Diderot also contributed to literature, notably with Jacques le fataliste et son maître ( Jacques the Fatalist and his Master ), which emulated Laurence Sterne in challenging conventions regarding novels and their structure and content, while also examining philosophical ideas about free will.

Laurence Sterne ( 24 November 1713 – 18 March 1768 ) was an Anglo-Irish novelist and an Anglican clergyman.

Laurence Sterne was born 24 November 1713 in Clonmel, County Tipperary.

* Percy Fitzgerald, Life of Laurence Sterne ( London, 1864 ; second edition, London, 1896 )

* Paul Stapfer, Laurence Sterne, sa personne et ses ouvrages ( second edition, Paris, 1882 )

* H. D. Traill, Laurence Sterne, " English Men of Letters ", ( London, 1882 )

* H. W. Thayer, Laurence Sterne in Germany ( New York, 1905 )

* Arthur Cash, Laurence Sterne: The Early and Middle Years ( ISBN 0-416-82210-X, 1975 ) and Laurence Sterne: The Later Years ( ISBN 0-416-32930-6, 1986 )

* Bibliography for the study of Laurence Sterne

* Useful Articles on Laurence Sterne, available online

* Laurence Sterne in Cyberspace

* Ron Schuler's Parlour Tricks: The Scrapbook Mind of Laurence Sterne

* Laurence Sterne Resource

* Laurence Sterne at the Google Books Search

* The Shandean: A Journal Devoted to the Works of Laurence Sterne ( tables of contents available online )

ca: Laurence Sterne

cs: Laurence Sterne

da: Laurence Sterne

de: Laurence Sterne

es: Laurence Sterne

eo: Laurence Sterne

Laurence M. Klauber put length at maturity at two thirds the ultimate length for some rattlesnakes, and Charles C. Carpenter's data on Michigan garter and ribbon snakes ( Thamnophis ) show that the smallest gravid females are more than half as long as the biggest adults.

* Frank Laurence Lucas, ' The Battlefield of Pharsalos ', Annual of the British School at Athens, No. XXIV, 1919 – 21

During his first year at Cecil House, Oxford was briefly tutored by Laurence Nowell, the antiquarian and Anglo-Saxon scholar.

He was admitted to Preston Hall Sanatorium at Aylesford, Kent, a British Legion hospital for ex-servicemen to which his brother-in-law Laurence O ' Shaughnessy was attached.

Regular attendees at his famed soirées included Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy, Joan Crawford and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart, Claudette Colbert, Marlene Dietrich, Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh, actor Richard Cromwell, Stanley Holloway, Judy Garland, Gene Tierney, Noël Coward, Cole Porter, director James Whale, costume designer Edith Head, and Norma Shearer, especially after the death of her first husband, Irving Thalberg.

In 1937, Tyrone Guthrie directed Laurence Olivier in a Jones-inspired Hamlet at the Old Vic.

Notable stagings in London and New York include Barrymore's 1925 production at the Haymarket ; it influenced subsequent performances by John Gielgud and Laurence Olivier.

In 1937 Tyrone Guthrie directed the play at Elsinore, Denmark with Laurence Olivier as Hamlet and Vivien Leigh as Ophelia.

Bede's account of Eadbald's conversion states that it was Laurence, Justus ' predecessor at Canterbury, who converted the King to Christianity, but the historian D. P. Kirby argues that the letter's reference to Eadbald makes it likely that it was Justus.

Laurence was part of the Gregorian mission originally dispatched from Rome in 595 to convert the Anglo-Saxons from their native paganism to Christianity ; he landed at Thanet, Kent, with Augustine in 597, or, as some sources state, first arrived in 601 and was not a part of the first group of missionaries.

Laurence Olivier played Malcolm in the 1929 production and Macbeth in 1937 at the Old Vic Theatre in a production that saw the Vic's artistic director Lilian Baylis pass away the night before it opened.

In 1766, Reverend Laurence Coughlan arrived in Newfoundland and opened a school at Black Head in Conception Bay.

In 1957, Rabbi Louis Jacobs, then lecturer at the Jews ' College and best friend of Laurence Kogan, London ; published his book " We Have Reason to Believe " ( Edited by Laurence Kogan and Adam Albert ), in which he said:

Despite his having died at the age of 32, Richard is often depicted as being considerably older: Basil Rathbone, in the Tower of London, and Peter Cook were both 46 when they played him, Laurence Olivier was 47 ( in his 1955 film ), Vincent Price was 51, Ian McKellen was 56 as was Pacino in his 1996 film ( although Pacino was 39 when he played him on Broadway in 1979, and Olivier was 37 when he played him on stage in 1944 ).

* February 8 – Laurence Saunders becomes the second Marian Protestant martyr in England, being led barefoot to his execution by burning at the stake.

* February 8 – Laurence Saunders, English clergyman ( burned at the stake )

Later performers to play Hamlet at the castle included Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud, Christopher Plummer, Derek Jacobi, and in 2009 Jude Law.

Sam Spiegel pushed Lean to cast Cary Grant or Laurence Olivier ( who was engaged at the Chichester Festival Theatre, and declined ).

In his autobiography ( p. 195 ) he writes that Osborne was angry at being replaced, in a small rôle, by Laurence Harvey to whom the producers had obligations.

Then in 1959 he appeared at Stratford in Coriolanus opposite Laurence Olivier ( as Coriolanus ), Edith Evans and Vanessa Redgrave.

* The most prestigious London revival was directed by John Burrell for The Old Vic Company at the New Theatre, which opened on 5 September 1944, starring Ralph Richardson ( Bluntschli ), Margaret Leighton ( Raina Petkoff ), Joyce Redman ( Louka ), and Laurence Olivier ( Major Sergius Saranoff ).