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    contemporary physical description of William Shakespeare is known to exist. The two portraits of him that are the most famous (both of which may be posthumous)...
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    three-and-a-half-year study of portraits purported to be of Shakespeare and concluded that the Chandos portrait was most likely a representation of Shakespeare. Cooper points...
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    related to Cobbe portrait. Website comparing alleged Shakespeare portraits Article by the BBC on the Droeshout and Cobbe portraits Article 1 by The Guardian...
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    Droeshout portrait or Droeshout engraving is a portrait of William Shakespeare engraved by Martin Droeshout as the frontispiece for the title page of the First...
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    portrait. From the 18th century, the desire for authentic Shakespeare portraits fuelled claims that various surviving pictures depicted Shakespeare....
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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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    text is not legible. The Sanders portrait is one of the most researched portraits claimed to depict William Shakespeare (1564–1616). It is named for the...
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    of an analysis of the Ashbourne portrait dealt a further blow to the movement. The painting, long claimed to be one of the portraits of Shakespeare,...
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    The Flower portrait is the name of one of the painted portraits of William Shakespeare. A 2005 investigation of the portrait led to the conclusion that...
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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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    Shakespeare in performance Portraits of Shakespeare Religious views of William Shakespeare Shakespeare's reputation Sexuality of William Shakespeare Spelling...
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    The Ashbourne portrait is one of several portraits that have been falsely identified as portrayals of William Shakespeare. At least 60 such works had...
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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...
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    William 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...
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    William Shakespeare, Thomas Moore Coade stone statue of Shakespeare at Bonaly Tower, Edinburgh Shakespeare's reputation Portraits of Shakespeare "William...
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    depict Anne Hathaway (1555/56 – 6 August 1623), the wife of William Shakespeare, is a portrait line-drawing made by Sir Nathaniel Curzon in 1708, referred...
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    Richard Burbage (category People associated with Shakespeare)
    Horace (1916). Shakespeare's Theater. Macmillan. p. 387. burbage mourn queen anne. Wickham, Berry & Ingram 2000. Wells 2011. Portraits of Richard Burbage...
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    have also used the motto. Portraits of Shakespeare Portrait of Anne Hathaway Rackham, Oliver (2014). "The Pseudo-Marlowe Portrait: a wish fulfilled?" (PDF)...
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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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    Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare. In creating her character, Shakespeare drew from the historical figure of Porcia — the daughter of Cato the...
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    Gerard Soest (category Portraits of William Shakespeare)
    Soest, was a portrait painter who was active in England during the late 17th century. He is most famous for his portraits of William Shakespeare and Samuel...
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    The religious views of William Shakespeare are the subject of an ongoing scholarly debate dating back more than 150 years. The general assumption about...
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    In the First Folio, the plays of William Shakespeare were grouped into three categories: comedies, histories, and tragedies; and modern scholars recognise...
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    Thomas Sully (redirect from Sully portrait)
    recognition. His Adams portrait is held in the National Gallery of Art, Washington. Many notable Americans of the day had their portraits painted by him. In...
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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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    William Shakespeare (1564–1616) wrote sonnets on a variety of themes. When discussing or referring to Shakespeare's sonnets, it is almost always a reference...
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  • Challenge Frankly Phrased (1906) Shakespearean - On Shakespeare's Portraits (1907) "Shakespeare's Portrait.", The New York Times, June 9, 1903. Untitled review...
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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...
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    William Shakespeare published in 1593. It is probably Shakespeare's first publication. The poem tells the story of Venus, the goddess of Love; of her unrequited...
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    Hamlet (redirect from Hamlet (Shakespeare))
    The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, often shortened to Hamlet (/ˈhæmlɪt/), is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare sometime between 1599 and...
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