What historians have pieced together about the real Hamnet Shakespeare

Though little is known about the life of William Shakespeare's only son, historians say his premature death may have shaped ...
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Shakespeare's Cousin, Thomas Greene, and His Kin: Possible Light on the Shakespeare Family Background

PMLA is the journal of the Modern Language Association of America. Since 1884, PMLA has published members' essays judged to be of interest to scholars and teachers of language and literature. Four ...
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Background on Shakespeare

Shakespeare was born around 23 April 1564 at Stratford-on-Avon. He moved a hundred miles away to London in his early twenties, where he wrote 37 or 38 extant plays and some poetry that has established ...
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The Operatic Character of Background Music in Film Adaptations of Shakespeare

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information Shakespeare Quarterly (SQ) is a leading journal in Shakespeare studies, publishing highly original, rigorously researched essays, ...
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Shakespeare in just the right doses for students and actors

KEENE, N.H. Shakespeare -- About 50 years ago, a series of "Introductions to Shakespeare" was filmed in Great Britain. Each tape ran about 28-30 minutes, and most of them were dedicated to single play ...