Which county is known as Shakespeare's County?
"Raceway. In late 2017, planning applications were submitted by Cala to build initially 400 homes on the site, followed eventually by a further 3,100 to be known as ""Marston Mead Garden Village"". Local newspaper ""Stratford Herald"" reported in December 2017 that a Stratford local council document established that potentially up to £100 million funding from the developer Cala would need to be assured, to be invested widely into infrastructure improvements, including roads, public transport, schools and doctors' surgeries. Shakespeare County Raceway Located near Stratford-upon-Avon in Warwickshire, England, Shakespeare County Raceway became a permanent drag racing facility in 1980 when it"
"Warwickshire Warwickshire (; postal abbreviation Warks.) is a landlocked county in the West Midlands region of England. The county town is Warwick, although the largest town is Nuneaton. The county is famous for being the birthplace of William Shakespeare. The county is divided into five districts of North Warwickshire, Nuneaton and Bedworth, Rugby, Warwick and Stratford-on-Avon. The current county boundaries were set in 1974 by the Local Government Act 1972. The historic county boundaries include Coventry and Solihull, as well as much of Birmingham. The county is bordered by Leicestershire to the northeast, Staffordshire to the northwest, Worcestershire and the"
"Shakespeare, Ontario Shakespeare is a village and designated place within the municipality of Perth East in Perth County, Ontario, Canada with a population of 1059 in 2011. Shakespeare is located on the Highway 7/8, just east of Stratford (named after Stratford upon Avon, England) and west of Kitchener. Shakespeare was founded in 1832 by David Bell, and used to be known as Bell's Corner. The name changed from Bell's Corner to Shakespeare in 1852 when Alexander Mitchell suggested naming the town after his favourite playwright. Every year Shakespeare celebrates the town community with its own holiday called Field day. Field"
"Leek. The region also encompasses five Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty, the Wye Valley, Shropshire Hills, Cannock Chase, Malvern Hills, and parts of the Cotswolds. Warwickshire is home to the towns of Stratford upon Avon, birthplace of writer William Shakespeare, Rugby, the birthplace of Rugby football and Nuneaton, birthplace to author George Eliot. The official region contains the ceremonial counties of Herefordshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire, West Midlands and Worcestershire. There is some confusion in the use of the term ""West Midlands"", as the name is also used for the much smaller West Midlands county and conurbation which is in the"
"for being the birthplace of William Shakespeare from Stratford-upon-Avon. Even today, road signs at the county boundary describe Warwickshire as ""Shakespeare's County"". The county has also produced other famous figures such as Aleister Crowley (from Royal Leamington Spa), George Eliot (from Nuneaton), Rupert Brooke (from Rugby), and Michael Drayton (from Hartshill). The poet Philip Larkin lived in Warwick (born in nearby Coventry), and Elizabeth Gaskell went to school in Barford and Stratford. Folk musician Nick Drake, who record for Island records in the late 1960s and early 1970s, lived and died in Tanworth-in-Arden. Warwickshire Warwickshire (; postal abbreviation Warks.) is"
"Hudson Shakespeare Company The Hudson Shakespeare Company is a regional Shakespeare touring festival based in Jersey City in Hudson County, New Jersey that produces an annual summer Shakespeare in the Park festival and often features lesser done Shakespeare works such as ""The Two Noble Kinsmen"" and ""Timon of Athens"". The company also produces several modern day productions in non theatrical venues such as their courtroom shows of ""Inherit the Wind"" and ""A Few Good Men"" in the Hoboken Municipal Courtroom. It produce a yearly educational program that ranges from student workshops to full length Shakespeare productions. In 1992, Jersey City"
"Shakespeare & Company (Massachusetts) Shakespeare & Company is an American theatre company located in Lenox, Massachusetts in the Berkshire region of western Massachusetts. It was founded in 1978 by artistic director Tina Packer, who stepped down in 2009. Allyn Burrows is the current artistic director. A co-founder was Kristin Linklater, who developed the Linklater vocal technique and left the company in the mid-1990s. The company performs Shakespeare and new plays of ""social and political significance"", reaching over 75,000 patrons annually, and it conducts training programs for professional classical actors as well as education programs for elementary through high school students,"
"was Jimmy Carter in 1980, although Bill Clinton won pluralities in both 1992 and 1996. Chambers County has been the backdrop of several movies including ""Mississippi Burning"". Chambers County, Alabama Chambers County is a county of the U.S. state of Alabama. As of the 2010 census the population was 34,215. Its county seat is Lafayette. Its name is in honor of Henry H. Chambers, who served as a United States Senator from Alabama. Chambers County is included in the Valley, AL Micropolitan Statistical Area and the Columbus-Auburn-Opelika, GA-AL Combined Statistical Area. Prior to contact with people of European descent, what"
"counties in the country, with an unemployment rate lower than the national average, and its economy derived from major companies, maritime, agriculture and tourism. Tourist attractions include many seaside resorts, the national parks and the Southampton Boat Show. The county is known as the home of writers Jane Austen and Charles Dickens, the childhood home of Florence Nightingale and the birthplace of engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel. Hampshire takes its name from the settlement that is now the city of Southampton. Southampton was known in Old English as ""Hamtun"", roughly meaning ""village-town"", so its surrounding area or ""scīr"" became known as"
"11 public cyber charter schools in Pennsylvania that are available for free statewide, to children K–12. See: Education in Pennsylvania. Many artists and writers based in New York City have called Bucks County home, settling mainly in the small stretch between Doylestown and New Hope and along the Delaware River. Notable residents have included Margaret Mead, Pearl S. Buck, Oscar Hammerstein II, Stephen Sondheim, Charlie Parker, Moss Hart, George S. Kaufman, James Michener, Dorothy Parker, S. J. Perelman, Stan and Jan Berenstain, Daniel Garber, Alfred Bester, Annie Haslam, and Jean Toomer. Bucks County has been the home of writer/musician James"
"is the only woman to win the National Book Award twice for fiction, drew upon Faulkner for Bois Savage, where she placed her three novels. Yoknapatawpha County Yoknapatawpha County, pronounced is a fictional Mississippi county created by the American author William Faulkner, based upon and inspired by Lafayette County, Mississippi, and its county seat of Oxford, Mississippi (which Faulkner renamed Jefferson). Faulkner often referred to Yoknapatawpha County as ""my apocryphal county"". From ""Sartoris"" onwards, Faulkner would set all but four of his novels in the county (""Soldiers' Pay"", ""Pylon"", ""The Wild Palms"" and ""A Fable"" were set elsewhere), as well"
"in Lancaster County simulated scenes of Springfield, Illinois for ""The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln"", by the Public Broadcasting Service, and for ""Stealing Lincoln's Body"" by The History Channel. The Woodward Hill Cemetery and the Landis Valley Museum were also used to simulate the Oak Ridge Cemetery and other scenes of 1870s Springfield. ""Scotland, PA"", a modern retelling of Shakespeare's ""Macbeth"", is set in Scotland, a small town in Franklin County (though it was not filmed there). Historically, Scotland, Pennsylvania was originally settled by Scots-Irish Americans, and there are still people named McBeth living in the area. Music in the South"
"create 90 minute cuts of plays by Shakespeare. Each school has performances at their own venue, then all the plays are performed the weekend before Thanksgiving at Shakespeare & Co. The Fall Festival of Shakespeare is a non-competitive celebration of the students work. The festival just finished its twenty-ninth year. Shakespeare & Company (Massachusetts) Shakespeare & Company is an American theatre company located in Lenox, Massachusetts in the Berkshire region of western Massachusetts. It was founded in 1978 by artistic director Tina Packer, who stepped down in 2009. Allyn Burrows is the current artistic director. A co-founder was Kristin Linklater,"
"Delaware Shakespeare Festival Delaware Shakespeare (formerly known as ""Delaware Shakespeare Festival"") is an outdoor Shakespeare festival that takes place during the summer months at Rockwood Park located in the city of Wilmington, Delaware. The mission of the Delaware Shakespeare is to create professional theatre and educational programs in order to further the understanding and appreciation of Shakespeare’s works for the residents and friends of the State of Delaware. Summer Festival at Archmere Academy Summer Festival at Rockwood Park: Community Tour Originally piloted in 2004, the Shakespeare, Then, Now and Always program is an interactive seminar for local high school students."
"Delaware Park. Inspired by the New York Shakespeare Festival, Robert ""Bob"" Glenn started The Shakespeare Festival of Dallas in 1971 as a free summer Shakespeare Festival. Renamed Shakespeare Dallas in 2005, the company produces three free Shakespeare productions each summer at the Samuel-Grand Amphitheatre in Lakewood. The Hudson Shakespeare Company, founded by L. Robert Johnson in 1992, features a summer season where the company stages productions for each month of the summer. Besides Shakespeare standards such as ""Hamlet"" and ""A Midsummer Night's Dream"", they often produce one to two lesser done productions a season such as ""The Two Noble Kinsmen"","
"Shakespeare festival of Hudson County performing a free Shakespeare production for each month of the summer throughout various parks in the city. The group regularly performs at Hamilton Park (9th Street & Jersey Avenue), Van Vorst Park (Jersey Avenue & Montgomery Street), and The Historic Jersey City and Harsimus Cemetery (435 Newark Avenue). The American poet Wallace Stevens described the city as a place where ""the deer and the dachshund are one."" Jersey City is governed under the Faulkner Act (Mayor-Council) form of municipal government by a mayor and a nine-member city council. The city council consists of six members"
"Spaeth and selected from ""FATE"" magazine. In 2009 First National Bank of Central Alabama commissioned a play about the myth related to Henry Wells, the burning of the second courthouse, and the window image in the new courthouse from playwright Barry Bradford. Beginning in April 2010, his play ""The Face in the Courthouse Window"" has been produced each spring in the courtroom of the Courthouse. All proceeds from the play go toward preservation of the Courthouse.[2] Pickens County Courthouse (Carrollton, Alabama) The Pickens County Courthouse in the county seat of Carrollton, Alabama is the courthouse for Pickens County, Alabama. Built"
"Football Hall of Fame in 1983. Sharing the same name as ""The Bard of Avon"", Shakespeare earned nicknames including ""The Bard of Staten Island"", ""The Bard of South Bend"", and ""The Merchant of Menace."" Shakespeare was born on Staten Island, New York. His father, Valentine Shakespeare, was a New York City firefighter and the captain of Fire Company 163. The family claimed to be direct descendants of the famed writer William Shakespeare. The younger Shakespeare became a star football player at Staten Island's Port Richmond High School. He showed particular talent as a punter and later told reporters that he"
"Harrison County, Mississippi Harrison County is a county located in the U.S. state of Mississippi. As of the 2010 census, the population was 187,105, making it the second-most populous county in Mississippi. Its county seats are Biloxi and Gulfport. The county is named after U.S. President William Henry Harrison. Harrison County is part of the Gulfport-Biloxi-Pascagoula, MS Metropolitan Statistical Area. The county was severely damaged from both Hurricane Camille on August 17, 1969 and Hurricane Katrina on August 29, 2005, causing catastrophic effects. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of , of which is"
"Lafayette County, Mississippi Lafayette County is a county in the U.S. state of Mississippi. As of the 2010 census, the population was 47,351. Its county seat is Oxford. The local pronunciation of the name is ""la-FAY-et"". The county's name honors Marquis de Lafayette, a French military hero and American general who fought during the American Revolutionary War. The Oxford, MS Micropolitan Statistical Area includes all of Lafayette County. The County is policed by the Lafayette County Sheriff's Department. Lafayette County is often regarded as the inspiration for Yoknapatawpha County, the fictional setting of many of William Faulkner's stories. According to"
"her producer husband Nigel Stonier also reside in Cheshire. The county has also been home to several writers, including Hall Caine (1853–1931), popular romantic novelist and playwright; Alan Garner; Victorian novelist Elizabeth Gaskell, whose novel ""Cranford"" features her home town of Knutsford; and most famously Lewis Carroll, born and raised in Daresbury, hence the Cheshire Cat (a fictional cat popularised by Carroll in ""Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"" and known for its distinctive mischievous grin). Artists from the county include ceramic artist Emma Bossons and sculptor and photographer Andy Goldsworthy. Actors from Cheshire include Tim Curry; Daniel Craig, the 6th James"
"Henry County, Indiana Henry County is a county located in the U.S. state of Indiana. As of 2010, the population was 49,462. The county seat is New Castle. Henry County is the main setting of the novel ""Raintree County"" by Ross Lockridge, Jr.. Henry County was formed in 1822. It was named for Patriot Patrick Henry, governor of Virginia. According to the 2010 census, the county has a total area of , of which (or 99.25%) is land and (or 0.75%) is water. Sources: National Atlas, U.S. Census Bureau In recent years, average temperatures in New Castle have ranged from"
"herbs that would have been known in Shakespeare's time. Shakespeare's Birthplace Shakespeare's Birthplace is a restored 16th-century half-timbered house situated in Henley Street, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England, where it is believed that William Shakespeare was born in 1564 and spent his childhood years. It is now a small museum open to the public and a popular visitor attraction, owned and managed by the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust. It has been referred to as ""a Mecca for all lovers of literature"". The house itself is relatively simple, but for the late 16th century it would have been considered quite a substantial dwelling. John"
"Changing its name to The Shakespeare Theatre, the troupe moved in 1992 to the Lansburgh Theatre, a newly built space in the original Lansburgh's Department Store building in the Penn Quarter. At the start of the 2005-6 season, it adopted the current name, Shakespeare Theatre Company. The company constructed another theatre, Sidney Harman Hall, which opened in 2007 in the lower part of an office building in the quarter, and the two theatres were joined to become the Harman Center for the Arts. Meanwhile, after initially importing traveling shows from the Shenandoah Shakespeare Express the Folger Shakespeare Library developed a"
"Chambers County, Alabama Chambers County is a county of the U.S. state of Alabama. As of the 2010 census the population was 34,215. Its county seat is Lafayette. Its name is in honor of Henry H. Chambers, who served as a United States Senator from Alabama. Chambers County is included in the Valley, AL Micropolitan Statistical Area and the Columbus-Auburn-Opelika, GA-AL Combined Statistical Area. Prior to contact with people of European descent, what is now Chambers County was inhabited by the Creek nation. Chambers County was established on December 18, 1832. Pat Garrett, the lawman famed for killing outlaw Billy"
"""Herald"" was bought by an independent person in 1970. Holmes county is used extensively as a setting in many of the novels of Carolyn Haines. Holmes County, Mississippi Holmes County is a county in the U.S. state of Mississippi; its western border is formed by the Yazoo River and the eastern border by the Big Black River. The western part of the county is within the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta. As of the 2010 census, the population was 19,198. Its county seat is Lexington. The county is named in honor of David Holmes, territorial governor and the first governor of the state"
"students spread out over seven schools. Harris County, Georgia Harris County is a county located in the west-central portion of the U.S. state of Georgia; its western border is formed by the Chattahoochee River. As of the 2010 census, the population was 32,024. The county seat is Hamilton. The largest city in the county is Pine Mountain, a resort town that is home to the world famous Callaway Gardens Resort and Franklin D. Roosevelt State Park (the largest state park in Georgia). Harris County was created on December 14, 1827, and named for Charles Harris, a Georgia judge and attorney."
"Henry County, Ohio Henry County is a county located in the U.S. state of Ohio. As of the 2010 census, the population was 28,215. Its county seat is Napoleon. The county was created in 1820 and later organized in 1834. It is named for Patrick Henry, the Virginian famous for his ""give me liberty or give me death"" speech. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of , of which is land and (0.9%) is water. As of the census of 2000, there were 29,210 people, 10,935 households, and 7,960 families residing in the county."
"Avondale Estates, Georgia Avondale Estates is a city in DeKalb County, Georgia, United States. The population was 2,960 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Atlanta metropolitan area and is near Decatur. In the 1890s, lots were sold in the area, which was known as Ingleside. Avondale Estates was founded in 1924 by George Francis Willis, a patent medicine magnate, who purchased the entire village of Ingleside to create a planned community. The city was named after Stratford-upon-Avon, England, birthplace of Shakespeare. Downtown buildings were designed in a Tudor style to reinforce this image, as were many of"
"Yoknapatawpha County Yoknapatawpha County, pronounced is a fictional Mississippi county created by the American author William Faulkner, based upon and inspired by Lafayette County, Mississippi, and its county seat of Oxford, Mississippi (which Faulkner renamed Jefferson). Faulkner often referred to Yoknapatawpha County as ""my apocryphal county"". From ""Sartoris"" onwards, Faulkner would set all but four of his novels in the county (""Soldiers' Pay"", ""Pylon"", ""The Wild Palms"" and ""A Fable"" were set elsewhere), as well as over 50 of his stories. ""Absalom, Absalom!"" includes a map of Yoknapatawpha County drawn by Faulkner. The word ""Yoknapatawpha"" is derived from two Chickasaw"
"Charlotte Shakespeare Charlotte Shakespeare was a professional, non-profit theatre company in Charlotte, North Carolina. The company specialized in intimate and accessible performances of traditional and modern classics, with an emphasis on the plays of William Shakespeare and with a mission of presenting plays ""that reflect timeless truths about the human condition and honor Shakespeare’s genius for storytelling and language"". The company was founded by Elise Wilkinson and Joe Copley in 2006 under the name Collaborative Arts Theatre. It was granted status as a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization in 2008. The name was changed to Charlotte Shakespeare in 2012. Charlotte Shakespeare has"
"Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey is one of the largest professional Shakespeare companies in North America, serving over 100,000 adults and children annually. Located in Madison, New Jersey, it is the state's largest theatre company dedicated to the works of Shakespeare and other classic masterworks, including rarely produced epics not often produced by other theatres. Under the leadership of artistic director Bonnie J. Monte since 1990, The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey is also the longest-running Shakespeare theatre on the east coast, and is listed as a Major Festival in the book Shakespeare Festivals"
"Shakespeare Theatre Company production history The Shakespeare Theatre Company is a regional theatre company located in Washington, United States. The theatre company focuses primarily on plays from the Shakespeare canon, but its seasons include works by other classic playwrights such as Euripides, Henrik Ibsen and Oscar Wilde. The following is a chronological list of the productions that have been staged since its inception. Fully staged productions Shakespeare Theatre Company Presentations Fully stagee productions Shakespeare Theatre Company Presentations Fully staged productions Musical in Concert series Shakespeare Theatre Company Presentations Fully staged productions Shakespeare Theatre Company Presentations Fully staged productions Shakespeare Theatre"