... hasn't stopped him from being a major Hollywood player. Check out just a couple of movies based on Shakespeare's plays: * Romeo and Juliet, starring Leonardo Dicaprio and Claire Danes. * Ten Things I Hate About You (based on the Taming of The Shrew), starring Heath Ledger and Julia Stiles. * Macbeth, starring Mel Gibson. * O (based on Othello), starring Josh Hartnett. William Shakespeare - Did ... they died before she did. Shakespeare's last direct descendant, his granddaughter, Elizabeth, died in 1670. The Anti-Stratfordians Through the years, the facts of Shakespeare's life have been c...

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... beyond what was considered typical writing in the 16th and 17th centuries. Most of Shakespeare's works in the first period were chronicle history plays. These were basically plays based on facts chronicling the life of a person, or in the case of Shakespeare, most likely a king. The first period was also characterized by Shakespeare's plays concerning the Lancastrian and Yorkist kings. This allowed Shakespeare's ... . Shakespeare's characters encompassed humanity. Earlier this year, I read 'Othello' in English class. Although the language was difficult to understand, the book was a capti...

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