"proper. Subtitles for plays were fashionable in the Elizabethan era; William Shakespeare parodied this vogue by giving ""Twelfth Night"" his only subtitle, the deliberately uninformative ""What You Will"", implying that the subtitle can be whatever the audience wants it to be. In printing, subtitles often appear below the title in a less prominent typeface or following the title after a colon. Some modern publishers choose to forgo subtitles when republishing historical works, such as Shelley's famous story, which is often now sold simply as ""Frankenstein"". In library cataloging the subtitle does not include an alternate title which is defined as"
"Twelfth Night Twelfth Night, or What You Will is a comedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written around 1601–1602 as a Twelfth Night's entertainment for the close of the Christmas season. The play centres on the twins Viola and Sebastian, who are separated in a shipwreck. Viola (who is disguised as Cesario) falls in love with Duke Orsino, who in turn is in love with the Countess Olivia. Upon meeting Viola, Countess Olivia falls in love with her thinking she is a man. The play expanded on the musical interludes and riotous disorder expected of the occasion, with"
"What You Will What You Will is a late Elizabethan comedy by John Marston, written in 1601 and probably performed by the Children of Paul's, one of the companies of boy actors popular in that period. The play was entered into the Stationers' Register on 6 August 1607, and was published later that year in a quarto printed by George Eld for the bookseller Thomas Thorpe. Inconsistencies in the names of the characters suggest that the play was revised between its stage premier in 1601 and its publication in 1607. The Induction that precedes the text mentions a small sized"
"is getting what he wants"", referring to Nick Bottom, who runs a theatre troupe with his brother Nigel. They are rehearsing for their upcoming play ""Richard II"", while William Shakespeare (referred to as ""The Bard"") is opening Romeo and Juliet. Lord Clapham, a patron who trusts the brothers and raises funds for their troupe, enters to announce that Shakespeare is doing ""Richard II"". The news outrages Nick, as Shakespeare has already done ""Richard III"", and the thought of going backwards seems absurd to him. He rants about his hatred of Shakespeare to the troupe members, who are horrified (""God, I"
"is based on the ""Seven Ages of Man"" element of the ""All the world's a stage"" speech and was premiered in April 2016. As You Like It As You Like It is a pastoral comedy by William Shakespeare believed to have been written in 1599 and first published in the First Folio in 1623. The play's first performance is uncertain, though a performance at Wilton House in 1603 has been suggested as a possibility. ""As You Like It"" follows its heroine Rosalind as she flees persecution in her uncle's court, accompanied by her cousin Celia to find safety and, eventually,"
"boy pages. ""What You Will"" was one of the plays involved in the War of the Theatres in 1599–1601. The character Lampatho Doria is generally thought to represent Ben Jonson, Marston's opponent in the controversy, while Quadratus may stand in for Marston himself. What You Will What You Will is a late Elizabethan comedy by John Marston, written in 1601 and probably performed by the Children of Paul's, one of the companies of boy actors popular in that period. The play was entered into the Stationers' Register on 6 August 1607, and was published later that year in a quarto"
"As You Like It As You Like It is a pastoral comedy by William Shakespeare believed to have been written in 1599 and first published in the First Folio in 1623. The play's first performance is uncertain, though a performance at Wilton House in 1603 has been suggested as a possibility. ""As You Like It"" follows its heroine Rosalind as she flees persecution in her uncle's court, accompanied by her cousin Celia to find safety and, eventually, love, in the Forest of Arden. In the forest, they encounter a variety of memorable characters, notably the melancholy traveller Jaques who speaks"
"Rosalind (As You Like It) Rosalind is the heroine and protagonist of the play ""As You Like It"" (1600) by William Shakespeare. She is the daughter of the exiled Duke Senior and niece to his usurping brother Duke Frederick. Her father is banished from the kingdom, breaking her heart. She then meets Orlando, one of her father's friends' son and falls in love with him. After angering her uncle, she leaves his court for exile in the Forest of Arden. Disguised as a shepherd named Ganymede, Rosalind lives with her sweet and devoted cousin, Celia (who is disguised as Ganymede's"
"duo, the simple and constantly exploited Sir Andrew Aguecheek. The full title of the play is ""Twelfth Night, or What You Will"". Subtitles for plays were fashionable in the Elizabethan era, and though some editors place ""The Merchant of Venice""'s alternative title, ""The Jew of Venice"", as a subtitle, this is the only Shakespearean play to bear one when first published. The play was probably finished between 1600 and 1601, a period suggested by the play's referencing of events which happened during that time. A law student, John Manningham, who was studying in the Middle Temple in London, described the"
"seduce another woman. She tells The Lady not to trust The Man, as he is a mere actor. She then recognises that The Lady is Queen Elizabeth. The Man reveals that he is William Shakespeare. The Queen demands that he should apologise to her, but Shakespeare insists that his family is more respectable than hers, and that she only has her job by accident of birth. The Dark Lady is shocked by Shakespeare's frankness, but the queen forgives him. Shakespeare complains that his worst plays, ""As You Like It"" and ""Much Ado About Nothing"", are the most popular, but is"
"publication. He suggests that ""As You Like It"" began as a sequel to ""Love's Labour's Lost"", but was later revised when Robert Armin replaced William Kempe as the principal comic actor in Shakespeare's theatre company, the Lord Chamberlain's Men. In their 2014 season commemorating the centenary of the commencement of World War I hostilities, the Royal Shakespeare Company co-opted the title in performing ""Much Ado about Nothing"" under the name ""Love's Labour's Won (also known as Much Ado about Nothing)"". It was staged as a companion piece to ""Love's Labour's Lost"". The pair of plays bookended the period of the"
"Henze's ""Second Sonata on Shakespearean Characters"" for guitar, known as ""Royal Winter Music"". Sir Andrew Aguecheek Sir Andrew Aguecheek (also spelled Ague-cheek) is a comic character in William Shakespeare's play ""Twelfth Night, or What You Will"". One of the minor characters, Sir Andrew is a stereotypical fool, who is goaded into unwisely duelling with Cesario and who is slowly having his money pilfered by Sir Toby Belch. He is dim-witted, vain and clownish. His role in the play not only provides comedy through his pathetic situation and his long speech, but also by his distinct, long-faced appearance and garish dress"
"Desire"" (1983) based on Tennessee Williams for Marcia Haydée. Neumeier has also created adaptations of Henrik Ibsen's ""Peer Gynt"" (1989), Homer's ""Odyssey"" (1995), Anton Chekhov's ""The Seagull"" (2002) and Thomas Mann’s “Death in Venice” (2003). William Shakespeare plays a very important role for the Director and Chief Choreographer. With inspiration from the Elizabethan writer, John Neumeier choreographed “As You Like It” (1985), “Hamlet” (1985), “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” (1977), “Romeo and Juliet” (1971), “VIVALDI or What you will” (1996) and “Othello” (1985). A revival of the latter opens the season 2013/14. Most recently John Neumeier turned Ferenc Molnár's ""Liliom"" into"
"Shakespeare's Will (play) Shakespeare's Will is a play by Canadian writer Vern Thiessen. It was commissioned by Geoffrey Brumlik, then Artistic Director of the River City Shakespeare Festival in Edmonton as a performance vehicle for Jan Alexandra Smith and premiered at the Citadel Theatre in February 2005. It has been regularly revived and was performed at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in 2011. ""Shakespeare's Will"" was published in 2002 by Playwrights Canada Press. The American premiere of ""Shakespeare's Will"" was produced at Theatre 40 in Beverly Hills, California. The production starred Jeanmarie Simpson, was produced by Leonard Nimoy and directed by"
"George Peele, Thomas Preston, Robert Wilson, and one Richard Bower. No convincing case has been made for any single candidate. ""Clyomon and Clamydes"" is thought to have had an influence on several of Shakespeare's plays. Most notably, Rosalind in ""As You Like It"" disguises herself in male clothing and flees courtly life for residence among simple shepherds—just as Neronis does in her play. In ""A Midsummer Night's Dream"", the playlet of the mechanicals in Act V bears a resemblance with ""Clyomon and Clamydes"", though in this case the resemblance is clearly in a spirit of parody. And the late romance"
"much, but think the more"" (4.1.85) and ""Not I, my thoughts aim at a further matter:/I stay not for love of Edward but the crown"" (141.124–125); Warwick's ""O unbid spite, is sportful Edward come"" (5.1.18); the entirety of Richard's soliloquy in Act 5, Scene 6, after killing Henry (ll.61–93) and Richard's ""To say the truth, so Judas kissed his master/And cried 'All hail', whenas he meant all harm"" (5.7.33–34). The play also featured in ITV's ""Will Shakespeare"", a 1978 six-part (heavily fictionalised) biopic of Shakespeare (Tim Curry), written by John Mortimer. Episode one, ""Dead Shepherd"", focuses on Shakespeare's apprenticeship to"
"Jaques both elect to remain within the forest. University of Wisconsin professor Richard Knowles, the editor of the 1977 New Variorum edition of this play, in his article ""Myth and Type in As You Like It"", pointed out that the play contains mythological references in particular to Eden and to Hercules. ""As You Like It"" is known as a musical comedy because of the number of songs in the play. Indeed, there are more songs in it than in any other play of Shakespeare. These songs and music are incorporated in the action that takes place in the forest of"
"historically plausible story of William Shakespeare's young adulthood in conjunction with a comic modern plot to explore themes of religious persecution, authorial intent, and human sexuality. It has been stated that the modern portion of the novel's plot has been based, in part, on Winfield's years studying Shakespeare in Santa Cruz and Berkeley. Jess Winfield Jess Winfield (born March 8, 1961) is an American novelist, self-help author, television writer, and voice actor who is a founding member of The Reduced Shakespeare Company. His books include: ""What Would Shakespeare Do"" (2000) and ""My Name Is Will"" (2008). He wrote for and"
"Equivocation (play) Equivocation, written by Bill Cain, is a play about telling the truth in difficult times. It proposes the question: what if the government commissioned William Shakespeare (known as Shagspeare in the play) to write the definitive history of a national crisis, the Gunpowder Plot, as one of his plays. London. 1605. A room. Sir Robert Cecil has called for Master William Shagspeare (Shag for short) to commission a play for King James. After reading what it is he should write about, Shag quickly rejects the offer, but is overpowered by Cecil and is forced to take the commission."
"Shakespeare Apocrypha. At the end of the act, the characters realise that they forgot to perform ""Coriolanus"" which Adam refuses to do due the vulgarity of the title, and ""Hamlet"", Shakespeare's greatest work. Adam becomes nervous and petulant about performing such a famous and difficult play, so he runs out of the theatre with Austin chasing him. Reed is left alone to improvise acts such as playing the ""William Tell"" Overture on his larynx and eating fire before calling for intermission. After the intermission, Austin and Adam return, saving Reed from having to cover the sonnets by writing them down"
"no more than a wrestling match, and the action throughout is often interrupted by a song. At the end, Hymen himself arrives to bless the wedding festivities. William Shakespeare’s play ""As You Like It"" clearly falls into the Pastoral Romance genre; but Shakespeare does not merely use the genre, he develops it. Shakespeare also used the Pastoral genre in ""As You Like It"" to ‘cast a critical eye on social practices that produce injustice and unhappiness, and to make fun of anti-social, foolish and self-destructive behaviour’, most obviously through the theme of love, culminating in a rejection of the notion"
"""Twelfth Night, or What You Will"" deals extensively with cross-dressing through the female protagonist Viola. She disguises herself as Cesario and immediately finds herself caught up in a love triangle: she loves Duke Orsino who loves Countess Olivia who loves Cesario. Luckily, all is resolved when Viola's presumed dead twin brother Sebastian comes along. We only see Viola as Viola in one scene; for the rest of the play she is dressed as Cesario. When Rosalind and Celia flee court in ""As You Like It"", Rosalind dresses, for their protection, as a man. However, as a way to further complicate"
"As You Like It (1936 film) As You Like It is a 1936 British film, directed by Paul Czinner and starring Laurence Olivier as Orlando and Elisabeth Bergner as Rosalind. It is based on William Shakespeare's play of the same name. It was Olivier's first performance of Shakespeare on screen. It was the final film of stage actors Leon Quartermaine and Henry Ainley, and featured an early screen role for Ainley's son Richard as Sylvius, as well as for John Laurie, who played Orlando's brother Oliver. (Laurie would go on to co-star with Olivier in the three Shakespearean films that"
"comedy ""As You Like It"", in which couples marry, an evildoer repents, two disguised characters are revealed for all to see, and a ruler is restored to power. In Shakespeare's tragedies, the ""dénouement"" is usually the death of one or more characters. Freytag's analysis was intended to apply to ancient Greek and Shakespearean drama, not modern. Contemporary dramas increasingly use the fall to increase the relative height of the climax and dramatic impact (melodrama). The protagonist reaches up but falls and succumbs to doubts, fears, and limitations. The negative climax occurs when the protagonist has an epiphany and encounters the"
"love ""Anne Whateley"". Anne is depicted as shrewish in the first play, and as spiteful towards her former rival in the latter. A frosty relationship is also portrayed in Edward Bond's play ""Bingo: Scenes of Money and Death"" (1973), about Shakespeare's last days, and in the 1978 TV series ""Will Shakespeare"". ""The World's Wife"", a collection of poems by Carol Ann Duffy, features a sonnet entitled ""Anne Hathaway"", based on the passage from Shakespeare's will regarding his ""second-best bed"". Duffy chooses the view that this would be their marriage bed, and so a memento of their love, not a slight."
"the direction of Josie Rourke, with the title ""Believe What You Will"". The text was prepared by Martin White, with pastiche period verse composed by Ian McHugh to fill the gaps in the manuscript. The White/McHugh text was published in 2005 under the new title. Believe as You List Believe as You List is a Caroline era tragedy by Philip Massinger, famous as a case of theatrical censorship. The play originally dealt with the legend that Sebastian of Portugal had survived the battle of Alcácer Quibir, and the efforts of Philip II of Spain to suppress the ""false Sebastians."" On"
"Characters in As You Like It The following is a list of characters in William Shakespeare's ""As You Like It"". Duke Frederick is the younger brother of Duke Senior. Prior to the play he usurps power from his older brother. His hatefulness and paranoia are displayed when he banishes Rosalind, the daughter Duke Senior. However, at the end of the play, as Duke Frederick brings his army towards the forest to kill his brother, he happens upon a old priest who convinces him to take up the monastic life of peace and simplicity. Celia is the daughter of Duke Frederick."
"has the largest cast of all Shakespeare's plays and is seen by many critics as the best of the ""Henry VI"" trilogy. ""Of the King's Party"" ""Of the Duke of York's Party"" ""The Petitions and the Combat"" ""The Conjuration"" ""The False Miracle"" ""Eleanor's Penance"" ""Murder of Gloucester"" ""Murder of Suffolk"" ""The Cade Rebellion"" ""Others"" The play begins with the marriage of King Henry VI of England to the young Margaret of Anjou. Margaret is the protégée and lover of William de la Pole, 4th Earl of Suffolk, who aims to influence the king through her. The major obstacle to Suffolk"
"distaff; and I hope to see a housewife take thee between her legs and spin it off""; the Nurse in ""Romeo and Juliet"" says that her husband had told Juliet when she was learning to walk that ""Yea, dost thou fall upon thy face? Thou wilt fall backward when thou hast more wit""; or is told the time by Mercutio: ""for the bawdy hand of the dial is now upon the prick of noon""; and in ""Hamlet"", Hamlet publicly torments Ophelia with a series of sexual puns, including ""country matters"" (similar to ""cunt""). The title of Shakespeare's play ""Much Ado"
"that audiences seem receptive to a play about a stay-at-home mother's inspirational struggle and triumph, despite its unflattering rendition of the man himself. The play has been produced across Canada, ,in Wales, England, Hong Kong, Australia, New Zealand, and the United States. Shakespeare's Will (play) Shakespeare's Will is a play by Canadian writer Vern Thiessen. It was commissioned by Geoffrey Brumlik, then Artistic Director of the River City Shakespeare Festival in Edmonton as a performance vehicle for Jan Alexandra Smith and premiered at the Citadel Theatre in February 2005. It has been regularly revived and was performed at the Stratford"
"knocking loudly at doors. In some countries, the Twelfth Night and Epiphany mark the start of the Carnival season, which lasts through Mardi Gras Day. Twelfth Night in the Netherlands became so secularized, rowdy and boisterous that public celebrations were banned from the church. In some places, particularly southwest England, Old Twelfth Night is still celebrated on 17 January. This continues the custom on the date determined by the Julian calendar. Shakespeare's play ""Twelfth Night, or What You Will"" was written to be performed as a Twelfth Night entertainment. The earliest known performance took place at Middle Temple Hall, one"
"serious miscalculation in his wish. He informs Shakespeare that he cannot work with him and that he does not belong there. However, before he could think of a way to return to his own time period, Maury also notices that the relic is no longer in his possession and sees that William has it in his hand. Maury cautiously asks for the relic back and clenching it in his hand in a gesture of thought, William says to Maury, ""I wish for you to work with me."" Suddenly Maury is filled with thoughts of all the plays that William has"
"opinion of the work by calling it ""As You Like It"" – as if the playwright did not agree. Tolstoy objected to the immorality of the characters and Touchstone's constant clowning. Other critics have found great literary value in the work. Harold Bloom has written that Rosalind is among Shakespeare's greatest and most fully realised female characters. The elaborate gender reversals in the story are of particular interest to modern critics interested in gender studies. Through four acts of the play, Rosalind, who in Shakespeare's day would have been played by a boy, finds it necessary to disguise herself as"