In 1613, Sir recorded that Henry VIII "was set forth with many extraordinary circumstances of pomp and ceremony" | The epitaph carved into the stone slab covering his grave includes a curse against moving his bones, which was carefully avoided during restoration of the church in 2008: Good frend for Iesvs sake forbeare, To digg the dvst encloased heare |
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Shakespeare uses it, for example, to convey the turmoil in Hamlet's mind: — Hamlet, Act 5, Scene 2, 4—8 After Hamlet, Shakespeare varied his poetic style further, particularly in the more emotional passages of the late tragedies | Shakespeare combined the two throughout his career, with perhaps the best example of the mixing of the styles |
Two plays not included in the First Folio, and , are now accepted as part of the canon, with today's scholars agreeing that Shakespeare made major contributions to the writing of both.
25"Critical Approaches to Shakespeare from 1660 to 1904" | The Making of the National Poet: Shakespeare, Adaptation and Authorship, 1660—1769 |
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Shakespeare: The 'Lost Years' Revised ed | His last major tragedies, and , contain some of Shakespeare's finest poetry and were considered his most successful tragedies by the poet and critic |
His first , which draw heavily on the 1587 edition of Raphael Holinshed's , dramatise the destructive results of weak or corrupt rule and have been interpreted as a justification for the origins of the.
23The Globe opened in autumn 1599, with Julius Caesar one of the first plays staged | Greene's attack is the earliest surviving mention of Shakespeare's work in the theatre |
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As a result, critics of the time mostly rated Shakespeare below and Ben Jonson | The modernist revolution in the arts during the early 20th century, far from discarding Shakespeare, eagerly enlisted his work in the service of the |
Sonnets Title page from 1609 edition of Shake-Speares Sonnets Published in 1609, the were the last of Shakespeare's non-dramatic works to be printed.
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