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The film is filled with other quotations and references to Shakespeare. [1] The phrase "the undiscovered country" is quoted from Hamlet's soliloquy. The film's director Nicholas Meyer said the idea for having the Klingons claim Shakespeare as their own was based on Nazi Germany's attempt to claim William Shakespeare as German before World War ...
As part of the Performing Restoration Shakespeare project, she was the music director for a workshop of the Restoration-era Tempest (Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, Shakespeare's Globe, London) and co-led a workshop for scholars and was a consultant for a full professional production of Davenant's Macbeth at the Folger Theatre, Washington DC. [2]
Shakespeare's birthplace as it appeared in 1847 before restoration. Engraved by W. J. Linton after a drawing by Edward Duncan. The ownership of the premises passed to William on John Shakespeare's death. However, by that time William already owned New Place in Stratford and had no need for the Henley Street premises as a home for himself or his ...
At the Restoration in 1660, Shakespeare's plays were divided between the two newly licensed companies: the King's Company of Thomas Killigrew and the Duke's Men of William Davenant. The licensing system prevailed for two centuries; from 1660 to 1843, only two main companies regularly presented Shakespeare in London.
The Chandos portrait, believed to be Shakespeare, held in the National Portrait Gallery, London William Shakespeare (1564–1616) [ 1 ] was an English poet and playwright. He wrote approximately 39 plays and 154 sonnets , as well as a variety of other poems.
The Wadlow portrait Believed to be a portrait of William Shakespeare painted in 1595. [20] It was bought in the late 1960s by Peter Wadlow from a firm of picture restorers and art dealers called Pryse Hughes. [21] Peter Wadlow was told that it was painted in 1595. The painting has the number 31 at the top left. William Shakespeare was 31 in ...
Stanley Wells, Gary Taylor, John Jowett and William Montgomery, William Shakespeare: A Textual Companion (1987). Reinventing Shakespeare: A Cultural History from the Restoration to the Present (1989). Gary Taylor and John Jowett, Shakespeare Reshaped 1606-1623 (1993). Cultural Selection (1996). Castration: An Abbreviated History of Western ...
The monument was restored in 1748–49. Parson Joseph Greene, master of Stratford grammar school, organised the first known performance of a Shakespeare play in Stratford to fund the restoration. [21] John Ward's company agreed to perform Othello in the Town Hall on 9 September 1746, with all receipts going to help pay for the restoration. [22]