Shakespeare's plays
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Shakespeare's plays are a canon of approximately 39 dramatic works written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare. The exact number of plays as well as their classifications as tragedy
Sir John Gilbert's 1849 painting: The Plays of Shakespeare, containing scenes and characters from several of William Shakespeare's plays
First edition of Raphael Holinshed's Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande, printed 1577
The modern reconstruction of the Globe Theatre, in London
Shakespearean tragedy
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Shakespearean tragedy is the designation given to most of William Shakespeare's tragedies. Many of his history plays share the qualifiers of a Shakespearean tragedy, but because they are based on real
Sarah Siddons as the Tragic Muse, Joshua Reynolds (1784). Sarah Siddons (1755–1831) was an esteemed performer of Shakespearean tragedy.
Edwin Austin Abbey (1852–1911) King Lear, Cordelia's Farewell
The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe, in the Huntington Library, San Marino, California
Hamlet and his Father's Ghost, William Blake (1806)