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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.
The structural problem in Shakespeare's Henry the Fourth. An inaugural lecture delivered at Westfield College, University of London, on 19 May 1955 [29] Catastrophe in Shakespearian Tragedy [30] Hamlet [31] Hamlet: Playgoer's Edition [32] Structural Problems in Shakespeare: Lectures and Essays by Harold Jenkins [33]
Born and raised in Leeds, Smith was educated at Abbey Grange school and did her undergraduate degree at Somerville College, Oxford, from 1988 to 1991. [4] In an interview with the Oxford Review of Books, Smith said that she "didn't go to a school or come from a family where people particularly did go to Oxford" but that she also was not "from a terribly deprived background". [5]
Wilson's 2013 book Free Will: Art and Power on Shakespeare's Stage is a comprehensive rereading of the plays in terms of Shakespeare's patronage relations. It maintains that the dramatist found artistic freedom by adopting an 'abject position' towards authority, and by staging 'the power of weakness' in the 'investiture crisis' of the age of ...
The British Academy organises a wide-ranging annual programme of more than 50 public lectures, [14] panel discussions, conferences and seminars showcasing new research and debating topical issues. This includes a number of long-established lecture series, such as the Shakespeare Lecture, first given in 1911. [ 15 ]
The Shakespeare Club of Stratford-upon-Avon is a society based in Stratford-upon-Avon, England, that celebrates the life and literary works of William Shakespeare.It is the oldest Shakespeare society in the world, having been in existence since 1824. [1]
The Foundations of Shakespeare's Text, 1923. Annual Shakespeare Lecture of the British Academy. [9] Shakespeare's Hand in the Play of Sir Thomas More (with W. W. Greg, Edward Maunde Thompson, John Dover Wilson and R. W. Chambers), 1923. Early Illustrated Books: A History of the Decoration and Illustration of Books in the 15th and 16th Centuries ...
James S. Shapiro (born 1955) is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University who specializes in Shakespeare and the Early Modern period. Shapiro has served on the faculty at Columbia University since 1985, teaching Shakespeare and other topics, and he has published widely on Shakespeare and Elizabethan culture.