Shakespeare A to Z: The Essential Reference to His Plays, His Poems, His Life and Times, and More (SHAKESPEARE STUDIES, REFERENCE, LITERARY HISTORY, BIOGRAPHY)
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Published by Facts On File, New York, New York, U.S.A., 1990
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009252; SHAKESPEARE WILLIAM 1564 1616 DICTIONARIES Romeo and Juliet Macbeth King Lear Hamlet Othello Titus Andronicus Julius Caesar Antony and Cleopatra Coriolanus Troilus and Cressida Timon of Athens Shakespearean comedies The Comedy of Errors All's Well That Ends Well As You Like It A Midsummer Night's Dream Much Ado About Nothing Measure for Measure The Tempest Taming of the Shrew Twelfth Night or What You Will The Merchant of Venice The Merry Wives of Windsor Love's Labour's Lost The Two Gentlemen of Verona Pericles Prince of Tyre Cymbeline The Winter's Tale The Two Noble Kinsmen Shakespearean histories Richard III Richard II Henry VI, part 1 Henry VI, part 2 Henry VI, part 3 Henry V Henry IV, part 1 Henry IV, part 2 Henry VIII King John tragedy tragedies comedy Shakespear 1564—1616, English dramatist and poet, b. Stratford-on-Avon. He is considered the greatest playwright who ever lived. Life His father, John Shakespeare, was successful in the leather business during Shakespeare's early childhood but later met with financial difficulties. During his prosperous years his father was also involved in municipal affairs, holding the offices of alderman and bailiff during the 1560s. While little is known of Shakespeare's boyhood, he probably attended the grammar school in Stratford, where he would have been educated in the classics, particularly Latin grammar and literature. Whatever the veracity of Ben Jonson's famous comment that Shakespeare had "small Latine, and less Greeke," much of his work clearly depends on a knowledge of Roman comedy, ancient history, and classical mythology. In 1582 Shakespeare married Anne Hathaway, eight years his senior and pregnant at the time of the marriage. Shakespeare A to Z: The Essential Reference to His Plays, His Poems, His Life and Times, and More (SHAKESPEARE STUDIES, REFERENCE, LITERARY HISTORY, BIOGRAPHY) Boyce, Charles; White, David.…
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- Shakespeare A to Z: The Essential Reference to His Plays, His Poems, His Life and Times, and More (SHAKESPEARE STUDIES, REFERENCE, LITERARY HISTORY, BIOGRAPHY)
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- Boyce, Charles; White, David
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- Facts On File, New York, New York, U.S.A.
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- 1990
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- English
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- 9780816018055
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-Richard Lisker, Fairfax County Public Library, VA
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
This work invites comparison with the Reader's Encyclopedia of Shakespeare (1966). Both provide remarkable levels of detail on virtually any aspect of Shakespeare's life and art. The Reader's Encyclopedia, however, is now nearly a quarter of a century old; it does not, for example, include entries for Branagh's 1989 film of Henry V or Joseph Papp, the noted producer, both included here. But it is much broader in scope, including bibliographies as well as articles on such figures as Stendahl (author of a book on Shakespeare). More comprehensive, it may still be the best book on the subject, but it is now out of print. Boyce's work is well done and much more current, and it includes many unique entries. It will be a useful complement for libraries owning the Reader's Encyclopedia and a fine addition for those that don't. -- Peter Dollard, Alma Coll. Lib., Mich.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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