FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
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his personal life
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his dreams
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history
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the music of Queen
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Detailed explanation-1: -Historical Sources. Raphael Holinshed’s Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland was perhaps Shakespeare’s greatest single source. All of the history plays show at least some influence of Holinshed’s work, as do Cymbeline, King Lear, and Macbeth.
Detailed explanation-2: -The source for the Roman history plays is Plutarch’s Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Compared Together, in the translation made by Sir Thomas North in 1579. Shakespeare’s history plays focus on only a small part of the characters’ lives, and also frequently omit significant events for dramatic purposes.
Detailed explanation-3: -We should never forget that they are works of imagination, based very loosely on historical figures. Shakespeare was a keen reader of history and was always looking for the dramatic impact of historical characters and events as he read.
Detailed explanation-4: -The category of Shakespeare’s ‘Roman plays’ is simply a convenient description that scholars and critics have given to the four plays that Shakespeare set in ancient Rome.