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Why People Still Argue Over Shakespeare's Authorship 400 Years After His Death

This theory should never gotten off the ground, given that the two best candidates for Shakespeare’s authorship—Christopher ...
The Daily Free Press

“Sonnet slam” celebrates 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death

William Shakespeare, renowned playwright and poet, died on April 23, 1616. Four hundred years later, a large crowd gathered Saturday in Harvard Square to read aloud all 154 of Shakespeare’s sonnets in ...
Seattle Times

William Shakespeare, playwright and poet, is dead at 52 (ish)

“To be or not to be,” said Hamlet, prince of Denmark, “that is the question.” Yesterday, Hamlet’s creator was; today, he is not. Of that there is no question. The poet, playwright, actor and ...
PBS

400 years after his death, Shakespeare’s sonnets live on in your smartphone

After William Shakespeare died, on this date in 1616, his contemporary, Ben Jonson, wrote that “He was not of an age, but for all time.” Johnson was spot on, because nearly 400 years later, the Bard ...
Purdue University

Writer, performer to discuss death in Shakespeare’s works

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Writer and performer Melinda Hall will present “Shakespeare’s Funeral: An Illustrated Lecture” at 7 p.m. Wednesday (Feb. 15) at The Anvil in the former University Church, 320 ...