Although he had a reckless, unpredictable, and violent nature that precluded him from attaining any court or government responsibility and led to the ruination of his estate, Oxford was noted in his own time as a patron of the arts, lyric poet, and playwright, and since the 1920s he has been the most popular alternative candidate proposed for the authorship of Shakespeare's works.

According to Sony Pictures, " The objective for our Anonymous program, as stated in the classroom literature, is ' to encourage critical thinking by challenging students to examine the theories about the authorship of Shakespeare's works and to formulate their own opinions.

Oxfordian researchers believe that the play is an early version of Shakespeare's own play, and point to the fact that Shakespeare's version survives in three quite different early texts, Q1 ( 1603 ), Q2 ( 1604 ) and F ( 1623 ), suggesting the possibility that it was revised by the author over a period of many years.

Shakespeare's use of it in All's Well That Ends Well and Measure for Measure followed his sources for the plays ( stories by Boccaccio and Cinthio ); nevertheless Oxfordians say that de Vere was drawn to these stories because they " paralleled his own ", based on Osborne's anecdote.

To highlight his evil and villainous rise to power, Ui is compared to Shakespeare's Richard III and Macbeth in both the introductory prologue and in scene 14 when he experiences similar visitations from the ghosts of his victims as Richard and Macbeth do ; while Hitler's own learned prowess at public speaking is referenced by Ui receiving lessons from an actor which include him reciting Mark Antony's famous speech from Julius Caesar.

It was not until 1616, the year of Shakespeare's death, that Ben Jonson defied convention by issuing a folio collection of his own plays and poems.

After the Anschluss of Austria to Nazi-governed Germany in 1938, he emigrated first to England, then to the United States, where he had already successfully directed his own play The Miracle in 1924, and a popular stage version of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream in 1927.

In particular, directors of Shakespeare's plays may use costumes and props not only of Shakespeare's day or their own, but of any era in between or even those of an imagined future.

Some critics argue that even in Shakespeare's own day the play was controversial due to sexist elements.

In tandem with this interpretation, the song sung at the end of the play is a musical version of Psalm 128, which was often sung in Puritan households at the end of a meal during Shakespeare's own day.

In his own time, he was thought talented enough to revise Shakespeare's Macbeth and Measure for Measure.

Some Shakespeare scholars speculate that it derives from Shakespeare's own draft, or " foul papers ," since it contains minor errors in speech labels and stage directions that are thought to be characteristic of the author in the process of composition.

* Richard Burbage – Actor in the Lord Chamberlain's Men, Shakespeare's own Company.

Many feel that since The Tempest was Shakespeare's last play ( though he did write one more, with some assistance ), Prospero's feelings echo Shakespeare's own.

Throughout the film, Jarman is liberal with Shakespeare's text, using it as a springboard for his own interpretation.

A. Milne's Eeyore or Jacques in Shakespeare's As You Like It, and even owes something to Adams's own periods of depression.

As Elizabethan England was slowly colonising the world, the populace embraced the view of its own Divine Right and Appointment to do so, much as Richard does in Shakespeare's play.

Additionally, Elizabethan theatre often paid professional writers of the time to perform minor additions and emendations to problematic or overly brief scripts ( the additions to the popular but brief Doctor Faustus and Shakespeare's own additions on the unperformed Thomas More being some of the best known ).

The music in this episode was created by Anthony Rooley, who wrote new arrangements of works from Shakespeare's own time, such as John Dowland's piece ' Lachrimae '.

While primarily remembered today for his translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses because of its influence on William Shakespeare's works, in his own time he was most famous for his translation of Caesar's Commentaries, and his translations of the sermons of John Calvin were important in spreading the doctrines of the Protestant Reformation.

In October, the Romanians deported a large number of Jews after forcing them into a ghetto, where Celan translated William Shakespeare's Sonnets and continued to write his own poetry, all the while being exposed to traditional Yiddish songs and culture.

" The play was one of Shakespeare's most popular works during his lifetime and still ranks among his most-performed, topping the Royal Shakespeare Company's performance list since 1879.

Judging by the number of reprints, Hamlet appears to have been Shakespeare's fourth most popular play during his lifetime — only Henry IV Part 1, Richard III and Pericles eclipsed it.

No English translation of Cinthio was available in Shakespeare's lifetime, and verbal echoes in Othello are closer to the Italian original than to Gabriel Chappuy's 1584 French translation.

Oxfordians claim that the conventional dates for the plays were developed by mainstream scholars to fit within Shakespeare's lifetime and that no evidence exists that any plays were written after 1604.

Anticipating a lifetime of regret, Shakespeare's character Biron says: " Henceforth my wooing mind shall be express'd / In russet yeas and honest kersey noes.

During Shakespeare's lifetime, stage plays were not generally taken seriously as literature and not considered worthy of being collected into folios, so the plays printed while he was alive were printed as quartos.

While no English translation of Cinthio was available in Shakespeare's lifetime, it is possible Shakespeare knew the Italian original, Gabriel Chappuy's 1584 French translation, or an English translation in manuscript.

There is no record of a performance in Shakespeare's era, down to the closing of the theatres in 1642, although due to its inclusion in Francis Meres's Palladis Tamia in 1598, we know it was certainly performed during Shakespeare's lifetime.

Performance history in Shakespeare's lifetime is unknown, though the same is also true of his more highly regarded plays such as Antony and Cleopatra and Coriolanus, which most scholars believe were written in the same period.

The play's puzzling and intriguing nature has meant that Troilus and Cressida has rarely been popular on stage, and neither during Shakespeare's own lifetime nor between 1734 and 1898 is there any recorded performance of the play.

While no English translation of Cinthio was available in Shakespeare's lifetime, it is possible Shakespeare knew both the Italian original and Gabriel Chappuy's 1584 French translation.

It is impossible to calculate Shakespeare's reputation in his own lifetime and shortly after.

Following William Shakespeare as house playwright for the King's Men, he was among the most prolific and influential dramatists of his day ; both during his lifetime and in the early Restoration, his fame rivalled Shakespeare's.

Notorious for a life of dissipation and debauchery somewhat similar to Falstaff, he was among the first to mention Shakespeare in his work ( in Greene's Groats-Worth of Wit ), suggesting to Greenblatt that the older writer may have influenced Shakespeare's characterization.

Philosophical ideas in Hamlet are similar to those of the French writer Michel de Montaigne, a contemporary of Shakespeare's.

' The study guide does not state that Edward de Vere is the writer of Shakespeare's work, but it does pose the authorship question which has been debated by scholars for decades ".

With more rounded characters, such as those typically found in Shakespeare's plays, the moral may be more nuanced but no less present, and the writer may point it up in other ways ( see, for example, the Prologue to Romeo and Juliet ).

It contains five stories averaging 60 pages each: “ Pankraz der Schmoller ,” “ Frau Regel Amrain und ihr jüngster ,” “ Die drei gerechten Kammacher ,” “ Romeo und Julie auf dem Dorfe ,” and “ Spiegel das Kätzchen .” Hartmann characterizes two of the stories in Die Leute von Seldwyla as immortal: “ Die drei gerechten Kammacher ” he views as the most satyric and scorching attack on the sordid petit bourgeois morality ever penned by any writer, and “ Romeo und Julie auf dem Dorfe ” as one of the most pathetic tales in literature ( Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet plot in a Swiss village setting ).

For example the 1603 death of Elizabeth I falls in the middle of Shakespeare's career as dramatist: he is both an Elizabethan and a Jacobean writer.

The phrase " Winter of Discontent " is from the opening line of William Shakespeare's Richard III: " Now is the Winter of our Discontent / Made glorious summer by this sun of York …", and was first applied to the events of the winter by Robin Chater, a writer at Incomes Data Report.

A late sixteenth-century writer, Francis Meres, and a scrap of paper ( apparently from a bookseller ), both list this title among Shakespeare's then-recent works, but no play of this title has survived.

* Director and writer Norman Szabo created an animated feature called William Shakespeare's Abelard + Heloise, which he claims is based upon an uncompleted Shakespearean manuscript, Abelard and Elois, a Tragedie.

Shgakespeafe appears to be just as talented a writer as Shakespeare ; indeed, all of his lines in Something Rotten are quotes from Shakespeare's plays.

Cottrell Boyce is credited as the writer of the 2012 Summer Olympics opening ceremony, whose storyline he based on Shakespeare's The Tempest.