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| | William Shakespeare - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Shakespeare's plays tend to be placed into three main stylistic groups: his early comedies and histories (such as A Midsummer Night's Dream and Henry IV, Part 1), his middle period (which includes his most famous tragedies, Othello, Macbeth, Hamlet and King Lear), and his later romances (such as The Winter's Tale and The Tempest). | | | The tract was found in the rafters of Shakespeare's Birthplace in the eighteenth century, and was seen and described by the reputable scholar Edmund Malone. | | | Shakespeare now has a reputation as the greatest writer in the English language, as well as one of the greatest in Western literature, and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shakespeare
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| | Shakespeare, William - Columbia Encyclopedia article about Shakespeare, William |
| | Shakespeare was criticized for mixing comedy and tragedy and failing to observe the unities of time and place prescribed by the rules of classical drama. | | | The chronology of Shakespeare's plays is uncertain, but a reasonable approximation of their order can be inferred from dates of publication, references in contemporary writings, allusions in the plays to contemporary events, thematic relationships, and metrical and stylistic comparisons. | | | The strength of Shakespeare's plays lies in the absorbing stories they tell, in their wealth of complex characters, and in the eloquent speech—vivid, forceful, and at the same time lyric—that the playwright puts on his characters' lips. |
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http://columbia.thefreedictionary.com/Shakespeare,+William
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| | William Shakespeare - Books and Biography |
| | Shakespeare was the eldest son of Mary Arden, the daughter of a local landowner, and her husband, John Shakespeare (c. | | | A number of Shakespeare's plays were published during his lifetime, but none of the original dramatic manuscripts have survived. | | | And there is a theory that the Dark Lady was not a "she" at all, but Shakespeare's patron Henry Wriothesley, Earl of Southampton. |
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http://www.readprint.com/author-69/William-Shakespeare
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| | Absolute Shakespeare - plays, quotes, summaries, essays... |
| | William Shakespeare Shakespeare is renowned as the English playwright and poet whose body of works is considered the greatest in history of English literature. | | | Pictures Engraving of paintings of William Shakespeare and those inspired by his famous plays. | | | Timeline Describes the many chapters in the immortal Bard's colorful life from birth, his disappearance, marriage, his death and ending in the printing of the First Folio in 1623. |
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http://absoluteshakespeare.com
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| | Shakespeare Biography at AbsoluteShakespeare.com |
| | William was the third child of John and Mary Shakespeare. | | | William's mother was Mary Arden who married John Shakespeare in 1557. | | | Interestingly, William himself is often described as a keen businessman so we can assume he got his business acumen from his father. |
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http://absoluteshakespeare.com/trivia/biography/shakespeare_biography.htm
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| | Shakespeare Resource Center - Shakespeare's Biography |
| | In 1623, two working companions of Shakespeare from the Lord Chamberlain's Men, John Heminges and Henry Condell, printed the First Folio edition of the Collected Works, of which half the plays contained therein were previously unpublished. | | | William Shakespeare's legacy is a body of work that will never again be equaled in Western civilization. | | | Rowe notes that young Shakespeare was quite fond of poaching, and may have had to flee Stratford after an incident with Sir Thomas Lucy, whose lands he allegedly hunted. |
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http://www.bardweb.net/man.html
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| | The Academy of American Poets - William Shakespeare |
| | The son of John Shakespeare and Mary Arden, he was probably educated at the King Edward IV Grammar School in Stratford, where he learned Latin and a little Greek and read the Roman dramatists. | | | Nearly all of Shakespeare's sonnets examine the inevitable decay of time, and the immortalization of beauty and love in poetry. | | | That edition, The Sonnets of Shakespeare, consists of 154 sonnets, all written in the form of three quatrains and a couplet that is now recognized as Shakespearean. |
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http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/122
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| | IMA Hero: William Shakespeare HH |
| | William Shakespeare is one of the greatest poets and playwrights in the world. | | | William Shakespeare was a great poet and playwright and a hero in our hearts. | | | nickname is "The Bard of Avon?" A bard is another word for poet, and William is one of the greatest poets in the world. |
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http://www.imahero.com/herohistory/bard_herohistory.htm
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| | William Shakespeare -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | Shakespeare also spelled Shakspere, byname Bard of Avon or Swan of Avon English poet, dramatist, and actor, often called the English national poet and considered by many to be the greatest dramatist of all time. | | | If William Shakespeare's ascendancy over Western theatre has not extended to the opera stage—a fact explained by the want of Shakespeare-congenial librettists, the literary indifference of composers, and the difficulties involved in setting iambic pentameters to music—the Shakespeare canon has nonetheless established itself as one of the great inspirers of operas. | | | The prophecy of his great contemporary, the poet and dramatist Ben Jonson, that Shakespeare “was not of an age, but for all time,” has been fulfilled. |
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http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9109536
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| | Shakespeare's Biography: Information on Shakespeare's Parents, Siblings, Career as Actor, Children, Marriage, Death, ... |
| | As we all know, Shakespeare was a young man when he began to write magnificent plays that had plots based entirely on Latin stories, such as the Menaechmi of Plautus, and striking imagery that was drawn from the Metamorphoses of Ovid and the Lives of Plutarch. | | | The Shakespeares' fourth child, Gilbert, was baptized on October 13, 1566, at Holy Trinity. | | | To William Kempe, William Shakespeare, and Richard Burbage, servants to the Lord Chamberlain, upon the council's warrent dated at Whitehall xv die Marcij 1594 for two several comedies or interludes showed by them before her Majesty in Christmas time last past, viz; upon St. Stephan's day and Innocent's day, xiiij li. |
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http://www.shakespeare-online.com/biography
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| | Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet |
| | William Shakespear, prefaced to his 1709 edition of the Works. | | | A Shakespeare Timeline Summary Chart, showing the events of Shakespeare's life in outline along with important contemporary events and publications. | | | To be a complete annotated guide to the scholarly Shakespeare resources available on Internet. |
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http://shakespeare.palomar.edu
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| | William Shakespeare |
| | It is thought that Shakespeare had no knowledge of this tale. | | | The story of the "pair of star crossed lovers" driven to destruction by the strife between their parents' families was told many times in many forms during the two centuries before Shakespeare brought it to the stage in the 1590s. | | | Today little can be factually supported of what we believe to be the events of the life of William Shakespeare, and much debate continues to this day. |
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http://www.balletmet.org/Notes/Shakespeare.html
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| | Shakespeare Resources Summary Page |
| | The First Folio and Early Quartos of William Shakespeare. | | | The Electronic Text Center's holdings include a variety of Shakespeare resources that range from early Quartos, the complete 1623 First Folio, and early playhouse promptbooks, to more modern editions and to many bibliographical articles that discuss Shakespeare's works. | | | The complete works of Shakespeare, Globe Edition (1866) |
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http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/shakespeare
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| | William Shakespeare |
| | The World of Shakespeare and His Contemporaries is full of facts about Shakespeare's major accomplishments. | | | The history of Shakespeare's children is also discussed in this book. | | | With his two patrons, the Earls of South Hampton and Pembrooke, Shakespeare rose quickly in the theater as both an actor and an author. |
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http://www.springfield.k12.il.us/schools/springfield/eliz/ShakespeareBiog.html
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| | William Shakespeare of Stratford-upon-Avon - a brief history and his times |
| | Although he may have been a keen and intelligent scholar, later drawing on many of the classical tales he had studied, it may be that he did not altogether enjoy his schooldays. | | | By the time William was eleven the master was Thomas Jenkins, whose Welsh origins are shared by the comical schoolmaster, Sir Hugh Evans, in "The Merry Wives of Windsor". | | | Beautiful books on Stratford and England in Shakespeare's Time |
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http://www.stratford-upon-avon.co.uk/soawshst.htm
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| | William Shakespeare at eNotes |
| | Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet meet and fall in love in Shakespeare's lyrical tale of "star-cross'd" lovers. | | | Our Shakespeare section contains thousands of pages of content on the life and work of the world's greatest author, including eNotes to more than 20 titles. | | | Complete study guides to Shakespeare's plays and sonnets, featuring content on every aspect of the work. |
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http://www.shakespeare.com
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| | William Shakespeare at LiteratureClassics.com -- essays, resources |
| | 'The character of Iago in Shakespeare's play Othello, is said to be the ultimate dramatic construct of deceit and the epitome of an unquenchable desire for revenge.' Refers Sir Francis Bacon http://essayists.8m.com/essays.html. | | | Shakespeare Magazine -- Shakespeare news and events and useful teaching resources which present interesting ways of reading Shakespeare's plays. | | | This page is maintained by our Shakespeare Experts, Sindhu Menon (PhD in English literature, whose work focuses on critical and theatical aspects of Shakespeare's work), unknown, Beth Kabaservice (teacher of literature), Lisa Cooke (Master of British Medieval to Restoration literature), Gabriel Berry, colincox, sumera zafar, MAYSA SH, |
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http://www.literatureclassics.com/authors/Shakespeare
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| | William Shakespeare - Biography and Works |
| | There is no record of his birth, but his baptism was recorded by the church, thus his birthday is assumed to be the 23 of April. | | | Good evining every body I want to know what is the meaning by A remarkable characteristic of Shakespeare's plays is his disregard for [SIZE=5][COLOR=Blue]the classical unities of time, place and action[/COLOR][/SIZE], which he partly observed only in Othello and the Tempest. | | | Posted By needing at Wed 22 Feb 2006, 8:50 AM in Shakespeare, William |
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http://www.online-literature.com/shakespeare
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| | Internet Public Library: Shakespeare Bookshelf |
| | For further online Shakespeare texts in other locations and formats and Shakespeare commentary, go to the Shakespeare Section of the IPL Books Collection. | | | For a handy guide to monologues found in Shakespeare's works, use the Shakespeare's Monologues site. | | | The titles in the listing above link to the editions from the 1914 edition of The Oxford Shakespeare at Bartleby. |
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http://www.ipl.org/div/shakespeare/shakespeare.html
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| | William Shakespeare Collection at Bartleby.com |
| | The 37 plays, 154 sonnets and miscellaneous verse that constitute the unrivaled literary cornerstone of Western civilization. | | | The editors of the Oxford Book of English Verse and the Golden Treasury present 74 verse selections from Shakespeare’s poems and plays. | | | The great teacher and scholar George Saintsbury created the touchstone for Shakespeare reference with these chapters from the Cambridge History of English Literature. |
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http://www.bartleby.com/people/Shakespe.html
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| | William Shakespeare (I) |
| | Frederick Warde in Shakespeare's Masterpiece 'The Life and Death of King Richard III' | | | aka William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream (USA: complete title) | | | Find where William Shakespeare is credited alongside another name |
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http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000636
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| | IMS: William Shakespeare, HarperAudio |
| | We present excerpts from William Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar" starring Sir Ralph Richardson and Anthony Quayle and directed by Howard Sackler. | | | ("And you, Brutus?") Thus falls Caesar." The conspirators exult, and Shakespeare inserts a self-referential joke as Cassius says, "How many ages hence shall this our lofty scene be acted over in states unborn and accents yet unknown!" | | | Beatrice and Benedick profess their love for each other and are united in holy, but waspish, wedlock. |
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http://town.hall.org/Archives/radio/IMS/HarperAudio/020994_harp_ITH.html
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| | Shakespeare Birthplace Trust |
| | The Glovers Workshop at Shakespeare's Birthplace as it would have been when William was a boy. | | | Children learn how to dress up as a Tudor, in the dressing up baskets at Mary Arden's House and the Shakespeare Countryside Museum. | | | One of the five Shakespeare Houses owned and cared for by the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust. |
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http://www.shakespeare.org.uk
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| | The Complete Works of William Shakespeare |
| | Welcome to the Web's first edition of the Complete Works of William Shakespeare. | | | This site has offered Shakespeare's plays and poetry to the Internet community since 1993. | | | Complete Moby(tm) Shakespeare, which is freely available online. |
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http://www-tech.mit.edu/Shakespeare/works.html
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| | William ShakespeareiVFCNXsAj |
| | Complete Works of William Shakespeare, The (The Tech) | | | Search the Complete Plays of William Shakespeare Online | | | Ever Reader, The (online magazine of the Shakespeare Oxford Society) |
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http://www.lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/Shakespeare.html
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| | William Shakespeare in quarto: view 21 of Shakespeare's plays online |
| | In the Background section you can find out about William Shakespeare, his works, his theatre world and the printing of his plays. | | | In the Texts section you can view and compare our 93 copies of the 21 Shakespeare plays. | | | On this site you will find the British Library’s 93 copies of the 21 plays by William Shakespeare printed in quarto before the theatres were closed in 1642. |
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http://www.bl.uk/treasures/shakespeare/homepage.html
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| | William Shakespeare |
| | Listen to some of your favorite Shakespeare sonnets: | | | You'll need the G2 RealPlayer (version 6 or later) to watch the video |
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http://wiredforbooks.org/shakespeare
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