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*SELECTED WORKS*
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*RICHARD 3*
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“A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM”
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/ˈʃeɪkspɪər/
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(’26 april 1564′ (baptized) – ’23 april 1616′)
‘age 52’
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“ANNE HATHAWAY”
(WIFE)
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(one of the best-selling writers of all time)
(4 billion books sold)
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(“william shakespeare” was an english (‘poet’ / ‘playwright’ / ‘actor’), widely regarded as the greatest writer in the english language and the world’s pre-eminent dramatist)
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(‘shakespeare’ is also referred to as…)
‘england’s national poet’
*the ‘bard’ of ‘avon’*
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(his extant works (including ‘collaborations’) consist of approximately…)
’38 plays’
‘154 sonnets’
‘2 long narrative poems’
(+ a few other ‘verses’)
(some of ‘uncertain authorship’)
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(his plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other ‘playwright)
(‘Shakespeare’ was born and brought up in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire)
At the age of 18, he married Anne Hathaway, with whom he had three children: Susanna, and twins Hamnet + ‘judith’)
(sometime between 1585 and 1592, he began a successful career in London as an actor, writer, and part-owner of a playing company called the Lord Chamberlain’s Men, later known as the ‘king’s men’)
(he appears to have retired to ‘stratford’ around ‘1613’)
(‘age 49’)
(died 3 years later)
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(few records of shakespeare’s private life survive, which has stimulated considerable speculation about such matters as his physical appearance, sexuality, and religious beliefs, and whether the works attributed to him were written by others)
(‘shakespeare’ produced most of his known work between ‘1589’ and ‘1613’)
(his early plays were primarily comedies and histories, and these are regarded as some of the best work ever produced in these genres)
(he then wrote mainly tragedies until about 1608, including Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth, considered some of the finest works in the ‘english language’)
(in his last phase, he wrote tragicomedies, also known as romances, and collaborated with other playwrights)
(many of his plays were published in editions of varying quality and accuracy during his lifetime)
(in 1623, however, ‘john heminges’ + ‘henry condell’, 2 friends and fellow actors of ‘shakespeare’, published a more definitive text known as the ‘first folio’, a posthumous collected edition of his ‘dramatic works’ that included all but 2 of the plays now recognized as shakespeare’s)
(it was prefaced with a poem by ‘ben jonson’, in which ‘shakespeare’ is hailed, presciently, as “not of an age, but for all time”)
(in the 1900s + 2000s, his works have been repeatedly ‘adapted’ + ‘rediscovered’ by new movements in ‘scholarship’ + ‘performance’)
(his plays remain highly popular, and are constantly ‘studied’, ‘performed’, and ‘reinterpreted’ in diverse ‘cultural’ + ‘political’ contexts throughout the world)
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👈👈👈☜*“DEAD LINGUISTICALLY ENGLISH WRITERS”* ☞ 👉👉👉
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*🌈✨ *TABLE OF CONTENTS* ✨🌷*
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🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥*we won the war* 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥