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White, Will Shakespeare and the Globe Theater (Pages 4-5)

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Pages 4-5: A young Shakespeare spontaneously speaks in the playwright’s later, famous words (top right). White’s depiction of Shakespeare’s spontaneously momentous words supports an unlikely portrait of Shakespeare as preternaturally gifted without…

Godwin, The Greenwood Tree: A Portrait of William Shakespeare (Pages 60-61)

The Greenwood Tree: A Portrait of William Shakespeare
Pages 60-61: A young William courts Anne Hathaway in the forest using his own poetry. This fantasy connects Shakespeare’s professional writing with his personal life.

Shakespeare: Ten Great Plays (Hamlet)

Hamlet
An eye-catching depiction of Hamlet and Laertes’s duel.

Cibber, The Tragical History of King Richard III (1777)

The Tragical History of King Richard III
Title Page
Excerpt: The 1777 edition no longer allows readers to see where Cibber has used, adapted, or added to Shakespeare’s text.