Shakespeare

Lord Chamberlain's Men - Repertory and Performances
... Shakespeare's work undoubtedly formed the great bulk of the company's repertory ... In their first year of performance, they may have staged such of Shakespeare's older plays as remained in the author's possession, including Henry VI ... A Midsummer Night's Dream may have been the first play Shakespeare wrote for the new company it was followed over the next two years by a concentrated burst of creativity that resulted in Romeo and ...

Jonathan Dollimore - Work
... Political Shakespeare Essays in Cultural Materialism, edited with Alan Sinfield (1985, 2nd edition 1994) Treading the same path as Radical Tragedy, this compendium of essays by leading writers ...

Brabantio - Origin
... no English translation of Cinthio was available in Shakespeare's lifetime, it is possible Shakespeare knew both the Italian original and Gabriel Chappuy's 1584 French translation ... While the principal characters in Shakespeare's play have their counterparts in Cinthio's tale, Brabantio is Shakespeare's invention ...

Thomas Lucy - Shakespeare
... According to tradition the young Shakespeare wrote a lampoon of Lucy at some point in the mid 1580s ... There is no evidence that Shakespeare wrote either ballad ... Davies wrote, "Shakespeare was much given to all unluckiness in stealing venison and rabbits, particularly from Sir ----- Lucy who oft had him whipped and sometimes imprisoned and at last mad him fly his native ...

John Beckwith (composer) - Selected Works - The Trumpets of Summer (1964)
... quatercentenary of the birth of William Shakespeare, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) commission Beckwith to write a piece to represent this event ... Instead of doing the obvious and using text from Shakespeare's works as a libretto, he composed this work with the intention of conveying the experiences one may have with ... opening night,” and exploring the use of Shakespeare more recently in television and even comic books ...