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The Death of Shakespeare

What Did Shakespeare Sound Like?

Facsimile of one of William Henry Ireland's forgeries, a primitive self-portrait of William Shakespeare(tinted engraving). Published for Samuel Ireland, Norfolk Street, Strand, December 1, 1795. (W.H. Ireland, forgery)

The Time a Law Clerk Successfully Forged a New Shakespeare Play to Impress His Dad

poem. A poet in a Heian period kimono writes Japanese poetry during the Kamo Kyokusui No En Ancient Festival at Jonan-gu shrine on April 29, 2013 in Kyoto, Japan. Festival of Kyokusui-no Utage orignated in 1,182, party Heian era (794-1192).

World Poetry Day

Scene from the motion picture "Romeo and Juliet" with Olivia Hussey (Juliet) and Leonard Whiting (Romeo), 1968; directed by Franco Zeffirelli.

All the World’s a Stage: 6 Places in Shakespeare, Then and Now

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Why Do We Eat Turkey on Thanksgiving?

Why Is Ireland Two Countries?

Los Angeles Police Department wanted flyer on Elizabeth Short, aka the "Black Dahlia," who was brutally murdered in January 1947. The FBI supported the Los Angeles Police Department in the case, including by identifying Short through her fingerprints that

America’s 5 Most Notorious Cold Cases (Including One You May Have Thought Was Already Solved)

Santa Claus flying in his sleigh, christmas, reindeer

Was Santa Claus a Real Person?

The Cheshire Cat is a fictional cat from Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. (Alice in Wonderland)

11 Banned Books Through Time

A Factory Interior, watercolor, pen and gray ink, graphite, and white goache on wove paper by unknown artist, c. 1871-91; in the Yale Center for British Art. Industrial Revolution England

Inventors and Inventions of the Industrial Revolution

An ancient egyptian hieroglyphic painted carving showing the falcon headed god Horus seated on a throne and holding a golden fly whisk. Before him are the Pharoah Seti and the goddess Isis. Interior wall of the temple to Osiris at Abydos, Egypt.

11 Egyptian Gods and Goddesses

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Also Known As	John Dover Wilson
Born	July 13, 1881 • London • England
Died	January 15, 1969 (aged 87) • Scotland
Subjects Of Study	William Shakespeare

Alexander Pope

English author

Charles Lamb

British author

Charles Clarke, detail of a portrait by an unknown artist; in the National Portrait Gallery, London

Charles Cowden Clarke

English editor and critic

A.C. Bradley

British critic and scholar

George Steevens

English Shakespearean commentator

Helen Archibald Clarke

American writer and editor

Stephen Greenblatt

American scholar

August Wilhelm von Schlegel

German scholar and critic

Tieck, detail of an oil painting by K. Vogel von Vogelstein, 1834; in the National Gallery, Berlin

Ludwig Tieck

German writer

Georg Brandes

Danish writer

Tsubouchi Shōyō

Japanese author

Edmond Malone

British scholar and editor

Otto Ludwig

German writer

Johann Elias Schlegel

German author and critic

Edward Dowden

Irish critic

David Garrick

English actor, poet, and producer

William Charles Macready

English actor

John Gielgud

British actor and director

William Kempe

British actor

Robert Armin

English actor

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