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	William Shakespeare - Plays, Sonnets and Information About William Shakespeare Online {Shakespeare-1.com}
		Shakespeare's influence on the English-speaking world is reflected in the ready recognition afforded many quotations from Shakespearean plays, the titles of works based on Shakespearean phrases, and the frequent performance of his plays.
		Other indicators of contemporary influence are his inclusion in the top 10 of the "100 Greatest Britons" poll sponsored by the BBC, the frequent productions based on his work, such as the BBC Television Series Shakespeare, and the success of the fictional account of his life in the 1998 film Shakespearein Love.
		Because of the similarities of their names, some suspect that his death was the impetus for Shakespeare's The Tragical History of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
	shakespeare-1.com (1358 words)

	Shakespearean histories - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The plays normally described as histories are those based on the lives of English kings.
		Shakespeare was living under the reign of Elizabeth I, the last monarch of the house of Tudor, and his history plays are often regarded as Tudor propaganda because they show the dangers of civil war and celebrate the founders of the Tudor dynasty.
		In particular, Richard III depicts the last member of the rival house of York as an evil monster ("that bottled spider, that foul bunchback'd toad"), a depiction disputed by many modern historians, while portraying his usurper, Henry VII in glowing terms.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Shakespearean_histories (245 words)

	§5. His independent Dramas. VIII. Ford and Shirley. Vol. 6. The Drama to 1642, Part Two. The Cambridge History of ...
		The play is based on Bacon’s History of Henry VII and Thomas Gainsford’s True and Wonderful History of Perkin Warbeck (1618), and, in his substantial adherence to history, the dramatist follows the tradition of this dramatic type.
		He obviously found his model in the histories of Shakespeare; and the slightly archaic flavour of the whole work is increased by the use of blank verse somewhat more formal and regular than Ford is accustomed to write.
		The plot, however, is simpler than in the Shakespearean histories, there is less richness of episode and the play falls short chiefly in a certain lack of intensity.
	www.bartleby.com /216/0805.html (1868 words)

	Untitled (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Shakespearean comedy, in spite of the fact that he was historically a part of the Renaissance, falls into the medieval or romantic pattern.
		As a matter of fact, according to one critic: "There is hardly a Shakespearean tragedy in which the sound of laughter is not heard, hardly a comedy in which there is not at least the shadow of impending disaster" (Parrott vii).
		Shakespearean drama, like Elizabethan literature in general, is founded on a long tradition in medieval and early Renaissance literature, where the sharp distinction between tragedy and comedy maintained by the classical Greek and Roman writers was either unknown or ignored.
	www.montreat.edu /dking/Shakespeare/SHAKESPEAREANCOMEDY.htm (2528 words)

	Learn more about William Shakespeare in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		He also wrote 154 sonnets and several major poems, some of which are considered to be the most brilliant pieces of English literature ever written, because of Shakespeare's ability to rise beyond the narrative and describe the innermost and the most profound aspects of the human nature.
		He is believed to have written most of his works between 1585-1610, although the exact dates and chronology of the plays attributed to him are not accurately known.
		Because of the similarities of their names, some suspect that his death was the impetus for Shakespeare's The Tragical History of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark.
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /w/wi/william_shakespeare.html (1172 words)

	William Shakespeare - Simple English Wikipedia
		After his marriage, William Shakespeare's name was not on historical papers until he started to write, in London.
		Because of the similarities of their names, some people think that his death was the idea for Shakespeare's play The Tragical History of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark.
		By 1598 Shakespeare was living in the St. Helen's, Bishopsgate, and he was at the of a list of actors in the play "Every man in his Humour", by Ben Jonson.
	simple.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Shakespeare (451 words)

	ENG 301 EJ 6/93 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		While this course is concerned specifically with selected Shakespearean histories, it is important to realize that history is a particular dramatic mode, a particular way of presenting a particular kind of story.
		Dramatizing the history of English kings was an active theatrical business when Shakespeare came to write his history plays.
		While the ten history plays are important in understanding Shakespeare’s development of this dramatic genre, our emphasis is on the appreciation and understanding of each play, as well as thematic connections between them.
	www.ohiou.edu /independent/desc_sht/eng301cce.htm (1936 words)

	ENGLISH
		This course briefly outlines the history of film, introduces students to basic film terms and techniques such as script, shots, sequence, and animation, and summarizes the theory and practice of film criticism.
		This course examines the history of rhetoric in western culture from 1700 to the present.
		This course examines various philosophies of history and current theoretical approaches to historical and cultural study as well as exploring questions of aesthetics, economics, social practice, and cultural history.
	www.ucok.edu /registrar/catsf/cENG.HTML (6779 words)

	The early histories (from William Shakespeare) -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		In Shakespeare's explorations of English history, as in romantic comedy, he put his distinctive mark on a genre and made it his.
		History is a science—a branch of knowledge that uses specific methods and tools to achieve its goals.
		The hero of the Dutch struggle against Spanish rule was William the Silent, one of the wealthiest noblemen in Europe.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-232319 (868 words)

	Course Catalog: Academic Year 2004-2005
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	ias.barstow.cc.ca.us /catalog.htm (8801 words)

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		This, too, is according to the Tudor view which did not, of course, relate to history either...but to its own twisted concepts of who/what was right and who/what was wrong at the time.
		There was no written history of Richards day with which to refute the Tudor historians, so the doubters had in their search for fact to go back to the records.
		Shakespeare, in his "Histories" of the last of the Plantagenet kings, was writing virtually as a "spokesman" for the Tudor government during the reign of Elizabeth I at which time King Richard was perceived to have been nothing less than a monster...hence, as history, the plays are wanting in truth and objectivity.
	www.jonathanfrid.com.phtemp.com /specproj.html (3653 words)

	William Shakespeare - Psychology Central (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		His plays cover tragedy, history, and comedy and have been translated into every major living language, in addition to being continually performed round the world.
		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).
		It should be noted that the question of whether an Elizabethan was "gay" in a modern sense is anachronistic, as the concepts of homosexuality and bisexuality did not emerge until the 19th century; while sodomy was a crime in the period, there was no word for an exclusively homosexual identity (see History of homosexuality).
	www.psychcentral.com /psypsych/William_Shakespeare (3565 words)

	Renaissance Forum: Volume Two, Number Two, Autumn 1997: Steve Longstaffe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		As is usual with Shakespeareans, she passes over Nashe's equally approving reference to a non-Shakespearean Henry play and Thomas Heywood's praise of an Edward III play (McKerrow 1958, 213; Heywood 1612, B4r).
		Such selective quotation from Nashe and Heywood, along with her habitual attribution to 'Shakespeare's histories' or 'Shakespeare's theatre' of qualities present in other histories and other theatres, and her assumption that a genre is dead once no new plays are written, collapses the genre into Shakespeare.
		Meantime, revaluing the histories allows a revaluation of the early Shakespeare, which puts Marlowe in the shade, and draws the sting of the Jonsonian challenge to the Bard in tragedy and comedy (and, of course, his superiority in the effete aristocratic genres of pageantry and masque).
	www.hull.ac.uk /Hull/EL_Web/renforum/v2no2/longstaf.htm (5770 words)

	The Education of the Seventeenth Earl of Oxford Mirrored in the Shakespeare Canon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		With that rebuke, which in one sweeping dismissal forever determined the course of the conversation about Shakespeare that would be permitted in the domain where his captain reigned, all discussion about the authorship of the Shakespeare canon on board the ship came to an end.
		If we are to presume that these plays proceed from the pen of a Stratford provincial for whom we have no testaments to education or literary activity, (12) then the constant presence within these plays of Italianate practices, places, and persons, and their rendering with such skill, is simply inexplicable.
		Indeed, the history plays of Shakespeare reflect the most sophisticated, artful, and dramatically unrivalled understanding of civil conflict, theological controversy, ecclesiastical machinations, and secular intrigue that the English stage had yet seen or was to see.
	www.oxfordian.com /oxwright.html (6124 words)

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