* 1670 – Charles Beauclerk, 1st Duke of St Albans, English soldier ( d. 1726 )

* May 8 – Charles Beauclerk, 1st Duke of St Albans, English soldier ( d. 1726 )

* May 10 – Charles Beauclerk, 1st Duke of St Albans, English soldier ( b. 1670 )

* January 5 – King Charles II of England gives the title Duke of St Albans to Charles Beauclerk, his illegitimate son by Nell Gwyn.

Many more creations, mostly earldoms, followed in the 1670s: Charles FitzCharles became Earl of Plymouth, Charles FitzRoy Duke of Southampton, Henry FitzRoy Earl of Euston, George FitzRoy Earl of Northumberland, Charles Beauclerk Earl of Burford and Charles Lennox Duke of Richmond and Lennox.

# Charles Beauclerk ( 1670 – 1726 ), created Duke of St Albans ( 1684 )

He married firstly, on 2 February 1761, Lady Diana Beauclerk ( c. 1735-28 March 1766 ), daughter of Charles Beauclerk, 2nd Duke of St Albans.

* Emily Charlotte " Mimie " Ogilvie ( b. 1778-d. 1832 ), married Charles George Beauclerk, great-grandson of the Charles Beauclerk, 1st Duke of St Albans and had issue.

* Charles Beauclerk — wireless operator

It was created in 1684 for Charles Beauclerk, 1st Earl of Burford, then fourteen years old.

* Charles Beauclerk, 1st Duke of St Albans ( 1670 – 1726 ) ( elder illegitimate son of Charles II and Nell Gwynn )

* Charles Beauclerk, 2nd Duke of St Albans ( 1696 – 1751 ) ( eldest son of the 1st Duke )

* Charles Beauclerk, 11th Duke of St Albans ( 1870 – 1934 ) ( eldest son of the 10th Duke, died without issue )

* Charles Beauclerk, 13th Duke of St Albans ( 1915 – 1988 ) ( grandson of Lord Charles Beauclerk, fifth son of the 8th Duke )

* Royal Berkshire History: Charles Beauclerk, Duke of St. Albans ( 1670-1726 )

George Beauclerk married Jane Roberts, daughter of Sir Walter Roberts, 6th Baronet of Glassenbury ( 1691 – 1745 ) and his wife Elizabeth Slaughter, only daughter and heiress of William Slaughter, of Rochester, county Kent.

* Lady Catherine Elizabeth Beauclerk ( c. 1768 – July 1803 ), married on 1 September 1802 to Rev.

St Albans was the only son of William Beauclerk, 9th Duke of St Albans, and Elizabeth Catherine, daughter of Major-General Joseph Gubbins.

Take the same train Diana Beauclerk took and get there at the same time.

Interview the bellboy and chambermaid who waited on Beauclerk.

Reenact everything Beauclerk did.

On the train Alec refreshed his memory of the Beauclerk case by reading teletype flimsies -- spot-news stories about the crime sent out by the Pearson City Star, a member of the Syndicate Press.

Diana Beauclerk was a second-rate actress living in New York.

When Alec finished reading he was sure that either Forbes or Stacy had killed Diana Beauclerk.

Diana Beauclerk had no connection with the underworld.

Original members included Burke, Langton, Beauclerk, Goldsmith, Chamier, Hawkins and Nugent, to be joined later by Garrick, Boswell and Sheridan.

* December 5 – George Beauclerk, 4th Duke of St Albans ( d. 1787 )

In 1774 the house was occupied by Topham Beauclerk.

In 1995, Charles played The Porter in Steven Berkoff's adaptation of Shakespeare's Macbeth, also on Radio 4.

What is known is that the crew of the ship Red Dragon, anchored off Sierra Leone, performed Hamlet in September 1607 ; that the play toured in Germany within five years of Shakespeare's death ; and that it was performed before James I in 1619 and Charles I in 1637.

Charles Ross points out that Shakespeare's Alien Statute bears little resemblance to any Italian law.

To celebrate the 300th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth in 1864 the brewer, Charles Edward Flower, instigated the building of a temporary wooden theatre, known as the Tercentenary Theatre, which was built in a part of the brewer's large gardens on what is today the site of the new, and temporary, Courtyard Theatre.

In the early 1870s, Charles Flower gave several acres of riverside land to the local council on the understanding that a permanent theatre be built in honour of Shakespeare's memory, and by 1879 the first Shakespeare Memorial Theatre had been completed.

Charles Gildon returned to Shakespeare's text in a 1699 production at Lincoln's Inn Fields.

Extracts were also broadcast in 1925 as part of Shakespeare: Scene and Story, with William Charles Macready and Edna Godfrey-Turner, and in 1926 as part of Shakespeare's Heroines, with Edmund Willard and Madge Titheradge.

One of the playwright ’ s functions is that concerned with adaptations of existing traditional drama, such as Charles Marowitz ’ s collages of Hamlet and Macbeth and other re-interpretations of Shakespeare's works, as well as Tom Stoppard ’ s approaches in Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, Dogg's Hamlet, and Cahoot's Macbeth.

Charles appears in Shakespeare's play Henry V as the " Duke of Orléans ".

Charles Kean returned to Shakespeare's text in an 1851 production.

Among other works of art and literature to which Paglia applies her analysis of the Western canon are: the Venus of Willendorf, the Bust of Nefertiti, Ancient Greek sculpture, Donatello's David, Sandro Botticelli's Birth of Venus and Primavera, Leonardo Da Vinci's Mona Lisa and The Virgin and Child with St. Anne, Michelangelo, Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene, William Shakespeare's As You Like It and Antony and Cleopatra, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Marquis de Sade, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship, William Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Lord Byron's Don Juan, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats, Honoré de Balzac, Théophile Gautier, Charles Baudelaire, Joris-Karl Huysmans, Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt Whitman, Henry James, The Pre-Raphaelites, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Walter Pater, Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest and The Picture of Dorian Gray, and Emily Dickinson.

Terry's first appearance on stage came at the age of eight, when she appeared opposite Charles Kean as Mamillius in Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale at London's Princess's Theatre in 1856.

He published a series of German translations of the principal English writers on aesthetics, such as Charles Burney, Joseph Priestley and Richard Hurd ; and also produced the first complete translation in German prose of Shakespeare's plays ( William Shakespear's Schauspiele, 13 vols., Zürich, 1775 – 1782 ).

* November 17-King Charles I of England and Queen Henrietta Maria watch the King's Men perform Shakespeare's Richard III on the Queen's birthday at St. James's Palace.

* Felver, Charles S. " Robert Armin, Shakespeare's Fool: a Biographical Essay.

Named for former College president Charles DeCarlo, the complex comprises the Bessie Schönberg Dance Theatre, the 200-seat Suzanne Werner Wright Theatre, the 400-seat Reisinger Auditorium, the 117-seat Cannon Workshop Theatre modeled after Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, and rehearsal spaces and work areas.

File: Nancy Hallam as Fidele in Shakespeare's Cymbeline Charles Willson Peale 1771. jpeg | Nancy Hallam as Fidele in Shakespeare's Cymbeline ( 1771 )

After his release by Glyndwr, ransomed Gam fought alongside Henry V at the Battle of Agincourt and is named amongst the dead in Shakespeare's Henry V. The name Royal House undoubtedly refers to the tradition that Charles I stayed at the house in 1643.

Professional handwriting expert Charles Hamilton has claimed that this play is in fact Shakespeare's manuscript of the lost Cardenio.

Counter to that, a professional handwriting expert, Charles Hamilton, has claimed in a recent book that The Second Maiden's Tragedy play is actually Shakespeare's manuscript of the lost play Cardenio.

In a further complication, a professional handwriting expert, Charles Hamilton, has claimed in a 1994 book that the manuscript of The Second Maiden's Tragedy is in fact the lost Shakespearean play Cardenio and indeed that the handwriting is Shakespeare's.

Notable actors who have portrayed Shylock include Richard Burbage in the 16th century, Charles Macklin in 1741, Edmund Kean in 1814, William Charles Macready in 1840, Edwin Booth in 1861, Henry Irving in 1880, George Arliss in 1928, John Gielgud in 1937, Laurence Olivier at the Royal National Theatre in 1972 and on TV in 1973, Patrick Stewart in 1965 at the Theatre Royal, Bristol and 1978, plus ( as Shylock ) in a one-man stage show Mr. Stewart developed entitled " Shylock: Shakespeare's Alien " in 1987 and 2001, Al Pacino in a 2004 feature film version as well as in Central Park in 2010, and F. Murray Abraham at the Royal Shakespeare Company in 2006.