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William Shakespeare

0 award wins, 2 nominations across 2 books.

William Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon". His surviving works, including some collaborations, consist of 38 plays,[c] 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and several other poems. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright.

HamletThe Complete Sonnets and Poems
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Hamlet

1 Nomination

Published 2005 · 192 pages

In this quintessential Shakespeare tragedy, a young prince's halting pursuit of revenge for the murder of his father unfolds in a series of highly charged confrontations that have held audiences spellbound for nearly four centuries. Those fateful exchanges, and the anguished soliloquies that precede and follow them, probe depths of human feeling rarely sounded in any art.

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The Complete Sonnets and Poems

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750 pages

Contains: Venus and Adonis -- Lucrece -- The Passionate Pilgrim -- 'Let the Bird of Loudest Lay' -- Shakespeare's Sonnets -- A Lover's Complaint -- App. Poems Attributed to Shakespeare in the Seventeenth Century.

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