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Jānis Pliekšāns (11 September 1865 – 11 September 1929), known by his pseudonym Rainis, was a Latvian poet, playwright, translator, and politician.Rainis' works include the classic plays Uguns un nakts (Fire and Night, 1905) and Indulis un Ārija (Indulis and Ārija, 1911), and a highly regarded translation of Goethe's Faust.
A shabby, Raines law hotel-type New York City saloon and rooming house serves as the 1912 setting of the classic play The Iceman Cometh, by Eugene O'Neill. A bar named the Raines Law Room, at the Williams Hotel in New York City, is named in commemoration of the impact of the law. [9]
William Shakespeare [a] (c. 23 [b] April 1564 – 23 April 1616) [c] was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon" (or simply "the Bard").
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 remained part of the Venetian Empire until 1570. The play was written in 1603.
Historic map from 1902. The route of the Historic Spine can be seen from Shakespeare's Birthplace (A) to The Holy Trinity Church (B) Following Stratford's expansion from a village into a town in the early 12th century, the route linking the new town to the Holy Trinity Church in Old Town became the location for many of the towns earliest and most important buildings.
The badly mutilated body of Brown, a longtime Bowery prostitute, was found in a room in a squalid lodging house known as the East River Hotel on April 24, 1891.. Newspapers were quick to report the murder as proof of the alleged arrival in America of Jack the Ripper, whose murders of prostitutes in London's Whitechapel district were well known during the time.
(Reuters) -European leaders were bracing for U.S. tariffs after sweeping levies imposed by U.S. President Donald Trump, affecting billions of dollars in trade between Mexico, China and Canada ...
William C. deMille: The Ritz (1975) Terrence McNally: The Ritz (1976) Richard Lester: The Road to Rome (1926) Robert E. Sherwood: Jupiter's Darling (1955) George Sidney: Romancero: Jacques Deval: L'altra metà del cielo (1977) Franco Rossi: Romeo and Juliet: William Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet (1900) Clément Maurice: Romeo and Juliet (1908 ...