Apart from the writings of William Shakespeare, William Blake, Thomas Hardy, Henry James, George Orwell, D.
There are questions on sports, music and historical figures from William Shakespeare to Winston Churchill.
Better to turn to the greatest set of case studies ever written: the plays of William Shakespeare.
Other plays in the season include a production of William Shakespeare's Richard II and Inadmissible Evidence by John Osborne.
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William Shakespeare mentioned several dozen sports and games in his plays, including archery, football, tennis and the ever-popular bearbaiting.
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Among the 20 statues, for which hats have been made, are William Shakespeare and Winston Churchill on Bond Street.
Planning permission has been granted to build a theatre on the site of a playhouse where the young William Shakespeare worked.
All this pedestal rattling made it easier to go after a figure who by this time had become a virtual secular deity--William Shakespeare.
All this pedestal rattling made it easier to go after a figure who by this time had become a virtual secular deity: William Shakespeare.
William Shakespeare's "Richard III" helped to popularize this depiction, describing Richard as a crippled villain who killed anyone in his path to the throne.
Expect to see Shakespeare throughout all forms of media in 2013 as a new generation of media consumer rediscovers the timeless literary treasures of William Shakespeare.
In 1582, playwright and poet William Shakespeare married Anne Hathaway.
Carol Rutter, professor of Shakespeare and Performance Studies at the University of Warwick, said an introduction to William Shakespeare was one of the most important things adults could give children.
When asked about their impressions of Britain and cultural images which may have influenced their decision to come to the UK, some mentioned William Shakespeare and the Sherlock Holmes novels.
There have been many countless conspiracy theories about the existence of William Shakespeare who has, as of this writing, still failed to provide his long-form birth certificate for scrutiny.
The company has developed personalised versions of its software for William Shakespeare, James Joyce and Charles Dickens, but this is the first version that emulates the language of a living person.
William Shakespeare taught me how to read financial newspapers.
The casting alone proclaims the magnitude of his ambition: not only Meredith and Ringwald but Norman Mailer and his daughter Kate, Julie Delpy, Woody Allen, and, decisively, Peter Sellars as William Shakespeare, Jr.
Names include Sir Thomas Denys - a notable figure at Elizabeth I's court and George Carey, Baron Hunsdon, who later became patron of the Chamberlain's Men theatre company of which William Shakespeare was a member.
The big winner is William Shakespeare, with four hundred and fifty-five, topping even the Yahwist and his co-authors, the wordsmiths who churned out the Bible but managed to come up with only four hundred quotable passages.
He said the open-air theatre was one of London's first dedicated playhouses and it was here that a young William Shakespeare performed as part of The Lord Chamberlain's Men company of players, and had his first plays performed.
The English of Geoffrey Chaucer (born in the 14th century), for example, is incomprehensible to modern laymen, whereas that of William Shakespeare (born in the 16th) is not only comprehensible but held by some to be a model.
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Only printing press inventor Johannn Gutenburg, William Shakespeare, William Caxton, who brought printing to Britain, Leonardo da Vinci, Elizabeth the First and the discoverer of electricity, Michael Faraday, were more important than one of the heroes of Welsh history.
Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare? by James Shapiro is a history of the nonsense called the "authorship question": the idea that William Shakespeare did not write his own works, that there was a widespread conspiracy to hide the identity of the true author or authors.
William Leahy, of Brunel University, is convenor of an MA degree in Shakespeare authorship studies - and he defends the legitimacy of approaching the identity of the playwright as an open question.
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