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  2. Romeo and Juliet - Wikipedia

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    Watercolor by John Masey Wright of Act II, Scene ii (the balcony scene). In the later balcony scene, Shakespeare has Romeo overhear Juliet's soliloquy, but in Brooke's version of the story, her declaration is done alone. By bringing Romeo into the scene to eavesdrop, Shakespeare breaks from the normal sequence of courtship.

  3. List of works by William Shakespeare - Wikipedia

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    Shakespeare is thought to have written Act I, scenes i and ii; II, ii and iv; III, ii, lines 1–203 (to exit of King); V, i. King John: 1595–1598 [42] First known performance at Covent Garden Theatre on 26 February 1737 but doubtlessly performed as early as the 1590s. Richard II: Richard III: Around 1593. [43] First published in a quarto in ...

  4. List of Shakespearean scenes - Wikipedia

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    A room in Macbeth's castle. 92 II 1 The court of Macbeth's castle. 72 II 2 The court of Macbeth's castle. 87 II 3 The court of Macbeth's castle. 167 II 4 Outside Macbeth's castle. 52 III 1 Forres. The palace. 156 III 2 Forres. The palace. 61 III 3 Forres. A park near the palace. 32 III 4 A room of state in the palace. 168 III 5 A heath. 37 III ...

  5. SparkNotes - Wikipedia

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    In January 2003, SparkNotes developed a practice test service called SparkNotes Test Prep. This project was followed by the release of SparkCharts, reference sheets that summarize a topic; No Fear Shakespeare, transcriptions of Shakespeare's plays into modern language; and No Fear Literature, transcriptions of literary classics like The ...

  6. Macbeth - Wikipedia

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    The three witches discuss the raising of winds at sea in the opening lines of Act 1 Scene 3. [6] Macbeth has been compared to Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra. As characters, both Antony and Macbeth seek a new world, even at the cost of the old one. Both fight for a throne and have a 'nemesis' to face to achieve that throne.

  7. On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth - Wikipedia

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    At the scene of his first act of butchery, a servant arrived at the house and knocked while he was still inside. The writer realizes murder is a "coarse and vulgar horror" when appreciated from the victim's perspective. In order to fully understand it, we must sympathize with the murderer, which is precisely what Shakespeare does in Macbeth.

  8. Shakespeare's plays - Wikipedia

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    Cymbeline – The Yale Shakespeare suggests that a collaborator may have been responsible for parts or all of act III, scene 7, and act V, scene 2; Edward III – Brian Vickers concluded that the play was 40% Shakespeare and 60% Thomas Kyd. Henry VI, Part 1 – Some scholars argue that Shakespeare wrote less than 20% of the text.

  9. First Folio - Wikipedia

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    Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies is a collection of plays by William Shakespeare, commonly referred to by modern scholars as the First Folio, [a] published in 1623, about seven years after Shakespeare's death. It is considered one of the most influential books ever published.