The date of 1601 for the production of Hamlet appears to suit the internal evidence very well.Featuring an excerpt from an unfinished work by James
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Hamlet, Drama’s Apex
This series has four easy 5 minute installments. This first installment: Shakespeare’s Masterpiece, Hamlet.IntroductionThe tragedy of Hamlet is
The History Behind Netanhayu’s Big Speech to Congress
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanhayu Meets withU.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, July 23, 2014.Public domain image from
Richelieu Enters The Thirty Years War
by Jack Le MoineCardinal Richelieu sees an opportunity and takes it. Continuing our series on France's Wars. Did you ever notice that in
From the Early Days of Baseball
Time: July 31, 1915Place: The Offices of The Saturday Evening PostRing Lardner’s most famous story, Alabi Ike is published. Today we print the
Income Tax Day 2015
Page 4 of the return showing the income tax rates for 1862.Public domain form from the Tax History Project.The first income tax was adopted and
What Pontus Says About the Scythians
This is the story of Heracles and how driving his cattle started the whole thing.Translated by George C. Macaulay -- our special project
Thus Dies Antony and Cleopatra
Cleopatra was an extraordinary person. At her death she was but thirty-eight years of age. Her power rested not so much on actual beauty as on her
Battle of Actium
Before the close of B.C. 32, Octavian, by the authority of the senate, declared war nominally against Cleopatra. Antony, roused from his sleep by