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Promoters of various authorship theories assert that their particular candidate is more plausible in terms of education, life experience, and/or social status to be the true author of the Shakespeare canon. Most candidates are either members of the upper social classes or are known poets and playwrights of the day.
The Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles (SCLA) is a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) theatre company based in Los Angeles, California, that stages outdoor and indoor Shakespeare plays and produces the Simply Shakespeare series of benefit readings around Los Angeles. The Center also provides arts-based opportunities for veterans and at-risk youth.
Portrait miniature of an unknown woman, possibly Emilia Lanier Bassano, c. 1590, by Nicholas Hilliard [1]. The Emilia Lanier theory of Shakespeare authorship contends that the English poet Emilia Lanier (née Aemilia Bassano; 1569–1645) is the actual author of at least part of the plays and poems attributed to William Shakespeare.
Mark Rylance — Shakespearean actor and director, director of Shakespeare's Globe Theatre 1995–2005 [35] Don Rubin — professor emeritus of theatre at York University in Toronto; Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship vice president; Antonin Scalia — U.S. Supreme Court Justice [7] Joseph Sobran — journalist, author, researcher [36]
The Shakespeare canon is generally defined by the 36 plays published in the First Folio (1623), some of which are thought to be collaborations or to have been edited by others, and two co-authored plays, Pericles, Prince of Tyre (1609) and The Two Noble Kinsmen (1634); two classical narrative poems, Venus and Adonis (1593) and The Rape of Lucrece (1594); a collection of 154 sonnets and "A ...
Theater critic Charles McNulty writes on how Shakespeare, and 'The Tempest' in particular, is helping him bear witness to the scale of loss caused by the Los Angeles wildfires.
Independent Shakespeare Co. (commonly known as Indyshakes or ISC) is a nonprofit theatre company, based in Los Angeles. [1] They most frequently stage theatrical productions of the works of William Shakespeare and other Elizabethan and Jacobean classics, in addition to modern classics and developing new devised , musical , and solo works.
Over the years, Shakespeare by the Sea has developed into a mid-sized arts organization with two core programs: the free summer repertory presented in Long Beach and then throughout the South Bay, Los Angeles and Orange County; and the Little Fish Theatre, a 60-seat black box theatre producing new, classic and contemporary works year-round in ...