"is alive again at the beginning of ""Richard II"" until his execution is ordered by Bolingbroke in Act III. There is no instance of a character dying twice in the validated works of Shakespeare. There are, however, inconsistencies in Shakespeare, such as the claim at the end of ""Henry IV, Part 2"" that Falstaff will be seen again in ""Henry V"", a promise which is not kept. Furthermore, the character of Falstaff is arguably a different one in the history plays than the character encountered in ""The Merry Wives of Windsor"", not to mention the apparent setting of that play"
"written for the particular talents of famous Elizabethan actor, William Kempe. After Kempe left the troupe, Shakespeare's comic characters changed dramatically. Kempe was known for his improvising, and ""Hamlet"" contains a famous complaint at improvisational clowning (Act 3, Scene 2). Perhaps central to the Bard's redrawing of the fool was the actor Robert Armin: ... Shakespeare created a whole series of domestic fools for [Ar- min]. [His] greatest roles, Touchstone in ""As You Like It,""(1599), Feste in ""Twelfth Night,""(1600), and (the) fool in ""King Lear,""(1605); helped Shakespeare resolve the tension between thematic material and the traditional entertainment role of the"
"Shylock in William Shakespeare's ""The Merchant of Venice"" and Barabas in Christopher Marlowe's ""The Jew of Malta"". In a series of articles called ""Observer"", first published in 1785, Cumberland created a character named Abraham Abrahams who would later serve as a template for Sheva, the title character in ""The Jew"". In one instalment of ""Observer"", Abrahams is quoted as saying, ""I verily believe the odious character of Shylock has brought little less persecution upon us, poor scattered sons of Abraham, than the Inquisition itself."" A decade later, in writing ""The Jew"", Cumberland sought to create a positive image of a"
"Richard Cumberland created a character named Abraham Abrahams, who is quoted as saying, ""I verily believe the odious character of Shylock has brought little less persecution upon us, poor scattered sons of Abraham, than the Inquisition itself."" Cumberland later wrote a successful play, ""The Jew"" (1794), in which his title character, Sheva, is portrayed sympathetically, as both a kindhearted and generous man. This was the first known attempt by a dramatist to reverse the negative stereotype that Shylock personified. The depiction of Jews in literature throughout the centuries bears the close imprint of Shylock. With slight variations much of English"
"Shylock Shylock is a character in William Shakespeare's play ""The Merchant of Venice"" (c. 1600). A Venetian Jewish moneylender, Shylock is the play's principal antagonist. His defeat and conversion to Christianity form the climax of the story. Shylock is not a Jewish name. However, some scholars believe it probably derives from the biblical name Shalah, which is (""Shelach"") in Hebrew. Shalah is the grandson of Shem and the father of Eber, biblical progenitor of Hebrew peoples. All the names of Jewish characters in the play derive from minor figures listed in genealogies in the Book of Genesis. It is possible"
"Roman plays ""Coriolanus"", ""Julius Caesar"", and ""Antony and Cleopatra"". Another tragedy ""King Lear"", is based on British legend, as is the romanc ""Cymbeline, King of Britain"", which is set in Ancient Britain. Other playwrights contemporary to Shakespeare, such as Christopher Marlowe, also dramatized historical topics. Marlowe wrote ""Edward the Second"" which deals with the deposition of King Edward II by his barons and the Queen, who resent the undue influence the king's favourites have in court and state affairs, and ""The Massacre at Paris"", which dramatizes the events of the Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre in France in 1572. Marlowe's ""Tamburlaine"
"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"
"female betrayal. Even in ""King Lear"", with the absence of a mother in the play, females take on the dominant role over King Lear, the presence threatening “to overwhelm male authority and selfhood."" Adelman’s ""Suffocating Mothers"" goes deeper into her psychoanalysis of Shakespeare’s maternal characters, emphasizing the effects of the image of the corrupt mother and female on the male identity and the masculinity of the characters. In a religious reading of Shakespeare's ""The Merchant of Venice,"" Adelman focuses on Shakespeare's unique representation of the historical conflict between Christianity and Judaism during the time. Shylock is the principal Jewish character"
"years after Hall's death, as ""Select observations on English bodies, or Cures both empericall and historicall performed upon very eminent persons in desperate diseases."" The earliest case, in Stratford, dates from 1611, making it almost certain that Hall lived and worked in Stratford from at least the time of his marriage. The first notebook still survives, but the original manuscript of the second notebook has been lost. The slander case has been used as the subject of a play, ""The Herbal Bed"", by Peter Whelan. In the original production Hall was played by Liam Cunningham. He was portrayed by Tom"
"features some densely packed metaphoric language. The play's emphasis on violence and brutality led to mixed reviews among top critics. Although some critics praised its message against violence (and its cast), others questioned whether the play was convincing enough to garner the reaction it sought from the audience. Lear (play) Lear is a 1971 three-act play by the British dramatist Edward Bond. It is an epic rewrite of William Shakespeare's ""King Lear"". The play was first produced at the Royal Court Theatre in 1971, featuring Harry Andrews in the title role. It was revived by the Royal Shakespeare Company in"
"and toured nationally. The play studied Edmund's back-story from birth to his appearance in King Lear to explore the reasons for his actions. The play starred Adrian Ross-Jones as Edmund and Robert Addie as Gloucester. Edmund (King Lear) Edmund or Edmond is a fictional character and the main antagonist in William Shakespeare's ""King Lear"". He is the illegitimate son of the Earl of Gloucester, and the younger brother of Edgar, the Earl's legitimate son. Early on in the play, Edmund resolves to get rid of his brother, then his father, and become Earl in his own right. He later flirts"
"by comparing her son to Hamlet. Later he tries to come between them, as Hamlet had done with his mother and her new husband. The tragic developments in the plot follow in part from the scorn the mother shows for her son's play. Shakespeare adopted the play-within-a-play device for many of his other plays as well, including ""A Midsummer Night's Dream""and ""Love's Labours Lost"". Almost the whole of ""The Taming of the Shrew"" is a play-within-a-play, presented to convince Christopher Sly, a drunken tinker, that he is a nobleman watching a private performance, but the device has no relevance to"
"Lear (play) Lear is a 1971 three-act play by the British dramatist Edward Bond. It is an epic rewrite of William Shakespeare's ""King Lear"". The play was first produced at the Royal Court Theatre in 1971, featuring Harry Andrews in the title role. It was revived by the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1982 with Bob Peck, and revived again at the Crucible Theatre, Sheffield, in 2005 with Ian McDiarmid. Bond, a socialist, was attempting to correct modern trends which focused on the Shakespeare play as an artistic experience, at the expense of more practical elements of social critique. By creating"
"Edmund (King Lear) Edmund or Edmond is a fictional character and the main antagonist in William Shakespeare's ""King Lear"". He is the illegitimate son of the Earl of Gloucester, and the younger brother of Edgar, the Earl's legitimate son. Early on in the play, Edmund resolves to get rid of his brother, then his father, and become Earl in his own right. He later flirts with both Goneril and Regan and attempts to play them off against each other. Shakespeare's source for the subplot of Edmund, Edgar and Gloucester was a tale from Philip Sidney's ""Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia"" of"
"William Shakespeare and the poetry of Walter Raleigh and others also implies a courtly audience. Virgil's ""Aeneid"", Thomas Campion's metrical experiments, and Spenser's ""Shepheardes Calender"" and plays like Shakespeare's ""Antony and Cleopatra"" are all examples of the influence of classicism on Elizabethan poetry. It remained common for poets of the period to write on themes from classical mythology; Shakespeare's ""Venus and Adonis"" and the Christopher Marlowe/George Chapman ""Hero and Leander"" are examples of this kind of work. Translations of classical poetry also became more widespread, with the versions of Ovid's ""Metamorphoses"" by Arthur Golding (1565–67) and George Sandys (1626), and"
"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"
"English drama include the Jewish moneylender Shylock in William Shakespeare's ""The Merchant of Venice"" (1598) and the title character of Ben Jonson's ""Volpone"" (1606). In Aubrey Beardsley's title page for the latter, Volpone is shown worshiping his possessions, in illustration of the lines from the play, ""Dear Saint, / Riches, the dumb god that giv'st all men tongues."" A similar scene takes place in the second act of Alexander Pushkin's short tragedy ""Skupoi rytsar"" (1836). This concerns a son, Albert, kept short of funds by his father, the Baron. Under the title The Miserly Knight, it was made an opera"
"Sigurd Slembe (trilogy) Sigurd Slembe (""Sigurd the Bastard""; ""slembe"" may also be translated as ""worthless"" or ""ill-disposed"") is a trilogy of plays written by the Norwegian playwright Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson and published in 1862. It is regarded as his finest historical drama and was influenced by the works of William Shakespeare and Friedrich Schiller. It directly influenced Henrik Ibsen's ""The Pretenders"", written the following year, which explores some similar themes. In contrast to Ibsen's attempts to create a historical setting through artificially archaic language, Bjørnson's trilogy used contemporary language. The success of this approach seems to have prompted Ibsen to adopt"
"a Holmes-Adler connection."" William Gillette's 1899 stage play ""Sherlock Holmes"" is based on several stories, among them ""A Scandal in Bohemia"". Films released in 1916 (starring Gillette as Holmes) and 1922 (starring John Barrymore), both titled ""Sherlock Holmes"", were based on the play, as was a 1938 ""Mercury Theatre on the Air"" radio adaptation titled ""The Immortal Sherlock Holmes"", starring Orson Welles as Holmes. The 1946 film ""Dressed to Kill"" features several references to ""A Scandal in Bohemia"", with Holmes and Watson discussing the recent publication of the story in ""The Strand Magazine"", and the villain of the film using"
"Christopher Sly Christopher Sly is a minor character in William Shakespeare's ""The Taming of the Shrew."" He is a drunken peddlar who is easily dominated by women, set up as a foil to Petruchio, the central male character in the play. ""The Taming of the Shrew"" is a play within a play. The frame play, where the action opens (called the ""Induction,"" just prior to Act One), shows a drunk Christopher Sly being ejected from a bar by its hostess. A wealthy lord arrives, finds Sly in a drunken stupor, and decides to play a joke on him. With Sly"
"was paid for his burial (possibly by William) at St Saviour's in Southwark (known today as Southwark Cathedral) ""with a forenoone knell of the great bell"". Edmund Shakespeare was the subject of a one-man show, written and performed by the British stage actor Ben Deery, in 2012, at The Last Refuge, Peckham, London. The play's title ""Most Savage and Unnatural"", alludes to a line spoken by the character of Edmund in the play ""King Lear"" by William Shakespeare. The performance included elements of audience participation and was warmly received. Edmund Shakespeare Edmund Shakespeare (1580 in Stratford-upon-Avon – buried 31 December"
"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"
"2005), provides two different versions of the play, each with respectable authority. The problem exists with at least four other Shakespearian plays (""Henry IV, part 1"", ""Hamlet"", ""Troilus and Cressida"", and ""Othello""). During Shakespeare's lifetime, many of his greatest plays were staged at the Globe Theatre and the Blackfriars Theatre. Shakespeare's fellow members of the Lord Chamberlain's Men acted in his plays. Among these actors were Richard Burbage (who played the title role in the first performances of many of Shakespeare's plays, including ""Hamlet"", ""Othello"", ""Richard III"" and ""King Lear""), Richard Cowley (who played Verges in ""Much Ado About Nothing""),"
"notably William Caxton's ""The Golden Legend"" and Thomas Deloney's ""The Gentle Craft"". (Deloney's work also inspired Thomas Dekker's famous play ""The Shoemaker's Holiday"".) Rowley depended on the ""Chronicles"" of Raphael Holinshed for his account of the early Christian martyr St. Alban (""Albon"" in the play). ""A Shoemaker a Gentleman"" shares a range of resemblances and common features with other plays of its era. Its general ambience is strongly similar to Dekker's ""Shoemaker's Holiday"". Its setting in ancient Britain, and its plot device of the two British princes living humble lives in disguise and under assumed names, suggests Shakespeare's ""Cymbeline"". The"
"that his known plays share several concerns with ""Edward III"": ""David and Bethsabe"" revolves around adulterous love and its consequences; the action of ""Edward I"" dramatizes the creation of the title of Prince of Wales (of which the Black Prince was only the third holder); while ""The Battle of Alcazar"" dramatizes sixteenth-century warfare — the anachronistic model for the battle narratives in ""Edward III"", with their pikes and naval gunnery."" Harold Bloom rejects the theory that Shakespeare wrote ""Edward III"", on the grounds that he finds ""nothing in the play is representative of the dramatist who had written ""Richard III""."""
"for the public to read this, a view that Haining endorses readily. The play is notable for its contrasting sensationalist and comic scenes, and it is contained in Klinger's Apocrypha. Sherlock Holmes: A Drama in Four Acts (or Sherlock Holmes) (1899) The original Sherlock Holmes play written by Arthur Conan Doyle and William Gillette had a successful run of over 30 years. It has many original parts which are not found in the short stories but borrows many events from the canonical adventures, namely ""A Scandal in Bohemia"" and ""The Adventure of the Final Problem"". Also, it had elements from"
"Hotson says, ""Could this be the true significance of the coat of arms passage in the Merry Wives? Was the Justice Shallow of the play a caricature of Justice Gardiner?"" Hotson proceeds to argue that most of Shallow's actions in the plays satirise corrupt deals in which Gardiner was involved, and that the dim-witted Slender is a parody of Gardiner's stepson, William Wayte, who was mercilessly exploited by Gardiner. Other critics have argued that Shallow comes from a long theatrical tradition of depicting bumbling old men, derived ultimately from the Roman stock character of the senex amans. Samuel Schoenbaum says"
"of ""The Merchant of Venice"" to reinforce stereotypes. Productions of the play followed in Lübeck (1938), Berlin (1940), and elsewhere within Nazi-occupied territory. The depiction of Jews in the literature of England and other English-speaking countries throughout the centuries was influenced by the Shylock character and similar stereotypes. With slight variations much of English literature up until the 20th century depicts the Jew as ""a monied, cruel, lecherous, avaricious outsider tolerated only because of his golden hoard"". Patrick Stewart illustrates approaches to the Shylock character on ""Shakespeare Teaching Videos"" Shylock Shylock is a character in William Shakespeare's play ""The Merchant"
"last time to his mother, who is now a penitent nun, and asks to hear ""the Crusader's Song"" so that he ""may joyfully go hence after that"". Sigurd Slembe (trilogy) Sigurd Slembe (""Sigurd the Bastard""; ""slembe"" may also be translated as ""worthless"" or ""ill-disposed"") is a trilogy of plays written by the Norwegian playwright Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson and published in 1862. It is regarded as his finest historical drama and was influenced by the works of William Shakespeare and Friedrich Schiller. It directly influenced Henrik Ibsen's ""The Pretenders"", written the following year, which explores some similar themes. In contrast to Ibsen's"
"of Chapman's play gave an impetus to the comic device; disguise plays were produced frequently in its aftermath. The anonymous ""Look About You"" (printed 1600), ""The Blind Beggar of Bethnal Green"" (1600) by Henry Chettle and John Day, ""Westward Ho"" and ""Northward Ho"" (c. 1604-5) by Thomas Dekker and John Webster, and Ben Jonson's ""Every Man in His Humour"" (1598), ""Volpone"" (1606) and ""The Alchemist"" (1610) are among the various examples that can be cited. The Blind Beggar of Alexandria The Blind Beggar of Alexandria is an Elizabethan era stage play, a comedy written by George Chapman. It was the"
"William Shakespeare's play ""King Lear"" is based on material taken secondhand (through Raphael Holinshed) from Geoffrey of Monmouth's mythical king King Leir, who has often been connected, but is likely unrelated, to Llŷr. <br> <br> (*) Unbordered names are figures not in Llŷr's line of descent, though perhaps members of the extended family.<br> (*) This stemma is subject to further elaboration. If the Beli above is to be equated with Beli Mawr then Caswallawn stands as Penarddun's sibling. But Bromwich observes that Penarddun should be emended to being the sister of Beli, which would bring consistency with statement elsewhere that"
"It."" The middle grouping of Shakespeare's plays begins in 1599 with ""Julius Caesar."" For the next few years, Shakespeare would produce his most famous dramas, including ""Macbeth,"" ""Hamlet,"" and ""King Lear."" The plays during this period are in many ways the darkest of Shakespeare's career and address issues such as betrayal, murder, lust, power and egoism. The final grouping of plays, called Shakespeare's late romances, include ""Pericles, Prince of Tyre"", ""Cymbeline"", ""The Winter's Tale"" and ""The Tempest"". The romances are so called because they bear similarities to medieval romance literature. Among the features of these plays are a redemptive plotline"
"Orlando (As You Like It) Orlando is a fictional character and the male lead in the comedy ""As You Like It"" (1599/1600) by William Shakespeare. Orlando is the younger son of the deceased Sir Rowland de Boys and brother of Oliver. He is brave, chivalrous, tender, modest, smart, strong, handsome and beloved by all. He resents the harsh treatment he receives at Oliver's hands and complains that Oliver is neglecting to educate him; Orlando feels that he is being ""kept"" like livestock. Nevertheless, he is not successful in expressing his love for Rosalind to her before he leaves to the"