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5 giorni fa · When the Globe’s artistic director Michelle Terry announced earlier this year she would play Richard, she faced a storm of protest from disabled actors who accused her of “cripping up ...
22 ore fa · Life Main article: Life of William Shakespeare Early life John Shakespeare's house, believed to be Shakespeare's birthplace, in Stratford-upon-Avon Shakespeare was the son of John Shakespeare, an alderman and a successful glover (glove-maker) originally from Snitterfield in Warwickshire, and Mary Arden, the daughter of an affluent landowning family. He was born in Stratford-upon-Avon, where he ...
5 giorni fa · DramaWatch: A new/old Ashland season. The Oregon Shakespeare Festival's just-announced 2025 season sounds like old times, with contemporary twists. In Portland, Third Rail hangs out at the mall; "She Persists" a bit longer. Miriam A. Laube tugs on Royer Bockus’s golden hair in the Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s 2014 production of “Into the ...
5 giorni fa · Twelfth Night. Viola (left; disguised as Cesario) and Olivia, as portrayed by Imogen Stubbs and Helena Bonham Carter, in the film Twelfth Night (1996). (more) Twelfth Night, comedy in five acts by William Shakespeare, written about 1600–02 and printed in the First Folio of 1623 from a transcript of an authorial draft or possibly a playbook.
3 giorni fa · King Lear, George Frederick Bensell. King Lear is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare. It is loosely based on the mythological Leir of Britain. King Lear, in preparation for his old age, divides his power and land between his daughters Goneril and Regan, who pay homage to gain favour, feigning love. The King's third daughter, Cordelia, is ...
4 giorni fa · A Midsummer Night's Dream is a comedy play written by William Shakespeare in about 1595 or 1596. The play is set in Athens, and consists of several subplots that revolve around the marriage of Theseus and Hippolyta. One subplot involves a conflict among four Athenian lovers. Another follows a group of six amateur actors rehearsing the play ...
5 giorni fa · The Taming of the Shrew, comedy in five acts by William Shakespeare, written sometime in 1590–94 and first printed in the First Folio in 1623. The play describes the volatile courtship between the shrewish Katharina and the canny Petruchio, who is determined to subdue Katharina’s legendary temper and win her dowry.
