SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM°

SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM° — (1564–1616), English playwright and poet. The Merchant of Venice (1596) has been claimed as the play in which Shakespeare found himself in the fullest sense. As with other major comedies of his so called second period, the main emphasis was to… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

Shakespeare, William — Shakespeare, William. Nicht länger vermocht es Orpheus, der thrakische Sänger, seine heiße Sehnsucht nach Eurydicen zu ertragen. Wohl lächelten die Blumen, der Himmel und die Fluren wie sonst; melodisch ertönten die Saiten seiner Lyra, und bei… …   Damen Conversations Lexikon

Shakespeare, William — (baptized April 26, 1564, Stratford upon Avon, Warwickshire, Eng. died April 23, 1616, Stratford upon Avon) British poet and playwright, often considered the greatest writer in world literature. He spent his early life in Stratford upon Avon,… …   Universalium

SHAKESPEARE, William — (1564 1616) William Shakespeare was one of early modern England s most successful and celebrated playwrights, and since the eighteenth century he has often been re­garded as England s, perhaps the modern world s, greatest writer. There is… …   Renaissance and Reformation 1500-1620: A Biographical Dictionary

Shakespeare, William — (1564 1616)    England s greatest drama tist. The son of a successful merchant and alderman of Stratford on Avon, he was educated in the excellent local school and learned enough Latin to become familiar with many classical authors, but he never… …   Historical Dictionary of Renaissance

Shakespeare, William — (1564 1616)    Dramatist and poet, b. at Stratford on Avon, Warwickshire, on 22nd or 23rd, and baptised on 26th April, 1564. On his father s side he belonged to a good yeoman stock, though his descent cannot be certainly traced beyond his… …   Short biographical dictionary of English literature

Shakespeare, William — (1564 1616)    Playwright. Shakespeare s significance in the German theater has been and remains unique; many have gone so far as to argue that Shakespeare is a national playwright whose status equals that of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Johann… …   Historical dictionary of German Theatre

SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM —    great world poet and dramatist, born in Stratford on Avon, in Warwickshire; his father, John Shakespeare, a respected burgess; his mother, Mary Arden, the daughter of a well to do farmer, through whom the family acquired some property; was at… …   The Nuttall Encyclopaedia

Shakespeare, William — (1564–1616)    English playwright and poet. Shakespeare made a Jew a leading character in one of his plays, The Merchant of Venice, which was produced in 1597– 8. This may have been prompted by the success of Marlowe’s Jew of Malta. The Jew in… …   Who’s Who in Jewish History after the period of the Old Testament

Shakespeare, William — ► (1564 1616) Poeta y autor dramático inglés. Pintó con verdad emocionante y gran energía todos los sentimientos y todas las pasiones, con la potente libertad del genio. Su producción se divide en los siguientes géneros: comedias, como El sueño… …   Enciclopedia Universal

Shakespeare, William —    See Henry VI, Part 1; Henry VI, Part 2; Henry VI, Part 3; Richard III; Shakespeare and the Wars of the Roses …   Encyclopedia of the Wars of the Roses