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William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare (1564–1616) was an English playwright, poet, actor, and shareholder in the theatrical company that became the King’s Men. His comedies, histories, tragedies, and sonnets—including Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth, Othello, and the 154-sonnet sequence—have had an extraordinary influence on theatre, literature, and the English language.

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  1. poetry

    Shakespeare's Sonnets

    This text focuses exclusively on contemporary criticism of Shakespeare's Sonnets. Aprroaches range from new historicism to the new bibliography, from formalism to feminism, from recept to history to cultural materialism.

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