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The Duel Scene from 'Twelfth Night' by William Shakespeare, William Powell Frith (1842). In the First Folio, the plays of William Shakespeare were grouped into three categories: comedies, histories, and tragedies; [1] and modern scholars recognise a fourth category, romance, to describe the specific types of comedy that appear in Shakespeare's later works.
This is a list of translations of works by William Shakespeare. Each table is arranged alphabetically by the specific work, then by the language of the translation. Translations are then sub-arranged by date of publication (earliest-latest). Where possible, the date of publication given is the date of the first edition by that translator.
The Chandos portrait, believed to be Shakespeare, held in the National Portrait Gallery, London. William Shakespeare (1564–1616) [1] was an English poet and playwright. He wrote approximately 39 plays and 154 sonnets, as well as a variety of other poems. [note 1]
The Comedy of Errors is one of William Shakespeare's early plays. It is his shortest and one of his most farcical comedies, with a major part of the humour coming from slapstick and mistaken identity, in addition to puns and word play. It has been adapted for opera, stage, screen and musical theatre numerous times worldwide.
The Guinness Book of Records lists 410 feature-length film and TV versions of William Shakespeare ' s plays, making Shakespeare the most filmed author ever in any language. [1] [2] [3] As of November 2023, the Internet Movie Database lists Shakespeare as having writing credit on 1,800 films, including those under production but not yet released ...
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Translator Target language A. de Herz: Romanian: August Wilhelm Schlegel: German: Avraham Shlonsky: Hebrew [1]: Barbu Solacolu: Romanian [2]: Boris Pasternak: Russian ...
Adriana is the frequently angry wife of Antipholus of Ephesus in The Comedy of Errors. Don Adriano de Armado is an arrogant Spanish braggart in Love's Labour's Lost. Aediles (officers attending on the Tribunes) appear in Coriolanus. One is a speaking role. For Aegeon (or AEgeon or Ægeon) see Egeon. Aemelia is an abbess in The Comedy of Errors ...