The Globe was built during Shakespeare's early period in 1599 by one of his long-standing associates, Cuthbert Burbage, the brother of the most famous Shakespearean actor of the Elizabethan Age, Richard Burbage." ... However, is learning that Shakespeare's theater company performed his plays at the Globe Theatre or memorizing Hamlet's "To be or not to be" speech going to make America's students any more prepared to defend the country, design buildings that stand up to natural disasters, create improved technology, or research cures for cancer? ...

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The Shakespearean authorship controversy has continued for over 300 years; yet with a multitude of scholars on both sides their respective research has not made clear the muddy waters of suspicious uncertainty. The conspiracy theorists, called the Oxfordians versus the Shakespearean traditional historian loyalists each provide compelling points of circumstantial evidence from the Elizabethan days of the sixteenth and seventeenth century. ... The "Beginner's Guide" emphasizes several factors regarding Shakespeare: the dating process of when events occurred based upon what was mentioned i...

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If it was not for the "binding industry" for discovering a method for affordable paper and the abolishment of taxes on paper then the spread of Shakespeare wouldn't have existed among the Elizabethans. ... In the Elizabethan era, the theatre was the most popular attraction in Britain and theaters were heavily controlled by affluent people and government laws for the decision of who and what can be performed. ... Thus, he was careful not to overindulge the sexual parts in his plays because in the Elizabethan era, originally he had only male actors. ...

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