Ciekawostka: Shakespeare invented the word "assassination" and "bump

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Terrorism Before the Letter. Terrorism is as old as ancient history. Whenever a society has developed to the point where it is governed as a political entity, it has made itself vulnerable to that form of violence we now call terrorism—violence that sends a message with the power of changing power. This book focuses on England, Scotland, and France in the period between 1559 and 1642, when over twenty-seven major incidents of terrorist violence occurred, and literally hundreds of texts tried to come to terms with what that violence meant, even in a time before the word ‘terrorism’ had been invented. Authors discussed at length in this study include the playwrights Christopher Marlowe, Willi…

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The Tragedy of Richard the Third, often shortened to Richard III, is a play by William Shakespeare, which depicts the Machiavellian rise to power and subsequent short reign of King Richard III of England. It was probably written c. 1592–1594. It is labelled a history in the First Folio and is usually considered one. In the quarto edition and elsewhere it is listed as a tragedy given its meditations on conscience, decision making, and death. Richard III concludes Shakespeare's first tetralogy which also contains Henry VI, Part 1, Henry VI, Part 2, and Henry VI, Part 3. It is the second longest play in the Shakespearean canon by word count and the fourth longest by number of lines, as well as…

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The Assassination of Shakespeare's Patron. By LeoDaugherty. Pp. xxi, 348, Amherst, Cambria Press, 2011, $119.99.. Source: The Heythrop Journal. Year: 2013

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Why assassination seems to be the hardest word

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Character Assassination: Shakespeare, Anita Hill, and JFK

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All the Devils Are Here: How Shakespeare Invented the Villain

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Character Assassination: Shakespeare, Anita Hill, and JFK

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