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    the relative chronology of Shakespeare's oeuvre by various means, using external evidence (such as references to the plays by Shakespeare's contemporaries...
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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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    since the generally accepted chronology of Shakespeare's plays places the composition of approximately twelve of the plays after that date. Oxfordians...
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    Shakespeare Early texts of Shakespeare's works Shakespeare's late romances Shakespeare plays in quarto Shakespearean problem play Translations of works by William...
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    John F., Shakespeare's Doctrine of Nature (London, 1949) Leggatt, Alexander, Shakespeare's Political Drama: The History Plays and the Roman Plays (London...
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    Edmond Malone (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature)
    himself to the study of Shakespearean chronology, and the results of his "An Attempt to Ascertain the Order in Which the Plays Attributed to Shakspeare...
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  • Anonymous (film) (category Oxfordian theory of Shakespeare authorship)
    Edward's time, despite Shakespeare's claim to his plays, Edward continues to provide Ben with plays which quickly become the thrill of London. Despite their...
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  • Shakespeare's sources and the order of the plays' composition. (See Chronology of Shakespeare's plays.) 1744, Thomas Hanmer; quarto, 6 volumes. Hanmer relied on...
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    It is thought to be Shakespeare's first tragedy and is often seen as his attempt to emulate the violent and bloody revenge plays of his contemporaries...
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    Gary (1987). "The Canon and Chronology of Shakespeare's Plays". In Wells, Stanley W.; Taylor, Gary (eds.). William Shakespeare, a textual companion. Norton...
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    three centuries after Shakespeare's death, the scholar F. S. Boas also coined a fifth category, the "problem play," for plays that do not fit neatly...
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    content of Shakespeare's plays and the political context in which they would have been written. He concludes that the consensus play chronology is roughly...
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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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    text of Shakespeare. Johnson began reading Shakespeare's plays and poetry when he was a young boy. He would involve himself so closely with the plays that...
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    quarto plays (The Two Noble Kinsmen and Pericles, Prince of Tyre) which are not included in the Folio but generally recognised to be Shakespeare's own....
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  • July 2019. Mabillard, Amanda (20 August 2000). "The Chronology of Shakespeare's Plays". Shakespeare online. Archived from the original on 2 August 2014...
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    associated with William Shakespeare. It was built in 1599 at Southwark, close to the south bank of the Thames, by Shakespeare's playing company, the Lord Chamberlain's...
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    Network, about the evidence of Shakespeare's Catholicism. Beauregard, David (2008). Catholic Theology in Shakespeare's Plays. Newark: U Delaware P. ISBN 978-0-87413-002-7...
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    (1997) [1987]. "The Canon and Chronology of Shakespeare's Plays". In Wells, Stanley; Taylor, Gary (eds.). William Shakespeare: A Textual Companion (Revised ed...
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    a group of William Shakespeare's history plays depicting the rise of the English kings. It is sometimes used to refer to a group of four plays (a tetralogy)...
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    non-dramatic works, not Shakespeare's, a view to which Foster conceded. Chronology of Shakespeare's plays Early texts of Shakespeare's works Higher criticism...
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  • Nineteen of William Shakespeare's plays first appeared in quarto before the publication of the First Folio in 1623, eighteen of those before his death...
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  • Caravaggio Chronology of Shakespeare's plays (1589–1614) Timeline of Lord Byron (1788–1824) Timeline of Niccolò Machiavelli (1469–1527) Timeline of Mary Wollstonecraft...
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    Men, the London playing company that produced all of Shakespeare's plays. In addition to plays, poems were published under Shakespeare's name. The collection...
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    Characters of Shakespear's Plays is an 1817 book of criticism of Shakespeare's plays, written by early nineteenth century English essayist and literary...
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    times, seeing multiple of Shakespeare's plays. He heralded Shakespeare as a writer of genius. He was the main promoter of Shakespeare's works in France, and...
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    E. A. J. Honigmann (category Alumni of the University of Glasgow)
    University of Glasgow 1944-48. He gained his BLitt working on a study of the chronology of Shakespeare's plays, under the supervision of J. C. Maxwell...
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    under the assumed name of William Shakespeare. Academic consensus rejects alternative candidates for authorship of Shakespeare's plays and sonnets, including...
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    and Adonis appeared in print before any of Shakespeare's plays were published, but not before some of his plays had been acted on stage. It has certain qualities...
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    disreputable entertainments by some contemporaries. Some of Shakespeare's plays, particularly the history plays, were reprinted frequently in cheap quarto (i.e...
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