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William Shakespeare

The Death of Shakespeare

William Shakespeare, 1564-1616. c 1907

What Did Shakespeare Sound Like?

Facsimile of one of William Henry Ireland's forgeries, a primitive self-portrait of William Shakespeare(tinted engraving). Published for Samuel Ireland, Norfolk Street, Strand, December 1, 1795. (W.H. Ireland, forgery)

The Time a Law Clerk Successfully Forged a New Shakespeare Play to Impress His Dad

poem. A poet in a Heian period kimono writes Japanese poetry during the Kamo Kyokusui No En Ancient Festival at Jonan-gu shrine on April 29, 2013 in Kyoto, Japan. Festival of Kyokusui-no Utage orignated in 1,182, party Heian era (794-1192).

World Poetry Day

Scene from the motion picture "Romeo and Juliet" with Olivia Hussey (Juliet) and Leonard Whiting (Romeo), 1968; directed by Franco Zeffirelli.

All the World’s a Stage: 6 Places in Shakespeare, Then and Now

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New York NY/ USA- November 23, 2018 Hordes of shoppers throng the Macy's Herald Square flagship store in New York looking for bargains on the day after Thanksgiving, Black Friday.

Why Is It Called Black Friday?

Artist interpretation of a Space meteoroid impact. Meteor impact. Asteroid, End of the world, danger, destruction, dinosaur extinct, Judgement Day, Planet Earth, Doomsday Predictions, comet

10 Failed Doomsday Predictions

Santa Claus flying in his sleigh, christmas, reindeer

Was Santa Claus a Real Person?

Mona Lisa, oil on wood panel by Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1503-06; in the Louvre, Paris, France. 77 x 53 cm.

Why Is the Mona Lisa So Famous?

The Cheshire Cat is a fictional cat from Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. (Alice in Wonderland)

11 Banned Books Through Time

Rural Irish landscape, Sligo, Ireland.

Why Is Ireland Two Countries?

Mayer Amschel Rothschild (1744-1855), founder of the house of Rothschild; lithograph by Friedrich Lieder, c. 1830.

Where Do Anti-Semitic Conspiracy Theories About the Rothschild Family Come From?

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Also Known As	Stephen Jay Greenblatt
Born	November 7, 1943 (age 81) • Boston • Massachusetts
Awards And Honors	Pulitzer Prize • National Book Award • Holberg Prize (2016)
Notable Works	“Hamlet in Purgatory” • “Practicing New Historicism” • “The Swerve: How the World Became Modern”
Subjects Of Study	William Shakespeare

Helen Archibald Clarke

American writer and editor

Charlotte Endymion Porter

American editor

Portrait of poet Alexander Pope

Alexander Pope

English author

Tsubouchi Shōyō

Japanese author

Edmond Malone

Edmond Malone

British scholar and editor

Charles Clarke, detail of a portrait by an unknown artist; in the National Portrait Gallery, London

Charles Cowden Clarke

English editor and critic

Richard White

American writer and critic

Schlegel, August Wilhelm von

August Wilhelm von Schlegel

German scholar and critic

Tieck, detail of an oil painting by K. Vogel von Vogelstein, 1834; in the National Gallery, Berlin

Ludwig Tieck

German writer

Lamb, Mary Ann; Lamb, Charles

Charles Lamb

British author

Georg Brandes, 1866

Georg Brandes

Danish writer

Otto Ludwig

German writer

Dover Wilson

British scholar and educator

Johann Elias Schlegel

German author and critic

Alexander Dyce

Scottish editor

Dowden

Edward Dowden

Irish critic

A.C. Bradley

British critic and scholar

George Steevens

English Shakespearean commentator

Delia Salter Bacon

American author

Henry Clay Folger.

Henry Clay Folger

American lawyer and business executive