Shakespeare Definition–noun | William, 1564–1616, English poet and dramatist. | |
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Biography Definition–noun, plural -phies. | 1. | a written account of another person's life: the biography of Byron by Marchand. | | 2. | an account in biographical form of an organization, society, theater, animal, etc. | | 3. | such writings collectively. | | 4. | the writing of biography as an occupation or field of endeavor. | |
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Related topics from BritannicaShakespeare, William
The following are especially informative and up-to-date: S. Schoenbaum, William Shakespeare: A Documentary Life (1975), and William Shakespeare: Records and Images (1981); Richard Dutton, William ...
humanism
The poetry and drama of Shakespeare's time were a concourse of themes, ancient and modern, continental and English. Prominent among these motives were the characteristic topics of humanism. George ...
Strindberg, (Johan) August
Axel Johan Uppvall, August Strindberg (1920, reprinted 1970), a psychoanalytic study; Erik Heden, Strindberg en ledtrad vid studient av hans verk (1921); Martin Lamm, Strindbergs dramer, 2 vol. ...
Rowe, Nicholas
English writer who was the first to attempt a critical edition of the works of Shakespeare. Rowe succeeded Nahum Tate as poet laureate in 1715 and was also the foremost 18th-century English tragic ...
Ludwig, Emil
German writer internationally known for his many popular biographies.Fitton, Mary
English lady considered by some to be the still-mysterious "dark lady" of William Shakespeare's sonnets, though her authenticated biography does not suggest acquaintance with him. The identification ...
Freudian criticism
literary criticism that uses the psychoanalytic theory of Sigmund Freud to interpret a work in terms of the known psychological conflicts of its author or, conversely, to construct the author's ...
Rowse, A.L.
English historian and writer who became one of the 20th century's foremost authorities on Elizabethan England.tragedy
Shakespeare was a long time coming to his tragic phase, the six or seven years that produced his five greatest tragedies, Hamlet (c. 1601), Othello (c. 1602), King Lear (c. 1605), Macbeth (c. 1605), ...
biography
In the United States, Great Britain, and the rest of the Western world generally, biography today enjoys a moderate popular and critical esteem. In the year 1929, at the height of the biographical ...
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