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They were not included in the First Folio of 1623, nor in a reprint of it in 1632, known as the Second Folio; but all seven were appended to the second issue (1664) of the Third Folio (1663), and to the Fourth Folio of 1685. The play is directly based upon a version in Gower’s Confessio Amantis, and theuse of Gower as a “presenter “is thereby explained.

There were Shakespeares in Warwick and in Coventry, as well as around Stratford; and the clan appears to have been very numerous in a group of villages about twelve miles north of Stratford, which includes Baddesley Clinton, Wroxall, Rowington, I{aseley, Hatton, Lapworth, Packwood, Balsall and Knowle. The principal historical source for Henry VI.

was Edward Hall’s The Union of the Noble and Illustre Families of Lancaster and York (1542), and for Richard III., -as for all Shakespeare’s later historical plays, the second edition (1587) of Raphael Holinshed’s Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (i5l’~i). The plot is taken from the Menaethmi, and to a smaller extent from the Amphitruo of Plautus.

The Shakespearian scenes are based on the 46th Novel in William Paynter’s Palace of Pleasure (1566). The latter are not known to have existed before 1592, and many difficulties would be solved by the assumption that they originated out of a division of Strange’s, whose numbers, since their amalgamation with the Admiral’s, may have been too much inflated to enable them to undertake as a whole the summer tour of that year.

The earliest sonnets postulate a marriageable youth, certainly not younger than eighteen, an age which Southampton reached in the autumn of 1591 arid Pembroke in the spring of 1598. (1600).
3 Henry VI. (1595). He has been wooed by a woman loved by the poet, who deeply resents the treachery, but in the en.d forgives it, and bids the friend take all his loves, since all are included in the love that has been freely given him.

It is, of course, just possible that the “ begetter “ of the title-page might mean, not the “inspirer,” but the “procurer for the press “ of the sonnets ; but the interpretation is shipwrecked on the obvious identity of the person to whom Thorpe “ wishes” eternity with the person to whom the poet “promised” that eternity.

Strange, who had succeeded to his father’s title on September 25, 1593), Pembroke and Sussex. In 1608 was published a prose story, The Painful Adventures of Pericles Prince of Tyre. There had been an earlier play on the subject, but the immediate source ‘used by Shakespeare was Arthur Brooke’s narrative poem Romeus and Juliet (1562).

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Jests are preserved which, even if apocryphal, indicate considerable intimacy between ‘the two. The Merry Wives of Windsor
Romeo and Juliet (,5~7, 1599).

This means that we must be cautious in believing for certain the commonly held theory about the cause of Shakespeare’s death:

in 1661, many years after Shakespeare’s death John Ward, the vicar of Holy Trinity Church noted in his diary: “Shakespeare, Drayton, and Ben Jonson had a merry meeting, and it seems drank too hard; for Shakespeare died of a fever there contracted.” It is therefore often stated that Shakespeare died from a fever after a drinking binge with fellow playwrights Ben Jonson and Michael Drayton.

His son Hamnet died and was buried at Stratford in 1596. Vintage 2006.
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