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Shakespearean scholarship
- William Shakespeare's collaborationsWilliam Shakespeare did not write alone in the way modern playwrights are expected to. The Elizabethan theatre operated more like a film industry than a solo…
- The Oxford ShakespeareOxford University Press first published a complete works of Shakespeare in 1891. This single-volume modern-spelling edition bore the title The Complete Works…
- John Ward (vicar)Charles Severn identified John Ward as a man born in 1629 within the village of Spratton, Northamptonshire. His family had actively supported the Royalists…
- Spelling of Shakespeare's nameOn the 11th of May 1612, William Shakespeare signed a legal deposition in the Bellott v Mountjoy case. The document bears his mark as Willm Shakp.
- Folger Shakespeare LibraryHenry Clay Folger began collecting Shakespeareana in 1889 with a single purchase of a 1685 Fourth Folio. He and his wife Emily Jordan Folger searched for a…