A series of critical academic books and articles, however, held in check any appreciable growth of anti-Stratfordism and Oxfordism, most notably The Shakespeare Ciphers Examined ( 1957 ), by William and Elizebeth Friedman, The Poacher from Stratford ( 1958 ), by Frank Wadsworth, Shakespeare and His Betters ( 1958 ), by Reginald Churchill, The Shakespeare Claimants ( 1962 ), by H. N. Gibson, and Shakespeare and His Rivals: A Casebook on the Authorship Controversy ( 1962 ), by George L. McMichael and Edgar M. Glenn.

Unconscious Rivals, ( 1893 ), oil on panel, 45 x 63 cm, Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery.

Among Alma-Tadema's works of this period are: An Earthly Paradise ( 1891 ), Unconscious Rivals ( 1893 ) Spring ( 1894 ), The Coliseum ( 1896 ) and The Baths of Caracalla ( 1899 ).

In the mid 1980s, Curry performed in The Rivals ( Bob Acres 1983 ) and in several plays with the Royal National Theatre of Great Britain, including The Threepenny Opera ( MacHeath 1986 ), Dalliance ( Theodore 1986 ), and Love For Love ( Tattle 1985 ).

* Richard Brinsley Sheridan ( 1751 – 1816 ), pre-eminent Irish playwright ( The Rivals ), poet and politician

* The Rivals ( c. 1664 ; printed 1668 ), a revision of The Two Noble Kinsmen

: Main Rivals: Montreal Alouettes ( Labour Day Classic ), Saskatchewan Roughriders

In the comedy of manners play, The Rivals ( 1775 ), Richard Brinsley Sheridan ( 1751 – 1816 ) identifies a violent aristocrat as ‘ that bloodthirsty Philistine, Sir Lucius O ’ Trigger ’.

Rivals to the KNPP include the leftist Kayan New Land Party ( KNLP ), and the Karenni National People's Liberation Front ( KNPLF ), both of which are now allied with the Myanmar military.

Rivals to PayPoint include the Post Office Ltd ( in the UK ), Payzone and An Post's PostPoint network ( in Ireland ) all of which offer similar services.

Other early parts included Newman Noggs in Nicholas Nickleby, Caleb Plummer in Dot ( an adaption of The Cricket on the Hearth ), Dr. Pangloss in George Colman the Younger's The Heir at Law, Salem Scudder in The Octoroon, and Bob Acres in The Rivals, the last being not so much an interpretation of the character as Sheridan sketched it as a creation of the actors.

Euclid and his Modern Rivals is a mathematical book published in 1879 by the English mathematician Charles Lutwidge Dodgson ( 1832 – 1898 ), better known as Lewis Carroll.

* Allusions to other works include Ishmael, Cesar, Euripides, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, John Milton's Masque of Comus, William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet and Macbeth, Molière's Les Femmes Savantes, Richard Brinsley Sheridan's The Rivals, Sophocles's Electra, Robert Browning's The Ring and the Book, John Keats's The Eve of St. Agnes, and Cellini's autobiography.

Medwin's West End theatre credits include Man and Superman, The Rivals, Love for Love, Duckers and Lovers, Alfie, St Joan of the Stockyards, and What the Butler Saw.

Rivals John Comyn and Robert the Bruce, grandson of the claimant, were appointed as joint guardians in his place.

Members of Sega Studio USA also supervised and designed the concept for Sonic Rivals and Sonic Rivals 2 on the PlayStation Portable although the actual development of the games was done by Backbone Entertainment.

* Rock Rivals ( 2008 ) is a British television show about two judges on a televised singing contest whose marriage is falling apart.

This curriculum issue was hotly debated at the time and was even the subject of a play, Euclid and his Modern Rivals, written by the author of Alice in Wonderland.

Her final stage performance came in 1966 when she played Mrs Malaprop in The Rivals at the Haymarket Theatre, alongside Sir Ralph Richardson.

Robert Bruce's Rivals: The Comyns 1212-1314, p. 158.

The Serpent and the Moon: Two Rivals for the Love of a Renaissance King.

After him came the famous playwright Richard Sheridan, who by then had already produced his two masterpieces School for Scandal and The Rivals.

Schreiber narrated Hard Knocks: Training Camp with the Cincinnati Bengals in 2009, and Magic & Bird: A Courtship of Rivals and Broad Street Bullies in 2010, on HBO.

Rome and Persia in Late Antiquity: Neighbours and Rivals.

The terms malapropism and the earlier variant malaprop come from Richard Brinsley Sheridan's 1775 play The Rivals, and in particular the character Mrs. Malaprop.

All of these examples are from Sheridan's play The Rivals.

Rivals Konstantin of Tver and Konstantin of Suzdal also paid their homage to the Khan, claiming seniority over Moscow princes.

He is known for his plays such as The Rivals, The School for Scandal and A Trip to Scarborough.

Less than two years later, in 1775, his first play, The Rivals, was produced at London's Covent Garden Theatre.

Rivals. com was originally founded in 1998 by Jim Heckman in Seattle, Washington.

The Arizona Diamondbacks are a professional baseball team based in Phoenix.

Although every Major League Baseball team cultivates fans from outside its immediate metropolitan area, and even though the greater Phoenix area has 2 / 3 of the statewide population, Colangelo still decided to call the team the " Arizona Diamondbacks " rather than the " Phoenix Diamondbacks ".

The Diamondbacks are also known for the " Hometown Tour ", held in January, where selected players, management and broadcasters make public appearances, hold autograph signings, etc., in various locations around Phoenix and Tucson, as well as many small and mid-sized towns in other areas of Arizona.

Fan posing with 2001 Arizona Diamondbacks World Series Championship Trophy

Randy Johnson pitching for the Arizona Diamondbacks.

The award has never been presented to a member of the following five teams: Arizona Diamondbacks, Miami Marlins, New York Mets, Tampa Bay Rays, and Washington Nationals.

Category: Arizona Diamondbacks postseason

* Two additional franchises: the Arizona Diamondbacks and the Tampa Bay Devil Rays, now the Tampa Bay Rays ( 1998 )

After a 4 – 1 start, the club lost its next eight games and struggled to a 77 – 85 record, finishing only ahead of the expansion Arizona Diamondbacks in the NL West.

The Rockies trailed the Los Angeles Dodgers, the Arizona Diamondbacks and the San Diego Padres for most of 2007 Major League Baseball season – however – by August, Colorado showed a steady series of wins, while the Division-leading Dodgers began to struggle.

The only loss during that streak was on September 28 to the Arizona Diamondbacks, a loss that clinched the Diamondbacks ' playoff spot.

The Rockies went on to play in the NLCS against the Arizona Diamondbacks, who swept their own NLDS against the Chicago Cubs.

Their newest Spring Training home opens in March 2011 and will be shared with the Arizona Diamondbacks.

On December 14, they sent infielder Chris Burke, RHP Juan Gutiérrez, and RHP Chad Qualls to the Arizona Diamondbacks for RHP José Valverde.

In the middle of this era, in 1997, the Royals declined the opportunity to switch to the National League as part of a realignment plan to introduce the Arizona Diamondbacks and Tampa Bay Devil Rays as expansion teams.

( The feat has since been repeated once, by the Arizona Diamondbacks in 2001.

They won the National League Division Series in five games over the Arizona Diamondbacks, but lost to the eventual World Series champions St. Louis Cardinals in six games during the NLCS.

In March 1995, two new franchises — the Arizona Diamondbacks and Tampa Bay Devil Rays — were awarded by Major League Baseball, to begin play in 1998.

The Tampa Bay Devil Rays joined the AL East and the Arizona Diamondbacks joined the NL West.

The Brewers faced the NL West Champion Arizona Diamondbacks in the NLDS and won the first two games at Miller Park, with Yovani Gallardo pitching 8 stellar innings in a 4-1 Game 1 win.

The Diamondbacks won games 3 and 4 in Arizona, setting up a deciding Game 5 back in Miller Park.

On July 1, 2012, against the Arizona Diamondbacks, the Brewers wore green batting practice uniforms with red and white trim, a nod to the Italian flag, as part of " Italian Heritage Day ".

Clemens started for the Yankees in Game 7 of the 2001 World Series against the Arizona Diamondbacks, where he dueled Curt Schilling to a standstill after 6 innings, yielding only one run.