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3 giorni fa · Life of William Shakespeare. The Chandos portrait, believed to be Shakespeare, held in the National Portrait Gallery, London. William Shakespeare was an actor, playwright, poet, and theatre entrepreneur in London during the late Elizabethan and early Jacobean eras. He was baptised on 26 April 1564 [a] in Stratford-upon-Avon in ...
17 mag 2024 · This is a list of sheriffs of the City of London. Pursuant to a royal charter of Henry I c. 1131, the liverymen of the City elected two sheriffs of "London and Middlesex" upon payment of £300 per annum to the Crown. This practice continued until 1889, when the Local Government Act 1888 came into force.
5 giorni fa · George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950), known at his insistence as Bernard Shaw, was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist. His influence on Western theatre, culture and politics extended from the 1880s to his death and beyond. He wrote more than sixty plays, including major works such as Man ...
2 mag 2024 · Patricia Highsmith, American novelist and short-story writer who was best known for psychological thrillers, in which she delved into the nature of guilt, innocence, good, and evil. Her books included Strangers on a Train (1950), The Price of Salt (1952; also published as Carol), and The Talented Mr. Ripley (1955).
29 apr 2024 · Paul Giamatti (born June 6, 1967, New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.) is an American actor who excels at portraying likable idiosyncratic everyman characters.. Giamatti was born into an intellectually active family; his mother, Toni Giamatti, was a former actor who taught English at a preparatory school, and his father, A. Bartlett Giamatti, was a professor and president of Yale University before ...
2 mag 2024 · Lady Anne Barnard (born December 8, 1750, Balcarres House, Fifeshire, Scotland—died May 6, 1825, London) was the author of the popular ballad “ Auld Robin Gray” (1771). In 1763 she married Sir Andrew Barnard and accompanied him to the Cape of Good Hope when he became colonial secretary there in 1797.
11 mag 2024 · view all. Maria Elizabeth Barnard's Timeline. Genealogy for Maria Elizabeth Barnard (1909 - d.) family tree on Geni, with over 260 million profiles of ancestors and living relatives.
