Shakespeare speaking with `` the indescribable gusto of the Elizabethan voice '' -- ; ;

The bad early poems are bad Shakespeare or bad Swinburne ; ;

Such an anagram may be a synonym or antonym of its subject, a parody, a criticism, or praise ; e. g. George Bush = He bugs Gore ; Madonna Louise Ciccone = Occasional nude income or One cool dance musician ; William Shakespeare = I am a weakish speller, Roger Meddows Taylor = Great words or melody.

Journalist Bee Wilson states that the image of a community of honey bees " occurs from ancient to modern times, in Aristotle and Plato ; in Virgil and Seneca ; in Erasmus and Shakespeare ; Tolstoy, as well as by social theorists Bernard Mandeville and Karl Marx.

The cynical attitude toward recruited infantry in the face of ever more powerful field artillery is the source of the term cannon fodder, first used by François-René de Chateaubriand, in 1814 ; however, the concept of regarding soldiers as nothing more than " food for powder " was mentioned by William Shakespeare as early as 1598, in Henry IV, Part 1.

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Katherine Duncan-Jones accepts a 1600 – 1 attribution for the date Hamlet was written, but notes that the Lord Chamberlain's Men, playing Hamlet in the 3000-capacity Globe, were unlikely to be put to any disadvantage by an audience of " barely one hundred " for the Children of the Chapel's equivalent play, Antonio's Revenge ; she believes that Shakespeare, confident in the superiority of his own work, was making a playful and charitable allusion to his friend John Marston's very similar piece.

Shakespeare provides no clear indication of when his play is set ; however, as Elizabethan actors performed at the Globe in contemporary dress on minimal sets, this would not have affected the staging.

David Garrick at Drury Lane produced a version that adapted Shakespeare heavily ; he declared: " I had sworn I would not leave the stage till I had rescued that noble play from all the rubbish of the fifth act.

In France, Charles Kemble initiated an enthusiasm for Shakespeare ; and leading members of the Romantic movement such as Victor Hugo and Alexandre Dumas saw his 1827 Paris performance of Hamlet, particularly admiring the madness of Harriet Smithson's Ophelia.

Notable made-for-television productions of Hamlet include those starring Christopher Plummer ( 1964 ), Richard Chamberlain ( 1970 ; Hallmark Hall of Fame ), Derek Jacobi ( 1980 ; Royal Shakespeare Company, BBC ), Kevin Kline ( 1990 ), Campbell Scott ( 2000 ) and David Tennant ( 2009 ; Royal Shakespeare Company, BBC ).

Several times since 1995, the American Shakespeare Center has mounted repertories that included both Hamlet and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, with the same actors performing the same roles in each ; in their 2001 and 2009 seasons the two plays were " directed, designed, and rehearsed together to make the most out of the shared scenes and situations ".

* Nicholl, Charles, " The Lodger: Shakespeare on Silver Street " ( 2007 ) 1st edition ; Chapter 27, " A handfasting ".

As a stage actor, Kabir has performed Shakespeare ’ s Othello as well as portrayed a mad historical Indian king, Tughlaq ; and a self-destructive alcoholic in The Vultures.

A century or so later, in the hands of writers such as Jean Froissart, Miguel Cervantes and William Shakespeare, the fictional knight Tirant lo Blanch and the real-life condottieri John Hawkwood would be juxtaposed against the fantastical Don Quixote and the carousing Sir John Falstaff.

Spanish is often referred to in educated circles as ' the Language of Cervantes ' or la lengua de Cervantes, in reference to Don Quixote author Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, a usage akin to that of Shakespeare for English, Dante for Italian, etc.

* 23 April 1616-death of both William Shakespeare and Miguel de Cervantes.

William Shakespeare created his own memorable jackass, and Miguel de Cervantes had his witty talking dogs.

Regarded by many as one of the finest works in any language, El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes was one of the first novels published in Europe ; it gave Cervantes a stature in the Spanish-speaking world comparable to his contemporary William Shakespeare in English.

It was the first of his many works inspired by great literature, and which included interpretations of works by Aeschylus, Virgil, John Keats, William Wordsworth, Walt Whitman, Miguel de Cervantes, Federico García Lorca, and especially William Shakespeare.

The list of authors she read included Leo Tolstoy, Pushkin, Mikhail Lermontov, Karamzin, Vasily Zhukovsky, Byron, Molière, Miguel Cervantes, Charles Dickens, Wolfgang Goethe, and William Shakespeare.

Milieus encountered in the second series include the worlds of Irish myth and the Orlando Furioso ( again ) in " Professor Harold and the Trustees ," L. Ron Hubbard's setting from The Case of the Friendly Corpse and L. Frank Baum's land of Oz in " Sir Harold and the Gnome King ," the classical Chinese epic novel Journey to the West in " Sir Harold and the Monkey King ," the romantic fantasies of Miguel de Cervantes ' Don Quixote ( with the unique twist of its being Quixote's version of reality rather than Cervantes ') in " Knight and the Enemy ," Virgil's Graeco-Roman epic the Aeneid in " Arms and the Enchanter ," the old Russian Tale of Igor's Campaign in " Enchanter Kiev ," Bhavabhuti's Baital Pachisi ( or " Vikram and the Vampire "), a proto-Arabian Nights collection of Indian tales, in " Sir Harold and the Hindu King ," Edgar Rice Burroughs ' Barsoom in " Sir Harold of Zodanga ," and William Shakespeare's The Tempest in " Harold Shakespeare.

UNESCO declared this day the International Day of the Book, since 23 April 1616 was the date of death and possibly anniversary of birth of both the English playwright William Shakespeare ( according to the Julian calendar ) and the Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes ( according to the Gregorian calendar ).

In 1995, UNESCO decided that the World Book and Copyright Day would be celebrated on this date because of the Catalonian festival and because the date is also the anniversary of the birth and death of William Shakespeare, the death of Miguel de Cervantes, Inca Garcilaso de la Vega and Josep Pla, and the birth of Maurice Druon, Manuel Mejía Vallejo and Halldór Laxness.

Although 23 April is often stated as the anniversary of the deaths of both William Shakespeare and Miguel de Cervantes, this is not strictly correct.

Kozintsev is most renowned by his adaptations of William Shakespeare ( King Lear and Hamlet ) and Miguel de Cervantes ' Don Quixote.

Shakespeare based Hamlet on the legend of Amleth, preserved by 13th-century chronicler Saxo Grammaticus in his Gesta Danorum as subsequently retold by 16th-century scholar François de Belleforest.

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Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford, is the most popular alternative candidate for the author behind the alleged pseudonym, Shakespeare.

The Oxfordian theory of Shakespeare authorship proposes that Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford ( 1550 – 1604 ), wrote the plays and poems traditionally attributed to William Shakespeare of Stratford-upon-Avon.

The Oxford theory was first proposed by J. Thomas Looney in his 1920 book Shakespeare Identified in Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford.

Two professors of linguistics have claimed that de Vere wrote not only the works of Shakespeare, but most of what is memorable in English literature during his lifetime, with such names as Edmund Spenser, Christopher Marlowe, Philip Sidney, John Lyly, George Peele, George Gascoigne, Raphael Holinshed, Robert Greene, Thomas Phaer, and Arthur Golding being among dozens of further pseudonyms of de Vere.

In the late 1990s, Roger A. Stritmatter conducted a study of the marginalia found in Edward de Vere's Geneva Bible, which is now owned by the Folger Shakespeare Library.

Stritmatter argued that the themes identify the annotator as de Vere and establish a mental unity between the annotator and Shakespeare.

Arguing that the themes fitted de Vere's known interests, he proceeded to link the specific annotations to passages in Shakespeare.

Critics have doubted that any of the annotations in the Bible can be reliably attributed to de Vere and not the book's other owners prior to its acquisition by the Folger Shakespeare Library in 1925, as well as challenging the strictness of Stritmatter's standards for a Biblical allusion in Shakespeare's works and arguing that there is no statistical significance to the overlap.

Steven May, the reigning authority on Edward de Vere's poetry, argues that Oxfordian attempts to relate the Earl's poetry to Shakespeare are based on ' a hopelessly flawed methodology ', in that Looney assigned to de Vere some poems he had not written.

Anderson also observes that while Shakespeare refers to the latest scientific discoveries and events right through the end of the 16th century, " Shakespeare is mute about science after de Vere ’ s death in 1604 ".

Scholars point to a poem written circa 1620 by a student at Oxford, William Basse, that mentioned the author Shakespeare died in 1616, which is the year Shakespeare deceased and not Edward de Vere.

Shakespeare omitted the character of the traitorous Robert de Vere, 3rd Earl of Oxford in The Life and Death of King John, and the character of the 12th Earl of Oxford is given a much more prominent role in Henry V than his limited involvement in the actual history of the times would allow.

Oxfordians, such as Dorothy and Charlton Ogburn, believe Shakespeare created such a role for the 13th Earl because it was the easiest way Edward de Vere could have " advertised his loyalty to the Tudor Queen " and remind her of " the historic part borne by the Earls of Oxford in defeating the usurpers and restoring the Lancastrians to power ".

Sobran suggests that the so-called procreation sonnets were part of a campaign by Burghley to persuade Southampton to marry his granddaughter, Oxford's daughter Elizabeth de Vere, and says that it was more likely that Oxford would have participated in such a campaign than that Shakespeare would know the parties involved or presume to give advice to the nobility.

The film posits in cinematic terms how Edward de Vere's writings came to be attributed to William Shakespeare and portrays the Prince Tudor theory.

* Brazil, Robert Sean, Edward de Vere and the Shakespeare Printers.

Notable narrative poets have included Ovid, Dante, Juan Ruiz, Chaucer, William Langland, Luís de Camões, Shakespeare, Alexander Pope, Robert Burns, Fernando de Rojas, Adam Mickiewicz, Alexander Pushkin, Edgar Allan Poe and Alfred Tennyson.