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    The Family Shakespeare (at times titled The Family Shakspeare) is a collection of expurgated Shakespeare plays, edited by Thomas Bowdler and his sister...
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    Anne Shakespeare (née Hathaway; 1556 – 6 August 1623), commonly known as Anne Hathaway, was the wife of William Shakespeare, an English poet, playwright...
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    publishing The Family Shakespeare, an expurgated edition of William Shakespeare's plays edited by his sister Henrietta Maria Bowdler. The two sought a...
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    John Shakespeare (c. 1531 – 7 September 1601) was an English businessman and politician who was the father of William Shakespeare. Active in Stratford-upon-Avon...
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    William Shakespeare (c. 23 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English...
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    Hamnet Shakespeare (baptised 2 February 1585 – buried 11 August 1596) was the only son of William Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway, and the fraternal twin...
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    Shakespeare's plays are a canon of approximately 39 dramatic works written by the English poet, playwright, and actor William Shakespeare. The exact number...
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    Mary Shakespeare (née Arden; c. 1537 — September 1608) was the mother of William Shakespeare. Mary was born about 1536 in Wilmcote, the daughter of Robert...
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  • Shakespeare. She is the only member of the family whose known descendants continue down to the present day. Joan was Shakespeare's younger sister. She married a...
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    William Shakespeare was an actor, playwright, poet, and theatre entrepreneur in London during the late Elizabethan and early Jacobean eras. He was baptised...
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  • Abraham Lee Shakespeare (April 24, 1966 – c. April 7, 2009) was a casual laborer from the US who won a $30 million lottery jackpot in Florida, receiving...
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  • Shakespeare Wallah is a 1965 Merchant Ivory Productions film. The story and screenplay are by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, about a travelling family theatre...
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    Susanna Hall (née Shakespeare; baptised 26 May 1583 – 11 July 1649) was the oldest child of William Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway and the older sister of...
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  • Shakespeare in Love is a 1998 period romantic comedy film directed by John Madden, written by Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard, and produced by Harvey Weinstein...
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    The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice, often shortened to Othello (/ɒˈθɛloʊ/), is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare around 1603. Set in Venice...
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  • The Guinness Book of Records lists 410 feature-length film and TV versions of William Shakespeare's plays, making Shakespeare the most filmed author ever...
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  • Shakespeare is an English family name most commonly associated with William Shakespeare (1564–1616), an English playwright and poet. Other notable people...
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  • Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Investigators is a British drama mystery television series set in Stratford-upon-Avon and produced by BBC Birmingham....
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  • Thumbnail for List of works by William Shakespeare
    Shakespeare (1564–1616) was an English poet and playwright. He wrote approximately 39 plays and 154 sonnets, as well as a variety of other poems. The...
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    The Tempest is a play by William Shakespeare, probably written in 1610–1611, and thought to be one of the last plays that he wrote alone. After the first...
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    member of the session groups the Revolutionaries and the Aggrovators. Shakespeare grew up in East Kingston, Jamaica. He had a musical family, such that...
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    Shakespeare in the Park is a term for outdoor festivals featuring productions of William Shakespeare's plays. The term originated with the New York Shakespeare...
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  • used in wordplay by Shakespeare and other writers who have combined the vulgarism with the standard meaning of the noun, which means the act of piercing or...
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    books. The term derives from Thomas Bowdler's 1818 edition of William Shakespeare's plays, which he reworked in ways that he felt were more suitable for...
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    2985 Shakespeare (prov. designation: 1983 TV1) is a stony Koronian asteroid from the outer region of the asteroid belt. It was discovered on 12 October...
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    The Shakespeare authorship question is the argument that someone other than William Shakespeare of Stratford-upon-Avon wrote the works attributed to him...
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    In the First Folio, the plays of William Shakespeare were grouped into three categories: comedies, histories, and tragedies. The histories—along with...
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    William Shakespeare's sexuality has been the subject of frequent debates. It is known from public records that he married Anne Hathaway and had three children...
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    secret Catholic. Shakespeare and his immediate family were conforming members of the established Church of England. When Shakespeare was young, his father...
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    The Oxfordian theory of Shakespeare authorship contends that Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, wrote the plays and poems of William Shakespeare. While...
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