| "The Play of Phrase and Line" | Although the performance records are patchy, the King's Men performed seven of Shakespeare's plays at court between 1 November 1604, and 31 October 1605, including two performances of The Merchant of Venice |
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| By 1604, he had moved north of the river again, to an area north of with many fine houses | Shakespeare produced most of his known works between 1589 and 1613 |
"And pity, like a naked new-born babe, Striding the blast, or heaven's cherubim, hors'd Upon the sightless couriers of the air.
11| The of 1623, however, lists Shakespeare as one of "the Principal Actors in all these Plays", some of which were first staged after Volpone, although one cannot know for certain which roles he played | |
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| He is that unique writer: he has something for everyone | Shakespeare and his Rivals: A Casebook on the Authorship Controversy |
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3| The late romances, with their shifts in time and surprising turns of plot, inspired a last poetic style in which long and short sentences are set against one another, clauses are piled up, subject and object are reversed, and words are omitted, creating an effect of spontaneity | In Bristol, Michael; McLuskie, Kathleen eds |
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| The popular comic actor Will Kempe played the servant Peter in Romeo and Juliet and in Much Ado About Nothing, among other characters | In 1613, Sir recorded that Henry VIII "was set forth with many extraordinary circumstances of pomp and ceremony" |
In 1709, Rowe passed down a tradition that Shakespeare played the ghost of Hamlet's father.
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