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Megxit is a play on the term 'Brexit' and refers to Prince Harry and his wife Meghan stepping back as members of the British royal family.It derives from Meg(han) + (e)xit; influenced by Brexit, [33] which was the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community at the end of January 2020.
His date of birth is unknown but is traditionally observed on 23 April, Saint George's Day. [1] This date, which can be traced to William Oldys and George Steevens, has proved appealing to biographers because Shakespeare died on the same date in 1616. [4] [5] He was the third of eight children, and the eldest surviving son. [6]
Looney's Shakespeare Identified (1920) began the modern Oxfordian movement and made Oxford the most popular anti-Stratfordian candidate. By the beginning of the twentieth century other candidates, typically aristocrats, were put forward, most notably Roger Manners, 5th Earl of Rutland, and William Stanley, 6th Earl of Derby. [4]
Mainstream Shakespeare scholars maintain that biographical interpretations of literature are unreliable for attributing authorship, [10] and that the convergence of documentary evidence for Shakespeare's authorship—title pages, testimony by other contemporary poets and historians and official records—is the same as that for any other author ...
The source for the Roman history plays is Plutarch's Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Compared Together, in the translation made by Sir Thomas North in 1579. Shakespeare's historical plays focus on only a small part of the characters' lives, and also frequently omit significant events for dramatic purposes.
Shakespeare was born to William Shakespeare, Sr. and Lydia A. Markley in Kalamazoo, Michigan, in 1869. [1] He invented the level-winding fishing reel. [2] Shakespeare also founded and was one of the key people of Shakespeare Fishing Tackle, [3] which he founded in 1897, as a fisherman aiming to improve the fishing-reel mechanism.
The latter thought Middleton was second only to Shakespeare. [5] Middleton's plays were staged throughout the 20th century and into the 21st, each decade offering more productions than the last. Even some less familiar works of his have been staged: A Fair Quarrel at the National Theatre, and The Old Law by the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Little is known of Shakespeare's personal life, and some anti-Stratfordians take this as circumstantial evidence against his authorship. [37] Further, the lack of biographical information has sometimes been taken as an indication of an organised attempt by government officials to expunge all traces of Shakespeare, including perhaps his school records, to conceal the true author's identity.