*Shakespeare's biography* Shakespeare was born, to all appearance, on April 1564. ... John Shakespeare was a son of Richard Shakespeare, a rich and respected farmer. ... Shakespeare got married as a very young man. ... "The period of leir" (1604-1608) in which the feeling of tragic is stronger then in the last period: tragedies: Coriolanus, King Lear, Macbeth, Antony and Cleopatra, Timon of Athens; romantic drama: Pericles; 5. ... Shakespeare started his acting career in "The Theatre". ...

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To edit or not to edit If I were to direct William Shakespeare's The Tempest I would not change the location of Prospero's speech to the end. ... If I ever decided to direct this play I would really try to keep it, as Shakespeare would want the play to be. ... These marginal issues aside, The Tempest is the fourth, final, and the finest of Shakespeare's great and/or late romances. Along with Pericles, Cymbeline, and The Winter's Tale, The Tempest belongs to the genre of Elizabethan romance plays. ... The play challenges our senses and is self-consciously a performance o...

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William Shakespeare William Shakespeare, a man, a poet, a playwright, and an actor. ... Shakespeare's Childhood This is a portrait of Shakespeare at a later age. ... Shakespeare's father was John Shakespeare, who was a glove maker and a leather merchant. ... Shakespeare wrote Hamlet, Troilus and Cressida, All's Well That Ends Well, Measure for Measure, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth, Timon of Athens, Pericles, Antony and Cleopatra, and Coriolanus in this period. ... Shakespeare's Death Astonishingly, Shakespeare died on his birthday, April 23 of 1616. ...

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* * In the mid-fifth century, after rebuilding the ruins of the Acropolis, Pericles built a recital-hall or odeion to the east of the TDA. The Odeion of Pericles w as used for many purposes, one being the proagon, a ceremony in which the dramatic poets announced the titles of their plays and introduced their actors. ...

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HISTORY: in its broadest sense, is the story of humanity's past. It also refers to the recording of that past. The diverse sources of history include books, newspapers, printed documents, personal papers, and other archival records, artifacts, and oral accounts. Historians use this material to form coherent narratives and uncover linked sequences and patterns in past events. Most histories are concerned with causality, that is, why certain outcomes happened as they did, and how they are linked to earlier events. 1 Origins of Historical Writing In preliterate societies, the acc...

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