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Shakespear is important partly for his adaptations of Greek mythology into new plays and stories that people had heard thousands of times before but never with such feeling and passion in them.
10 Most Influential Fantasy Authors | Solar Flare: Science Fiction News 2005
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And in Shakespear's further exquisite delineation in King John:
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To paraphrase Shakespear, me thinks you proclaimeth too much!
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To paraphrase Shakespear, me thinks you proclaimeth too much!
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Probably encouraged by Johnson, and helped by John Boyle, Earl of Cork and Orrery, she wrote the first comparative study of Shakespeare's source material, entitled Shakespear Illustrated (1753-54).
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But nature, or Shakespear, which is another word for nature, is by no means in favour of this equal distribution.
The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland Cibber, Theophilus, 1703-1758 1753
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Written in standard English, rather than Nigerian English it draws not just on Nigerian history but on the classics of English literature such as Shakespear and Yeats.
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An ancient writer whose name has come down to us in several forms, such as Shakespear, Shelley, Sheridan, and Shoddy, has a remarkable passage about your dispositions being horridly shaken by thoughts beyond the reaches of your souls.
Back to Methuselah George Bernard Shaw 1903
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At a bookseller's in Reykjavik, we procured an Icelandic translation of an English book by one of our standard authors, selecting it from a number of well-known works, such as Shakespear, Scott, Byron, Dean
A Girl's Ride in Iceland George Harley 1862
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'Shakespear' wrote it; but as it is reformed according to the chymerical
The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays Joseph Addison 1695
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