William Shakespeare: The Poet

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William Shakespeare: The Poet (Magill’s Choice: Shakespeare)

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William Shakespeare is perhaps the world’s greatest dramatist—certainly, at the very least, the greatest to write in English. Of his thirty-seven plays, written over a career in the theater that spanned, roughly, the years 1588 to 1613, the most important are Romeo and Juliet (c. 1595-1596); Henry IV, Parts I and II (c. 1597-1598); Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (c. 1600-1601); Othello, The Moor of Venice (1604); Measure for Measure (1604); King Lear (c. 1605-1606); Macbeth (1606); Antony and...

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