King LearPenguin UK, 2005 M04 7 - 368 pages 'The most perfect specimen of the dramatic art existing in the world' Percy Bysshe Shelley |
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... there are common factors that underpin Shakespeare's career. Nothing in his heredity offers clues to the origins of his genius. His upbringing in Stratford-upon-Avon, where he was born in 1564, was unexceptional. His mother, born Mary ...
... there are common factors that underpin Shakespeare's career. Nothing in his heredity offers clues to the origins of his genius. His upbringing in Stratford-upon-Avon, where he was born in 1564, was unexceptional. His mother, born Mary ...
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... reputation, and when King James I succeeded Queen Elizabeth I in 1603 they were renamed as the King's Men. All the women's parts were played by boys; there is no evidence that any female role was ever played by a male actor over the age of.
... reputation, and when King James I succeeded Queen Elizabeth I in 1603 they were renamed as the King's Men. All the women's parts were played by boys; there is no evidence that any female role was ever played by a male actor over the age of.
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... there are far more fathers than mothers, sons than daughters, in his plays, few if any of which require more than the company's normal complement of three or four boys. The company played primarily in London's public playhouses – there ...
... there are far more fathers than mothers, sons than daughters, in his plays, few if any of which require more than the company's normal complement of three or four boys. The company played primarily in London's public playhouses – there ...
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... there must have been written by that year. The chronology of the early plays is particularly difficult to establish. Not everyone would agree that the first part of Henry VI was written after the third, for instance, or Romeo and Juliet ...
... there must have been written by that year. The chronology of the early plays is particularly difficult to establish. Not everyone would agree that the first part of Henry VI was written after the third, for instance, or Romeo and Juliet ...
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... domain, where he cares for a vulnerable old man. Countless more parallels could be drawn, not only between Lear and As You Like It, but also between Lear and many more of Shakespeare's plays than there is room to mention here. But.
... domain, where he cares for a vulnerable old man. Countless more parallels could be drawn, not only between Lear and As You Like It, but also between Lear and many more of Shakespeare's plays than there is room to mention here. But.
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