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What Shakespeare revealed about the chaotic reign of Richard III – and why the play still resonates in the age of Donald Trump
Written around 1592, William Shakespeare’s play “Richard III” follows the reign of England’s infamous monarch and charts the ...
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A Bill’s debts
How Early Modern Playwrights Shaped the World’s Greatest Writer,” by Darren Freebury-Jones.
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William Shakespeare
The next documented event in Shakespeare’s life is his marriage at the age of 18 to Anne Hathaway, the daughter of a local farmer, on November 28, 1582. She was eight years older than him and ...
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How Shakespeare Inspired ‘The Lion King’ and 9 Other Classic Titles
Despite his death centuries ago, legendary English playwright William Shakespeare’s unyielding influence on contemporary film, television, and media is nearly impossible to overstate.