William Shakespeare, the renowned English playwright and poet, crafted timeless works that continue to entertain audiences worldwide with their profound insights into human nature and enduring literary brilliance.
Although the amount of factual knowledge available about Shakespeare is surprisingly large for one of his station in life, many find it a little disappointing, for it is mostly gleaned from documents of an official character. Dates of baptisms, marriages, deaths, and burials; wills, conveyances...
the plays and the poems .For many years scholars have been trying to add a few facts about Shakespeare’s life to the small number we already possess and for an equally long tine critics(批评)have been theorizing(理论化)about 然而,什么是重要的关于莎士比亚的生活是没有它偶然发生的细节,而是它...
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crime dramaSolace, playing a doctor who is assisting in the hunt for a serial killer. After playing a string of villainous characters, Hopkins appeared inTransformers: The Last Knightin 2017. Hopkins later portrayed theeponymoushero in a televised adaptation (2018) ofWilliam Shakespeare’sKing Lear...
Grimké’s Rachel (1916). Paul RobesonIn the early 20th century Paul Robeson was America's foremost Black actor. Paul Robeson. One of his signature roles was that of Othello, as in this scene from a Theatre Guild production on Broadway of Shakespeare's Othello, directed by Margaret Webster,...
In 2010 Redgrave had roles in theromantic comedyLetters to Julietand thedramaThe Whistleblower, about theUnited Nations’role in a sex-trafficking scandal inBosnia and Herzegovina. InAnonymous(2011), which advanced the theory that the playsattributedtoShakespearewere written byEdward de Vere, 17th ...
(1990) ofRosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Deadthat he also directed. In 1999 the screenplay forShakespeare in Love(1998), cowritten by Stoppard and Marc Norman, won anAcademy Award. Stoppard also adapted the French screenplay for the English-language filmVatel(2000), about a 17th-century chef,...
married in 1836. The single performance of his second opera,Das Liebesverbot(The Ban on Love), after Shakespeare’sMeasure for Measure, was a disaster. In 1839, fleeing from his creditors, he decided to put into operation his long-cherished plan to win renown in Paris, but his three ...
The single performance of his second opera, Das Liebesverbot (The Ban on Love), after Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure, was a disaster. In 1839, fleeing from his creditors, he decided to put into operation his long-cherished plan to win renown in Paris, but his three years in Paris ...