William Shakespeare - General Knowledge
Title: William Shakespeare - General Knowledge
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William Shakespeare - General Knowledge
William Shakespeare
(1564-1616)
I INTRODUCTION
English playwright and poet, recognized in much of the world as the greatest of all dramatists. Shakespeare’s plays communicate a profound knowledge of the wellsprings of human behavior, revealed through portrayals of a wide variety of characters. His use of poetic and dramatic means to create a unified aesthetic effect out of a multiplicity of vocal expressions and actions is recognized as a singular achievement, and his use of poetry
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Sonnets
1623 First Folio, a compilation of all of Shakespeare's plays, was posthumously published.
Did You Know During a performance of Shakespeare's Henry VIII at London's Globe Theatre in 1613, a cannon set the roof on fire and the theater was destroyed.
At 18, Shakespeare married 26-year-old Anne Hathaway. They had a daughter, Susanna, and twins, Hamnet and Judith.
In the mid-19th century, some scholars believed that Shakespeare’s plays were authored instead by Sir Francis Bacon.
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