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  2. William Shakespeare - Wikipedia

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    William Shakespeare [a] (c. 23 [b] April 1564 – 23 April 1616) [c] was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. [3] [4] [5] He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon" (or simply "the Bard").

  3. David Farragut - Wikipedia

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    Coat of Arms of David Farragut. James Glasgow Farragut was born in 1801 to George Farragut (born Jordi Farragut Mesquida, 1755–1817), a Spanish Balearic merchant captain from the Mediterranean island of Menorca, and his wife Elizabeth (née Shine, 1765–1808), of North Carolina Scotch-Irish American descent, at Lowe's Ferry on the Holston River in Tennessee. [9]

  4. Complete Works of Shakespeare - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. List of works by William Shakespeare - Wikipedia

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    Shakespeare is thought to have written the following parts of this play: Act I, scenes 1–3; Act II, scene 1; Act III, scene 1; Act V, scene 1, lines 34–173, and scenes 3 and 4. [36] Summary Two close friends, Palamon and Arcite, are divided by their love of the same woman: Duke Theseus' sister-in-law Emelia.

  6. The Cambridge Shakespeare - Wikipedia

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    The New Shakespeare was published between 1921 and 1969. [1] The series was edited by Arthur Quiller-Couch and J. Dover Wilson. [1]The earlier volumes of the series contain critical introductions by Quiller-Couch (signed "Q") and written in a belles lettres style that, according to R. A. Foakes in The Oxford Handbook to Shakespeare (2003), have been "largely forgotten".

  7. Shakespeare Book That Was Over 100 Years Overdue Is Finally ...

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    The book, 'Shakespeare’s Life of King Henry the Fifth,' was last checked out in 1923. Google Maps. Paterson Free Public Library. In general, an overdue library book is a pretty common occurrence ...

  8. The Oxford Shakespeare - Wikipedia

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    The term "Oxford Shakespeare" also refers to Oxford University Press's editions of individual Shakespeare plays and poems. These individual editions follow the same principles as the Complete Works , but their editors are permitted to reject choices made for the Complete Works if they feel strongly; for example, David Bevington 's edition of ...

  9. The Passionate Pilgrim - Wikipedia

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    A Version of Longaville's sonnet to Maria in Love's Labour's Lost 4.3.58–71. 4 Unknown "Sweet Cytherea, sitting by a brook" On the theme of Venus and Adonis, as is Shakespeare's narrative poem. 5 William Shakespeare "If love make me forsworn, how shall I swear to love?" A version of Berowne's sonnet to Rosaline in Love's Labour's Lost 4.2.105 ...