Beach's journey into leadership began when she bravely opened her bookshop in a foreign country in 1919, at the closing of World War I, during a time when few women owned their own businesses. By creating a place, a home away from home, for the disillusioned and disenfranchised expatriates...
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Augustine Phillipps, one of the players of the company of the Globe, appears to have been delegated on this occasion to treat with some of the leading party of the Essex faction, and was induced by them upon the payment of an extra allowance to perform a play of the deposing and killing...
So farewell hope, and with hope farewell fear, Farewell remorse: all good to me is lost; Evil be thou my good; by thee at least Divided empire with heaven’s King I hold, By thee, and more than half perhaps will reign; As man ere long, and this new world shall know. (Paradise...
Romeo and Juliet An 1870 oil painting by Ford Madox Brown depicting the play's balcony scene Written by William Shakespeare Characters Romeo Juliet Count Paris Mercutio Tybalt The Nurse Rosaline Benvolio Friar Laurence Date premiered 1597[a] Original language Early Modern English Series First Quarto ...
The memory of Shakespeare survived long in theatrical circles, for his plays remained a major part of the repertory of the King’s Men until the closing of the theatres in 1642. The greatest of Shakespeare’s great contemporaries in the theatre, Ben Jonson, had a good deal to say about hi...
He became known for directly addressing the audience about the injustices of slavery on the closing night of his play at a given theatre (Source: https://artuk.org/discover/stories/ira-aldridge-a-brief-visual-history-of-the-black-shakespearean-actor ) As I’ve written before, Shakespeare has...
Come and see! The most popular museum is the British Museum in London. Over six million people visit it every year. It is open from 10:00 a. m. to 5:00 p. m. But on Friday, the closing time is 8:30 p.m.. The River Severn starts in Wales and flows(流)through western ...
and the closing of the senses the dissolving of life; my maids, whom youth persuades unto rest, and want of care proves that the black ox never trod on their feet, only cares how to serve time, for that no other care hath yet bitten them by the heel, and so resolving their minds ...
adapted a very different mindset in the closing years of the 1330s – one that involved an invasion of France. The Anglo-French conflict that came to the forefront of European events in 1337 has widely come to be known as the Hundred Years’ War, and it would continue, intermittently (...