… April 23, 1564. He was baptized on April 24, 1564, in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire. He was the third of eight children born to John Shakespeare and Mary Arden. John was a well-known merchant and Mary was the daughter of a Roman Catholic member of…

… as Shakespeare really the author of the "Shakespearean Works"? We know little about the man called Shakespeare, Did he really write the plays, or is he just a man that got confused within history? (Sobran 44) There is not even a correct spelling of…

… know as Shakespeare really the author of the "Shakespearean Works"? We know little about the man called Shakespeare, Did he really write the plays, or is he just a man that got confused within history? (Sobran 44) There is not even a correct spelling…

… English playwright, dramatist and poet who lived during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Shakespeare is considered to be the greatest playwright of all time. No other writer's plays have been produced so many times or read so widely…

… Shakespeare Web. The fragments that follow are what still remains of his sometime domain. Due to recurrent vandalism and demand exceeding his capacity to satisfy, Shakespeare Queries & Replies From Web Surfers has been taken offline for good. Alr…

… separated by their feuding families. From forth the fatal loins of these two foes a pair of star-crossed lovers take their life.(Pro.I.6) The two foes Shakespeare speaks of are the Montagues and the Capulets. Their hate for each other is…

… by Virginia Woolf in 1929. She was born in London, where she grew up in an environment of wealth and culture, meeting many of the most distinguished intellectuals of all time. Virginia was home-schooled for all of her education growing up, and later…

… theaters of today, the London public theaters in the time of Queen Elizabeth I seem to be terribly limited. The plays had to be performed during daylight hours only and the stage scenery had to be kept very simple with just a table, a chair, a throne,…

… with a formal rhyme scheme. Each line of the poem are expressing different aspects of a single thought, mood, or feeling, and finally resolved in the last lines two lines of the poem. The poem is figuring a person who realizes that his time is short,…

… plays during his lifetime. Some of his plays have similar comedic characteristics and then other plays are the exact opposite of comedy. Shakespeare wrote tragedies, romance, history, comedy and problem plays all with great success. During the perfor…