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But once Shakespeare's plays became popular in the late seventeenth and eighteenth century, they helped contribute to the standardization of the English language, with many Shakespearean words and phrases becoming embedded in the English language, particularly through projects such as Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language which ...
William Shakespeare (c. 23 [a] April 1564 – 23 April 1616) [b] 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.
Shakespeare's influence – in addition to his works, Shakespeare's legacy includes the ongoing performance of his plays, and his influence upon culture and the arts, extending from theatre and literature to present-day movies and the English language itself. Category:Adaptations of works by William Shakespeare
Marlowe himself turned to English history as a result of the success of Shakespeare's Contention. [ 56 ] [ 57 ] In Edward II , c. 1591, he moved from the rhetoric and spectacle of Tamburlaine to "the interplay of human character", [ 58 ] showing how chronicle material could be compressed and rearranged, and bare hints turned to dramatic effect.
This article includes a list of general references, but it lacks sufficient corresponding inline citations. Please help to improve this article by introducing more precise citations. (December 2023) (Learn how and when to remove this message) The Chandos portrait, commonly assumed to depict William Shakespeare but authenticity unknown, "the man who of all Modern, and perhaps Ancient Poets, had ...
H. Werner Habicht; Carl August Hagberg; Kim F. Hall; F. E. Halliday; James Halliwell-Phillipps; Maik Hamburger; Hildegard Hammerschmidt-Hummel; Alfred Harbage
Samuel Johnson (1709–1784), often referred to as Dr Johnson, was an English author who made lasting contributions to English literature as a poet, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer. Johnson has been described as "arguably the most distinguished man of letters in English history". [73]
Other short pieces supporting the Marlovian theory appeared in 1902, [9] 1916 [10] and 1923, [11] but the first book to bring it to prominence was Calvin Hoffman's 1955 The Man Who Was Shakespeare. [12] In 1920, an English school-teacher, J. Thomas Looney, published Shakespeare Identified, proposing a new candidate for the authorship in Edward ...