The Jones's wanted their daughter to be well-read in the European tradition of Shakespeare, Milton, and other major novelists and poets. |
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Rani, she said, liked to quote William Shakespeare in her notebook, and wrote her own thoughts in it as well. |
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I see no difficulty with the proposition that Shakespeare was acquainted with Roger Manners, fifth Earl of Rutland. |
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The Shakespeare Garden is planted with herbs referred to by Shakespeare in his plays, including mint, camomile, marjoram and lavender. |
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Northam's acid comments aside, however, Stoppard falls short of his Shakespeare In Love triumph, while John Barry's soundtrack merely ticks over. |
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Over the past 65 years Bromley Little Theatre has had more dramas than a Shakespeare play. |
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A Midsummer Night's Dream is back in Edmonton this week as Alberta Ballet remounts Christopher Wheeldon's rendition of the Shakespeare favorite. |
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Fans of English literature should hotfoot it to the British Library's skilled digitisation of its Shakespeare quartos. |
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As Shakespeare wrote it, The Chronicle History of Henry the Fifth is an intensely masculine, simple, sanguine drama of kinghood and war. |
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Elevated Jacobean English By and large, biblical English is elevated Jacobean English, comparable to the style of Shakespeare and Thomas Browne. |
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He began fifty years ago as a Shakespeare scholar, with a learned and still necessary edition of The Tempest. |
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I set up with 13 ft Shakespeare match rod and a fixed spool reel loaded with 21b line. |
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Among other notable ailurophiles were Byron, Anatole France, Montaigne and Lope de Vega, known as the Spanish Shakespeare. |
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Shakespeare has left us a satiric portrait of the poet who writes verses by the yard to please a patron in Timon of Athens. |
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My eyelids fluttered open the next morning to see the black binding and gold lettering of my new Shakespeare book. |
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Famously, the call tu-whit tu-whoo was immortalised by William Shakespeare in Act 5, Scene 2 of Love's Labour's Lost. |
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Working on Macbeth, he drove his librettist half insane with demands that he stick close to Shakespeare. |
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The call of the Tawny Owl is the tu-whit tu-whoo immortalised by William Shakespeare. |
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If, as Shakespeare wrote, sleep knits up the raveled sleeve of care, then meditation orders the cluttered closet of life. |
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He acted with the Royal Shakespeare Company in 2002, in Island Princess, The Malcontent, Edward III and The Roman Actor. |
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I feel like some jilted lover or something from Shakespeare, thinking these things to myself. |
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Jane Davenant was a natural suspect in view of her son William Davenant's reputed willingness to believe that Shakespeare begot him. |
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Wagner, whose significance to our culture is on a level with Shakespeare or Da Vinci, was a composer whose opinions were neither modest nor moderate. |
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My trip takes the reverse path, and I begin by assessing the depth of my Shakespeare knowledge in his birthplace. |
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Perhaps Shakespeare felt that a judicious tactical retreat following rehearsal criticism was in order, but that does not brand the line a mistake. |
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Judi dench won for her five minutes of screen time in Shakespeare in Love, but far be it from me to poo-poo a dench win. |
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The notes and general introduction are taken from the esteemed Arden Shakespeare edition of the plays and poems. |
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Tyson gave his roast in the form of iconic poetry, drawing on The Iliad, Shakespeare, and Emily Dickinson to deliver his barbs. |
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Shakespeare allusions appear everywhere from LOL cats to cell phone commercials to the best television series ever. |
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All were more or less informed by the desire to distance Shakespeare in performance from the perceived colonial baggage of received pronunciation, and stage English. |
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He was described by Shakespeare as having a hunchback and indeed the skeleton shows evidence of curvature of the spine. |
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Shakespeare himself, the book describes, coped with ironically similar struggles. |
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When it comes to crafting a raucous, devastatingly brutal insult, he is a Shakespeare. |
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Even so, the scene is in no need of being further queered by Brian Kulick, the director of the New York Shakespeare Festival's current Central Park revival. |
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You were the first black actor to play an English king in a major Shakespeare production, and the media treated it bizarrely. |
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The scope of this bibliography is limited to studies on Shakespeare television adaptations and derivatives and does not include musical versions or operas based on the plays. |
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Moreover, says the performer, that painful experience is what led Shakespeare to become more than a sharp-tongued wit, more than the derivative writers of his era and ours. |
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Maybe you managed not to cringe at his take on the bard in Shakespeare in Love, making you a stronger person than most. |
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The English that was spoken by William Shakespeare is very different from the modern English spoken today. |
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One of the aims is to make Shakespeare relevant to a modern day audience. |
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Shakespeare studies call for a thorough knowledge of a wide spectrum of pre-Shakespearean, Elizabethan and Jacobean drama, the Elizabethan stage and dramaturgy. |
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English access was provided at Shakespeare Cliff, French access from a shaft at Sangatte. |
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It has hosted a season of performances from the Royal Shakespeare Company for over 25 years, as well as touring productions of West End musicals. |
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It is popularly believed that William Shakespeare wrote in Middle English, but he actually wrote in Early Modern English. |
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Sir Thomas More is a play written circa 1592 in collaboration with Henry Chettle, Anthony Munday, William Shakespeare, and others. |
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Shakespeare must have walked the town's streets, near the castle and river, much as people still do. |
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Writing a work of fiction, however, Shakespeare took many liberties and made great omissions. |
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Examples of this appeal to classicism included Dante, Petrarch, and Shakespeare in poetry and theatre. |
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Only 10 copies of this edition are known to exist, including one held by the British Library and one held by the Folger Shakespeare Library. |
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Shakespeare's company, the Chamberlain's Men, may have purchased that play and performed a version for some time, which Shakespeare reworked. |
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The 2006 publication by Arden Shakespeare of different Hamlet texts in different volumes is perhaps evidence of this shifting focus and emphasis. |
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Many scholars have found it odd that Shakespeare would, seemingly arbitrarily, use this rhetorical form throughout the play. |
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Shakespeare borrowed heavily from both but expanded the plot by developing a number of supporting characters, particularly Mercutio and Paris. |
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By bringing Romeo into the scene to eavesdrop, Shakespeare breaks from the normal sequence of courtship. |
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Shakespeare uses references to the night and day, the stars, the moon, and the sun to create this illusion. |
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In choosing forms, Shakespeare matches the poetry to the character who uses it. |
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The theater company will be putting on plays by Shakespeare this season. |
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But whatever it was, when I was playing Romeo I was carrying a torch, I was trying to sell realism in Shakespeare. |
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For example, in 1986, the Royal Shakespeare Company set the play in modern Verona. |
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In 1997, the Folger Shakespeare Theatre produced a version set in a typical suburban world. |
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Shakespeare conflated the story of Donwald and King Duff in what was a significant change to the story. |
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Charlotte Cushman is unique among nineteenth century interpreters of Shakespeare in achieving stardom in roles of both genders. |
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In 1786, John Boydell announced his intention to found his Shakespeare Gallery. |
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His contemporary Francis Gentleman, an admirer of Shakespeare, was much less appreciative of this play. |
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Malone thought that this play had to be an early and immature work of Shakespeare and, by implication, that an older writer would know better. |
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He regarded Theseus as the voice of Shakespeare himself and the speech as a call for imaginative audiences. |
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Hudson, an American clergyman and editor of Shakespeare, also wrote comments on this play. |
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In 1961, Elizabeth Sewell argued that Shakespeare aligns himself not with the aristocrats of the play, but with Bottom and the artisans. |
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In 1972, Ralph Berry argued that Shakespeare was chiefly concerned with epistemology in this play. |
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Nevertheless, in October 2014, Lois Leveen speculated in The Atlantic that the original Shakespeare play did not contain a balcony. |
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It is arguable as to whether we can truly ascribe this play to Shakespeare. |
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To Victorian bardolators, Shakespeare was so elevated a hero that he was virtually immobile. |
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She sits enrapt as Shakespeare turns the kaleidoscope of life for her, or stands enthralled by Victor Hugo's picture of the human soul. |
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For the beauties of Shakespeare are not of so dim or equivocal a nature as to be visible only to learned eyes. |
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Putting aside passages which might possibly apply to great-pox, smallpox was evidently well known to Shakespeare and his contemporaries. |
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In the 16th century William Shakespeare and his contemporaries lived in London at a time of hostility to the development of the theatre. |
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William Shakespeare was interested in the legendary history of Britain, and was familiar with some of its more obscure byways. |
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In any case, the practices imputed to Shakespeare as an emergent dramatist were not in the least exceptional. |
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It may be that the tradition of Henry's riotous youth, immortalised by Shakespeare, is partly due to political enmity. |
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The result of these influences is a script that vilifies the king, and Shakespeare had few qualms about departing from history to incite drama. |
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He is the subject of the historical play Richard III by William Shakespeare. |
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All these characteristics are repeated by Shakespeare, who portrays him as having a hunch, a limp and a withered arm. |
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During the 1590s, some of the great names of English literature entered their maturity, including William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe. |
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Resident and touring theater troupes operate from the American Shakespeare Center in Staunton. |
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The era is most famous for theatre, as William Shakespeare and many others composed plays that broke free of England's past style of theatre. |
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Shakespeare is also supposed to have taken his revenge on Lucy by writing a scurrilous ballad about him. |
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Shakespeare continued to act in his own and other plays after his success as a playwright. |
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In 1709, Rowe passed down a tradition that Shakespeare played the ghost of Hamlet's father. |
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Throughout his career, Shakespeare divided his time between London and Stratford. |
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Thomas was ordered by the church court to do public penance, which would have caused much shame and embarrassment for the Shakespeare family. |
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Shakespeare was buried in the chancel of the Holy Trinity Church two days after his death. |
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No clear evidence exists that Shakespeare made any direct references to Saxo's version. |
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In this play, Shakespeare adds a supernatural element to the tragic structure. |
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Shakespeare collaborated on two further surviving plays, Henry VIII and The Two Noble Kinsmen, probably with John Fletcher. |
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Soon, however, Shakespeare began to adapt the traditional styles to his own purposes. |
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Shakespeare combined the two throughout his career, with Romeo and Juliet perhaps the best example of the mixing of the styles. |
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Once Shakespeare mastered traditional blank verse, he began to interrupt and vary its flow. |
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After Hamlet, Shakespeare varied his poetic style further, particularly in the more emotional passages of the late tragedies. |
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In the last phase of his career, Shakespeare adopted many techniques to achieve these effects. |
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This strength of design ensures that a Shakespeare play can survive translation, cutting and wide interpretation without loss to its core drama. |
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Soliloquies had been used mainly to convey information about characters or events, but Shakespeare used them to explore characters' minds. |
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Shakespeare influenced novelists such as Thomas Hardy, William Faulkner, and Charles Dickens. |
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Shakespeare was not revered in his lifetime, but he received a large amount of praise. |
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As a result, critics of the time mostly rated Shakespeare below John Fletcher and Ben Jonson. |
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Thomas Rymer, for example, condemned Shakespeare for mixing the comic with the tragic. |
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Marxist playwright and director Bertolt Brecht devised an epic theatre under the influence of Shakespeare. |
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From the 18th century, the desire for authentic Shakespeare portraits fuelled claims that various surviving pictures depicted Shakespeare. |
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William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe defined England's Elizabethan period. |
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Warwickshire is home to the town of Stratford upon Avon, the birthplace of the writer William Shakespeare. |
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The English Terminal and boring from Shakespeare Cliff was undertaken by the five British construction companies in the Translink Joint Venture. |
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She is the world's fourth most translated author, behind Agatha Christie, Jules Verne and William Shakespeare. |
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In it, Shakespeare and his company perform the play for the real Oberon and Titania and an audience of fairies. |
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Shakespeare's son Hamnet Shakespeare appears in the play as the Indian boy. |
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All references to A Midsummer Night's Dream, unless otherwise specified, are taken from the Arden Shakespeare 2nd series edition. |
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There are many legends about Jonson's rivalry with Shakespeare, some of which may be true. |
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Many critics since the 18th century have ranked Jonson below only Shakespeare among English Renaissance dramatists. |
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Lyly must also be considered and remembered as a primary influence on the plays of William Shakespeare, and in particular the romantic comedies. |
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Shakespeare also popularized the English sonnet, which made significant changes to Petrarch's model. |
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The central figures of the Elizabethan canon are Edmund Spenser, Sir Philip Sidney, Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare, and Ben Jonson. |
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Shakespeare wrote plays in a variety of genres, including histories, tragedies, comedies and the late romances, or tragicomedies. |
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The authors most frequently cited include William Shakespeare, John Milton and John Dryden. |
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Johnson's work on The Plays of William Shakespeare took up most of his time. |
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Although it took him another seven years to finish, Johnson completed a few volumes of his Shakespeare to prove his commitment to the project. |
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They began to study Johnson's works with an increasing focus on the critical analysis found in his edition of Shakespeare and Lives of the Poets. |
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In this period, Pope was also employed by the publisher Jacob Tonson to produce an opulent new edition of Shakespeare. |
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As in the Serenade, Britten set words by a range of poets, who here include Shakespeare, Coleridge, Keats, Shelley, Tennyson and Wilfred Owen. |
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These theatres stage a high proportion of straight drama, Shakespeare, other classic plays and premieres of new plays by leading playwrights. |
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In 1955 Olivier and Leigh were invited to play leading roles in three plays at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford. |
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His next major role, and his last appearance in a Shakespeare play, was as Shylock in The Merchant of Venice, his first appearance in the work. |
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He decided that he must form his own company to play Shakespeare and other classic plays in the West End. |
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He followed this with three other Shakespeare productions with Brook, which were well received. |
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He made many other recordings, both before and after this, including ten Shakespeare plays. |
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Without Gielgud there would be no National Theatre or Royal Shakespeare Company. |
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Based on the play of the same name by Shakespeare, Taymor changed the original character's gender to cast Mirren as her lead. |
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In his final period, Shakespeare turned to romance or tragicomedy and completed four major plays, including The Tempest. |
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A number of critics see Shakespeare endorsing cross-gendering. Shakespeare is, what might be called, a skillful exponent of metagender beliefs. |
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My misquotation of Hamlet during the Shakespeare lecture brought laughs. I wish I'd done it on purpose. |
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In 1992 Hughes published Shakespeare and the Goddess of Complete Being, a monumental work inspired by Graves's The White Goddess. |
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His uncle Thomas Swift married a daughter of poet and playwright Sir William Davenant, a godson of William Shakespeare. |
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It dictates and pervades great works of art, like those of Shakespeare and Michelangelo, and those two letters of mine, such as they are. |
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Like Morris, the Set were fans of the poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson, and would meet together to recite the plays of William Shakespeare. |
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His work changed direction to feature scenes based on English Folklore and characters from Shakespeare. |
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Under all the mysterioso legerdemain, he was the Shakespeare of rhetorical bullying. |
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Renowned for his ability to remember lines, Hopkins keeps his memory supple by learning things by heart such as poetry, and Shakespeare. |
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Popular units include bibles, encyclopaediae, the complete works of Shakespeare, and the Library of Congress. |
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In old age he befriended the young Edmund Gosse, whom he introduced to Shakespeare. |
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Of particular interest for Shakespeare scholars is the story of Amleth, the first instance of Hamlet. |
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William Shakespeare, among others, composed highly innovative and powerful plays. |
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The authors most frequently cited by Johnson include Shakespeare, Milton and Dryden. |
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The folio edition also features full literary quotes by those authors that Johnson quoted, such as Dryden and Shakespeare. |
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The Moors also had a noticeable influence on the works of George Peele and William Shakespeare. |
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It is also used figuratively to refer to pompous, inflated or pretentious writing or speech, from at least the time of Shakespeare. |
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Fustian also refers to pompous, inflated or pretentious writing or speech, starting from the time of Shakespeare. |
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In his final period, Shakespeare turned to romance or tragicomedy and completed three more major plays, including The Tempest. |
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They shared a passion for the works of Byron, Shakespeare and especially Walter Scott. |
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Gawsworth Hall hosts an annual Shakespeare festival as well as many arts and music events throughout the year. |
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The values of War or Empire and Love are ever twin supremities in Shakespeare. |
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He wins a Shakespeare MACH 2 Commercial float rod, a 13-footer that's perfect for method floats and loaded wagglers at big carp fisheries. |
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Sturgess offers an important context for the appropriation of Shakespeare in the book's assessment of Anglo-Saxonism in America. |
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Outside were carved heads of Shakespeare and Milton, Chaucer and Dante. |
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Only Johnny Carson could make the commercialization of Shakespeare funny. |
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For more information about the Shakespeare Authorship Studies Conference, please visit www. |
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In some cases, for example, Hamlet, Troilus and Cressida, and Othello, Shakespeare could have revised the texts between the quarto and folio editions. |
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The indoor setting, combined with the Jacobean fashion for lavishly staged masques, allowed Shakespeare to introduce more elaborate stage devices. |
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Burton went on to do Henry V as the titular character, and played Ferdinand in The Tempest as a part of the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre season as well. |
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It is not clear for which companies Shakespeare wrote his early plays. |
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The most verbally innovative of our authors and our all-time champion neologizer, Shakespeare made up more than 8.5 percent of his written vocabulary. |
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The first recorded works of Shakespeare are Richard III and the three parts of Henry VI, written in the early 1590s during a vogue for historical drama. |
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Klasse of the Federal Republic of Germany, the Golden Medal of Honour in Vienna, the Austrian Cross of Honour First Class, the Shakespeare Prize and the Puccini Award. |
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History as a separate genre was popularized by William Shakespeare. |
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This follows the pattern of temptation used at the time of Shakespeare. |
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The English poet and playwright William Shakespeare wrote many comedies. |
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Examples of Cyprus in foreign literature include the works of Shakespeare, with most of the play Othello by William Shakespeare set on the island of Cyprus. |
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Shakespeare claims that Charles VI rejected Henry V's claim to the French throne on the basis of Salic law's inheritance rules, leading to the Battle of Agincourt. |
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Bristol's theatre scene features several companies as well as the Old Vic, including Show of Strength, Shakespeare at the Tobacco Factory and Travelling Light. |
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The English imagination was fired by Greek mythology starting with Chaucer and John Milton and continuing through Shakespeare to Robert Bridges in the 20th century. |
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Shakespeare in the Arb has produced A Midsummer Night's Dream three times. |
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She is equally conversant with Shakespeare and the laws of physics. |
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According to this perspective, these ideas already existed in the form of proto-racism and Shakespeare employs the medium of theatre to reinforce and disseminate them. |
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Most playwrights of the period typically collaborated with others at some point, and critics agree that Shakespeare did the same, mostly early and late in his career. |
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Shakespeare has been commemorated in many statues and memorials around the world, including funeral monuments in Southwark Cathedral and Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey. |
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In 2015, it was reported that Williams had written a play called Shakeshafte, about a meeting between William Shakespeare and Edmund Campion, a Jesuit priest and martyr. |
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John Aubrey reported that Shakespeare had been a country schoolmaster. |
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This popularity was helped by the rise of great playwrights such as William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe as well as the building of the Globe Theatre in London. |
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During the summer of 1940, reporters gathered at Shakespeare Cliff to watch aerial dogfights between German and British aircraft during the Battle of Britain. |
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Shakespeare Primary School serves the northwest part of the town. |
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Many of the grammatical features that a modern reader of Shakespeare might find quaint or archaic represent the distinct characteristics of Early Modern English. |
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William Shakespeare, whose works include Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, and A Midsummer Night's Dream, remains one of the most championed authors in English literature. |
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Unlike Shakespeare, though, the dialogue is stripped to the bare minimum by the apes' rudimentary language, which is rather refreshing since everyone gets to the point. |
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Morris mastered the secrets of English wordlore as much better than Shakespeare as the manifold development of the science of language naturally enabled him to do. |
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In his view, Shakespeare suggests that love requires the risk of death. |
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In 1970, Peter Brook staged the play for the Royal Shakespeare Company in a blank white box, in which masculine fairies engaged in circus tricks such as trapeze artistry. |
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Callum triumphs with a Shakespeare Cypry QT Excel Dome bivvy and a Cypry deluxe bedchair as top scorer in the all-ages section of our competition. |
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Gildon thought that Shakespeare drew inspiration from the works of Ovid and Virgil, and that he could read them in the original Latin and not in later translations. |
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Morris mastered the secrets of English wordlore as much better than Shakespeare as the manifold development of the science of language natually enabled him to do. |
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By emphasising this theme even in the setting of the play, Shakespeare prepares the reader's mind to accept the fantastic reality of the fairy world and its happenings. |
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A theory has arisen centred on the notion that Marlowe may have faked his death and then continued to write under the assumed name of William Shakespeare. |
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He can lay claim to having one of Hollywood's most eclectic CVs, having ticked off everything from Shakespeare and musicals, to romcoms and thrillers. |
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In the Romantic era, Jonson suffered the fate of being unfairly compared and contrasted to Shakespeare, as the taste for Jonson's type of satirical comedy decreased. |
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This approach is taken in the 1978 Thames TV production, Jack Gold's 1983 version for BBC Television Shakespeare, and in Penny Woolcock's 1997 Macbeth on the Estate. |
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Shakespeare borrowed the story from several tales in Holinshed's Chronicles, a popular history of the British Isles well known to Shakespeare and his contemporaries. |
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Five paintings of the play were commissioned for the Boydell Shakespeare Gallery in the late 18th century, one representing each of the five acts of the play. |
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Shakespeare settles his playgoers, and also enhances the fatality of the plot, giving it something of the tense, unalterable ananke of the Greek myths. |
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The Spanish Tragedy was often referred to, or parodied, in works written by other Elizabethan playwrights, including William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, and Christopher Marlowe. |
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Besides their strong connections with Shakespeare, the Second Quarto actually names one of its actors, Will Kemp, instead of Peter in a line in Act five. |
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His later works included essays, an influential annotated edition of The Plays of William Shakespeare, and the widely read tale The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia. |
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Shakespeare was, not surprisingly, Anglocentric in his histories, but his tragedies and some of his comedies ranged widely across the known world, from Italy to Egypt. |
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In the old days of Magic the Gathering, the flavor text was almost all serious, sometimes even with quotes from Shakespeare or Edgar Allen Poe thrown in. |
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The debt was soon repaid by Jacob Tonson, who had contracted Johnson to publish Shakespeare, and this encouraged Johnson to finish his edition to repay the favour. |
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No one entered more fully than Shakespeare into the character of this species of poetry, which admits of no expletive imagery, no merely ornamental line. |
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In 1758, Johnson began to write a weekly series, The Idler, which ran from 15 April 1758 to 5 April 1760, as a way to avoid finishing his Shakespeare. |
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Shakespeare saves his prose style most often for the common people in the play, though at times he uses it for other characters, such as Mercutio. |
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Shakespeare uses a variety of poetic forms throughout the play. |
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The second edition of Pope's Shakespeare appeared in 1728, but aside from making some minor revisions to the preface, it seems that Pope had little to do with it. |
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However, he did encourage William in his reading, and in particular set him to commit to memory large portions of verse, including works by Milton, Shakespeare and Spenser. |
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In the later balcony scene, Shakespeare has Romeo overhear Juliet's soliloquy, but in Brooke's version of the story, her declaration is done alone. |
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Alternative theories are that some or all of 'the bad quartos' are early versions by Shakespeare or abbreviations made either for Shakespeare's company or for other companies. |
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Her drama company specialised in the plays of Shakespeare, and many leading actors had taken very large cuts in their pay to develop their Shakespearean techniques there. |
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In June 1937 the Old Vic company took up an invitation to perform Hamlet in the courtyard of the castle at Elsinore, where Shakespeare located the play. |
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It is unknown when exactly Shakespeare wrote Romeo and Juliet. |
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He recovered enough to take the heavy role of Edgar in Strindberg's The Dance of Death, the finest of all his performances other than in Shakespeare, in Gielgud's view. |
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Off Broadway, the Riverside Shakespeare Company mounted an uncut first folio Hamlet in 1978 at Columbia University, with a playing time of under three hours. |
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Shakespeare almost certainly wrote the role of Hamlet for Richard Burbage. |
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In Hamlet, Shakespeare reverses this so that it is through the soliloquies, not the action, that the audience learns Hamlet's motives and thoughts. |
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Most scholars reject the idea that Hamlet is in any way connected with Shakespeare's only son, Hamnet Shakespeare, who died in 1596 at age eleven. |
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Consequently, there is no direct evidence that Kyd wrote it, nor any evidence that the play was not an early version of Hamlet by Shakespeare himself. |
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Shakespeare based his play on works by writers such as Edward Hall and Samuel Daniel, who in turn based their writings on contemporary chroniclers such as Thomas Walsingham. |
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Soon he joined the Royal Shakespeare Company, where his productions, many of them featuring Simon Russell Beale, included Troilus and Cressida, Richard III and The Tempest. |
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The plays that William Shakespeare witnessed in Coventry during his boyhood or 'teens' may have influenced how his plays, such as Hamlet, came about. |
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Honorary freemen include Bob Geldof, King Harald V of Norway, Bobby Robson, Alan Shearer, the late Nelson Mandela and the Royal Shakespeare Company. |
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We are fain to ask what is to become of Shakespeare and a host of others, who, with equal originality of thought, have avoided those vagrant exceptionalities of humour. |
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I'm so embarrassed, I misquoted Hamlet to a professor of Shakespeare. |
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Ayckbourn attended Haileybury and Imperial Service College, in the village of Hertford Heath, and whilst there toured Europe and America with the school's Shakespeare company. |
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He is also a patron of the Shakespeare Schools Festival, a charity that enables school children across the UK to perform Shakespeare in professional theatres. |
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His creative powers were, as Shakespeare said, still crescent. |
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Shakespeare combined poetic genius with a practical sense of the theatre. |
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Chesterton, both William Shakespeare and Geoffrey Chaucer appear as characters, as do several characters from within A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Tempest. |
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Scholars are not certain when each of the 154 sonnets was composed, but evidence suggests that Shakespeare wrote sonnets throughout his career for a private readership. |
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An expert on London's history, Porter vividly re-creates life in England's largest and most important city during the years that Shakespeare lived and worked there. |
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The first, a fantasy reworking of Shakespeare, made little impression, but the second, a satire on European dictators, attracted more notice, much of it unfavourable. |
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Shaw's short 1910 play The Dark Lady of the Sonnets, in which Shakespeare pleads with Queen Elizabeth I for the endowment of a state theatre, was part of this campaign. |
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Most scholars now accept that Shakespeare wrote A Lover's Complaint. |
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