William Shakespeare
See Also
- William Shakespeare: The Man (Critical Survey of Drama, Second Revised Edition)
- William Shakespeare: The Dramatist (Critical Survey of Drama, Second Revised Edition)
- William Shakespeare (Critical Survey of Poetry: British, Irish, & Commonwealth Poets)
- Explicating Poetry: World Poets (Critical Survey of Poetry: World Poets)
- English Poetry in the Sixteenth Century (Critical Survey of Poetry: Topical Essays)
- Sonnet 60 (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
- Sonnet 130 (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
- Sonnet 18 (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
- Sonnet 19 (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
- Sonnet 30 (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
- Sonnet 35 (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
- Sonnet 55 (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
- Sonnet 65 (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
- Sonnet 73 (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
- Sonnet 76 (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
- Sonnet 87 (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
- Sonnet 91 (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
- Sonnet 94 (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
- Sonnet 106 (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
- Sonnet 129 (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
- Sonnet 116 (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
- All’s Well That Ends Well (Magill Book Reviews)
- Antony and Cleopatra (Magill Book Reviews)
- As You Like It (Magill Book Reviews)
- The Comedy of Errors (Magill Book Reviews)
- Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (Magill Book Reviews)
- Henry IV, Part II (Magill Book Reviews)
- Henry V (Magill Book Reviews)
- Henry IV, Part I (Magill Book Reviews)
- Julius Caesar (Magill Book Reviews)
- King Lear (Magill Book Reviews)
- Macbeth (Magill Book Reviews)
- The Merchant of Venice (Magill Book Reviews)
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Magill Book Reviews)
- Much Ado About Nothing (Magill Book Reviews)
- Richard II (Magill Book Reviews)
- Richard III (Magill Book Reviews)
- Romeo and Juliet (Magill Book Reviews)
- Sonnets (Magill Book Reviews)
- Othello (Magill Book Reviews)
- The Taming of the Shrew (Magill Book Reviews)
- The Tempest (Magill Book Reviews)
- Twelfth Night (Magill Book Reviews)
- The Winter’s Tale (Magill Book Reviews)
- Measure for Measure (Magill Book Reviews)
- All's Well That Ends Well (Masterplots, Fourth Edition)
- Antony and Cleopatra (Masterplots, Fourth Edition)
- As You Like It (Masterplots, Fourth Edition)
- The Comedy of Errors (Masterplots, Fourth Edition)
- Henry VI, Part III (Masterplots, Fourth Edition)
- Coriolanus (Masterplots, Fourth Edition)
- Cymbeline (Masterplots, Fourth Edition)
- Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (Masterplots, Fourth Edition)
- Henry IV, Part I (Masterplots, Fourth Edition)
- Henry IV, Part II (Masterplots, Fourth Edition)
- Henry V (Masterplots, Fourth Edition)
- Henry VI, Part I (Masterplots, Fourth Edition)
- Henry VI, Part II (Masterplots, Fourth Edition)
- Henry VIII (Masterplots, Fourth Edition)
- Julius Caesar (Masterplots, Fourth Edition)
- King John (Masterplots, Fourth Edition)
- King Lear (Masterplots, Fourth Edition)
- Love's Labour's Lost (Masterplots, Fourth Edition)
- Macbeth (Masterplots, Fourth Edition)
- Measure for Measure (Masterplots, Fourth Edition)
- The Merchant of Venice (Masterplots, Fourth Edition)
- The Merry Wives of Windsor (Masterplots, Fourth Edition)
- Much Ado About Nothing (Masterplots, Fourth Edition)
- Pericles, Prince of Tyre (Masterplots, Fourth Edition)
- The Rape of Lucrece (Masterplots, Fourth Edition)
- Troilus and Cressida (Masterplots, Fourth Edition)
- Romeo and Juliet (Masterplots, Fourth Edition)
- Sonnets of Shakespeare (Masterplots, Fourth Edition)
- The Taming of the Shrew (Masterplots, Fourth Edition)
- The Tempest (Masterplots, Fourth Edition)
- Timon of Athens (Masterplots, Fourth Edition)
- Titus Andronicus (Masterplots, Fourth Edition)
- Twelfth Night (Masterplots, Fourth Edition)
- The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Masterplots, Fourth Edition)
- The Two Noble Kinsmen (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
- Venus and Adonis (Masterplots, Fourth Edition)
- A Midsummer Night's Dream (Masterplots, Fourth Edition)
- Richard III (Masterplots, Fourth Edition)
- The Winter's Tale (Masterplots, Fourth Edition)
- Richard II (Masterplots, Fourth Edition)
- Othello (Masterplots, Fourth Edition)
- The Two Noble Kinsmen (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
- Henry VI, Part II (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
- Love's Labour's Lost (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
- King John (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
- Othello (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
- Antony and Cleopatra (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
- The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
- Richard III (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
- As You Like It (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
- Cymbeline (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
- Henry VI, Part I (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
- Titus Andronicus (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
- A Midsummer Night's Dream (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
- Richard II (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
- The Comedy of Errors (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
- Henry V (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
- Sonnets of Shakespeare (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
- The Taming of the Shrew (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
- Julius Caesar (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
- Romeo and Juliet (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
- Timon of Athens (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
- Henry IV, Part II (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
- All's Well That Ends Well (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
- Troilus and Cressida (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
- Much Ado About Nothing (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
- Pericles, Prince of Tyre (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
- Twelfth Night (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
- Henry IV, Part I (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
- Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
- Coriolanus (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
- Henry VIII (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
- The Merry Wives of Windsor (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
- Henry VI, Part III (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
- Measure for Measure (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
- The Winter's Tale (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
- Macbeth (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
- The Tempest (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
- The Merchant of Venice (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
- King Lear (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
Biography
William Shakespeare, greatest of English poets and dramatists, was born at Stratford-upon-Avon in 1564 and died there in 1616. Biographical information about him is scant, and much must be inferred from brief references to him by his contemporaries and from various church and civil records and documents regarding performance of his plays. His parents were John and Mary Arden; his father was a respectable middle-class businessman. Young William Shakespeare probably attended grammar school in Stratford (a small city in western England), where he apparently received a...
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