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A Bombshell New Study Suggests Shakespeare May Not Have Written 15 of His Famous Plays

William Shakespeare is undeniably one of the most famous writers in human history. The 39 shows attributed to the “Bard of Avon” have been performed, adapted, and studied innumerable times in the ...
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The Operatic Character of Background Music in Film Adaptations of Shakespeare

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information Shakespeare Quarterly (SQ) is a leading journal in Shakespeare studies, publishing highly original, rigorously researched essays, ...
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Background on Shakespeare

Shakespeare was born around 23 April 1564 at Stratford-on-Avon. He moved a hundred miles away to London in his early twenties, where he wrote 37 or 38 extant plays and some poetry that has established ...
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Shakespeare's Cousin, Thomas Greene, and His Kin: Possible Light on the Shakespeare Family Background

PMLA is the journal of the Modern Language Association of America. Since 1884, PMLA has published members' essays judged to be of interest to scholars and teachers of language and literature. Four ...
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Shakespeare didn’t abandon his wife in Stratford, letter suggests

(CNN) — William Shakespeare’s marriage to Anne Hathaway may have been happier than previously thought, according to new research. It has been long believed that the playwright left his wife behind ...
BBC

Shakespeare: Love Across the Racial Divide

4 Extra Debut. Yasmin Alibhai-Brown explores race and cultural differences in the ill-fated marriage in Shakespeare’s Othello. From 2016. Show more Yasmin Alibhai-Brown explores the first of five ...