Its truth is illustrated by the skill, sensitivity, and general expertise of the English professor with whom one attends the theatre.

Delroy Lindo ( born November 18, 1952 ) is an English actor, theatre director & London Buses Depot Manager.

During this period and into the Jacobean era that followed, the English theatre reached its highest peaks.

Greek words have been widely borrowed into other languages, including English: mathematics, physics, astronomy, democracy, philosophy, thespian, athletics, theatre, rhetoric, baptism, evangelist etc.

The result was a new crispness and polish in the English musical theatre.

* 1853 – Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson, English actor and theatre manager ( d. 1937 )

James Whale ( 22 July 1889 – 29 May 1957 ) was an English film director, theatre director and actor.

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* Mattheus passie ( 1976 ) ( text by Louis Ferron ) Music theatre work for 8 mixed voices, 2 oboes ( both + English horn ), Hammond organ, string quartet, double bass

* 1948 – Andrew Lloyd Webber, English musical theatre composer

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* English Renaissance theatre – also known as early modern English theatre, refers to the theatre of England, largely based in London, which occurred between the Reformation and the closure of the theatres in 1642.

* September 2 – Parliament orders the theatres of London closed, effectively ending the era of English Renaissance theatre.

* September 12 – Rupert D ' Oyly Carte, English hotelier, theatre owner and impresario ( b. 1876 )

* November 3 – Rupert D ' Oyly Carte, English hotelier, theatre owner and impresario ( d. 1948 )

** Kenneth Tynan, English theatre critic ( d. 1980 )

* September 23 – Jeremy Collier, English theatre critic, non-juror bishop and theologian ( d. 1726 )

* January 6 – Philip Henslowe, English theatre manager ( b. 1550 )

* March 6 – Francis Beaumont, dramatist in the English Renaissance theatre ( b. 1584 )

Tolerance and compromise, social justice and civil liberty, are today too often in short supply for one to be overly critical of Trevelyan's emphasis on their central place in the English tradition.

The English have managed to hold onto their madrigal tradition better than anyone else.

King Eadbert and his brother Egbert oversaw the re-energising and re-organisation of the English church, with an emphasis on reforming the clergy and on the tradition of learning that Bede had begun.

The term was popularized by G. L. Trager and Bernard Bloch in a 1941 paper on English phonology and went on to become part of standard usage within the American structuralist tradition.

Although its author is unknown, its themes and subject matter are rooted in Germanic heroic poetry, in Anglo-Saxon tradition recited and cultivated by Old English poets called scops.

M. H. Abrams and Stephen Greenblatt assert in their introduction to Beowulf in the Norton Anthology of English Literature that, " The poet was reviving the heroic language, style, and pagan world of ancient Germanic oral poetry it is now widely believed that Beowulf is the work of a single poet who was a Christian and that his poem reflects well-established Christian tradition.

This custom is linked to an older English tradition: Since they would have to wait on their masters on Christmas Day, the servants of the wealthy were allowed the next day to visit their families.

The oldest musical tradition which fits under the label of Celtic fusion originated in the rural American south in the early colonial period and incorporated Scottish, Scots-Irish, Irish, English, and African influences.

She illustrates the interplay between Chinese and English cinema tradition but ultimately suggests that Jen, as the " woman warrior " of the film, overthrows the European patriarchal tradition.

Celery's surprisingly late arrival in the English kitchen is an end-product of the long tradition of seed selection needed to reduce the sap's bitterness and increase its sugars.

The tradition of using " terms of venery " or " nouns of assembly ", collective nouns that are specific to certain kinds of animals stems, from an English hunting tradition of the Late Middle Ages.

These jerseys were white, with a single bold red stripe on the sleeves and chest, and a uniquely-styled white Old English " D " ( a Detroit sports tradition, but formerly used by the Wings, Detroit Lions, and the University of Detroit Titans ) centered on the chest stripe, but not to be confused with the Old English " D " used by the Detroit Tigers.

The older mixed Vulgate / Diatessaron text type also appears to have continued as a distinct tradition, as such texts appear to underlie surviving 13th-14th century Gospel harmonies in Middle Dutch, Middle High German, Middle French, Middle English, Tuscan and Venetian ; although no example of this hypothetical Latin sub-text has ever been identified.

After two failed attempts ( as he felt such a great sword should not be thrown away ), he finally complies with the wounded king's request and a hand emerges from the lake to catch it, a tale which becomes attached to Bedivere instead in Malory and the English tradition.

Old English tradition preserves the ylfe exclusively as mischievous, harmful beings.

English folklore tradition holds that Jack Frost, an elfish creature, is responsible for feathery patterns of frost found on windows on cold mornings.

Notable English twentieth-century writers in the Gothic tradition include Algernon Blackwood, William Hope Hodgson, M. R. James, Hugh Walpole, and Marjorie Bowen.

From the outset the Annotations took a commanding place, especially among continental scholars, establishing a scholarly tradition for English nonconformity.

The earlier English writers tended to paraphrase biblical texts, particularly Psalms ; Isaac Watts followed this tradition, but is also credited as having written the first English hymn which was not a direct paraphrase of Scripture.

Upon his succession he granted the baronage a Charter of Liberties, which linked his rule of law to the Anglo-Saxon tradition, forming a basis for subsequent limitations to the rights of English kings and presaged Magna Carta, which subjected the king to law.

Murray attempts to claim that various depictions of humans with horns from European and Indian sources, ranging from the paleolithic French cave painting of " The Sorcerer " to the Indic Pashupati to the modern English Dorset Ooser, are evidence for an unbroken, Europe-wide tradition of worship of a singular Horned God.