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Parnell Velko "P. J." Jones [1] (born April 23, 1969) [2] is an American professional racing driver. He has contested in multiple disciplines, including NASCAR , IndyCar , IMSA GT Championship , the American Le Mans Series , USAC , the Chili Bowl , and the Stadium Super Trucks .
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 ...
Opening page of the First Folio King John. In the First Folio, the plays of William Shakespeare were grouped into three categories: comedies, histories, and tragedies.The histories—along with those of contemporary Renaissance playwrights—help define the genre of history plays. [1]
Setting may refer to the social milieu in which the events of a novel occur. [3] [4] The elements of the story setting include the passage of time, which may be static in some stories or dynamic in others with, for example, changing seasons. A setting can take three basic forms. One is the natural world, or in an outside place.
Edward the Black Prince (David Mendelsohn) in the American professional premiere of Edward III, staged by Pacific Repertory Theatre in August 2001. King Edward III is informed by the Count of Artois that he, Edward, was the true heir to the previous king of France.
For Shakespeare, as he began to write, both traditions were alive; they were, moreover, filtered through the recent success of the University Wits on the London stage. By the late 16th century, the popularity of morality and academic plays waned as the English Renaissance took hold, and playwrights like Thomas Kyd and Christopher Marlowe revolutionised theatre.
Anonymous is a 2011 period drama film directed by Roland Emmerich [3] and written by John Orloff.The film is a fictionalized version of the life of Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, an Elizabethan courtier, playwright, poet and patron of the arts, and suggests he was the actual author of William Shakespeare's plays. [4]
Wuthering Heights is the only novel by the English author Emily Brontë, initially published in 1847 under her pen name "Ellis Bell". It concerns two families of the landed gentry living on the West Yorkshire moors, the Earnshaws and the Lintons, and their turbulent relationships with the Earnshaws' foster son, Heathcliff.