The Poems: Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece, The Phoenix and the Turtle, The Passionate Pilgrim, A Lover's Complaint | Its plaque compares him to , , and |
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Hamnet died of unknown causes at the age of 11 and was buried 11 August 1596 | Some scholars see the bequest as an insult to Anne, whereas others believe that the second-best bed would have been the matrimonial bed and therefore rich in significance |
Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear and Macbeth.
6On 29 June, however, a cannon set fire to the thatch of the Globe and burned the theatre to the ground, an event which pinpoints the date of a Shakespeare play with rare precision | In 1599, two early drafts of sonnets 138 and 144 appeared in , published under Shakespeare's name but without his permission |
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No evidence suggests that Shakespeare approved these editions, which the First Folio describes as "stol'n and surreptitious copies" | Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human |
The 26 so-called sonnets, addressed to a married woman, are taken as evidence of heterosexual liaisons.
Shakespeare continued to visit London during the years 1611—1614 | Extant records of Shakespeare's property purchases and investments indicate that his association with the company made him a wealthy man, and in 1597, he bought the second-largest house in Stratford, , and in 1605, invested in a share of the parish in Stratford |
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, BBC Radio 4 discussion with Katherine Duncan-Jones, John Sutherland and Grace Ioppolo In Our Time, 15 March 2001 | Sometime between 1585 and 1592, he began a successful career in London as an actor, writer, and part-owner of a called the , later known as the |
"Critical Approaches to Shakespeare from 1660 to 1904".
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