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	William Shakespeare
		Shakespeare is believed to have produced most of his work between 1586 and 1616, although the exact dates and chronology of the plays attributed to him are often uncertain.
		Shakespeare is buried in the chancel of Holy Trinity Church in Stratford-upon-Avon.
		Shakespeare's plays tend to be placed into three main stylistic groups: his early comedies and histories (such as A Midsummer Night's Dream and Henry IV, Part 1), his middle period (which includes his most famous tragedies, Othello, Macbeth, Hamlet and King Lear), and his later romances (such as The Winter's Tale and The Tempest).
	www.worksbyshakespeare.com (2872 words)

	Chronology of Shakespeare plays - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The precise chronology of Shakespeare's plays as they were first written and performed is difficult to determine, as there is no authoritative record and many of the plays were performed many years before they were published.
		Shakespeare's role in writing several existing plays is debated, however.
		If this is the same as the play entitled 'The Night of Errors', it was performed on 28 December 1594.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chronology_of_Shakespeare_plays (534 words)

	Articles - William Shakespeare (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Shakespeare is believed to have produced most of his work between 1586 and 1616, although the exact dates and chronology of the plays attributed to him are often uncertain.
		Shakespeare is buried in the chancel of Holy Trinity Church in Stratford-upon-Avon.
		Shakespeare's plays tend to be placed into three main stylistic groups: his early comedies and histories (such as A Midsummer Night's Dream and Henry IV, Part 1), his middle period (which includes his most famous tragedies, Othello, Macbeth, Hamlet and King Lear), and his later romances (such as The Winter's Tale and The Tempest).
	www.izeez.com /articles/William_Shakespeare (3156 words)

	Shakespeare, William. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		The chronology of Shakespeare’s plays is uncertain, but a reasonable approximation of their order can be inferred from dates of publication, references in contemporary writings, allusions in the plays to contemporary events, thematic relationships, and metrical and stylistic comparisons.
		The strength of Shakespeare’s plays lies in the absorbing stories they tell, in their wealth of complex characters, and in the eloquent speech—vivid, forceful, and at the same time lyric—that the playwright puts on his characters’ lips.
		Shakespeare was criticized for mixing comedy and tragedy and failing to observe the unities of time and place prescribed by the rules of classical drama.
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	Shakespeare
		BBC Television Shakespeare The BBC Television Shakespeare was a set of television adaptations of the plays of Jonathan M...
		Shakespeare Apocrypha The Shakespeare Apocrypha is the name given to a group of plays that have sometimes been attribute...
		Shakespeare Tower Shakespeare Tower is a skyscraper in the William Shakespeare.
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	Well Furlong - Possible Chronology of Shakespeare's Plays
		A few plays may not belong in the list at all, but many scholars believe that Shakespeare had a substantial hand in their writing even if he did not write them alone.
		After Shakespeare's death in 1616 his fellow players John Heminges and Henry Condell gathered the texts of his plays, eighteen already published in quarto editions, and eighteen more previously unpublished, in a single volume known as the First Folio.
		Plays not included in the Folio and all the verse pieces appear in an appendix to the volume with any quarto alternative passages.
	wellfurlong.co.uk /theatre/shakeplays.htm (623 words)

	Shakespeare's London Career - Shakespeare in quarto
		Shakespeare was probably a founder member of the Lord Chamberlain's Men, the acting company established under the patronage of Henry Carey, 1st Lord Hunsdon, in 1594.
		Shakespeare wrote the majority of the 37 plays which are now accepted as his, as well as collaborating on several more, between 1594 and 1613.
		Shakespeare is named in the 1599 lease for the Globe, the new playhouse built by the Lord Chamberlain's Men from the dismantled timbers of the Theatre.
	www.bl.uk /treasures/shakespeare/london.html (595 words)

	William Shakespeare
		Shakespeare was born in the village of Stratford-upon-Avon in Warwickshire.
		Shakespeare's father, John Shakespeare, came from a family of yeomen, and he gained many prestigious positions in the community.
		Shakespeare was married to Anne Hathaway in 1582, when he was 18; she was 26, eight years his senior.
	www.springfield.k12.il.us /schools/springfield/eliz/ShakespeareBiog.html (796 words)

	Encyclopædia Britannica's Guide to Shakespeare
		But, because many plays of Shakespeare's time have been lost, it is impossible to be sure of the relation between an earlier, lost play and Shakespeare's surviving one: in the case of Hamlet it has been plausibly argued that an “old play,” known to have existed, was merely an early version of Shakespeare's own.
		But, during the course of the 17th century, it came to be felt that Shakespeare was an outstandingly “natural” writer, whose intellectual background was of comparatively little significance: “he was naturally learn'd; he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature,” wrote John Dryden in 1668.
		But, quite apart from evidence of the sources of his plays, it is not difficult to get a fair impression of Shakespeare as a reader, feeding his own imagination by a moderate acquaintance with the literary achievements of other men and of other ages.
	www.britanica.com /shakespeare/article-232445 (1157 words)

	William Shakespeare--Great Minds, Great Thinkers
		The idea that Shakespeare himself wrote all of what are commonly accepted as his plays has also been called into question.
		There is ongoing serious academic work to ascertain the authorship of plays and poems of the time, both those attributed to Shakespeare and others.
		For a period it was thought on the basis of evidence researched by Don Foster that Shakespeare wrote a Funeral Elegy for William Peter.
	www.edinformatics.com /great_thinkers/shakespeare.htm (1037 words)

	Shakespeare, William on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Among Shakespeare's most important sources, Raphael Holinshed 's Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland (1587) is significant for the English history plays, although Shakespeare did not hesitate to transform a character when it suited his dramatic purposes.
		Shakespeare's queer 'Sonnets' and the forgeries of William Henry Ireland.
		Ann Stinnett, 29, a third year law school student plays, Prince Hal in the play "Henry IV" in her Shakespeare class at Ave Maria Law School in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
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	The chronology of Shakespeare's plays (from William Shakespeare) -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Shakespeare the poet and dramatist > The chronology of Shakespeare's plays
		A five-act comedy by William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor centers on the comic romantic misadventures of the character Falstaff.
		The play differs from Shakespeare's other comedies of this period in that it is set not in an imaginary...
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-232313 (887 words)

	Shakespeare's 'Prince Hal' Plays
		That the play was at least ten years old when it was published is attested by clear documentary evidence that the comic actor Richard Tarlton, who died in September, 1588, played the role of the Clown (4).
		A patriotic play about an English king's victory in France would have pleased her greatly-and a reference to the recent conclusion of a lengthy rebellion in Ireland by one of her favorite generals would have been doubly satisfying.
		Although Shakespeare's plays are full of sexual puns and bawdy reparteé, this was perhaps an extra dose intended to twit the priggish Sidney, who was a well-known advocate of propriety and decorum in poetry.
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	William Shakespeare Chronology of plays, first performances and publications
		Plays were required to be registered prior to publication.
		It was important that plays were regulated as playwrights used the stage as a forum to express their own views on religion and politics.
		The majority of Shakespeare plays were first published in the First Folio, seven years after his death, in 1623.
	www.william-shakespeare.info /william-shakespeare-play-chronology-dates.htm (493 words)

	William Shakespeare -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Shakespeare also spelled Shakspere, byname Bard of Avon or Swan of Avon English poet, dramatist, and actor, often called the English national poet and considered by many to be the greatest dramatist of all time.
		If William Shakespeare's ascendancy over Western theatre has not extended to the opera stage—a fact explained by the want of Shakespeare-congenial librettists, the literary indifference of composers, and the difficulties involved in setting iambic pentameters to music—the Shakespeare canon has nonetheless established itself as one of the great inspirers of operas.
		He was known for his performances in various plays by William Shakespeare and for connecting all elements of a production into a cohesive, flowing unit.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9109536 (799 words)

	A Chronology of Shakespeare
		Shakespeare overhearing their conclusion went before, was entertained, and at his game ere Burbidge came.
		Edmund Shakespeare, Shakespeare's actor brother who was living in London, was buried St. Saviour's Southwark, the parish of the Globe theater, on December 31, 1607.
		On March 10 Shakespeare bought "from Henry Walker a gatehouse at Blackfriars for the amount of £140 and entrusted this property to the actor John Heminges and two other men, John Jackson and William Johnson, whom Leslie Hotson identifies as acquaintances of Heminges's, Johnson being the owner of the famous Mermaid inn.
	inamidst.com /shaks/chron (3922 words)

	April 23 Birthdays: William Shakespeare
		Generally critics of the 17th and 18th centuries accused Shakespeare of a want of artistic restraint while praising him for a fecund imagination.
		Johnson inaugurated the criticism of Shakespeare's characters that reached its culmination in the late 19th century with the work of A. Bradley.
		While A. Bradley marks the culmination of romantic 19th-century character study, he also suggested that the plays had unifying imagistic atmospheres, an idea that was further developed in the 20th century.
	www.infoplease.com /birthday?month=apr&day=23 (2095 words)

	Shakespeare: chronology
		The Comedy of Errors, probably the play 'The Night of Errors' performed on 28 December 1594
		The Merry Wives of Windsor, probably performed on the occasion of the installation of George Carey, Lord Chamberlain and patron of Shakespeare's comapny, as a Knight of the Garter at Windsor (23 April 1597)
		Henry VIII, the firing of a canon during one of the first performances of this play, on 29 June 1613, started the fire that burned the Globe Theatre to the ground
	www.dlhoffman.com /publiclibrary/Shakespeare/by-year.html (372 words)

	Shakespeare Chronology
		The play is performed twice and is commended by the king.
		This play's Scottish background was almost certainly intended to celebrate the new king's ancestry.
		This is one of the longest periods of theater closure due to plague: the playhouses are shut from spring 1608 throughout 1609.
	www.enotes.com /william-shakespeare/shakespeare-chronology (1268 words)

	William Shakespeare: The Plays
		is related to these plays and is usually grouped with them as the final part of a first tetralogy of historical plays.
		The first edition of Shakespeare to divide the plays into acts and scenes and to mark exits and entrances is that of Nicholas
		(1587) is significant for the English history plays, although Shakespeare did not hesitate to transform a character when it suited his dramatic purposes.
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/people/A0861049.html (801 words)

	Chronology of Shakespeare's Plays
		Establishing the chronology of Shakespeare's plays is a most frustrating and difficult task.
		Despite the fact that we have an accepted play chronology, we must keep in mind that the dating is conjectural, and there are many who disagree with the order of plays listed below.
		The majority of the play was probably written by John Fletcher, who was a prominent actor and Shakespeare's close friend.
	www.shakespeare-online.com /keydates/playchron.html (154 words)

	EMLS 7.3 (January, 2002) 5.1-89: Hamlet as the Christmas Prince (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		In the first of his series of EMLS articles discussing the chronology of Shakespeare's plays (on Hamlet, King Lear, and Julius Caesar) [1], Steve Sohmer has offered the first systematic analysis of the chronology of Hamlet since the work of Harley Granville-Barker.
		He argues that this "calendrical design...is integral to Shakespeare's structure for the play's three 'movements.'" [5] In this article I would like to revisit Sohmer's underappreciated analysis, both to point out some difficulties with that analysis and to expand upon and support it with further evidence.
		Given all that obtrusive chronological detail, and given Shakespeare's constant playing with misrule--notably in Twelfth Night and Caesar, which were composed in the same two or three years as Hamlet--it's not wild speculation to suggest that Shakespeare wove yet another layer into Hamlet, perhaps the most intricately woven of his plays.
	www.chass.utoronto.ca /emls/07-3/2RothHam.htm (10422 words)

	Shakespeare (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		This brief excerpt from the play is a poem by itself.
		Shakespeare Illustrated, a work in progress, explores nineteenth-century paintings, criticism and productions of Shakespeare's plays and their influences on one another.
		Shakespeare Web--an interactive, hypermedia environment dedicated to the enjoyment of Shakespeare's works.
	www.eng.fju.edu.tw /English_Literature/16th_c/shakespeare.htm (1899 words)

	Raphael Holinshed
		English literature: The Tudors and the Elizabethan Age - The Tudors and the Elizabethan Age The beginning of the Tudor dynasty coincided with the first...
		William Shakespeare: The Plays - The Plays Chronology of Composition The chronology of Shakespeare's plays is uncertain, but a...
		Shakespeare's Plays (table) - Shakespeare's Plays (arranged by approximate date of composition) Play Approximate date of...
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	Shakespeare's Works: A Timeline
		The problem with any timeline of Shakespeare's works is that most dates are subject to interpretation.
		This brief timeline combines events of Shakespeare's life with a chronology of plays.
		Absolute Shakespeare presents the life (and works) of literature's most famous playwright.
	www.bardweb.net /plays/timeline.html (111 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| Arts \| Diplomat 'was real Shakespeare'
		Neville's ancestors, including King Edward III and John of Gaunt, are described with such accuracy in the history plays that they could only have been written by someone with specialist knowledge.
		The plays attributed to Shakespeare could only have been written by someone deeply familiar with court life, Elizabethan politics, Italy and France.
		But their claims were rubbished on Today by Professor Bate, a governor of the Royal Shakespeare Company.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/arts/4312110.stm (392 words)

	Shakespeare, William - Questia Online Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		After these come The Comedy of Errors,Titus Andronicus (almost a third of which may have been written by George Peele), The Taming of the Shrew,The Two Gentlemen of Verona,Love's Labour's Lost, and Romeo and Juliet.
		Following this are The Merry Wives of Windsor (written to meet Queen Elizabeth's request for another play including Falstaff, it is not thematically typical of the period), Troilus and Cressida,All's Well That Ends Well,Measure for Measure,Othello,King Lear,Macbeth,Antony and Cleopatra,Coriolanus, and Timon of Athens (the last may have been partially written by Thomas Middleton).
		Other important trends in 20th-century criticism include the Freudian approach, such as Ernest Jones 's Oedipal interpretation of Hamlet; the study of Shakespeare in terms of the Elizabethan world view and Elizabethan stage conventions; and the study of the plays in mythic terms.
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