United For Shakespeare has formerly discussed the issue of the Bard’s authorship and we have always decided not to make any final assertion. Any coherent academic has never dared to do so and nor are we –students- going to kick over the traces. Now we want to demonstrate that Shakespeare’s authorship’s truthfulness is at least […]
William Shakespeare, as extraordinary and as usual as any other human being
enero 14th, 2014 · Comments Off on William Shakespeare, as extraordinary and as usual as any other human being
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XXIth’s Hamlet
enero 2nd, 2014 · Comments Off on XXIth’s Hamlet
Our century has been stage of many reconstructions of the Bard’s works. Shakespeare’s works do not lose modernity. As Ben Jonson wrote in his poem, “Shakespeare is a writer for all time” and these predictions had something of prophetic. Mª Ángeles de la Concha Muñoz is a Spanish academic who has dedicated some pages to Shakespeare’s […]
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Shakespeare in Christmas
diciembre 26th, 2013 · Comments Off on Shakespeare in Christmas
It is curious to discover that there are only two mentions to the word Christmas in Shakespeare’s works. Among other experts, Warren King has deepened on the issue. Warren King has taught English literature for the past 35 years in a number of English schools. During the 1980s he was seconded to the national Shakespeare and Schools Project, where he worked to develop methods of […]
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Shakespeare’s reincarnations
diciembre 19th, 2013 · Comments Off on Shakespeare’s reincarnations
Many times have Shakespeare’s texts been revised in order to try and discover how the Bard’s actual appearance was at the sixteenth century. Courtney Lehmann is one of the experts that has deeply reflected on this issue. She holds several academic professional posts at the moment; namely, Ad Hoc Member of the Graduate Faculty, University of Kansas (2009), Professor […]
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Shakespeare, Women, Ophelia
diciembre 12th, 2013 · Comments Off on Shakespeare, Women, Ophelia
One of the greatest paradoxes of the Elizabethan plays of the XVIth century was that even though women were not allowed to enter the stage, their role in the script was crucial. Hamlet’s Ophelia has become an icon of women’s role in life. It definitely is one the highest contributions of the bard to the […]
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