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Page 138
... Shakespeare was the oldest surviving child of John Shakespeare , a prosperous merchant of Stratford - on - Avon , and of Mary Arden , the descendant of a distinguished family belonging to the landed gentry . He was baptized " Gulielmus ...
... Shakespeare was the oldest surviving child of John Shakespeare , a prosperous merchant of Stratford - on - Avon , and of Mary Arden , the descendant of a distinguished family belonging to the landed gentry . He was baptized " Gulielmus ...
Page 139
... Shakespeare's life . Although not personally involved in the Essex conspiracy , he was a close friend of the Earl of Southampton ( the dedicatee of his first poems ) who narrowly escaped execution and had his sentence commuted to life ...
... Shakespeare's life . Although not personally involved in the Essex conspiracy , he was a close friend of the Earl of Southampton ( the dedicatee of his first poems ) who narrowly escaped execution and had his sentence commuted to life ...
Page 141
... Shakespeare seems to have recovered a lost faith in man , and the characters of his last plays- neither tragedies nor comedies but " romances " or tragicomedies ... Shakespeare's profile complete : Date of birth Early. 141 William ...
... Shakespeare seems to have recovered a lost faith in man , and the characters of his last plays- neither tragedies nor comedies but " romances " or tragicomedies ... Shakespeare's profile complete : Date of birth Early. 141 William ...
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