dream is a witty mixture of romance, fairy magic, and comic lowlife scenes. [112]

  4. Outline of William Shakespeare - Wikipedia

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    The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the life and legacy of William Shakespeare, an English poet, playwright, and actor who lived during the 17th century. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist.

  5. Shakespearean history - Wikipedia

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    Opening page of the First Folio King John. In the First Folio, the plays of William Shakespeare were grouped into three categories: comedies, histories, and tragedies.The histories—along with those of contemporary Renaissance playwrights—help define the genre of history plays. [1]

  6. Shakespeare Jubilee - Wikipedia

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    It was the first jubilee celebration of the life of Shakespeare, although it was held more than five years after the bicentenary of his birth in April 1564. [2] In spite of the impact it had on the rising popularity of Shakespeare and his works, none of his plays were performed during the Jubilee. [11]

  7. Shakespeare's Birthplace - Wikipedia

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    Shakespeare's Birthplace is a restored 16th-century half-timbered house situated on Henley Street, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England, where it is believed that William Shakespeare was born in 1564 and spent his childhood years.

  8. Judith Quiney - Wikipedia

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    Judith Shakespeare's "pigtail" mark (a cursive "J" facing down). The given name and surname were added by a law clerk. Judith Shakespeare was the daughter of William Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway. She was the younger sister of Susanna and the twin sister of Hamnet. Hamnet, however, died at the age of eleven.

  9. Religious views of William Shakespeare - Wikipedia

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    In 1559, five years before Shakespeare's birth, the Elizabethan Religious Settlement finally severed the Church of England from the Roman Catholic Church.In the ensuing years, extreme pressure was placed on England's Catholics to accept the practices of the Church of England, and recusancy laws made illegal any service not found in the Book of Common Prayer, including the Roman Catholic Mass. [5]