Dogberry is a constable in which play by William Shakespeare?
"a friar. Verbal echoes of Shakespeare's play also occur in ""Blurt"" — though the latter play is bawdier. A similar borrowing from Shakespeare's ""Much Ado About Nothing"" is evident in the play's comic subplot, which features the title character of Blurt the constable (rather as if ""Much Ado"" were titled ""Dogberry""). Blurt, Master Constable Blurt, Master Constable is a late Elizabethan comedy, interesting for the authorship problem it presents. The play is subtitled ""The Spaniards' Night Walk,"" and an allusion to the Spanish in Ireland in the play's final scene — there was a Spanish raid on Ireland in September"
"the Elizabethan common name for the fruit of the Common Dogwood (""Cornus sanguinea""), considered lowly and inferior to other edible berries. Shakespeare appears to be poking mild fun at the amateur police forces of his day, in which respectable citizens spent a fixed number of nights per year fulfilling an obligation to protect the public peace, a job for which they were, by and large, unqualified. Dogberry and his crew, however, are also given a thematic function, for it is they who (accidentally) uncover the plot of Don John and begin the process of restoration that leads to the play’s"
"Dogberry's injunction"". Dogberry was almost certainly created to be performed by William Kempe, as the names ""Kemp"" and ""Kem"" are sometimes accidentally substituted for the character-name in the published version of the play. Dogberry was played by the noted comedy actor Samuel Johnson during the 1880s and 1890s for Henry Irving at the Lyceum Theatre in London. John Martin-Harvey described him as the acknowledged Shakespearean clown of his day, and his portrayal of Dogberry (1882 and 1893) reflects this claim. In a noted 1976 Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) production set in India during the British Raj, John Woodvine played Dogberry"
"to understand Dogberry's nonsensical description of the supposed crimes, but allows Dogberry to examine them. His absurd pseudo-legal rhetoric confuses matters even more, but when the Prince arrives at the truth about Don John, the plot is revealed and the arrested man confesses. Dogberry is rewarded for his diligence and leaves. As is usual in Shakespearean comedy, and Renaissance comedy generally, he is a figure of comic incompetence. The humour of Dogberry’s character is his frequent use of malapropism, a product of his pretentiousness, as he attempts to use sophisticated terminology with disastrous results. The name of the character is"
"a tax levied specifically for the purpose of hiring full-time watchmen. Some voluntary prosecution societies also hired men to patrol their areas. While the societies for the reformation of manners showed there was a good deal of support for the effective policing of morality, they also suggested that the existing mechanisms of crime control were regarded by some as ineffective. Constable Dogberry's men from ""Much Ado About Nothing"" by Shakespeare would 'rather sleep than talk' may be dismissed as merely a dramatic device or a caricature, but successful dramatists nevertheless work with characters who strike a chord with their audience."
"constable acquired it by comparison; where the term ""headborough"" or ""chief pledge"" is used in contrast to a ""constable"", the term ""constable"" is likely to refers specifically to the role of a hundred-constable. In this sense it is found in the induction to Shakespeare's ""The Taming of the Shrew"" (written c. 1590–92), when the Hostess of an alehouse, arguing with a drunken troublemaker, declares, ""I know my remedie, I must go fetch the Headborough"" (Induction, i); and again in ""Much Ado About Nothing"" (written c. 1598–9), where the dramatis personae describes Verges as a Headborough, subordinate to Constable Dogberry (Act"
"England and attended Fairfield High School and Warrington Collegiate Institute before being accepted to RADA on the acting programme in 2002. Whilst in high school he was a member of the Musketeer Theatre Company where he played Dogberry in William Shakespeare's ""Much Ado About Nothing"" amongst other roles. At just 17 he wrote a play called ""Divorced and Desperate"" which ran at the Queen's Hall Theatre, Widnes, for three nights. A year later he wrote and starred in the play ""The Boy in the Bed"" at the Tower Theatre, Islington with financial backing from Barbara Windsor and Julie Walters to"
"lover, and therefore assumes him to be an impostor. Sobering, Strathpeffer realizes he has come to the wrong party and asserts his right to his title; but Gwennie (Angella Mawby) hides her father's watch in Strathpeffer's pocket as he is renewing his romance with Margery. A police inspector arrives hunting for the missing lord, establishing his authenticity and the fact that he is not, after all, the hired guest. The play premiered in London in 1903 at the Prince of Wales Theatre and was revived in 1906 at the Haymarket Theatre to much success. It played on Broadway at the"
"in a location called the Forest of Arden. This may be intended as the Ardennes, a forested region covering an area located in southeast Belgium, western Luxembourg and northeastern France, or Arden, Warwickshire, near Shakespeare's home town, which was the ancestral origin of his mother's family—who incidentally were called ""Arden"". Frederick has usurped the duchy and exiled his older brother, Duke Senior. Duke Senior's daughter, Rosalind, has been permitted to remain at court because she is the closest friend and cousin of Frederick's only child, Celia. Orlando, a young gentleman of the kingdom who at first sight has fallen in"
"audience as former child star Hayaticik. The district attorney manages to escape and alerts the Police who arrest Cemil at the studio. Su dies of her disease in the final scene of the play. While Cemil is about to be sent to prison, it turns out he has been pardoned and promoted due to the glowing report by the Human rights organization about his police station. Cemil rejects the promotion and decides to form a theatre group with his former inmates and they pick Romeo and Juliet as their next project. Commissar Shakespeare Commissar Shakespeare (Original Turkish title: Komser Şekspir)"
"a world-famous composer and conductor. When Mr. Poppy decides St Bernadette's should enter the National 'Song for Christmas' competition, he persuades Donald to sign the entry forms, later kidnapping him for an impromptu road trip to Castell Llawen (""Merry Castle"", not a real place) in Wales, where the competition is being held. However, Roderick is also competing in the competition, mentoring the choir of posh St Cuthbert's College. Mr. Shakespeare (Jason Watkins) from Oakmoor School, rivals of St Bernadette's, has also entered his class. Donald takes his class through the wilds of Wales where they get past obstacles, such as"
"are depicted in the opening scene of Shakespeare's ""Richard II"". Thomas Mowbray (as he is called in the play) prophetically replies to King Richard's ""Lions make leopards tame"" with the retort, ""Yea, but not change his spots."" Mowbray's death in exile is announced later in the play by the Bishop of Carlisle. Thomas de Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk Thomas de Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk, 1st Earl of Nottingham, 3rd Earl of Norfolk, 6th Baron Mowbray, 7th Baron Segrave, , (22 March 1366 – 22 September 1399) was an English peer. As a result of his involvement in the"
"performance is held at Scadbury. Shakespeare argues that opinion gets in the way of art. Marlowe is disconcerted by Shakespeare's views. Horsemen arrive to arrest Marlowe. In London, Marlowe is visited in prison by Raleigh who tells him he has been denounced as a blasphemer. Raleigh says he can free Marlowe, but he wants to be sure that Marlowe has no incriminating records of the meetings of the school of night. Marlowe insists there are none. He is freed. In the Rose theatre Shakespeare reads one of the Dark Lady sonnets he has written about Rosalinda. They are hiding there"
"Commissar Shakespeare Commissar Shakespeare (Original Turkish title: Komser Şekspir) is a 2001 Turkish comedy-drama film, directed by Sinan Çetin. Cemil is an acting Police Chief and a single father with an only daughter Su. Su who has been cast in the role of Snow White (""Pamuk Prenses"") in the school play, is rehearsing when she blacks out and is taken to hospital where she is found to have leukemia. Meanwhile, Cemil's men round up a number of people, including Danyal (a mafiaman), Tatü Hayati (a small-time drug dealer), Ali (a drug addict) and Deniz (an ageing prostitute). When Su's teacher"
"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"
"The Steward of Christendom The Steward of Christendom is a 1995 play written by Irish playwright Sebastian Barry. It focuses on Thomas Dunne, loosely based on Barry's great-grandfather, the former chief superintendent of the Dublin Metropolitan Police, now (1932) confined to a psychiatric facility. The play recounts Dunne's personal and public life throughout the 1910s and into the early 1920s. The play opens in a county home (an inpatient psychiatric facility) in Baltinglass, Ireland in 1932, some years after Irish independence. In the opening scene, Dunne appears to be raving incoherently, reliving an episode of his childhood. As the play"
"to walk out onto the roadway, Lord Redbrick has the other red gnomes glue Juliet's feet to her fountain because he does not want to lose her like he lost her mother. Gnomeo's mushroom friend, Shroom, finds out that Gnomeo is still alive as a blue teapot fell out of the truck, and a dog has carried him to a nearby park. He and Featherstone eventually reaches the park where Gnomeo climbs onto a statue of William Shakespeare (Patrick Stewart) and tells him his story. Shakespeare tells Gnomeo that his story is very similar to his own writing, of Romeo"
"Cymbeline Cymbeline , also known as Cymbeline, King of Britain, is a play by William Shakespeare set in Ancient Britain (""c."" AD 10–14) and based on legends that formed part of the Matter of Britain concerning the early Celtic British King Cunobeline. Although listed as a tragedy in the First Folio, modern critics often classify ""Cymbeline"" as a romance or even a comedy. Like ""Othello"" and ""The Winter's Tale"", it deals with the themes of innocence and jealousy. While the precise date of composition remains unknown, the play was certainly produced as early as 1611. Cymbeline, the Roman Empire's vassal"
"his histories. It is not clear, however, if Shakespeare characterised Falstaff as he did for dramatic purposes, or because of a specific desire to satirise Oldcastle or the Cobhams. Cobham was a common butt of veiled satire in Elizabethan popular literature; he figures in Ben Jonson's ""Every Man in His Humour"" and may have been part of the reason ""The Isle of Dogs"" was suppressed. Shakespeare's desire to burlesque a hero of early English Protestantism could indicate Roman Catholic sympathies, but Henry Brooke, 11th Baron Cobham was sufficiently sympathetic to Catholicism that in 1603, he was imprisoned as part of"
"cowboy and gunslinger Jim 'The Reverend' Mosten - A young black swamper at the Prairie Belle Liberty Valance - An outlaw and leader of a gang Marshal Johnson - The local authority in Twotrees Jake Dowitt - A young reporter for the Chronicle The Gang - A few of Liberty's boys Mourners - Attending Barricune's funeral Law Men - The marshal's deputies The play premièred at Park Theatre in London on 16 May 2014, under the direction of Jethro Compton. It was produced by Jethro Compton in association with Park Theatre. Music was composed by Jonny Sims The cast for"
"to ""Elementary, my dear fellow! Elementary!"" (in the final 1935 text; Act II Scene II). The 1976 Samuel French reprint has the phrase ""Oh, this is elementary, my dear Watson"" (Act I Scene III; though the scene has been placed in a different act, it is the same scene as above), but it is unclear which of the earlier versions is the basis of this reprint. It was also Gillette who introduced the famous curved pipe as a trademark Holmes prop. Sherlock Holmes (play) Sherlock Holmes is a four-act play by William Gillette and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, based on"
"John Ramm John Ramm is an English comedian and actor. He plays Raymond Box in the National Theatre of Brent, and has also appeared on film and television in ""Robin Hood"" (""Will You Tolerate This?""), ""The Palace"", ""Foyle's War"" (""All Clear"") and as Makepeace's neighbour in ""Shakespeare in Love"". On stage, he has appeared with the Royal Shakespeare Company in their 2004 Lope de Vega season, at the Chichester Festival Theatre, in a 2008 production of ""Ring Round the Moon"" at the Playhouse Theatre London, as Dogberry in Much Ado About Nothing in 2011, in the 2013 play ""The Low"
"the evening, the noble but incompetent constable Dogberry appoints a watch to keep the peace. The three hapless watchmen happen to hear Borachio bragging to his colleague Conrade about how he and Don John had succeeded in stopping the wedding. The watchmen apprehend Borachio and Conrade, and, in the morning, Dogberry attempts to have Leonato interrogate the prisoners. However, a hurried Leonato is unable to decipher what the bumbling Dogberry is trying to tell him. Amidst the confusion, Don John quietly flees. At the wedding, Claudio publicly disgraces his would-be bride and storms away, along with most of the guests,"
"University College London, where he read English and performed in the university's dramatic society. Wymark trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and making his first stage appearance in a walk-on part in ""Othello"" in 1951. He toured South Africa the following year and then directed plays for the drama department at Stanford University, California. After moving to the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon, Wymark played a wide range of Shakespearean roles, including Dogberry in ""Much Ado About Nothing"", Stephano in ""The Tempest"", Marullus in ""Julius Caesar"" and Bottom in ""A Midsummer Night's Dream"". Other stage credits included the"
"Kyd decides to leave Scadbury. A day later: Shakespeare has been in bed with Rosalinda. Marlowe enters and reads some lines from Shakespeare’s new poem. He is disturbed by its power. He and Shakespeare discuss literature. Walsingham informs Marlowe that his indiscreet declarations of heretical opinions can get them all in trouble. Raleigh has already been arrested on the unrelated charge of marrying illegally, but they are all coming under suspicion. In London Skeres and Poley burst into Kyd’s rooms and arrest him, looking for documents believed to be held by Marlowe on the 'school of night'. A ""commedia dell'arte"""
"""A Study in Scarlet"", ""The Sign of Four"", ""The Boscombe Valley Mystery"", ""The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter"", and ""The Adventure of the Naval Treaty"". It includes the very first mention of the phrase ""Elementary, my dear Watson"". While Conan Doyle wrote the original version, it is unclear how much of his material survived in the play as performed, which was written by Gillette. Conan Doyle and Gillette later revised the play together; it has since been revised by others twice. The Speckled Band (or The Stonor Case) (1902) Around 1902, Doyle wrote and produced a play based on his"
"gallowglass wore a mail shirt over a padded jacket and an iron helmet; he was usually accompanied by two boys (like a knight's squires), one of whom carried his throwing spears while the other carried his provisions. Shakespeare mentions gallowglasses in his play ""Macbeth"", although along with other aspects of the play it is an anachronism, as the historical Macbeth lived in the 11th century: <poem> The merciless Macdonwald, Worthy to be a rebel, for to that The multiplying villainies of nature Do swarm upon him, from the Western isles Of kerns and gallowglasses is supplied </poem> In a paper"
"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"
"role of Peter is enlarged, and played by Andy Devine as a faint-hearted bully. He speaks lines which Shakespeare gave to other Capulet servants, making him the instigator of the opening brawl. The film includes two songs drawn from other plays by Shakespeare: ""Come Away Death"" from ""Twelfth Night"" and ""Honour, Riches, Marriage, Blessing"" from ""The Tempest"". Clusters of images are used to define the central characters: Romeo is first sighted leaning against a ruined building in an arcadian scene, complete with a pipe-playing shepherd and his dog; the livelier Juliet is associated with Capulet's formal garden, with its decorative"
"the army, even though his father was a decorated official. Millington's friend and comrade Arthur Drake is given the duty of defending Millington, much to his initial displeasure. But as events begin to unfold, Drake realizes that Millington is in fact not guilty, and slowly manages to convince everyone else as well. But the question remains... who is guilty? The play builds up towards the end, gripping the reader with suspense as well as a sense of mystery. It was first staged in May 1969 at the Theatre Royal in Bristol, then transferred to the Queen's Theatre in the West"
"servant Trompart, to fight the Scythians. Strumbo survives battle by counterfeiting death: Later Strumbo has an encounter with Humber, just before the latter's suicide. Strumbo is prepared to feed the starving Humber, but is frightened away by Albanact's ghost. Locrine Locrine is an Elizabethan play depicting the legendary Trojan founders of the nation of England and of Troynovant (London). The play presents a cluster of complex and unresolved problems for scholars of English Renaissance theatre. ""Locrine"" was entered into the Stationers' Register on 20 July 1594 and published in 1595 in a quarto issued by printer Thomas Creede. Individual scholars"
"a ""riotous reprobate"" called Wat who languishes in the Counter prison. Vermine is attempting to arrange a marriage between Alice and a Cornish knight called Sir Amphilus, who is quickly shown to be old, crude, foolish, and ignorant; Alice calls him ""a dunghill scarab, / A water-dog knight."" (Cornishmen appear as figures of fun in other plays of the era; Chough in Middleton and Rowley's ""A Fair Quarrel"" is one obvious example.) Alice's deliverance from this unwanted match suddenly appears: Sir Amphilus's servant reveals himself to be her brother Wat in a false beard. Sprung from prison, Wat offers to"
"Trigorin ""Clockwatching"", Orange Tree Theatre (2001) Duncan ""The Daughter in Law"", Orange Tree Theatre (2001) Joe ""Macbeth"", Orange Tree Theatre (1998) Macduff ""All in the Wrong"", Orange Tree Theatre (1998) Beverley ""The Thickness of Skin"", Wolsey Theatre (1997) Eddie ""The Cherry Orchard"", Royal Shakespeare Company (1997) Yasha ""Disappeared"", Leicester Haymarket Theatre (1995) Timothy Creighton ""The Case of Rebellious Susan"", Orange Tree Theatre (1994) Lucien ""Hamlet"", Greenwich Studio Theatre (1993) Hamlet Writer ""Two Feet"" (in progress) co-written with Mark Roper ""Skin Trade (film)"" (2015) co-written with Dolph Lundgren ""Land of Morning Calm"" Steven Elder Steven Elder (born Steven William Thomas Lawrence)"