Peter j williamson biography of william shakespeare
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Shakespeare
Shakespeare's Immediate Afterlife
The English author William Shakespeare (&#;)[]wrote poetry (sonnets and narrative poems) as well as 38 plays &#; 39 if one includes Double Falsehood,that is, Lewis Theobald's (&#;) reconstruction of a lost play, which was based on Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra's (&#;)Don Quixote and originally entitled Cardenio. Shakespeare seems to have been a voracious reader as he mused on books by great European writers in order to feed his drama. The geography of Renaissance Europe he alluded to in his plays was often synonymous with escape for characters in quest of identity, be they heroes or villains.
Ever since the age of Queen Elizabeth I (&#;), Shakespeare has been dominating European literature for almost four centuries, and John Heminges (&#;) and Henry Condell (died ) remain well-known as the joint editors of Shakespeare's posthumous First Folio edition in Three other Folio editions with his works appeared in , , and , becoming each time less and less reliable.
Performances of Shakespeare's plays on the Continent date back to his lifetime. Records mention touring productions of German adaptations of Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet as early as in the first decade of the 17th century. Very early on, English companies had al
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