"tales, explained in ""Doctor Who Extra""—for example, Maebh in a red coat getting chased by wolves (""Little Red Riding Hood""). Maebh's last name is Arden, a reference to the forest in William Shakespeare's play ""As You Like It"". Overnight viewing figures were estimated at 5.03 million viewers. The episode was watched by a total of 6.92 million viewers. On BBC America this episode was seen by 1.06 million viewers, being the most watched episode since the airing of ""Listen"". It also received an Appreciation Index of 83. The episode received mixed reviews from critics, with some praising its poetic, unique"
"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"
"The next day, Rosalind reveals herself. Orlando and Rosalind, Oliver and Celia, Silvius and Phoebe, and Touchstone and Audrey are all then married, and they learn that Frederick has also repented and decided to reinstate his brother as the Duke. The 1936 adaptation is the first time that the Shakespearean play was made into a sound film. It was directed in London by Paul Czinner, an Austrian Jew that fled his home country to avoid political persecution. The film stars his wife, Elizabeth Bergner, also an Austrian Jewish refugee. To the persecuted, the escape to the Forest of Arden does"
"Park Hall in Castle Bromwich. John Arden had fallen in love with Alice Bracebridge. John's father, Sir Walter, did not approve. John was kidnapped and taken to Bracebridge Hall. Sir Walter appealed to King Edward IV, who appointed Sir Simon de Montford of Coleshill and Sir Richard Bingham of Middleton to arbitrate. John and Alice were married in February 1474. In 1502 John inherited Park Hall in Castle Bromwich, while his younger brother Thomas settled at Wilmcote near Stratford upon Avon. Thomas had a son Robert who was the father of Mary Arden, William Shakespeare's mother. The stones of the"
"play, in part, to William Shakespeare. Shakespeare had an ancestor named Thomas Arden on his mother's side, but he died in 1546 (four years prior to the Thomas Arden in the play) in Evenley, Rutland. Arden of Faversham Arden of Faversham (original spelling: Arden of Feversham) is an Elizabethan play, entered into the Register of the Stationers Company on 3 April 1592, and printed later that same year by Edward White. It depicts the murder of Thomas Arden by his wife Alice Arden and her lover, and their subsequent discovery and punishment. The play is notable as perhaps the earliest"
"Arden of Faversham Arden of Faversham (original spelling: Arden of Feversham) is an Elizabethan play, entered into the Register of the Stationers Company on 3 April 1592, and printed later that same year by Edward White. It depicts the murder of Thomas Arden by his wife Alice Arden and her lover, and their subsequent discovery and punishment. The play is notable as perhaps the earliest surviving example of domestic tragedy, a form of Renaissance play which dramatized recent and local crimes rather than far-off and historical events. The author is unknown, and the play has been attributed to Thomas Kyd,"
"and Tasso. Shakespeare made good use of the ""locus amoenus"" in his long poem ""Venus and Adonis"". The trope also fed into his construction, in many plays, of what Northrop Frye has called the Shakespearean ""green world"" – a space that lies outside of city limits, a liminal space where erotic passions can be freely explored, away from civilization and the social order – such as the Forest of Arden in ""As You Like It"". A mysterious and dark, feminine place, as opposed to the rigid masculine civil structure, the green world can also be found featured in ""A Midsummer"
"intimacy of romantic emotion and is notable in its ""protracted absences."" Romeo journeys in solitary walks into the woods surrounding Verona to lament his ill-fated romance with Rosaline and remove him from a world occupied by more human matters. ""As You Like It"", also contains considerable references to the green world. The Forest of Arden is both idealized through the usage of pastoral terms, but is also depicted in a way that shows how humans manipulate and exploit it. While the play makes use of typical pastoral motifs in describing the forest, these are often juxtaposed with images of the"
"The Forest House The Forest House is a fantasy novel by American writers Marion Zimmer Bradley and Diana L. Paxson, though the latter is uncredited by the publisher. It is a prequel to Bradley's Arthurian novel ""The Mists of Avalon"". The plot of ""The Forest House"" is based on that of the opera ""Norma"", relocated from Gaul to Britain, but sharing the basic plot outline of a love affair between a Druidic priestess and a Roman officer ""The Forest House"" is set in the first century CE in the west of Britain, which was then part of the Roman Empire."
"of Mary Arden, mother of William Shakespeare. He was the head of a Warwickshire family; his father William died in 1545, and Edward succeeded his grandfather Thomas Arden in 1563. He kept to the old faith and maintained in his home, Park Hall at Castle Bromwich, a priest named Hall, in the disguise of a gardener. This priest influenced John Somerville, Edward Arden's son-in-law, who had had indirect contact with Mary Queen of Scots (she had visited Coventry in 1569). Somerville talked of shooting the Queen of England, and set out for London. He was arrested, put to the rack,"
"has the Arden Shakespeare in its Third Series (2017). The Oxford Shakespeare series has published an edition. Giorgio Melchiori, editor of the New Cambridge edition, asserts that the play's disappearance from the canon is probably due to a 1598 protest at the play's portrayal of the Scottish. According to Melchiori, scholars have often assumed that this play, the title of which was not stated in the letter of 15 April 1598 from George Nicolson (Elizabeth I's Edinburgh agent) to Lord Burghley noting the public unrest, was a comedy (one that does not survive), but the play's portrayal of Scots is"
"forest of Arden. At the start of the play Orlando complains about the harsh treatment given to him by his brother, Oliver, and says that Oliver will not even give him the paltry sum of 1000 crowns left to him in their father's will. He is portrayed as exceptionally strong in both body and in his devotion to love. It is these qualities that make Rosalind fall for him as well. After angering Oliver's crony Duke Frederick, Orlando flees his familiar surroundings to live in exile in the Forest of Arden. There, he is accepted into the circle of the"
"Mary Arden's Farm Mary Arden's Farm, also known as Mary Arden's House, is the farmhouse of Mary Shakespeare (née Arden), the mother of Elizabethan playwright William Shakespeare. Because of confusion about the actual house inhabited by Mary in the mid-sixteenth century, the term may refer either of two houses. Both are grade I listed and located in the village of Wilmcote, about three miles from Stratford-upon-Avon. A house wrongly identified as Mary Arden's (it actually belonged to a neighbour) was bought by the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust in 1930 and refurnished in the Tudor style.This timber framed house has been maintained"
"since the two Orlando epics, Orlando Innamorato and Orlando Furioso, have other connections with the play. In the Orlando mythos, Arden Wood is the location of Merlin's Fountain, a magic fountain causing anyone who drinks from it to fall out of love. The Oxford Shakespeare edition rationalises the confusion between the two Ardens by assuming that ""Arden"" is an anglicisation of the forested Ardennes region of France, where Lodge set his tale) and alters the spelling to reflect this. Other editions keep Shakespeare's ""Arden"" spelling, since it can be argued that the pastoral mode depicts a fantastical world in which"
"Arcadia (play) Arcadia is a 1993 play by Tom Stoppard concerning the relationship between past and present, order and disorder, certainty and uncertainty. It has been praised by many critics as the finest play from one of the most significant contemporary playwrights in the English language. In 2006, the Royal Institution of Great Britain named it one of the best science-related works ever written. ""Arcadia"" is set in Sidley Park, an English country house in Derbyshire, and takes place in both 1809/1812 and the present day (1993 in the original production). The activities of two modern scholars and the house's"
"his faithful follower, lives in the Forest of Arden and fleets his time careless as they did in the Golden World. His daughter Rosalind is kept at the court by Duke Frederick to company Celia. Duke Senior appears as a contented man who rarely feels adversity. At the end of the play he is restored with the kingdom by Duke Frederick. The father of Rosalind and the rightful ruler of the dukedom in which the play is set. Having been banished by his usurping brother, Frederick, Duke Senior now lives in exile in the Forest of Arden with a number"
"The Weeding of Covent Garden The Weeding of the Covent Garden, or the Middlesex Justice of Peace, alternatively titled The Covent Garden Weeded, is a Caroline era stage play, a comedy written by Richard Brome that was first published in 1659. The play is a noteworthy satire on the emerging ethos of Capitalism as reflected in real estate and urban development in the early modern city. The precise dates of authorship and first performance of the play are not known with certainty; but it must have originated c. 1632, when the development of Covent Garden was a public controversy. The"
"in it"" (10 Sept. 1664). In July 2007, the Hudson Shakespeare Company of New Jersey staged a version of the play as part of its annual Shakespeare in the Parks series. Director David Sewell set the production in ancient Greece with an ethnically diverse cast reflective of its Mediterranean setting. This production also was noted in the New Cambridge edition of ""The Two Noble Kinsmen"", an annotated edition of individually published Shakespeare plays similar to the Arden Shakespeare series. A production opened on 9 June 2015 at the White Bear Theatre in Vauxhall, London. In 2016, Royal Shakespeare Company staged"
"a boy, whereupon the rustic Phebe, also played by a boy, becomes infatuated with this ""Ganymede"", a name with homoerotic overtones. In fact, the epilogue, spoken by Rosalind to the audience, states rather explicitly that she (or at least the actor playing her) is not a woman. In several scenes, ""Ganymede"" impersonates Rosalind' so a boy actor would have been playing a girl disguised as a boy impersonating a girl. Arden is the name of a forest located close to Shakespeare's home town of Stratford-upon-Avon, but Shakespeare probably had in mind the French Arden Wood, featured in Orlando Innamorato, especially"
"linking their dramas to actual locations and institutions of their contemporary world. James Shirley's ""Hyde Park"" (1632) is an obvious example, as are Shackerley Marmion's ""Holland's Leaguer"" (1631) and Thomas Nabbes's ""Covent Garden"" (1633) and ""Tottenham Court"" (1634). Several of Brome's other plays, like ""The Weeding of Covent Garden"" (c. 1632–33) and ""The New Academy"" (1636), fall into this category. Ben Jonson's ""Bartholomew Fair"" (1614) stood as a precedent, especially pertinent to Brome, Jonson's self-style acolyte – though other precedents, like ""The Fair Maid of the Exchange"" (c. 1602) and Lording Barry's ""Ram Alley"" (c. 1607), can also be noted."
"have been called to the bar. He died on 16 February 1839. Boaden's first dramatic piece was ‘Osmyn and Daraxa, a Musical Romance,’ acted in 1793. His next play, ‘Fontainville Forest,’ 1794, founded on Ann Radcliffe's ‘Romance of the Forest,’ was received with applause at Covent Garden. From 1795 to 1803 he continued to write plays which were well received: ‘The Secret Tribunal,’ 1795; ‘Italian Monk,’ 1797, founded on Mrs. Radcliffe's novel of the same name; ‘Cambro Britons,’ 1798; ‘Aurelio and Miranda,’ 1799; ‘Voice of Nature,’ 1803; ‘Maid of Bristol,’ 1803. In 1796 Boaden addressed to George Steevens, the Shakespearean"
"most pastoral play with an autumnal setting in Colonial American, using leaves gathered from Central Park, which gradually filled the stage with knee-deep piles of leaves, and underscored with original guitar music played by Robert Mamary and Joseph Poshek. The production was acclaimed for its creative setting in this bucolic, pre-American revolutionary time, in which Amiens, played by Larry Kirchgaessner, became a Native American in the American forest of Arden. The production was attended by Mildred Natwick, who became the company's first member of its Board of Advisors, soon to be followed by Helen Hayes. At this production, it was"
"wealth and comfort to please the stubborn Duke and live an uncomfortable life in the Forest of Arden. Jaques leaves the Duke, as soon as he is restored to his sovereignty, to seek his brother, Duke Frederick, who has stepped down and turned hermit. Jaques (As You Like It) Jaques () is one of the main characters in Shakespeare's ""As You Like It"". The 'Melancholy Jaques', as he is known, is one of Duke Senior's noblemen who lives with him in the Forest of Arden (or Ardennes). The role has long been a favourite for famous Shakespearean actors. Jaques' distinguishing"
"adapted into a ballet at Sadler's Wells in 1799, and into an opera, ""Arden Must Die"", by Alexander Goehr, in 1967. In 1656 it appeared in a catalogue (""An Exact and perfect Catalogue of all Plaies that were ever printed"") with apparent mislineation. It has been argued that attributions were shifted up one line; if this is true, the catalogue would have attributed ""Arden"" to Shakespeare. The question of the text's authorship has been analyzed at length, but with no decisive conclusions. Claims that Shakespeare wrote the play were first made in 1770 by the Faversham antiquarian Edward Jacob. Others"
"married John Shakespeare, moved to Stratford-upon-Avon, and gave birth to William Shakespeare, who is recognised as the greatest English playwright ever. Mary Arden's House, now owned by the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, is open to the public and houses a museum of countryside life. William Shakespeare's life and times have been extensively researched and documented and much is therefore known about Wilmcote from the time of Mary Arden onwards. It is the consensus among scholars that the Induction of ""The Taming of The Shrew"" is set in rural Warwickshire. One character mentioned, however, allows for a greater localization - to the"
"his face, wishing that all the world might wonder on him.' "" In 1592, the events were dramatized in the play ""Arden of Faversham"". The paternity of the play has been long disputed, with William Shakespeare being the most prominent of the candidates. The play was later adapted by George Lillo into a domestic tragedy. Alice Arden's story was also adapted into a broadside ballad, ""The complaint and lamentation of Mistresse Arden of Feversham in Kent"". Alice Arden Alice Arden (1516–1551) was an English murderer. She was the daughter of John Brigantine and Alice Squire, who conspired to have her"
"theatres, and premiered as a Sunday evening special, on the night of 9 February 1969. It was shown on CBS (with commercials). The film was only the second, after Max Reinhardt's 1935 film, sound film adaptation of the play. It portrayed the fairies as ""wild, near-naked creatures in a primitive, sinister wood."" and ""the subsidiary fairies were bedraggled child actors; the artisans authentic, almost contemporary rustics."" that ""contrasted with the sedate courtly milieu of an actual Warwickshire country house."" Sukanta Chaudhuri—editor of The Arden Shakespeare, third series edition of the play—describes it as ""a notable blending of the traditional with"
"habitués."" The School of Night (play) The School of Night is a play by Peter Whelan. It was first performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company at The Other Place, Stratford-upon-Avon on 4 November 1992. The play takes place between the Summer of 1592 and Spring 1593. It concerns the life of Christopher Marlowe and the mystery surrounding his untimely death during a brawl in Deptford, set against a backdrop of a politically and religiously divided England where the state and its spies watch those who may be accused of sedition, treason and blasphemy. In Scadbury Park, the home of Thomas"
"read. What strikes him as most notable about it is its character of a ""pastoral drama"", one that presents an ""ideal"" world—that is, a world of thought and imagination, not action. And though it is a comedy, its interest derives not so much from in our being made to laugh at any particular human follies, but rather, ""more out of the sentiments and characters than out of the actions or situations. It is not what is done, but what is said, that claims our attention."" ""The very air of the place"", wrote Hazlitt about the Forest of Arden, ""seems to"
"all-male production of ""Twelfth Night"", in which he played Olivia, and ""Richard III"" in the title role. Under his directorate, new plays were also performed at the Globe, the first being ""Augustine's Oak"" (referring to Augustine of Canterbury and Christianisation of Anglo-Saxon England) by Peter Oswald, the writer-in-residence, which was performed in 1999. A second play by Oswald followed in 2002: ""The Golden Ass or the Curious Man"". In 2005, Oswald's third play written for the Globe was first performed: ""The Storm"", an adaptation of Plautus' comedy ""Rudens"" (""The Rope"") – one of the sources of Shakespeare's ""The Tempest"". Other"
"upon two source texts: ""Holinshed's Chronicles"" and the anonymous play ""Arden of Faversham"", likely written between 1588 and 1592 and entered into the Stationers' Register in 1592. Holinshed provides the story of Thomas Arden's 1551 murder in great detail, significantly interrupting his relation of the reign of Edward VI to tell the story despite the fact that it ""seem[s] to be but a private matter."" Although it is a story of local history, Thomas Arden was a landowner and onetime mayor of Faversham, and his story offers a commentary on the redistribution of land during the dissolution of the monasteries"
"Botho Strauß's play ""The Park"" (1983) is based on characters and motifs from ""A Midsummer Night's Dream"". Neil Gaiman's comic series ""The Sandman"" uses the play as a focal point in issue No. 19. In it, Shakespeare and his company perform the play for the real Oberon and Titania and an audience of fairies. The play is heavily quoted in the comic. Shakespeare's son Hamnet Shakespeare appears in the play as the Indian boy. It is strongly hinted that he is later taken away by Titania, much like the changeling in the story. This issue was the first and only"
"John Arden John Arden (26 October 1930 – 28 March 2012) was an English playwright who at his death was lauded as ""one of the most significant British playwrights of the late 1950s and early 60s"". Born in Barnsley, son of the manager of a glass factory, he was educated at Sedbergh School in Cumbria, King's College, Cambridge and the Edinburgh College of Art, where he studied architecture. He first gained critical attention for the radio play ""The Life of Man"" in 1956 shortly after finishing his studies. Arden was initially associated with the English Stage Company at the Royal"