Where to read this sonnet: Poetry Foundation. A Sotheby's employee handles a copy of William Shakespeare's First Folio, the most important book in ... [+] English Literature. The book is estimated ...

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Unfinished and Fictive Works Found Only in Other Books" spotlights more than 100 texts written (or invented) by the likes of Shakespeare, Byron and Hemingway Ella Feldman Despite this historic ...

William’s father ... With over 400 film adaptations, the Guinness Book of Records lists Shakespeare as the most filmed author. The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) was chartered in Stratford ...

The next documented event in Shakespeare’s life is his marriage at the age of 18 to Anne Hathaway, the daughter of a local farmer, on November 28, 1582. She was eight years older than him and ...