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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.
Arms of Geoffrey Chaucer: Per pale argent and gules, a bend counterchanged. Chaucer was born in London, most likely in the early 1340s (by some accounts, including his monument, he was born in 1343), though the precise date and location remain unknown.
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.
This situates the date of composition as somewhere between 1589 and 1591, by which time it is known Shakespeare was working on the Henry VI plays. [ 14 ] [ 15 ] In his 2008 edition of the play for the Oxford Shakespeare, Roger Warren, following E. A. J. Honigmann, suggests Shakespeare may have written the play before he arrived in London ...
It is more likely that his birth was in either the season of spring or perhaps summer. Although the Common Era ostensibly counts the years since the birth of Jesus, [217] it is unlikely that he was born in either AD 1 or 1 BC, as such a numbering system would imply. Modern historians estimate a date closer to between 6 BC and 4 BC. [218]
The above tables exclude Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus (composed c. 1589, revised c. 1593), which is not closely based on Roman history or legend but which, it has been suggested, may have been written in reply to Marlowe's Dido, Queene of Carthage, Marlowe's play presenting an idealised picture of Rome's origins, Shakespeare's "a terrible ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 30 January 2025. The Chandos portrait, believed to be Shakespeare, held in the National Portrait Gallery, London William Shakespeare was an actor, playwright, poet, and theatre entrepreneur in London during the late Elizabethan and early Jacobean eras. He was baptised on 26 April 1564 [a] in Stratford ...
December 9 – Fabian Birkowski, Polish writer and preacher (born 1566) Unknown dates. Henning Arnisaeus, German political theorist and philosopher (born 1570) Johannes Messenius, Swedish dramatist and historian (born 1579) Cesare Rinaldi, Italian poet (born 1559) Wen Zhenmeng (文震孟), Chinese artist and author (born 1574) Probable date