theatregoers. It has also been conjectured that Shakespeare spent some time as a member of a great household and that he was a soldier, perhaps in theLow Countries. In lieu of external evidence, such extrapolations about Shakespeare’s life have often been made from the internal “evidence...
John Milton, English poet, pamphleteer, and historian, considered the most significant English author after William Shakespeare. He is best known for Paradise Lost, widely regarded as the greatest epic poem in English. Learn more about Milton’s life and
Romeo and Juliet, play by William Shakespeare, written about 1594–96 and first published in an unauthorized quarto in 1597. The appeal of the young hero and heroine is such that they have become, in the popular imagination, the representative of star-cr
The Hillbilly ShakespeareHank Williams was arguably country music's first superstar, with huge crossover success in popular music. Born in Alabama in 1923, Williams was given the nickname the Hillbilly Shakespeare because of his direct, emotionally honest lyrics and their poetic simplicity.(more) ...
According to some accounts, Greyhounds were the favorite breed of Alexander the Great, and they are mentioned in Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales as well as in Shakespeare’s Henry V. In fact, Greyhounds—and possibly Mastiffs—were the first known European dogs to arrive in the ...
He had been reading Shakespeare with “eyes which are as tender as young sparrows,” particularly noting sombre passages in Measure for Measure and King Lear. This reading struck deeply sympathetic responses in Melville, counterbalancing the Transcendental doctrines of Ralph Waldo Emerson, whose ...
The remaining works Hugo completed in exile include theessayWilliam Shakespeare(1864) and two novels:Les Travailleurs de la mer(1866;The Toilers of the Sea), dedicated to the island of Guernsey and its sailors; andL’Homme qui rit(1869;The Man Who Laughs), a curious baroque novel about the...
written with lucidity and humour, ranging from chemistry (The Chemicals of Life[(1954]) to physics (The Neutrino[1975]) to biology (The Human Brain[(1964]). He even wrote onliterature(Asimov’s Guide to Shakespeare, 2 vol. [1970]) and religion (Asimov’s Guide to the Bible, 2 vol....
“Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human” “Shelley’s Mythmaking” “The Anatomy of Influence: Literature as a Way of Life” “The Anxiety of Influence” “The Book of J” “The Daemon Knows” “The Flight to Lucifer” “The Ringers in the Tower: Studies in Romantic Tradition” ...