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William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare 1564-1616, English dramatist and poet, b. Stratford-on-Avon. He is widely considered the greatest playwright who ever lived. Life His father, John Shakespeare, was successful in the leather business during Shakespeare's early childhood but later met with financial difficulties.... Read more |
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Malvolio
Malvolio in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night (1601), the Puritan steward of Olivia who through his consciousness of moral superiority and personal worth is tricked by Sir Toby Belch and his companions into believing that Olivia is in love with him; the behaviour into which they persuade him leads to... Read more |
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New York Shakespeare Festival
New York Shakespeare Festival. Founded in 1954 by Joseph Papp, it was chartered by the State of New York Educational Department to “encourage and cultivate interest in poetic drama with emphasis on the works of William Shakespeare and his Elizabethan contemporaries, and to establish an... Read more |
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Charles Cowden Clarke
Charles Cowden Clarke 1787-1877, English lecturer and author. He was a close friend of Keats, who was a pupil of Clarke's father. Clarke's lectures on Shakespeare were published as Shakespeare Characters (1863). He and his wife, Mary Victoria (Novello) Cowden Clarke, 1809-98, wrote ... Read more |
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Stratford-on-Avon
Stratford-on-Avon town (1991 pop. 20,941) and district, Warwickshire, central England, on the Avon River. A market town with light industries, Stratford owes its fame to its associations with William Shakespeare . A gabled building on Henley St., believed to be the poet's birthplace, is open to... Read more |
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Benedick
Benedick a newly married man, especially one who had been regarded as a sworn bachelor, from the name of the hero in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, who against his own will falls in love with and marries Beatrice; the usage probably develops from the mocking question, ‘How dost thou,... Read more |
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Iago
Iago in Shakespeare's Othello (1602–4), the Machiavellian villain who as an apparently loyal subordinate so poisons Othello's mind that he kills his innocent wife and attempts to have her supposed lover murdered. Allusions to Iago refer to his single-minded desire for negativism and... Read more |
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William Dodd
William Dodd 1729-77, English author. At one time king's chaplain, he ran heavily into debt, forged a bond, and was sentenced to death. Dr. Johnson led a movement to obtain clemency, but Dodd was executed. His best-known work is The Beauties of Shakespeare (1752).... Read more |
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William Painter
William Painter 1540?-1594, English translator. His Palace of Pleasure (1566-67)—a collection of translations from Boccaccio, the Heptameron, and many other sources—was drawn upon by Shakespeare and other Elizabethan dramatists.... Read more |
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Sir Sidney Lee
Sir Sidney Lee 1859-1926, English editor and author. He was editor (1891-1901) of the Dictionary of National Biography but is best known for his Life of William Shakespeare (1898, rev. ed. 1925), which was an enlargement of his work for the Dictionary. Lee was knighted in 1911.... Read more |
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