* The RSC's The Seagull ( 21 November 2007 – 12 January 2008 ) by Anton Chekhov, starring Frances Barber, Ian McKellen, William Gaunt, and Romola Garai.

The first new productions designed specifically for the Royal Shakespeare Theatre's stage began from April 2011, with Michael Boyd's Macbeth, part of the RSC's 50th Birthday Season celebrations, which run from April to December 2011.

* The RSC's Hamlet ( 23 November – 11 December 2004 ) by William Shakespeare, starring Toby Stephens

* The RSC's The Taming of the Shrew ( 15 January 2004-6 March 2004 ) by William Shakespeare

* The RSC's The Tamer Tamed ( 22 January 2004-6 March 2004 ) by John Fletcher

* The RSC's King Lear ( 18 January – 5 February 2005 ) by William Shakespeare, starring Corin Redgrave

* The RSC's Macbeth ( 16 February – 5 March 2005 ) by William Shakespeare

* The RSC's Hecuba ( 7 April – 7 May 2005 ) by Tony Harrison, adapted from Euripides, starring Vanessa Redgrave

* The RSC's King Lear ( 14 November 2007 – 12 January 2008 ) by William Shakespeare, starring Ian McKellen, Frances Barber, Romola Garai, Jonathan Hyde, William Gaunt and Sylvester McCoy.

RSC's first competitive game was an 2 – 1 victory against Zora Sofia on 3 October 1929.

After the RSC's budget was cut, it opened at the Prince Edward Theatre in London's West End on January 8, 1991.

The Henry VI productions were revived from 7 July 2006 ( and from January 2007, Richard III ) in the RSC's new Courtyard Theatre, as part of the Complete Works festival and also as the first part of an unprecedented 2-year ensemble project to show all the history plays with one set of actors.

A non-professional acting company from Brazil, named Nós do Morro (' We of the hillside '), in collaboration with a Gallery 37 group from Birmingham, gave a single performance of the play during the RSC's presentation of the Complete Works, directed by Guti Fraga.

Several actors made their name in show business by being the understudy of a leading actor and taking the role over for several performances, including: Anthony Hopkins for Laurence Olivier, when Olivier became ill with cancer during the run of the National Theater's The Dance of Death, 1967 ; Ted Neeley for Jeff Fenholt during the 1971 Broadway run of Jesus Christ Superstar when Neeley was asked to star in the 1973 film version and subsequent tours ; and more Edward Bennett for David Tennant as Hamlet in the RSC's 2008 production.

Educating Rita, with Julie Walters and Mark Kingston directed by Mike Ockrent, went on to be one of the RSC's biggest successes.

He appeared in the title role of the RSC's 1993 production of Richard III, directed by Sam Mendes ; Mendes turned to Hinds as a last minute replacement for an injured Simon Russell Beale.

In repertory with the RSC's second show, " The Complete History of America ( abridged ), " The Complete Works of William Shakespeare ( Abridged ) ran for nine record-breaking years at the Criterion Theatre, London West End, with the company's third show, " The Bible: The Complete Word of God ( abridged )," joining the line-up for the final three years of the London run.

Antoon's 1990 production at the New York Shakespeare Festival, starring Morgan Freeman and Tracey Ullman, which was set in the old west ; Bill Alexander's 1992 RSC production at the Barbican, starring Anton Lesser and Amanda Harris, in which the Induction was rewritten in modern language, and the play-within-the-play featured actors carrying scripts and continually forgetting lines ; Delia Taylor's 1999 production at the Clark Street Playhouse, which featured an all female cast, with Diane Manning as Petruchio and Elizabeth Perotti as Katherina ; Phyllida Lloyd's 2003 production at the Globe, again with an all female cast, starring Janet McTeer as Petruchio and Kathryn Hunter as Katherina ; Gregory Doran's 2003 RSC production at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, where the play was presented with Fletcher's The Tamer Tamed as a two-part piece, with Jasper Britton and Alexandra Gilbreath ( playing both Katherina in The Shrew and Maria ( Petruchio's second wife ) in The Tamer Tamed ); Edward Hall's 2006 Propeller Company production at the Courtyard Theatre as part of the RSC's presentation of the Complete Works, featuring an all-male cast, with Dugald Bruce Lockhart as Petruchio and Simon Scardifield as Katherina ; and Conall Morrison's 2008 RSC production at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, starring Stephen Boxer and Michelle Gomez.

Nunn became a leading figure in theatrical circles, and was responsible for many ground-breaking productions, such as the RSC's version of Dickens's Nicholas Nickleby, co-directed with John Caird, and a 1976 musical adaptation of the Shakespeare play The Comedy of Errors.

Meanwhile, performances were transferred to the temporary Courtyard Theatre, which was a full-sized working prototype for the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, built on the site of the RSC's studio theatre, The Other Place.

The new theatre opened in November 2010, with preview events and activities, in advance of the first full Shakespeare performances from the RSC's existing repertoire from February 2011.

She also supports more practical teaching of Shakespeare in British schools, supporting the RSC's " Stand Up For Shakespeare " manifesto.

Comparable visions of life are at work in Antigone and Romeo And Juliet.

* Romeo and Juliet

Clint Black's album " Nothin ' but the Taillights " includes the song " Ode to Chet ," which includes the lines "' Cause I can win her over like Romeo did Juliet, if I can only show her I can almost pick that legato lick like Chet " and " It'll take more than Mel Bay 1, 2, & 3 if I'm ever gonna play like CGP.

In Romeo and Juliet, Romeo describes Rosaline, saying that " She hath Dian's wit ".

In contrast, the following lines from Romeo and Juliet ( c. 1595 ) are completely end-stopped:

Image: Romeo and juliet brown. jpg | Romeo and Juliet in the famous balcony scene.

When Selznick moved to MGM in 1933 Cukor followed and directed Dinner at Eight ( 1933 ) and David Copperfield ( 1935 ) for Selznick and Romeo and Juliet ( 1936 ) and Camille ( 1936 ) for Irving Thalberg.

Reciting lines from Romeo and Juliet, she tests the blade with one hand to see its retraction and plunges the fake blade into her chest and acts out a death scene.

" Boston Museum playbill advertising Booth in Romeo and Juliet, May 3, 1864 When the Civil War began on April 12, 1861, Booth was starring in Albany, New York.

In May 1862, he made his Boston debut, playing nightly at the Boston Museum in Richard III ( May 12, 15, and 23 ), Romeo and Juliet ( May 13 ), The Robbers ( May 14 and 21 ), Hamlet ( May 16 ), The Apostate ( May 19 ), The Stranger ( May 20 ), and The Lady of Lyons ( May 22 ).

In January 1865, he acted in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet in Washington, again garnering rave reviews.

Archetypal lovers Romeo and Juliet portrayed by Frank Bernard Dicksee | Frank Dicksee

In Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet ( 1. 3. 19 ) it is observed of Juliet, " Come Lammas Eve at night shall she be fourteen.

" Since Juliet was born Lammas eve, she came before the harvest festival, which is significant since her life ended before she could reap what she had sown and enjoy the bounty of the harvest, in this case full consummation and enjoyment of her love with Romeo.

:: Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet IV. iii

As in Romeo and Juliet, this imbroglio produced three deaths and several other injuries.

One case where many oxymora are strung together can be found in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, where Romeo declares:

While appearing only as featured solo instruments in some works, for example Maurice Ravel's orchestration of Modest Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition and Sergei Rachmaninoff's Symphonic Dances, the saxophone is included in other works, such as Ravel's Boléro, Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet Suites 1 and 2, Vaughan Williams Symphony No. 6 and Symphony No. 9 and William Walton's Belshazzar's Feast, and many other works as a member of the orchestral ensemble.

She is most famous for her cover version of the Little Willie John hit " Fever " written by Eddie Cooley and John Davenport, to which she added her own, uncopyrighted lyrics (" Romeo loved Juliet ," " Captain Smith and Pocahontas ") and her rendition of Leiber and Stoller's " Is That All There Is ?".

* Queen Mab, a fairy in the play Romeo and Juliet

Romeo and Juliet may be the most-filmed play of all time.