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Shakespeare's late romances
Shakespeare's late romances, also called the Shakespearean romances, are the plays of his final phase, roughly 1606 to 1611: Pericles, Cymbeline, The Winter's Tale, and The Tempest.
Shakespeare's plays
Shakespeare's plays: the roughly 38 dramatic works of William Shakespeare, grouped by the 1623 First Folio into comedies, histories, and tragedies, preserved via Heminges and Condell's folio and marked by disputed chronology and collaborations with Fletcher, Middleton, and Marlowe.
Shakespeare's sonnets
Shakespeare's sonnets: 154 English-form sonnets by William Shakespeare, first published in the 1609 quarto Shake-speares Sonnets published by Thomas Thorpe, addressed largely to a young man and a woman, and ending with A Lover's Complaint.
Shakespearean comedy
Shakespearean comedy, or Shakespeare's comedies, is the group of Shakespeare plays classified as comedies, defined by happy endings and marriage, from the 1623 First Folio's division into Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies.
Shakespearean sonnet
The Shakespearean sonnet, also called the English sonnet, is a 14-line poem in iambic pentameter with three quatrains, a closing couplet, and the rhyme scheme ABAB CDCD EFEF GG.
Shakespearean tragedy
Shakespearean tragedy: the tragic plays of William Shakespeare, classified in the 1623 First Folio, shaped chiefly by Seneca rather than Greek tragedy, performed at the Globe and Blackfriars, and defined by A. C. Bradley as tales of suffering ending in death.
Shakespears Sister
Shakespears Sister, the pop-rock duo of Siobhan Fahey (ex-Bananarama) and Marcella Detroit, formed 1988; their 1992 single Stay spent eight weeks at UK No. 1 before a 1993 split and 2019 reunion.
Shakey Graves
Shakey Graves is the stage name of Alejandro Rose-Garcia, an American singer-songwriter from Austin, Texas, whose one-man blues and folk act features a suitcase bass drum.
Shakey's Pizza
Shakey's Pizza, American pizza chain founded 1954 in Sacramento by Sherwood "Shakey" Johnson and Ed Plummer; known for thin crust pizza, Mojo potatoes, and Bunch of Lunch buffet; now centered on its Philippine operator SPAVI with 2,970 stores.
Shakhahaari
Shakhahaari (ಶಾಖಾಹಾರಿ, "Vegetarian"), 2024 Kannada murder mystery by debutant Sandeep Sunkad, starring Rangayana Raghu as chef Subbanna; released 16 February 2024, UA certified, streaming on Prime Video.
Shakhbut bin Sultan Al Nahyan
Shakhbut bin Sultan Al Nahyan (شخبوط بن سلطان آل نهيان) was ruler of Abu Dhabi from 1928 until his deposition in 1966, when his brother Zayed succeeded him.
Shakhob Zoirov
Shakhob Zoirov (Шахобиддин Зоиров), born 1993 in Kagan, Uzbekistan, is a southpaw boxer, 2016 Olympic flyweight gold medalist and 2019 world champion, later an IBA pro bantamweight title challenger.
Shakhtarsk Raion
Shakhtarsk Raion (Шахтарський район) was a district of Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine, centered on Shakhtarsk; abolished by Ukraine's 2020 raion reform into Horlivka Raion, but retained by the DNR as a municipal district of 68 settlements.
Shakhty Trial
The Shakhty Trial (Шахтинское дело) was a public show trial held in Moscow in 1928, in which 53 Donbass coal engineers and managers were tried for sabotage.
Shaki Khanate
The Shaki Khanate, also called خانات شکی, was a khanate centered on Shaki in northwestern Azerbaijan, founded in 1743 by Haji Chalabi Khan and abolished by Russia in 1819.
Shakib Al Hasan (সাকিব আল হাসান)
Shakib Al Hasan (সাকিব আল হাসান), born 1987 in Magura, Bangladesh all-rounder, left-hand bat and left-arm orthodox spin; only cricketer ranked ICC No. 1 all-rounder in Tests, ODIs, and T20Is simultaneously; career blocked from 2024 by political circumstances.
Shakib Arslan
Shakib Arslan (1869–1946), known as Amir al-Bayan, was a Druze pan-Arab activist who edited La Nation Arabe and served as Syria and Palestine's spokesman before the League of Nations.
Shakib Khan (শাকিব খান)
Shakib Khan, born Masud Rana in 1979, is a Bangladeshi film actor and the dominant star of Dhallywood, with over 250 films and four National Film Awards.
Shakila (actress)
Shakila, born Badshah Begum, was an Indian actress in Hindi cinema from the late 1940s to the mid-1960s, best known for Guru Dutt's Aar-Paar (1954) and C.I.D. (1956).
Shakila (musician)
Shakila is an Iranian-born Persian-American singer based in San Francisco, born in 1962, whose career since 1990 spans Taraneh and Caltex Records and over sixty albums.
Shakila Thangaratinam
Shakila Thangaratinam is a British obstetrician and clinical academic, Executive Dean of the Institute of Life Course and Medical Sciences at the University of Liverpool.
Shakin' Stevens
Shakin' Stevens, stage name of Welsh singer Michael Barratt (born 1948, Ely, Cardiff), was the UK's biggest-selling singles artist of the 1980s, with four No. 1 singles including "This Ole House" and "Merry Christmas Everyone".
Shaking table test
A shaking table test is an earthquake engineering experiment in which a structure or scale model on a hydraulically driven platform reproduces recorded ground motion.
Shakir Hassan Al Said
Shakir Hassan Al Said (شاكر حسن آل سعيد, 1925–2004) was an Iraqi painter and theorist who co-founded the Baghdad Group for Modern Art in 1951 and the One Dimension Group in 1971.
Shakira
Shakira (Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll, b. 1977, Barranquilla) is a Colombian singer-songwriter behind Pies Descalzos, Laundry Service, 'Hips Don't Lie,' and Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran, a Grammy and Latin Grammy winner and best-selling Latin female artist.
Shakira (album)
Shakira. is Shakira's self-titled tenth studio album, released March 25, 2014 on RCA, her first English-language album since She Wolf (2009), featuring Rihanna, Magic!, and Blake Shelton, scoring 69 on Metacritic.
Shakira Caine
Shakira Caine, born Shakira Baksh (Guyana, 1947), Indo-Guyanese-British model and actress; Miss Guyana 1967, third at Miss World 1967; actress in Carry On Again Doctor and UFO; married Michael Caine in 1973.
Shakira discography
Shakira discography: 12 studio albums from Magia (1991) to Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran (2024), bilingual Spanish/English pairs like Laundry Service/Servicio de lavanderia, four live albums, and singles from Suerte to Bzrp Music Sessions Vol. 53.
Shakira Khan
Shakira Khan (born 2002, Burnley) is an English reality TV personality, runner-up with Harry Cooksley on Love Island UK series 12 (2025) and host of Love Island: The Debrief; distinct from the singer Shakira.
Shakiriyya
The Shakiriyya (شاكرية) were a corps of paid professional soldiers of the Abbasid army, protecting the caliphs and later governors, prominent from 842 to 880.