Shakespeare never actually published any of his plays. They are known today only because two of his fellow actors – John Hemminges and Henry Condell – recorded and published 36 of them posthumously under the
One of the major themes of restoration comedy is marriage and the game of love. But if marriage is a mirror of society, the couples in the plays show something very dark and sinister about order. Manycritiquesof marriage in the comedies are devastating. Although the endings are happy and th...
I am very happy today to welcome historian Catherine Hanley toHistory…the Interesting Bitsin a new instalment of my Author Spotlight series,Wordly Women. Catherine is the author ofMatilda,1217and her latest book, Lionessheart, aboutJoanna, the sister of Richard the Lionheart. Catherine also write...
Fact #4: William Shakespeare Played For The Steelers Alas, it wasn't the famous author - although that would have been amazing in its own right. William Shakespeare of Staten Island, New York, played from 1933 to 1935 and threw the winning pass in Notre Dame's victory over Ohio State in...
133. Shakespeare invented words which we still use today Shakespeare is credited with created many words and phrases in the English language. Some of the words he is believed to have invented includehurry,bedazzledandgloomy.
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For over 400 years, Shakespeare’s version of Lady Macbeth has been the woman most people are familiar with. In the bard’s famous drama, also known as ‘The Scottish Play’, Lady Macbeth is not even given her name. Presented as a scheming, manipulative woman, Shakespeare did as good a...
aHowever ,what is important about Shakespeare’s life is not its incidental details but its products , the plays and the poems .For many years scholars have been trying to add a few facts about Shakespeare’s life to the small number we already possess and for an equally long tine critics...