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Shakespeare wrote songs for most of his comedies, but only the lyrics have survived.
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If Shakespeare wrote him into the script, his editors would have said it is too unrealistic to be believable.
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"Shakespeare wrote it to please King Jamie, who believed in witches, " he said.
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"I talk the way Shakespeare wrote, that's how I look at it, and if they can't get Shakespeare and his accent right then heaven help us, " he said.
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As always, Shakespeare wrote about it four centuries ago.
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James I, the Scotsman who reigned while Shakespeare wrote many of his masterpieces, including "Macbeth, " is portrayed in the Lyte Jewel, an enameled gold locket bearing on its cover (reversed at left) the royal monogram IR, for the Latin Jacobus Rex.
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Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare? by James Shapiro is a history of the nonsense called the "authorship question": the idea that William Shakespeare did not write his own works, that there was a widespread conspiracy to hide the identity of the true author or authors.
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In it Eliot queried the content of an essay he wrote on Shakespeare.
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As part of his residency last year, Ravenhill wrote a sonnet for Shakespeare's birthday - to mark the launch of the World Shakespeare Festival.
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Sir Tom shared an Oscar in 1999 for the screenplay he co-wrote with Marc Norman for the film Shakespeare in Love.
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Shakespeare was born about 80 years after Richard died and wrote during the Tudor dynasty.
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In his will he wrote that his skull "shall be offered by the institution receiving my body to the Royal Shakespeare Company for use in theatrical performance".
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