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The 2004 AQA Anthology was a collection of poems and short texts. The anthology was split into several sections covering poems from other cultures, the poetry of Seamus Heaney, [4] Gillian Clarke, Carol Ann Duffy and Simon Armitage, and a bank of pre-1914 poems.
The Empress is a 2013 play by Tanika Gupta, commissioned by the Royal Shakespeare Company and premiered in Stratford upon Avon. It is now on the GCSE curriculum and appeared as an unseen drama extract in the 2014 Junior Certificate English examination. [1] [2] [3] [4]
The belief that Shakespeare may have written very little of 1 Henry VI first came from Edmond Malone in his 1790 edition of Shakespeare's plays, which included A Dissertation on the Three Parts of King Henry VI, in which he argued that the large number of classical allusions in the play was more characteristic of Nashe, Peele, or Greene than of ...
The Internet Shakespeare Editions is a non-profit organization that produces a website devoted to William Shakespeare and his works. The organization is an associate member of the Shakespeare Theatre Association of America, under the classification of theatre service provider, [1] and is supported by the University of Victoria and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare is the standard name given to any volume containing all the plays and poems of William Shakespeare.Some editions include several works that were not completely of Shakespeare's authorship (collaborative writings), such as The Two Noble Kinsmen, which was a collaboration with John Fletcher; Pericles, Prince of Tyre, the first two acts of which were ...
John Gielgud's 1935 version kept very close to Shakespeare's text and used Elizabethan costumes and staging to enhance the drama. In the 20th and into the 21st century, the play has been adapted to film in versions as diverse as George Cukor 's Romeo and Juliet (1936), Franco Zeffirelli 's Romeo and Juliet (1968), Baz Luhrmann 's Romeo + Juliet ...
The Chandos portrait, believed to be Shakespeare, held in the National Portrait Gallery, London. William Shakespeare (1564–1616) [1] was an English poet and playwright. He wrote approximately 39 plays and 154 sonnets, as well as a variety of other poems. [note 1]
The Plays of William Shakespeare was an 18th-century edition of the dramatic works of William Shakespeare, edited by Samuel Johnson and George Steevens. Johnson announced his intention to edit Shakespeare's plays in his Miscellaneous Observations on Macbeth (1745), and a full Proposal for the edition was published in 1756.