A playlist exploring Shakespeare’s social circle in Stratford-on-Avon, with individual videos on friends and contemporaries including Richard Quiney, Richard Field, Thomas Greene, Julius Shaw, Hamnet Sadler, and others.
An examination of the claim that Shakespeare coined an exceptional number of English words and expressions, weighing the evidence from contemporary sources and the history of the language.
A concise introduction to what we know about Shakespeare from contemporary sources, tracing the documentary record of his life from his baptism in Stratford in 1564 to his burial there, with reference to contemporary praise from Francis Meres.