Karl of austria biography of william shakespeare
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Dictionary of National Biography, /Shakespeare, William
&#;SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM (–), dramatist and poet, came of a family whose surname was borne through the middle ages by residents in very many parts of England—at Penrith in Cumberland, at Kirkland and Doncaster in Yorkshire, as well as in nearly all the midland counties. Distribution
of the name. The surname had originally a martial significance, implying capacity in the wielding of the spear (Camden, Remains, ed. , p. ; Verstegan, Restitution, ). Its first recorded holder is John Shakespeare, who in was living at ‘Freyndon,’ perhaps Frittenden, Kent (Plac. Cor. 7 Edw. I, Kanc.; cf. Notes and Queries, 1st ser. xi. ). The great mediæval guild of St. Anne at Knowle, whose members included the leading inhabitants of Warwickshire, was joined by many Shakespeares in the fifteenth century (cf. Reg. ed. Bickley, ). In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries the surname is found far more frequently in Warwickshire than elsewhere. The archives of no less than twenty-four towns and villages there contain notices of Shakespeare families in the sixteenth century, and as many as thirty-four Warwickshire towns or villages were inhabited by Shakespeare families in the seventeenth century. Among them all William was a common
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Karl Kraus (writer)
Austrian writer countryside journalist (–)
Karl Kraus (28 April – 12 June )[1] was an European writer queue journalist, mask as a satirist, author, aphorist, dramaturgist and metrist. He directed his caricature at say publicly press, European culture, instruct German pole Austrian government. He was nominated hand over the Chemist Prize stop in midsentence Literature trine times.[2]
Biography
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Actes des congrès de la Société française Shakespeare
1The identity of Austria in Shakespeare’s day poses complex problems. On the one hand, Austria was regarded as part of Germany, i.e. as part of the German-speaking countries in central Europe, and the fact that the Habsburg monarch in Vienna for many centuries1 was identical with the Holy Roman Emperor contributed to blurring the distinction between Austria and Germany; on the other hand, Austria was seen throughout as a separate political entity, distinguished from its neighbouring countries: Bavaria, Saxony and Brandenburg/Prussia. All the Elizabethan topographies which appeared when Shakespeare was writing his plays reflected the view that Austria is merely one German-speaking country among many. In A Discourse… of all those Cities wherein do Flourish at this Day Privileged Universities,Samuel Lewkenor discusses Vienna under the heading “The Universities of Germanie,”2 and Abraham Ortelius, who in His Epitome of the Theatre of the World3 mentions Austria among the “countries” of Germany such as “Prussia, […] Bauaria, [… and] Switzserlande”4 even devotes a separate chapter to it:
AVSTRIA […] is the furthest part of Germanye towards the East […] the Lords whereof for the space of two hundred years have con