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Shakespeare: Actor. Playwright. Social Climber.
Shakespeare biography has long circled a set of tantalizing mysteries: Was he Protestant or secretly Catholic? Gay or straight? Loving toward his wife, or coldly dismissive?
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2016: A Big Year for Shakespeare First Folios
With 2016 marking the 400th anniversary of his death, it was a great year for the discovery, digitization, and exhibition of Shakespeare First Folios.
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Boston Public Library Puts Its World-Class Collection Of Rare Shakespeare Works On Display
“To be, or not to be—that is the question.” Those might be the most famous words in all of English literature. But are they the original words in "Hamlet?" That is also the question, and just one of the many things you’ll encounter at the exhibit “Shakespeare Unauthorized” at the Boston Public Library, which includes some of the earliest and rarest surviving copies of Shakespeare’s greatest works.
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Notebook written by unknown 17th-century William Shakespeare scholar comes to light leaving Antiques Roadshow expert 'trembling'
A 17th-century notebook containing the jottings of perhaps the world’s first Shakespeare scholar has left experts “trembling” in anticipation of what it may contain.
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‘Do we not laugh?’ On the continuing obsession with Merchant of Venice
This brings us back to the question posed whenever a production of The Merchant of Venice is mounted: is this an antisemitic play, or a play about antisemitism? Indeed, if we need Shylock’s ‘Hath not a Jew’ speech to remind us that Jews are, in fact, human too, then we are dealing with a much larger cultural problem that productions of The Merchant of Venice play into. By Gabriella Edelstein.
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The Merchant Of Venice 2004 Shylock speech)
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Map Of Shakespeare's Play Locations
Shakespeare set his plays in many countries - from Wales to current-day Syria. The interactive map below shows all of the locations that Shakespeare used in his 37 plays.
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Plagiarism Software Unveils a New Source for 11 of Shakespeare’s Plays
For years scholars have debated what inspired William Shakespeare’s writings. Now, with the help of software typically used by professors to nab cheating students, two writers have discovered an unpublished manuscript they believe the Bard of Avon consulted to write “King Lear,” “Macbeth,” “Richard III,” “Henry V” and seven other plays.
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The Tyrant and His Enablers
How is it possible for a whole country to fall into the hands of a tyrant? According to Shakespeare, it could not happen without widespread complicity. By Stephen Greenblatt.
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Docs Show Shakespeare's Father Had Legal and Financial Trouble Throughout the Bard's Teen Years
Twenty-one documents found in the U.K.'s National Archives add context to the Bard's feelings toward power and monarchy
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Shakespeare's neglected queen reigns once more
The Bard gave Queen Margaret more lines than any other female character, and more than King Lear.
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Things we say today which we owe to Shakespeare
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Was Shakespeare a Woman?
The authorship controversy has yet to surface a compelling alternative to the man buried in Stratford. Perhaps that’s because, until recently, no one was looking in the right place. The case for Emilia Bassano.
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Machine learning has revealed exactly how much of a Shakespeare play was written by someone else
Literary analysts have long noticed the hand of another author in Shakespeare’s Henry VIII. Now a neural network has identified the specific scenes in question—and who actually wrote them.
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