This wisely funny comedy, which contains some of Shakespeare\'s loveliest poetry, contrasts a court\'s world of envy and rivalry with a forest\'s world of compassion and harmony.
A rival dramatist, Robert Greene, referred to him as "an upstart crow, beautified with our feathers." Shakespeare became a principal shareholder and playwright of the successful acting troupe, the Lord Chamberlain\'s Men (later under James I, calle.
By 1592 Shakespeare had gone to London working as an actor and already known as a playwright.
Twins, a boy, Hamnet ( who would die at age eleven), and a girl, Judith, were born in 1585.
She was born on May 26, 1583.
In November 1582, at the age of eighteen, he married Anne Hathaway, eight years his senior, who was pregnant with their first child, Susanna.
William probably went to the King\'s New School in Stratford, but he had no university education.
He was one of eight children born to John Shakespeare, a merchant of some standing in his community.
The facts of his life, known from surviving documents, are sparse.
Each Edition Includes: - Comprehensive explanatory notes - Vivid introductions and the most up-to-date scholarship - Clear, modernized spelling and punctuation, enabling contemporary readers to understand the Elizabethan English- Completely updated, detailed bibliographies and performance histories - An interpretive essay on film adaptations of the play, along with an extensive filmography About the Author: William Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon in April 1564, and his birth is traditionally celebrated on April 23.
Romantic happiness triumphs, even as we laugh at the excesses of love, at the ways of court and countryside, indeed, at everything, in this masterpiece of comic writing.
In the Forest of Arden, the banished young heroine, Rosalind, disguised as a gentleman farmer, encounters an extraordinary assemblage of characters, including a fool, a malcontent traveler, her own banished father, and the banished young man she loves.
This wisely funny comedy, which contains some of Shakespeare\'s loveliest poetry, contrasts a court\'s world of envy and rivalry with a forest\'s world of compassion and harmony
