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  2. List of translations of works by William Shakespeare

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    French Le songe d'une nuit d'été: Jean-Louis Supervielle, Jules Supervielle: Paris: 1959 13439423 1231955560 Le songe d'une nuit d'été: Nicolas Briançon Paris: 2011 9782749812014 759590560 Much Ado About Nothing: Mauritian French Creole Enn Ta Senn Dan Vid: Dev Virahsawmy: Port Louis: 1995 9789990333053 40200789 Macbeth: Russian ...

  3. Macbeth (Verdi) - Wikipedia

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    Macbeth (Italian pronunciation: [ˈmakbet; makˈbɛt]) [1] is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi, with an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave and additions by Andrea Maffei, based on William Shakespeare's play of the same name. Written for the Teatro della Pergola in Florence, Macbeth was Verdi's tenth opera and premiered on 14 March ...

  4. List of Shakespearean settings - Wikipedia

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    Canon Street is the setting for Act 4, scene VI of the play Henry VI, Part 2. [4] Corioli; The plays that William Shakespeare saw in Coventry during his boyhood or 'teens' may have influenced how his plays, such as Hamlet, came about. [5] Cyprus and Venice are the two main settings for Othello. Cyprus was formally annexed by Venice in 1489, and ...

  5. List of Shakespearean scenes - Wikipedia

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    Inverness. Macbeth's castle. 80 I 6 Before Macbeth's castle. 37 I 7 A room in Macbeth's castle. 92 II 1 The court of Macbeth's castle. 72 II 2 The court of Macbeth's castle. 87 II 3 The court of Macbeth's castle. 167 II 4 Outside Macbeth's castle. 52 III 1 Forres. The palace. 156 III 2 Forres. The palace. 61 III 3 Forres. A park near the palace ...

  6. List of historical figures dramatised by Shakespeare - Wikipedia

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    Queen Margaret is a fairly epic character, one of the greatest in that respect in Shakespeare. She appears as a naive girl in Henry VI, Part 1 and as an embittered old woman in Richard III. She is a central character of the two intervening plays, Henry VI, Part 2 and Henry VI, Part 3, in which she is the wife of Henry VI and a leader of his ...

  7. Shakespearean history - Wikipedia

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    The source for most of the English history plays, as well as for Macbeth and King Lear, is the well-known Raphael Holinshed's Chronicles of English history. The source for the Roman history plays is Plutarch's Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Compared Together, in the translation made by Sir Thomas North in 1579. Shakespeare's historical ...

  8. Macbeth (Bloch) - Wikipedia

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    Macbeth is an opera in three acts, with music by Ernest Bloch to a libretto by Edmond Fleg, after the eponymous play of William Shakespeare.Bloch composed the opera between 1904 and 1906, but it did not receive its first performance until 30 November 1910 by the Opéra-Comique in Paris with Henri Albers in the title role and conducted by François Ruhlmann.

  9. The Comedy of Errors - Wikipedia

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    The play contains a topical reference to the wars of succession in France, which would fit any date from 1589 to 1595. Charles Whitworth argues that The Comedy of Errors was written "in the latter part of 1594" on the basis of historical records and textual similarities with other plays Shakespeare wrote around this time. [2]