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Little is known of Shakespeare's personal life, and some anti-Stratfordians take this as circumstantial evidence against his authorship. [37] Further, the lack of biographical information has sometimes been taken as an indication of an organised attempt by government officials to expunge all traces of Shakespeare, including perhaps his school records, to conceal the true author's identity.
Mainstream Shakespeare scholars maintain that biographical interpretations of literature are unreliable for attributing authorship, [10] and that the convergence of documentary evidence for Shakespeare's authorship—title pages, testimony by other contemporary poets and historians and official records—is the same as that for any other author ...
Roger Quilter ca. 1922. Roger Cuthbert Quilter (1 November 1877 – 21 September 1953) was a British composer, known particularly for his art songs.His songs, which number over a hundred, often set music to text by William Shakespeare and are a mainstay of the English art song tradition.
The Western canon is the embodiment of high-culture literature, music, philosophy, and works of art that are highly cherished across the Western world, such works having achieved the status of classics. Recent discussions upon the matter emphasise cultural diversity within the canon.
Shakespeare's Lost Play, Edmund Ironside, 1986. The Real Shakespeare: Retrieving the Early years, 1564-1594, 1995. Shakespeare's Edward III: An Early Play Restored to the Canon, 1996. The Songs of Johannes Brahms, 2000. Essays and reviews on music, Shakespeare, and cryptography, 1966-1998, online edition in the web-pages of the Centro Studi ...
Vaughan Williams was engaged to write incidental music at Stratford between 1912 and 1913. Rosabel Watson directed and arranged music for many productions at Stratford and elsewhere. [3] A Shakespeare Music Catalogue (1991) lists over 20,000 items of theatrical and non-theatrical music associated with Shakespeare, much of it unpublished. [4]
Shakespeare combined the two throughout his career, with Romeo and Juliet perhaps the best example of the mixing of the styles. [200] By the time of Romeo and Juliet, Richard II, and A Midsummer Night's Dream in the mid-1590s, Shakespeare had begun to write a more natural poetry. He increasingly tuned his metaphors and images to the needs of ...
In Benjamin Disraeli's novel Venetia (1837) the character Lord Cadurcis, modelled on Byron, [44] questions whether Shakespeare wrote "half of the plays attributed to him", [45] or even one "whole play" [45] but rather that he was "an inspired adapter for the theatres". [45]