A Midsummer Night's Dream

A Midsummer Night's Dream is a comedy play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1590 and 1597. It portrays the...

Tate Britain

Tate Britain (known from 1897 to 1932 as the National Gallery of British Art and from 1932 to 2000 as the Tate Gallery ) is an art gallery...

William Blake

This article is about the biography of William Blake. For his poetic influence, see Poetry in the early 19th century. William Blake (28 N...

Thomas Kyd

Thomas Kyd (baptised 6 November 1558; buried 15 August 1594) was an English playwright, the author of The Spanish Tragedy , and one of the ...

Henry VI, Part 1

Henry VI, Part 1 (often written as 1 Henry VI ), is a history play by William Shakespeare, and possibly Thomas Nashe, believed to have been...

The History of Cardenio

The History of Cardenio , often referred to as merely Cardenio , is a lost play, known to have been performed by the King's Men, a Londo...

William Shakespeare's collaborations

Like most playwrights of his period, William Shakespeare did not always write alone and a number of his plays are collaborative, or were rev...

Poets' Corner

Poets' Corner is the name traditionally given to a section of the South Transept of Westminster Abbey because of the high number of poe...

Southwark Cathedral

Southwark Priory, its medieval use, is not to be confused with smaller Southwick Priory both of which were pilgrimage sites in England. So...

Memorials to William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare has been commemorated in a number of different statues and memorials around the world, notably his funerary monument in...

Thomas Nash

Thomas Nash (baptised 20 June 1593 â€" died 4 April 1647) was the first husband of William Shakespeare's granddaughter Elizabeth B...

Thomas Quiney

Thomas Quiney (baptised 26 February 1589) was the husband of William Shakespeare's daughter Judith Shakespeare, and a vintner and tobac...

John Ward (vicar)

John Ward (1629â€"1681) was vicar of Stratford-upon-Avon from 1662 to 1681. He is noted for his diary in which he recorded anecdotes a...

John Fletcher (playwright)

John Fletcher (1579â€"1625) was a Jacobean playwright. Following William Shakespeare as house playwright for the King's Men, he wa...

John Hall (physician)

John Hall (1575 â€" 25 November 1635) was a physician and son-in-law of William Shakespeare. Life He was born at Carlton, Bedfor...

Blackfriars, London

Blackfriars is an area of central London, which lies in the south-west corner of the City of London. The name Blackfriars was fi...

Gatehouse

A gatehouse , in architectural terminology, is a building enclosing or accompanying a gateway for a castle, manor house, fort, town or simil...

Bubonic plague

Bubonic plague is a zoonotic disease, circulating mainly in fleas on small rodents, and is one of three types of bacterial infections cause...

Henry Evans (theatre)

Henry Evans (c. 1543 â€" after 1612) was the Welsh scrivener and theatrical producer primarily responsible (apparently with the active...

Cuthbert Burbage

Cuthbert Burbage (c. 15 June 1565 â€" 15 September 1636) was an English theatrical figure, son of James Burbage, builder of the Theatr...

Huguenot

A Huguenot ( / ˈ h juː É¡ É™n É' t / or / h uː É¡ É™ ˈ n oÊŠ / ; French:  [yÉ¡no] , [yÉ¡É™no] ) is a member of a French Protestan...

St Paul's Cathedral

St Paul's Cathedral , London, is an Anglican cathedral, the seat of the Bishop of London and the mother church of the Diocese of London....

Southwark

Southwark ( / ˈ s ʌ ð ər k / SUDH -ərk ) is a district of Central London and part of the London Borough of Southwark. Situated 1.5 ...

Volpone

Volpone (Italian for "sly fox") is a comedy play by English playwright Ben Jonson first produced in 1605-06, drawing on elements ...

Sejanus His Fall

Sejanus His Fall , a 1603 play by Ben Jonson, is a tragedy about Lucius Aelius Seianus, the favourite of the Roman emperor Tiberius. Sejan...

New Place

New Place (grid reference SP201548 ) was William Shakespeare's final place of residence in Stratford-upon-Avon. He died there in 1616. ...

River Thames

The River Thames ( / t É› m z / TEMZ ) is a river that flows through southern England. It is the longest river entirely in England and the...

Jack of all trades, master of none

" Jack of all trades, master of none " is a figure of speech used in reference to a person that is competent with many skills, but...

Henry VI, Part 3

Henry VI, Part 3 (often written as 3 Henry VI ) is a history play by William Shakespeare believed to have been written in 1591, and set dur...

Greene's Groats-Worth of Wit

Greenes, Groats-worth of Witte, bought with a million of Repentance (1592) is a tract published as the work of the deceased playwright Robe...

Lancashire

Lancashire ( / ˈ l æ ŋ k ə ʃ ər / , / ˈ l æ ŋ k ə ʃ ɪər / or, locally, [ˈɫaŋkɪʃə(ɻ)] ; archaically the County Palatin...

John Aubrey

John Aubrey FRS ( / ˈ É"ː b r i / ; 12 March 1626 â€" 7 June 1697), was an English antiquary, natural philosopher and writer. H...

Thomas Lucy

Sir Thomas Lucy (24 April 1532 â€" 7 July 1600) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1571 and 1585. He was a m...

Poaching

Poaching has traditionally been defined as the illegal hunting, killing, or capturing of wild animals, usually associated with land use rig...

Nicholas Rowe (writer)

Nicholas Rowe ( / r oÊŠ / ; 20 June 1674 â€" 6 December 1718), English dramatist, poet and miscellaneous writer, was appointed Poet La...

Banns of marriage

The banns of marriage , commonly known simply as the " banns " or " bans " /bænz/ (from a Middle English word meaning &...

Chancellor

Chancellor (Latin: cancellarius ) is a title of various official positions in the governments of many nations. The original chancellors wer...

Anglican Diocese of Worcester

The Diocese of Worcester forms part of the Church of England (Anglican) Province of Canterbury in England. The diocese was founded around...

Consistory court

The consistory court is a type of ecclesiastical court, especially within the Church of England. They were established by a charter of King...

Shakespeare's Birthplace

Shakespeare's Birthplace is a restored 16th-century half-timbered house situated in Henley Street, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, E...

Snitterfield

Snitterfield is a village and civil parish in the Stratford on Avon district of Warwickshire, England, less than a mile to the north of t...

Alderman

An alderman is a member of a municipal assembly or council in many jurisdictions founded upon English law. The term may be titular, denotin...

Shakespeare's life

Most biographical information about William Shakespeare's life derives from public instead of private documents: vital records, real es...