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Louis Zukofsky had read all of Shakespeare's works by the time he was eleven, and his Bottom: On Shakespeare (1947) is a book-length prose poem exploring the role of the eye in the plays. In its original printing, a second volume consisting of a setting of The Tempest by the poet's wife, Celia Zukofsky , was also included.
The first series follows the writing and preparation to stage Romeo and Juliet after William has gained some early career recognition for his poetry, as well as his plays Henry VI and Richard III. Events in each episode allude to one or more Shakespeare plays and usually end with Will discussing the events with Anne and either being inspired to ...
Sonnet 18 (also known as "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day") is one of the best-known of the 154 sonnets written by English poet and playwright William Shakespeare.. In the sonnet, the speaker asks whether he should compare the Fair Youth to a summer's day, but notes that he has qualities that surpass a summer's day, which is one of the themes of the poem.
The film is a part of a series of six shorts from filmmaker Jack Jewers, who has reimagined six of Shakespeare’s most popular speeches and poems for the 21st century to celebrate this monumental ...
An Appointment with Mr Yeats" by The Waterboys is an album of Yeats poems set to song. The poem "Down by the Salley Gardens" was based by Yeats on a fragment of a song he heard an old woman singing. Yeats' words have been recorded as a song by many performers. The song "A Bad Dream" by Keane is based on the poem "An Irish Airman Foresees His ...
Music in the plays of William Shakespeare includes both music incidental to the plot, as song and dance, and also additional supplied both by Shakespeare's own company and subsequent performers. [1] This music is distinct from musical settings of Shakespeare's sonnets by later composers.
Flawed but engrossing, the craft of HBO Max's post-post-apocalyptic tale masks its narrative imperfections: As in the Bard, plot gives way to poetry. 'Station Eleven,' like the Shakespeare that ...
An Englishman named William Shakespeare became the first man to receive Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine outside clinical trials in the U.K. The BBC reports that Shakespeare, 81, said he was “pleased ...