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  1. www.ft.com › content › 4683a04b-c705/4149/8420-2c1600cccc54The 28 greatest Shakespeare mysteries - Financial Times

    May 31, 2024 · Historically, Sir John Oldcastle was a battle companion of Henry V; he was executed for leading a revolt against the king. In Shakespeare’s draft of Henry IV Part I, Falstaff was called Oldcastle.

  2. www.biography.com › authors-writers › william-shakespeareWilliam Shakespeare: Biography, Playwright, Poet

    Apr 2, 2024 · William Shakespeare was an English poet, playwright, and actor of the Renaissance era. He was an important member of the King’s Men theatrical company from roughly 1594 onward.

  3. www.britannica.com › art › English-literatureEnglish literature - Shakespeare, Plays, Poetry | Britannica

    May 22, 2024 · Shakespeare is unequaled as poet and intellect, but he remains elusive. His capacity for assimilation—what the poet John Keats called his “negative capability”—means that his work is comprehensively accommodating; every attitude or ideology finds its resemblance there yet also finds itself subject to criticism and interrogation.

  4. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Shakespeare_authorship_questionShakespeare authorship question - Wikipedia

    Jul 5, 2024 · Shakespeare's father, John Shakespeare, was a glover (glove-maker) and town official. He married Mary Arden, one of the Ardens of Warwickshire, a family of the local gentry. Both signed their names with a mark, and no other examples of their writing are extant.

  5. www.ft.com › content › a05d7f23-ac7d-42e4-9bb3-030ff95b0b20Who was Shakespeare? - Financial Times

    Jun 1, 2024 · Shakespeare “could have”, “might have”, “must have”, “probably”, “surely”, “undoubtedly”, his biographers muse. “Let us imagine,” begins Harvard professor Stephen Greenblatt in his book Will in...

  6. library-guides.ucl.ac.uk › english › ShakespeareShakespeare - English - Guides and databases at University...

    May 28, 2024 · The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare is the most comprehensive reference work available on Shakespeare's life, times, works, and his 400-year global legacy. In addition to the A-Z entries, it includes illustrations, a chronology, a guide to further reading, a thematic contents list, and special feature entries on each of Shakespeare's ...

  7. www.jstor.org › stable › infoJohn Shakespeare: A Papist or Just Penniless?

    Dec 19, 2023 · There are many accounts of John Shakespeare's early career, and only a bare outline need be given here. John Shakespeare, born probably in the late 1520s, was the son of a well-to-do husbandman, Richard Shakespeare of Snitterfield. In April 1552, he was living, or at least held property, in Stratford, where he was fined for

  8. academic.oup.com › sq › article-abstractJohn Shakespeare’s Muckhill: Ecologies, Economies, and...

    Feb 22, 2024 · The first record of John Shakespeare in Stratford-upon-Avon puts him in relation to a larger community. Likely in his early twenties and a transplant from

  9. playonshakespeare.orgHome - Play On Shakespeare - Try it in Translation

    Jun 6, 2024 · Play On Shakespeare is a non-profit company promoting and creating contemporary modern verse translations of Shakespeare's plays.

  10. www.bellshakespeare.com.auBell Shakespeare | Home of Bell Shakespeare

    Jun 6, 2024 · We are Australia’s national theatre company specialising in the works of William Shakespeare, his contemporaries and other classics.