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• Shakespeare —   [ ʃeːkspiːr, englisch ʃeɪkspɪə], William, englischer Dramatiker, Schauspieler und Dichter, * Stratford upon Avon 23. 4. (getauft 26. 4.) 1564, ✝ ebenda 23. 4. 1616. Shakespeare selbst unterschrieb mit Shak(e)spere oder Shak(e)speare; die… …   Universal-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

• Great Books — refers to a curriculum and a book list. Mortimer Adler lists three criteria for including a book on the list:* the book has contemporary significance; that is, it has relevance to the problems and issues of our times; * the book is inexhaustible; …   Wikipedia

• 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

• The Conspiracy and Tragedy of Charles, Duke of Byron — The Conspiracy and Tragedy of Charles, Duke of Byron, Marshall of France is a Jacobean tragedy by George Chapman, a two part play or double play first performed and published in 1608. GenreThe two plays that comprise the larger work, The… …   Wikipedia

• The Theatre —     The Theatre     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► The Theatre     Considering the tone of what is preserved to us of the works of the Greek tragedians and even of the comedies of Plautus and Terence, it seems at first difficult to understand the… …   Catholic encyclopedia

• The Hobbit — ] the narrative voice contributes significantly to the success of the novel, and the story is, therefore, often read aloud. [cite web |url=http://www.cliffsnotes.com/WileyCDA/LitNote/The Hobbit Critical Essays Major Themes.id 171,pageNum 68.html… …   Wikipedia

• The Merchant of Venice — This article is about Shakespeare s play. For other uses, see The Merchant of Venice (disambiguation). The Merchant of Venice Title page of the first quarto of Merchant of Venice (1600) …   Wikipedia