Debunking pop culture myths about Abraham LincolnLearn about the creative license moviemakers have taken in films about Abraham Lincoln. See all videos for this article 2 of 2 Learn how reading Shakespeare and the King James Bible helped Abraham Lincoln compose his best-remembered address in Americ...
Debunking pop culture myths about Abraham LincolnLearn about the creative license moviemakers have taken in films about Abraham Lincoln. See all videos for this article 2 of 2 Learn how reading Shakespeare and the King James Bible helped Abraham Lincoln compose his best-remembered address in Americ...
Lithgow was born into a theatrical family; his mother was an actress, and his father was atheatreproducer. When he was a child, Lithgow’s family moved to Ohio, where his father produced localShakespearefestivals. It was at one such festival that Lithgow made his childhoodactingdebut, and he...
Credited with making Shakespeare accessible to the masses, Branagh also acted in and directed In the Bleak Midwinter (1995; U.S. title A Midwinter’s Tale), about a production of Hamlet staged in a local church, as well as film versions of Much Ado About Nothing (1993); Hamlet (1996),...
Latin, and he read most of the important 18th-century English writers as well asShakespeare,Milton, andDryden. His knowledge ofScottish literaturewas confined in his childhood to orally transmitted folk songs and folk tales together with a modernization of the late 15th-century poem “Wallace.” ...
Samuel Johnson was the son of Michael Johnson, a bookseller, and his wife, Sarah. From childhood he suffered from a number of physicalafflictions. By his own account, he was born “almost dead,” and he early contractedscrofula(tuberculosisof the lymphatic glands). Because of a popular belie...
The remaining works Hugo completed in exile include theessayWilliam Shakespeare(1864) and two novels:Les Travailleurs de la mer(1866;The Toilers of the Sea), dedicated to the island of Guernsey and its sailors; andL’Homme qui rit(1869;The Man Who Laughs), a curious baroque novel about the...
fantasy, imaginativefictiondependent for effect on strangeness of setting (such as other worlds or times) and of characters (such assupernaturalor unnatural beings). Examples includeWilliam Shakespeare’sA Midsummer Night’s Dream,Jonathan Swift’sGulliver’s Travels,J.R.R. Tolkien’sThe Lord of ...
(1956). They alsocollaboratedon the motion-picture musicalGigi(1958), and four of their theatrical works were later made into motion pictures.Leonard BernsteinwroteWest Side Story(1957, withStephen Sondheim), a conversion of the setting and elements ofShakespeare’sRomeo and Julietto mid-20th-...
In 1869 Tchaikovsky completed Romeo and Juliet, an overture in which he subtly adapted sonata form to mirror the dramatic structure of Shakespeare’s play. Nikolay Rubinstein conducted a successful performance of this work the following year, and it became the first of Tchaikovsky’s compositions ...