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  2. List of translations of works by William Shakespeare - Wikipedia

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    Macbeth : treurspel in vijf bedriven: Leendert Alexander Johannes Burgersdijk S-'Gravenhague: 1882 47793313 HaithiTrust: Estonian Macbeth: Ants Oras: Tartu: 1929 924542477 The Merchant of Venice: Māori Te Tangata Whai-rawa o Wēniti: Pei Te Hurinui Jones: Palmerston North: 1946 154127770 The Merchant of Venice: Swahili Mabepari wa Venisi ...

  3. Between you and I - Wikipedia

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    "Between you and I" occurs in act 3, scene 2, of The Merchant of Venice, in a letter written in prose by Antonio, the titular character, to his friend Bassanio: [4] ...

  4. The Merchant of Venice - Wikipedia

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    The Merchant of Venice is a play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1596 and 1598.A merchant in Venice named Antonio defaults on a large loan taken out on behalf of his dear friend, Bassanio, and provided by a Jewish moneylender, Shylock, with seemingly inevitable fatal consequences.

  5. Macbeth (Verdi) - Wikipedia

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    [13] With the addition of music for Lady Macbeth, Macbeth's aria in Act 3 was completely re-written—as was a considerable amount of the rest of Act 3; a ballet was added in Act 3; a newly composed chorus to an old text began Act 4; and the ending of Act 4 was also changed, Verdi, being determined to drop Macbeth's final aria Mal per me che m ...

  6. Biblical allusions in Shakespeare - Wikipedia

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    (3.181). In 2.3.14–23 Shakespeare expands that statement into a passage that contains at least three biblical references:” 2.3.15: Thy brother’s blood the thirsty earth hath drunk. (Genesis 4.10–11) 2.3.17: And in the very pangs of death he cried. (Compare 2 Samuel 22.5)

  7. BBC Television Shakespeare - Wikipedia

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    The second season had been set to cover power (King Richard the Second, The First Part of King Henry the Fourth, The Tragedy of Richard III, The Taming of the Shrew, Macbeth and Julius Caesar), with the third looking at revenge (The Merchant of Venice, Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, The Winter's Tale, The Tempest and Othello).

  8. Shakespearean fool - Wikipedia

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    [2] [3] After Kempe left the troupe, Shakespeare's comic characters changed dramatically. Kempe was known for his improvising, and Hamlet contains a complaint at improvisational clowning (Act 3, Scene 2). [3] Perhaps central to the Bard's redrawing of the fool was the actor Robert Armin: ... Shakespeare created a whole series of domestic fools ...

  9. Shakespeare's influence on Tolkien - Wikipedia

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    J. R. R. Tolkien, a philologist and medievalist as well as a fantasy author, recorded that he disliked William Shakespeare's work. [1] In a letter, he wrote of his "bitter disappointment and disgust from schooldays of the shabby use made in Shakespeare [in Macbeth] of the coming of 'Great Birnam wood to high Dunsinane hill'".