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The Crucible is a 1953 play by the American playwright Arthur Miller. It is a dramatized and partially fictionalized [ 1 ] story of the Salem witch trials that took place in the Province of Massachusetts Bay from 1692 to 1693.
Act Scene Location Appr. # lines Synopsis I 1 A hall in Duke Solinus's Palace. 158 I 2 The mart. 105 II 1 The house of Antipholus of Ephesus. 116 II 2 A public place. 214 III 1 Before the house of Antipholus of Ephesus. 131 III 2 Before the house of Antipholus of Ephesus. 175 IV 1 A public place. 113 IV 2 A room in the house of Antipholus of ...
Henry IV, Part 1 (often written as 1 Henry IV) is a history play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written no later than 1597. The play dramatises part of the reign of King Henry IV of England , beginning with the battle at Homildon Hill late in 1402, and ending with King Henry's victory in the Battle of Shrewsbury in mid-1403. [ 1 ]
In Act 1, Scene 3, some of the dialogue between Gloucester and Winchester outside the Tower is absent (ll.36–43), whilst in Act 1, Scene 5, so too is Talbot's complaint about the French wanting to ransom him for a prisoner of less worth: "But with a baser man-of-arms by far,/Once in contempt they would have bartered me—/Which I, disdaining ...
It is a rewrite of William Shakespeare's King Lear. The play was first produced at the Royal Court Theatre in 1971, featuring Harry Andrews in the title role. [1] It was revived by the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1982 with Bob Peck, and revived again at the Crucible Theatre, Sheffield, in 2005 with Ian McDiarmid. [2] [3]
In 2004, Shakespeare's Globe, in London, produced three performances of Romeo and Juliet in original pronunciation. [2] Spearheaded by linguist David Crystal and play director, Tim Carroll, [3] this was the beginning of contemporary interest in Shakespeare in original pronunciation.
A Honduras gang member who was illegally in the US “giggled” as he admitted kidnapping a young Texas woman at gunpoint and threatening to pimp her out and sell her organs, according to cops.
in the First Folio from 1623 This 1888 painting by William Holmes Sullivan is named Et tu Brute and is located in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre. Photograph of the Mercury Theatre production of Caesar, the scene in which Julius Caesar ( Joseph Holland , center) addresses the conspirators including Brutus ( Orson Welles , left).