Famous people who have studied the Alexander Technique include writers Aldous Huxley, Robertson Davies and Roald Dahl, playwright George Bernard Shaw, actors Judy Dench, Hilary Swank, Ben Kingsley, Michael Caine, Jeremy Irons, John Cleese, Kevin Kline, William Hurt, Jamie Lee Curtis, Paul Newman, Mary Steenburgen, Robin Williams and Patti Lupone, musicians Paul McCartney, Madonna, Yehudi Menuhin and Sting, and Nobel Prize winner for medicine and physiology Nikolaas Tinbergen.

Sir Stafford Cripps, George Bernard Shaw, Henry Irving and other stage grandees, Lord Lytton and other eminent people of the era also wrote positive appreciations of his work after taking lessons with Alexander.

This divergence between American English and British English once caused George Bernard Shaw to say that the United States and United Kingdom are " two countries divided by a common language "; a similar comment is ascribed to Winston Churchill.

According to Capp's brother Elliot, Alfred had finished all of Shakespeare and George Bernard Shaw by the time he turned 13.

Nothing was considered more holy than the covenant of marriage, and to portray it in such a way was completely unacceptable ; however, a few more open-minded critics such as the Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw found Ibsen's willingness to examine society without prejudice exhilarating.

George Bernard Shaw called Chaplin " the only genius to come out of the movie industry ".

Sarandon appeared in The Rothschilds and The Two Gentlemen of Verona on Broadway, as well making regular appearances at numerous Shakespeare and George Bernard Shaw festivals in the United States and Canada.

Dublin has a world famous literary history, having produced many prominent literary figures, including Nobel laureates William Butler Yeats, George Bernard Shaw and Samuel Beckett.

It went on to provide a breakthrough for some of the city's most famous writers, such as Synge, Yeats himself and George Bernard Shaw.

A point of interest is that it is probably Daniel Jones ( and not as is often thought Henry Sweet ) who provided George Bernard Shaw with the basis for his fictional character Henry Higgins in " Pygmalion ".

* Shaw v Chesterton: a Debate between George Bernard Shaw and G. K. Chesterton.

Writer George Bernard Shaw claimed to have read the complete 9th edition — except for the science articles — and Richard Evelyn Byrd took the Britannica as reading material for his five-month stay at the South Pole in 1934, while Philip Beaver read it during a sailing expedition.

At its peak of popularity eugenics was supported by a wide variety of prominent people, including Winston Churchill, Margaret Sanger, Marie Stopes, H. G. Wells, Theodore Roosevelt, George Bernard Shaw, John Maynard Keynes, John Harvey Kellogg, Linus Pauling and Sidney Webb.

He was " the creator of ... that cage which is the theatre of Shakespeare's Othello, Racine's Phèdre, of Ibsen and Strindberg ," in which "... imprisoned men and women destroy each other by the intensity of their loves and hates ", and yet he was also the literary ancestor of comic dramatists as diverse as Menander and George Bernard Shaw.

The portrait of George Bernard Shaw located at Niagara-on-the-Lake was commissioned by hotelier Si Wai Lai and sculpted by Dr. Elizabeth Bradford Holbrook, CM ( 1913 – 2009 ).

* The Selected Prose of Bernard Shaw ( 1952 ).

* Shaw on Shakespeare: An Anthology of Bernard Shaw's Writings ( 1961 )

* London Music in 1888 – 89 as Heard by Corno di Bassetto ( later known as Bernard Shaw ) with Some Further Autobiographical Particulars, 1937.

* Shaw's Music: The Complete Musical Criticism Of Bernard Shaw.

* Shaw v. Chesterton, a debate between George Bernard Shaw and G. K. Chesterton ( 2000 ) Third Way Publications Ltd. ISBN 0-9535077-7-7.

" George Bernard Shaw ".

" Dear Mr Shaw Selections from Bernard Shaw's postbag " Bloomsbury, 1987 ISBN 0-7475-0256-0.

* Gibbs, A. M. " Bernard Shaw, A Life ".

Louis had the sentence commuted to blinding, which was duly carried out ; Bernard did not survive the ordeal, however, dying after two days of agony.

The choice did not have the approval of Bernard, however, who remonstrated against the election on account of the " innocence and simplicity " of Eugene III.

" William of Tyre's comments may seem rather patronizing to a modern audience, wrote professor Bernard Hamilton of the University of Nottingham ; however, this was a great show of respect from a society and culture in which women were regarded as having fewer rights and less authority than their brothers, fathers, and even sons.

Chloe is reading newspaper reports on the Byron murder theory as proposed by Bernard, before talking about determinism with Valentine, in a conversation echoing the one between Septimus and Thomasina earlier ; Chloe, however, believes that sex is the force throwing off the universe's ordered plan.

See however, Bernard Revel's " Karaite Halacha " which rejects many of Geiger's proofs.

In 1993, he was cast as Richard Sharpe, the lead character in the Sharpe series of made-for-TV movies based on Bernard Cornwell's novels, however he injured his knee while playing football just days into filming Sharpe's Rifles in the Ukraine.

In 1115, however, he refused to consecrate Bernard as Bishop of St David's in the royal chapel, although Robert of Meulan, the king's chief counsellor, advocated that the consecration must take place in the royal chapel according to ancient custom.

Governor Bernard, however, objected to sending the sitting lieutenant governor, and the bill was enacted.

Bernard Butler was less strict with this, however the final sound still came across as raw and unpolished.

In October 2011 however, the Daily Mail featured an article stating that the cause of Gibson's death was a friendly fire incident: Sergeant Bernard McCormack ( a rear air gunner in a Lancaster bomber ) was in the vicinity of Steenbergen when he mistook Gibson's Mosquito for a similarly profiled Ju 88 and fired 600 rounds, shooting it down.

Challoner's New Testament was, however, extensively revised by Bernard MacMahon in a series of Dublin editions from 1783 to 1810 ; and these various Dublin versions are the source of some Challoner bibles printed in the United States in the 19th Century.

Challoner's 1752 New Testament was, however, extensively further revised by Bernard MacMahon in a series of Dublin editions from 1783 to 1810, for the most part adjusting the text away from agreement with that of the King James Bible ; and these various Dublin versions are the source of many, but not all, Challoner versions printed in the United States in the 19th Century.

A number of critics, however, including Bernard Shaw have treated the work harshly, emphasizing its conventional outlook and undaring musical style:

" Fran, however, seeing that Manny is good for Bernard, forces Bernard to let him stay.

According to C. Bernard Ruffin, John and Mercy were possibly first cousins, however " by the time Fanny Crosby came to write her memoirs 1906, the fact that her mother and father were related ... had become a source of embarrassment, and she maintained that she did not know anything about his lineage ".

Bernard could find no one who was willing to provide reliable evidence, however, and so there were no treason trials.

Upon leaving school, he trained as an analytical chemist and achieved some success in that field for he was invited to participate in an expedition to Africa by Dr. Bernard Dyer, chemist to the Corn Trade ; however, he did not go in the end.

It is sometimes presumed that Bernard van Orley completed his art education in Rome in the school of Raphael, however there are no reliable sources to prove this.

When military theorist Bernard Brodie studied the resulting target list, however, he strongly criticized the planners ' ignorance of actual Soviet military capacity and resulting failure to estimate what effect the attacks would have.

They did however, re-sign his tag team partner Giant Bernard.

Rampó died in 825, however it was not until an assembly in Aachen in February 826 that Louis designated his successor to be Bernard, the son of William of Gellone, Count of Toulouse, and younger half-brother of Gaucelm, Count of Empúries and Roussillon.

Bernard, however, refused to accept the decision and revolted, openly allying himself to Pepin II and expelling Acfred from Toulouse ( 843 ).