 | The ghost of shakespeare.(discussion over authorship of Shakespeare's plays) Who, in fact, was the bard: the usual suspect from Stratford, or Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford? 171.96 Kb.  6 | read |
| Sample Speech (with Analysis): Who Was Shakespeare? by Hillary Carter-Liggett So, today we’ll look first at the traditional, or what has been called the Stratfordian, school of thought, second at the challenger, which has been called the Oxfordian school of thought, and, third, at comparisons of education, life 41.26 Kb. 1 | read |
| Shakespeare's Biography There are just two primary sources for information on the Bard: his works, and various legal and church documents that have survived from Elizabethan times. Naturally, there are many gaps in this body of information 76.36 Kb. 1 | read |
| Why did the reformation fail in ireland Old English and New English politicians. By the 1570s, therefore, at time when the Elizabethan settlement was consolidating its hold in England, the attitude of the Old English in Ireland was firmly fixed on recusancy 89.5 Kb. 1 | read |
 | The play opens in the aftermath of the death of King Henry V of England Shakespeare's play, Henry V). News reaches England of military setbacks in France, and the scene shifts across the English Channel, to Orleans, where "La Pucelle" (Joan of Arc) is encouraging the Dauphin to resist 14.15 Kb. 1 | read |
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