"episode of ""Charmed"" in the entire series. It was watched by 7.7 million viewers and broke the record for the highest-rated premiere episode in The WB's three-year history. The name of this episode is a play on words from Shakespeare's ""Macbeth"": ""By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes."" ""Charmed"" focuses on the lives of three Halliwell sisters, Prue (Shannen Doherty), Piper (Holly Marie Combs) and Phoebe (Alyssa Milano), as they deal with their grandmother's death and learn that they inherited a little more than the house they grew up in. All three of them have inherited"
"from ""Something Wicked This Way Comes"". The TV show ""South Park"" parodied the novel in the episode ""Something Wall-Mart This Way Comes"" with a similar plot about the titular department store luring townsfolk with its super-low prices. British TV comedy series ""The League of Gentlemen"" features the Pandemonium Carnival of Papa Lazarou. In similar vein, the animated TV show ""Rick and Morty"" paid homage to the novel in an episode titled ""Something Ricked This Way Comes"", which centers around a comically-shadowy figure granting the citizens of the town wishes, however the plot largely draws upon ""Needful Things"" by Stephen King."
"Festival. In 2014, Disney announced a remake of ""Something Wicked This Way Comes"" with Seth Grahame-Smith writing the script, making his directorial debut, and producing with David Katzenberg from their producing banner KatzSmith Productions. Reportedly, Grahame-Smith wants to focus mostly on Ray Bradbury's source material from the book. Something Wicked This Way Comes (film) Something Wicked This Way Comes is a 1983 American fantasy film directed by Jack Clayton and produced by Walt Disney Productions, from a screenplay written by Ray Bradbury, based on his novel of the same name. The title was taken from a line in Act IV"
"a play by William Shakespeare, while some are named after characters from ""Robinson Crusoe"", ""Moby Dick"" and others after general nautical or island-based literature. The name of Beatrice, Snicket's dedicatee, may be an allusion to the poem ""La Beatrice"" by Charles Baudelaire. The poem references an ""actor without a job,"" like the actor Count Olaf. The poem also begins with the line ""In a burnt, ash-grey land without vegetation,"" similar to the Baudelaire mansion burning down at the beginning of the series. The name Beatrice could also be an allusion to Italian poet Dante. Dante dedicated all of his works"
"been in use; Edmond Malone claimed that it appeared in a work that has since been lost—Richard Eedes's Latin play ""Caesar Interfectus"" of 1582. The phrase had also occurred in another play by Shakespeare, ""The True Tragedie of Richard Duke of Yorke, and the death of good King Henrie the Sixth, with the Whole Contention betweene the two Houses Lancaster and Yorke"" of 1595, which is the earliest printed version of ""Henry VI, Part 3"". It has been argued that the phrase can be interpreted as a curse or warning. One theory states that the historic Caesar adapted the words"
"Something Wicked This Way Comes (novel) Something Wicked This Way Comes is a 1962 dark fantasy novel by Ray Bradbury. It is about 13-year-old best friends, Jim Nightshade and William Halloway, and their nightmarish experience with a traveling carnival that comes to their Midwestern town one October, and how the boys learn about combatting fear. The carnival's leader is the mysterious ""Mr. Dark,"" who seemingly wields the power to grant the citizenry's secret desires. In reality, Dark is a malevolent being who, like the carnival, lives off the life force of those they enslave. Mr. Dark's presence is countered by"
"Will, Josef Lindsay as Jim, Henry Goodman as Charles Halloway, Gerard McDermott as Mr. Cooger/The Lightning Rod Salesman and Kenneth Cranham as Mr. Dark. Something Wicked This Way Comes (novel) Something Wicked This Way Comes is a 1962 dark fantasy novel by Ray Bradbury. It is about 13-year-old best friends, Jim Nightshade and William Halloway, and their nightmarish experience with a traveling carnival that comes to their Midwestern town one October, and how the boys learn about combatting fear. The carnival's leader is the mysterious ""Mr. Dark,"" who seemingly wields the power to grant the citizenry's secret desires. In reality,"
"the first person as if spoken by Quince. The character also inspired the name of Commander Peter Quincy Taggart in the 1999 film ""Galaxy Quest"". Peter Quince Peter Quince is a character in William Shakespeare's ""A Midsummer Night's Dream"". He is one of the six mechanicals of Athens who perform the play which Quince himself authored, ""The Most Lamentable Comedy and Most Cruel Death of Pyramus and Thisbe"" for the Duke Theseus and his wife Hippolyta at their wedding. Titania's Fairies also watch from a distance: Moth, Peaseblossom, Cobweb and Mustardseed. His name is derived from ""quines"" or ""quoins"", which"
"that of Will's father, Charles Halloway, who harbors his own secret fear of growing older because he feels he is too old to be Will's dad. The novel combines elements of fantasy and horror, analyzing the conflicting natures of good and evil which exist within all individuals. Unlike many of Bradbury's other novel-length works, such as ""Dandelion Wine"" and ""The Martian Chronicles"", which are fix-ups, ""Something Wicked This Way Comes"" is a single, full-length narrative. One of the events in Ray Bradbury's childhood that inspired him to become a writer was an encounter with a carnival magician named Mr. Electrico"
"the Shakespeare canon to a William Shakespeare. In addition to the name appearing on the title pages of poems and plays, this name was given as that of a well-known writer at least 23 times during the lifetime of William Shakespeare of Stratford. Several contemporaries corroborate the identity of the playwright as an actor, and explicit contemporary documentary evidence attests that the Stratford citizen was also an actor under his own name. In 1598, Francis Meres named Shakespeare as a playwright and poet in his ""Palladis Tamia"", referring to him as one of the authors by whom the ""English tongue"
"By Any Other Name ""By Any Other Name"" is the twenty-second episode of the episode of the American science fiction television series """", first broadcast February 23, 1968, and repeated May 31, 1968. It is episode #51, production #50, with screenplay by D.C. Fontana and Jerome Bixby based on Bixby's story, and directed by Marc Daniels. The title is taken from a line spoken by Juliet in William Shakespeare's play ""Romeo and Juliet"": ""that which we call a rose / By any other name would smell as sweet"", a line quoted by Captain Kirk during the episode. In this episode,"
"Shakespeare may even have seen them himself. Elizabethan dramatist Thomas Dekker wrote in one of his plays published in ""The Gull's Horn-book"" (1609): It has been suggested that the Lord Chamberlain's Men, the playing company that Shakespeare worked for as an actor and playwright for most of his career, named their playing space the Globe Theatre, built in 1599, as a response to the growing enthusiasm for terrestrial and celestial globes stimulated by those of Molyneux. In ""Twelfth Night"" (1600–1601), Shakespeare alluded to the Wright–Molyneux Map when Maria says of Malvolio: ""He does smile his face into more lynes, than"
"as the female leads in the original play. Their surname is Stratford, a nod to Shakespeare's birthplace. Patrick's surname Verona references the home of his relative character Petruchio. The characters attend Padua High School, named after where the play is set. Cameron (Lucentio, who disguises himself as a tutor named Cambio) tutors Bianca in French and slips in a line from play while obsessing over her: """"I burn, I pine, I perish"""". Patrick's character reflects the outlandish behavior of Petruchio, and Michael coerces Patrick into the marching band incident with the words from Sonnet 56: """"Sweet love, renew thy force""""."
"for the audience's approval. The play is based on a tale (3.9) of Boccaccio's ""The Decameron"". Shakespeare may have read an English translation of the tale in William Painter's ""Palace of Pleasure"". The name of the play expresses the proverb ""All's well that ends well"", which means that problems do not matter so long as the outcome is good. There is no evidence that ""All's Well"" was popular in Shakespeare's own lifetime and it has remained one of his lesser-known plays ever since, in part due to its unorthodox mixture of fairy tale logic, gender role reversals and cynical realism."
"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"
"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"
"""Something Wicked This Way Comes"" (an adaptation of Ray Bradbury's novel of the same title) culminates in a house of mirrors confrontation. In the fourth season of the show Leverage, in the episode ""The Carnival Job"", Elliot has a showdown with Molly's captors in a house of mirrors. The concept has also been used in comics. In """", Batman is seen chasing the Joker through an amusement park and into a hall of mirrors. It was used to create suspense as Joker could not clearly decipher what was real and what was just an image. In Charlie Chaplin's 1928 movie"
"by Shakespeare, where the line is in Act 3 Scene 1. There are several other episodes named after Shakespeare lines, and there are quotes from Hamlet in the 1990 film """". Another ""Deep Space Nine"" episode with a title from Shakespeare is ""Dogs of War"" which comes from Julias Caeser. John Colicos (who plays the character Kor) has reprised his role as a Klingon alien multiple times in the Star Trek franchise. He was first cast as Klingon, in the first Star Trek show to include them ""Errand of Mercy"" in the hit 1960s television show, and as the same"
"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"
"Vess. As part of his comic ""The Sandman"", writer Neil Gaiman planned a small arc involving William Shakespeare entering a deal with the Dream King to write plays that would live on after him. Having introduced Shakespeare, Gaiman then decided to tell the story of the first play that the writer wrote for Dream in payment of the bargain. He turned to his favourite of Shakespeare's plays, ""A Midsummer Night's Dream"" creating analogues of the play's main otherworldly characters and inventing the fiction that Shakespeare wrote the play to Dream's instructions to ensure that humans never forgot Faerie and its"
"fail to see his deception as her ""nephew,"" and lose her rightful place in society. It is implied that the counter-force against this is acceptance of one's faults and an enthusiastic pursuit of the everyday joys of life, signified by Charles' spontaneous running with Jim and Will at the end of the novel. The fact that he is nearly forty years older than them pales in comparison to the pleasure he gains from simple human companionship. Critics have praised ""Something Wicked This Way Comes"" as a classic of fantasy and horror, noting its masterful blending of both genres and Bradbury's"
"apparent ontological paradox by inspiring Shakespeare to borrow phrases that the Doctor quotes from his plays. Examples of this include the Doctor telling Shakespeare that ""all the world's a stage"" (from ""As You Like It"") and ""the play's the thing"" (from ""Hamlet""), as well as the name Sycorax from ""The Tempest"". However, when Shakespeare himself coins the phrase ""To be, or not to be"", the Doctor suggests he write it down, but Shakespeare considers it ""too pretentious"". In a different version of the joke, the Doctor exclaims ""Once more unto the breach"", and Shakespeare initially likes the phrase, before realising"
"words, Shakespeare ""invented the formula that the sexual becomes the erotic when crossed by the shadow of death"". Of Shakespeare's works, ""Romeo and Juliet"" has generated the most—and the most varied—adaptations, including prose and verse narratives, drama, opera, orchestral and choral music, ballet, film, television, and painting. The word ""Romeo"" has even become synonymous with ""male lover"" in English. ""Romeo and Juliet"" was parodied in Shakespeare's own lifetime: Henry Porter's ""Two Angry Women of Abingdon"" (1598) and Thomas Dekker's ""Blurt, Master Constable"" (1607) both contain balcony scenes in which a virginal heroine engages in bawdy wordplay. The play directly influenced"
"The Scottish Play The Scottish Play and The Bard's Play are euphemisms for William Shakespeare's ""Macbeth"". The first is a reference to the play's Scottish setting, the second a reference to Shakespeare's popular nickname. According to a theatrical superstition, called the ""Scottish curse"", speaking the name ""Macbeth"" inside a theatre will cause disaster. A variation of the superstition also forbids quoting it within a theatre except as part of an actual rehearsal or performance of the play. Because of this superstition, the lead character is most often referred to as the ""Scottish King"" or ""Scottish Lord"". Lady Macbeth is often"
"the name because his father, Oxford, was already using it as a pen-name for his plays. Oxford had borrowed the name from a third Shakespeare, the man of that name from Stratford-upon-Avon, who was a law student at the time, but who was never an actor ""or"" a writer. Allen later changed his mind about Hughes and decided that the concealed child was the Earl of Southampton, the dedicatee of Shakespeare's narrative poems. This secret drama, which has become known as the Prince Tudor theory, was covertly represented in Oxford's plays and poems and remained hidden until Allen and Ward's"
"than you do – and they don’t."" Bradbury described his inspiration as, ""My stories run up and bite me in the leg -- I respond by writing them down -- everything that goes on during the bite. When I finish, the idea lets go and runs off"". A reinvention of Waukegan, Green Town is a symbol of safety and home, which is often juxtaposed as a contrasting backdrop to tales of fantasy or menace. It serves as the setting of his semiautobiographical classics ""Dandelion Wine"", ""Something Wicked This Way Comes"", and ""Farewell Summer"", as well as in many of his"
"Merely Players Merely Players was a one-man stage show written and performed by Barry Morse. It examined the lives of a series of actors and others from Elizabethan times up to present day. The title is derived from lines by William Shakespeare in his play ""As You Like It"": ""All the world's a stage,""<BR> ""and all the men and women merely players:""<BR> ""They have their exits and their entrances;""<BR> ""and one man in his time plays many parts.""<BR> The two-act drama included several vignettes from the life and career of ""mere player"" Barry Morse, features over a dozen characters (three"
"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"
"long predated Shakespeare. Juvenal, the ancient Roman poet, wrote one of the earliest versions of this line in his “Satire 3”: “All of Greece is a stage, and every Greek’s an actor.” Richard Edwards' play ""Damon and Pythias"", written in the year Shakespeare was born, contains the lines, ""Pythagoras said that this world was like a stage / Whereon many play their parts; the lookers-on, the sage"". When it was founded in 1599 Shakespeare's own theatre, The Globe, may have used the motto ' (All the world plays the actor), the Latin text of which is derived from a 12th-century"
"one would surely have been on it."" ""Something Wicked This Way Comes"" has served as a direct influence on several fantasy and horror authors, including Neil Gaiman and Stephen King. Gaiman paid tribute to Bradbury's influence on him and many of his peers in a 2012 ""The Guardian"" article following Bradbury's death. Gaiman's novel ""American Gods"" can be read as a tribute to and attempt to surpass many of the ""dark carnival"" themes in Bradbury's work. The motif of ordinary people up against sinister, supernatural forces appears in many of King's works, including ""It"" and ""Dreamcatcher"". King also discusses this"
"he comes to London. Disturbed by his attraction to the youth, Shakespeare gets drunk in a brothel run by his friend George Wilkins. Wilkins tempts him with a new dusky-skinned ""half caste"" called Lucie, just come from France. Shakespeare has sex with her. At a performance of ""Hamlet"", Herbert and his young friends meet up with Shakespeare. They are keen to experience the seedy side of London life, so Shakespeare takes them to Wilkins' brothel. There they enjoy the pleasures on offer but Herbert is shocked to see Wilkins help some men to beat up one of the girls. Shakespeare"
"Peter Quince Peter Quince is a character in William Shakespeare's ""A Midsummer Night's Dream"". He is one of the six mechanicals of Athens who perform the play which Quince himself authored, ""The Most Lamentable Comedy and Most Cruel Death of Pyramus and Thisbe"" for the Duke Theseus and his wife Hippolyta at their wedding. Titania's Fairies also watch from a distance: Moth, Peaseblossom, Cobweb and Mustardseed. His name is derived from ""quines"" or ""quoins"", which are wooden wedges used by carpenters. Quince's amateurish playwriting is usually taken to be a parody of the popular mystery plays of the pre-Elizabethan era,"
"with Marlowe. Skeres and Poley arrive. Shakespeare attempts to fight them, but Marlowe assures him they are friends. They tell Marlowe that they have a plan to get him away. They will meet at Deptford, where they will have a body resembling Marlowe. They will claim he drowned in the river, while Marlowe escapes overseas. Marlowe tells Rosalinda that he has hidden the records of the school of night at Scadbury. She is to get them and then meet him in Venice. Shakespeare is suspicious of the escape plan, and suggests that Marlowe travel by another route. However, he agrees"