In which Shakespeare play do the characters of 'Ferdinand, King of Navarre', 'Longaville','Sir Nathaniel', 'Holofemes' and 'Dull, a Constable' appear?
"daughter Marguerite de Valois, Henry's estranged wife, to discuss the future of Aquitaine, but this is by no means certain."" The four main male characters are all loosely based on historical figures; Navarre is based on Henry of Navarre (who later became King Henry IV of France), Berowne on Charles de Gontaut, duc de Biron, Dumain on Charles, duc de Mayenne and Longaville on Henri I d'Orléans, duc de Longueville. Biron in particular was well known in England because Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, had joined forces with Biron's army in support of Henry in 1591. Albert Tricomi states"
"Robert Davenport, Thomas Jordan, Thomas Rawlins, and others. It is one of the few plays of the period that have a cast list: it includes William Cartwright senior (Claudius), John Robinson (Saufellus), Christopher Goad (Silius), John Barret (Messalina), and Thomas Jordan (Lepida). Some verses by Richards were prefixed to Thomas Middleton's ""Women Beware Women"". Nathanael Richards Nathanael Richards (fl. 1630–1654) was an English dramatist and poet, perhaps from Kent. He should not be confused with Nathaniel Richards (1611–1660), a cleric. A possible relative, Gabriel Richards, is mentioned in William Hammond's letters as a ""cousin"". Some unresolved issues remain about the"
"Dougall has played a wide range of roles in Shakespeare plays, including ""Henry VIII"", ""Measure for Measure"", ""Coriolanus"", and ""The Winter’s Tale"" for the Globe Theatre, ""A Midsummer Night’s Dream"", ""Twelfth Night"", ""The Taming of the Shrew"", ""Henry V"", ""The Winter’s Tale"", ""Richard III"", ""The Comedy of Errors"" and ""The Merchant of Venice"" for Propeller, and ""Hamlet"", ""Macbeth"", and ""The Two Gentlemen of Verona"" for the Royal Shakespeare Company. Other works has included ""The Devil is an Ass"", ""The Cherry Orchard"", and ""The Crucible"" for the RSC, ""Saint Joan"" at the Strand Theatre; ""Shadow of a Gunman"" and ""John Bull’s"
"Navarre and the play may be based on events that happened there between 1578 and 1584. Derby married Elizabeth de Vere, whose maternal grandfather was William Cecil, thought by some critics to be the basis of the character of Polonius in ""Hamlet"". Derby was associated with William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke, and his brother Philip Herbert, Earl of Montgomery and later 4th Earl of Pembroke, the ""Incomparable Pair"" to whom William Shakespeare's First Folio is dedicated. When Derby released his estates to his son James around 1628–29, he named Pembroke and Montgomery as trustees. Derby's older brother, Ferdinando Stanley,"
"author and wit George Etherege (Tom Hollander) in the 2004 film ""The Libertine"", an adaptation of Stephen Jeffreys' play of the same name, which depicts the Earl of Rochester and the orbit of the ""Merry Gang"". Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset and 1st Earl of Middlesex, KG (24 January 1643 – 29 January 1706) was an English poet and courtier. Sackville was born 24 January 1643, son of Richard Sackville, 5th Earl of Dorset (1622–1677). His mother was the former Lady Frances Cranfield, sister and heiress of the 3rd Earl of Middlesex, to"
"Celimene, and Sophie are not mentioned in the play, and they have no lines in the film. This, however, is a standard feature of Branagh's Shakespeare adaptations; his ""Hamlet"" contains many non-speaking walk-on roles that are not included in the original play, but are mentioned in the cast list. Branagh became interested in the play during his 1984 season with the Royal Shakespeare Company, when he had played the King of Navarre. From that period, he was familiar with Harley Granville-Barker's famous essay arguing that ""Love's Labour's Lost"" could be treated as highly stylised, with the dialogue and action treated"
"He next appeared at the National Theatre, where he performed Octavius in ""Julius Caesar"" in 1977. That year he also played Peregrine in the classic play ""Volpone"", opposite John Gielgud, and Captain Phoebus in ""The Hunchback of Notre Dame"". Charleson then spent a year in Stratford-upon-Avon with the Royal Shakespeare Company 1978–79. There he performed a hauntingly voiced Ariel in ""The Tempest""; Tranio in ""The Taming of the Shrew""; and Longaville in ""Love's Labour's Lost"" opposite Richard Griffiths as the King – all both in Stratford and at the Aldwych Theatre in London. Also with the RSC, he was Lawrence"
"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""),"
"to govern England under the King's brother, John of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Bedford, during the King's absence in France, with special responsibility for the Scottish Marches. In the first quarto text of the play, the foregoing lines are assigned to the Earl of Warwick. It has been claimed by Brenda James and Professor William Rubinstein that Neville's great-great-great-grandson Sir Henry Neville wrote the works of William Shakespeare. Ralph Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland Ralph Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland (c. 1364 – 21 October 1425), was an English nobleman of the House of Neville. Ralph Neville was born about"
"works were plundered for these scenes. Among the drolls taken from Shakespeare were ""Bottom the Weaver"" (Bottom's scenes from ""A Midsummer Night's Dream"") and ""The Grave-makers"" (the gravedigger's scene from ""Hamlet""). At the Restoration in 1660, Shakespeare's plays were divided between the two newly licensed companies: the King's Company of Thomas Killigrew and the Duke's Men of William Davenant. The licensing system prevailed for two centuries; from 1660 to 1843, only two main companies regularly presented Shakespeare in London. Davenant, who had known early-Stuart actors such as John Lowin and Joseph Taylor, was the main figure establishing some continuity with"
"18 December 1561 under the sponsorship of Thomas Sackville and Thomas Norton. He drowned in 1563 by shipwreck while crossing to help Protestant forces in the French Wars of Religion. The poem's ending differs significantly from Shakespeare's play—the nurse is banished and the apothecary is hanged for their involvement in the deception, while Friar Lawrence leaves Verona to end his days in a hermitage. London, Chatto and Windus; New York, Duffield and company, 1908. Reprinted in 1978. It was played in 1975 in the city of Chatham in Ontario, Canada. The Tragical History of Romeus and Juliet The Tragicall Historye"
"a counterblast to the negative depiction of the title character in the original versions of William Shakespeare's plays ""Henry IV (Part 1)"" and ""Henry IV (Part 2)"". Objections from descendants of the historical John Oldcastle, a Protestant martyr, appears to have been responsible both for the writing of the corrective ""Oldcastle"" play and the alteration of Oldcastle to Sir John Falstaff in later versions of the ""Henry IV"" plays. Known plays by Hathwaye, either singly or in conjunction with others, include: For the Admiral's Men, 1598-1602: For Worcester's Men, 1602-1603: For the Admiral's Men, 1603: Richard Hathwaye Richard Hathwaye (fl."
"Besides the Middle English drama, there are three surviving plays in Cornish known as the Ordinalia. These biblical plays differ widely in content. Most contain episodes such as the ""Fall of Lucifer"", the ""Creation and Fall of Man"", ""Cain and Abel"", ""Noah and the Flood"", ""Abraham and Isaac"", the ""Nativity"", the ""Raising of Lazarus"", the ""Passion"", and the ""Resurrection"". Other pageants included the story of ""Moses"", the ""Procession of the Prophets"", ""Christ's Baptism"", the ""Temptation in the Wilderness"", and the ""Assumption and Coronation of the Virgin"". In given cycles, the plays came to be sponsored by the newly emerging Medieval"
"of England, which Shakespeare had previously brought to the stage in a trilogy of plays: ""Henry VI Part 1"", ""Henry VI Part 2"", and ""Henry VI Part 3"". As in many of Shakespeare's history and tragedy plays, a number of minor comic characters appear, contrasting with and sometimes commenting on the main plot. In this case, they are mostly common soldiers in Henry's army, and they include Pistol, Nym, and Bardolph from the ""Henry IV"" plays. The army also includes a Scot, an Irishman, and an Englishman, and Fluellen, a comically stereotyped Welsh soldier whose name is phonetically close to"
"character in the original versions of William Shakespeare's plays ""Henry IV, Part 1"" and ""Henry IV, Part 2"". Objections from descendants of the historical John Oldcastle, a Protestant martyr, appears to have been responsible both for the writing of the corrective ""Oldcastle"" play and the alteration of Oldcastle to Sir John Falstaff in later versions of the ""Henry IV"" plays. Also, Wilson has been proposed as a possible author of several anonymous Elizabethan plays, including ""Fair Em"", ""The Pedlar's Prophecy"", ""A Larum for London"", ""Look About You"", ""Sir Clyomon and Sir Clamydes"", and ""A Knack to Know a Knave"". As"
"thunderbolt. The ghosts fall on their knees."" The actors in Shakespeare's company included the famous Richard Burbage, William Kempe, Henry Condell and John Heminges. Burbage played the leading role in the first performances of many of Shakespeare's plays, including ""Richard III"", ""Hamlet"", ""Othello"", and ""King Lear"". The popular comic actor Will Kempe played the servant Peter in ""Romeo and Juliet"" and Dogberry in ""Much Ado About Nothing"", among other characters. He was replaced around 1600 by Robert Armin, who played roles such as Touchstone in ""As You Like It"" and the fool in ""King Lear"". In 1613, Sir Henry Wotton"
"of the National Theatre. Shakespeare plays in which Cellier has appeared include ""Hamlet"", ""The Merchant of Venice"", ""Othello"", ""Love's Labour's Lost"", ""Measure for Measure"", ""As You Like It"", ""King John"", ""Julius Caesar"", ""Cymbeline"" and ""Henry V"", as the Dauphin. Other roles include Pinchard in Georges Feydeau's ""An Absolute Turkey"", Tommy Devon in ""Aunt Edwina"", The Dean of Archeo in ""Body and Soul"", Eric Shelding in ""The Case in Question"", Danforth in ""The Crucible"", Duke Francis in ""The Dark Horse"", Dr. Finache in Jacques Charon's National Theatre production of Feydeau's ""A Flea in her Ear"", Charles Blutham in ""Juno and the"
"on 13 December 1627. He died at Fulham aged 51, and was buried at St Mary Aldermanbury on 29 December 1627. His widow, Elizabeth, was buried there on 3 October 1635. Condell left an extensive estate, including shares in the Globe and Blackfriars Theatres. In the 2016 sitcom ""Upstart Crow"", Henry Condell is played by Dominic Coleman. Henry Condell Henry Condell (5 September 1576 (baptised) – December 1627) was an actor in the King's Men, the playing company for which William Shakespeare wrote. With John Heminges, he was instrumental in preparing and editing the First Folio, the collected plays of"
"the Crucible Theatre, Sheffield, includes ""As You Like It"" with Victoria Hamilton (also Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith); ""A Midsummer Night's Dream"" and ""Richard III"" with Kenneth Branagh; ""Edward II"" with Joseph Fiennes; ""Suddenly Last Summer"" with Victoria Hamilton and Diana Rigg (also Albery Theatre); ""The Tempest"" with Derek Jacobi (also Old Vic) and ""Don Carlos"" with Derek Jacobi (also Gielgud Theatre). Collaborations at the Donmar Warehouse include ""Good"" with Charles Dance; ""Passion Play"", ""Privates on Parade"" with Roger Allam, ""Caligula"" with Michael Sheen; ""The Vortex""; ""Merrily We Roll Along""; ""Grand Hotel""; Pirandello's ""Henry IV"" with Ian McDiarmid, ""Don Juan in Soho"""
"Characters in Hamlet What follows is an overview of the main characters in William Shakespeare's ""Hamlet"", followed by a list and summary of the minor characters from the play. Three different early versions of the play survive: known as the First Quarto (""Q1""), Second Quarto (""Q2""), and First Folio (""F1""), each has lines—and even scenes—missing in the others, and some character names vary. Marcellus, Bernardo (or Barnardo) and Francisco are sentries at Elsinore. Francisco gives up his watch to Bernardo in the opening of the play, and it is Bernardo and Marcellus, who first alert Horatio to the appearance of"
"Fayette. He appears in Voltaire's epic poem ""La Henriade"" (1723). He is one of the characters in Alexandre Dumas's novel ""La Reine Margot"" and its sequels, ""La Dame de Monsoreau"" and ""The Forty-Five Guardsmen"". Stanley Weyman's novel ""A Gentleman of France"" includes the Duke of Guise in its tale about the War of the Three Henries. Ken Follett's novel ""A Column of Fire"" features Henry, Duke of Guise as a prominent character, and explores his involvement with the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre. The Duke is a leading character in the play ""The Massacre at Paris"", by Christopher Marlowe. George Onslow's"
"being superseded in favour of an English version in four books, called the ""Davideis"", which were published after his death. The epic deals with the adventures of King David from his boyhood to the smiting of Amalek by Saul, where it abruptly closes. In 1638 ""Love's Riddle"" and a Latin comedy, the ""Naufragium Joculare"", were printed, and in 1641 the passage of Prince Charles through Cambridge gave occasion to the production of another dramatic work, ""The Guardian"", which was acted before the royal visitor with much success. During the civil war this play was privately performed at Dublin, but it"
"following lines in ""A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle"" (1922): Also referenced in George B. Shaw's play ""You Never Can Tell"" by the twins, Philip and Dolly. Douglas (play) Douglas is a blank verse tragedy by John Home. It was first performed in 1756 in Edinburgh. The play was a big success in both Scotland and England for decades, attracting many notable actors of the period, such as Edmund Kean, who made his debut in it. Peg Woffington played Lady Randolph, a part which found a later exponent in Sarah Siddons. The opening lines of the second act are"
"would erect to this supremacy."" The play offers an alternative to the feudal-Machiavellian polarity, an alternative foreshadowed in France's speech (I.1.245–256), in Lear and Gloucester's prayers (III.4. 28–36; IV.1.61–66), and in the figure of Cordelia. Until the decent society is achieved, we are meant to take as role-model (though qualified by Shakespearean ironies) Edgar, ""the machiavel of goodness"", endurance, courage and ""ripeness"". The play also contains references to disputes between King James I and Parliament. In the 1604 elections to the House of Commons, Sir John Fortescue, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, was defeated by a member of the Buckinghamshire"
"play is based on various accounts of the semi-legendary Brythonic figure Leir of Britain, whose name has been linked by some scholars to the Brythonic god Lir/Llŷr, though in actuality the names are not etymologically related. Shakespeare's most important source is probably the second edition of ""The Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande"" by Raphael Holinshed, published in 1587. Holinshed himself found the story in the earlier ""Historia Regum Britanniae"" by Geoffrey of Monmouth, which was written in the 12th century. Edmund Spenser's ""The Faerie Queene"", published 1590, also contains a character named Cordelia, who also dies from hanging, as"
"Hugh Sachs Hugh Sachs is an English actor, best known for his role in ""Benidorm"" as Gavin Ramsbottom. He has appeared in ""Foyle's War"", ""Midsomer Murders"", ""The Catherine Tate Show"",""My Family"" and Footballers' Wives. His film credits include ""The Libertine"", ""Like Minds"", ""Love, Honour and Obey"", and ""Mad Dogs and Englishmen"". In 2012 Sachs appeared in ""Secrets and Words"", a BBC Learning show about adult literacy, and 2013, he appeared as Harry Dangle in the West End play ""One Man, Two Guvnors"" at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket in London opposite Rufus Hound. Hugh Sachs also appeared as Godfrey in Victoria"
"has adapted works to stage for one-man performances of ""A Christmas Carol"" (1983), and ""Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde"", for which Inglis was called ""one of the wonders of the Fringe."" He has also adapted Chaucer, Shakespeare, Tolkien and Orwell to one act performances. Inglis has appeared with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Royal Court Theatre, playing characters such as the Ghost and Claudius in ""Hamlet"" and Mr. Bumble in ""Oliver!"". Inglis' TV appearances including as Ned Kelly in ""The Stringybark Massacre"" (short, 1968); as Chief sub in ""Play for Today"" (TV series, 1978/79); as Professor Doom in ""Wizbit"""
"The 20th-century Shakespeare scholar W. W. Greg places it in the reign of Henry VI, basing his conclusion in part on Thomas Fuller's posthumously published ""History of the Worthies of England"" (1662). If this is the case then the ""Duke of Norfolk"" referred to in the play would be Mowbray. According to J. M. Bromley, the play evokes ""the similarities between poaching and treason"", and the anonymous author deliberately links this Duke of Norfolk to both. Rudolph Fiehler noted how Blague's service to the duke was very much based upon the unsavoury characteristics of ""cowardice, poaching and thievery"". It has"
"H. Coveney as Martha. Sir Everton and his cousin Charlotte have been arranged to be married, but have not seen each other since they were young. Each switches places with a servant to secretly view their betrothed before meeting them. The plot is similar to ""The Game of Love and Chance"" a French play by Marivaux first performed in 1730. Checkmate (play) Checkmate is a two-act farcical play by Andrew Halliday first performed in 1869, and was one of his more successful plays. The play debuted at the Royalty Theatre in London on July 15, 1869. The 1869 cast included"
"the ""Conversion of Saint Paul"" exist, all hailing from East Anglia. Besides the Middle English drama, there are three surviving plays in Cornish known as the Ordinalia, and several cyclical plays survive from continental Europe. These biblical plays differ widely in content. Most contain episodes such as the ""Fall of Lucifer"", the ""Creation and Fall of Man"", ""Cain and Abel"", ""Noah and the Flood"", ""Abraham and Isaac"", the ""Nativity"", the ""Raising of Lazarus"", the ""Passion"", and the ""Resurrection"". Other pageants included the story of ""Moses"", the ""Procession of the Prophets"", ""Christ's Baptism"", the ""Temptation in the Wilderness"", and the ""Assumption"
"sons back into his service. Sir John Frugal finally reveals his true identity and restores order. He wants his brother Luke to be sent to Virginia to atone for the wrongs he has done. The play is not often performed, but it was part of the 2011 season of the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon-Avon in a production directed by Dominic Hill. The City Madam The City Madam is a Caroline era comedy written by Philip Massinger. It was licensed by Sir Henry Herbert, the Master of the Revels, on 25 May 1632 and was acted by the King's Men"
"William Kempe, (who played Peter in ""Romeo and Juliet"" and, possibly, Bottom in ""A Midsummer Night's Dream"") and Henry Condell and John Heminges, who are most famous now for collecting and editing the plays of Shakespeare's First Folio (1623). Shakespeare's plays continued to be staged after his death until the Interregnum (1649–1660), when all public stage performances were banned by the Puritan rulers. After the English Restoration, Shakespeare's plays were performed in playhouses with elaborate scenery and staged with music, dancing, thunder, lightning, wave machines, and fireworks. During this time the texts were ""reformed"" and ""improved"" for the stage, an"
"D. H. Lawrence), Mr Bumble (Oliver! by Charles Dickens/Lionel Bart), Azdak (The Caucasian Chalk Circle by Bertolt Brecht), The Doctor (A Film Short Woyzeck by Buchner), John The Baptist/Judas (Godspell), Christopher Columbus (Christopher Columbus by Michel De Ghelderode), God (Mystery play, Noahs Flood). In Pantomime: The Emperor, Widow Twankey – five times, Sgt Pong (Aladdin), Ugly Sister – five times, Baron Hardup (Cinderella), Bill Jukes (Peter Pan), Nanny (Hansel & Gretal) Dame Trot (four times)and Sam Shiley (Jack & The Beanstalk) Joy, Dame Dorothy Doo It (Beauty & The Beast), Nurse Nanny Norah (Sleeping Beauty), Mother Goose, Billy Goose(Mother Goose)"