Shakespeare, William
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...1564 1616, English dramatist and...considered the greatest playwright who...comedy, ancient history, and classical...and before his great tragedies...performed, in non-English-speaking nations...those where English is the native...unparalleled use of language. Shakespeare...Shakespeares Play . The Poetry Shakespeares...devices, 20th-century criticism has tended to...many earlier criticisms, defended Shakespeare...in the late 19th cent. with...subsiding, and books, scholarly...