On this trip through time in space, on strings and quarks, Rebecca is joined by friends on their own adventures: Wolfgang Puck, John Scharffenberger, and Julia Child are among those gastronomically and vinously seeking their hearts' desires as they travel alongside into the civilizations of Homer and Virgil, exposing the truth behind Euripides's Bacchae and the history waiting for explanation found on Exekias's krater of Dionysos, detecting wine's marvelous connections to civilization. Pharaoh Narmer signed peace treaties over wine six-thousand years later - King Nestor inherited wine and therewith postponed the Trojan War and - Julius Caesar used vineyards and wine to his advantage to forge Rome into the Empire. The god of wine himself, Dionysos, unveils to Rebecca and involves her in how - Wine-making started in India and China in 9000 B.C. The Night Julius Caesar Invented Champagne is an adventure layered out over eleven thousand years to the creation of wine. But when ruthless 'Doctor '47' and his dark forces continue saturating the market with chemical, copy-wines, Rebecca must travel across time and space, seeking the first vine. Inscribed by author on title page Like New!Renown wine-expert and 'nose', Rebecca never imagined she'd also become a wine-detective. There have been plays and sonnets attributed to Shakespeare that were not authentically written by the great master of language and literature.Soft cover. Shakespeare's writing average was 1.5 plays a year since he first started writing in 1589. His plays remain highly popular today and are consistently performed and reinterpreted in diverse cultural and political contexts throughout the world.Īccording to historians, Shakespeare wrote 37 plays and 154 sonnets throughout the span of his life. In the twentieth century, his work was repeatedly adopted and rediscovered by new movements in scholarship and performance. The Romantics, in particular, acclaimed Shakespeare's genius, and the Victorians hero-worshipped Shakespeare with a reverence that George Bernard Shaw called "bardolatry". Shakespeare was a respected poet and playwright in his own day, but his reputation did not rise to its present heights until the nineteenth century. Many of his plays were published in editions of varying quality and accuracy during his lifetime, and in 1623, two of his former theatrical colleagues published the First Folio, a collected edition of his dramatic works that included all but two of the plays now recognised as Shakespeare's. In his last phase, he wrote tragicomedies, also known as romances, and collaborated with other playwrights. Next he wrote mainly tragedies until about 1608, including Hamlet, King Lear, and Macbeth, considered some of the finest examples in the English language. His early plays were mainly comedies and histories, genres he raised to the peak of sophistication and artistry by the end of the sixteenth century. Shakespeare produced most of his known work between 15. Few records of Shakespeare's private life survive, and there has been considerable speculation about such matters as his sexuality, religious beliefs, and whether the works attributed to him were written by others. He appears to have retired to Stratford around 1613, where he died three years later. Between 15 he began a successful career in London as an actor, writer, and part owner of the playing company the Lord Chamberlain's Men, later known as the King's Men. Scholars believe that he died on his fifty-second birthday, coinciding with St George’s Day.Īt the age of 18 he married Anne Hathaway, who bore him three children: Susanna, and twins Hamnet and Judith. Shakespeare was born and raised in Stratford-upon-Avon. His plays have been translated into every major living language, and are performed more often than those of any other playwright. His surviving works consist of 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and several other poems. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon" (or simply "The Bard"). His plays have been tr William Shakespeare (baptised 26 April 1564) was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. William Shakespeare (baptised 26 April 1564) was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist.
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