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

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

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

She would release her first film in 1917, an adaptation of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.

" An example of such a reading might be if a student concludes the authors of West Side Story did not write anything " really " new, because their work has the same structure as Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.

Fury of Johnny Kid follows Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, but ( again ) with a different ending – the loving couple leave together while their families annihilate each other.

Opening a new theatre in Parma, his Zaira ( 1829 ) was a failure at the Teatro Ducale, but Venice welcomed I Capuleti e i Montecchi, which was based on the same Italian source as Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.

It was inspired by William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet.

* Probable first performance of William Shakespeare's plays Romeo and Juliet and A Midsummer Night's Dream in London.

It is also the town to which Romeo was banished in William Shakespeare's Play Romeo and Juliet.

* In William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, Romeo spends his period of exile — his punishment for killing Tybalt — in Mantua.

In 1996, DiCaprio appeared opposite Claire Danes in Baz Luhrmann's film Romeo + Juliet, an abridged modernization of William Shakespeare's romantic tragedy of the same name which retained the original Shakespearean dialogue.

For Roméo et Juliette, Berlioz turned, of course, to Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.

Although Shakespeare based many of his characters on existing archetypes from fables and myths ( e. g., Romeo and Juliet on Arthur Brooke's Romeus and Juliet ), Shakespeare's characters stand out as original by their contrast against a complex social literary landscape.

Other popular adaptations of Shakespeare's plays that relied on anachronisms in props and setting were Titus ( 1999 ) and William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet ( 1996 ).

* Count Paris, character in William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet

With more rounded characters, such as those typically found in Shakespeare's plays, the moral may be more nuanced but no less present, and the writer may point it up in other ways ( see, for example, the Prologue to Romeo and Juliet ).

It is named after the heroine of William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet.

Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is influenced by the story of Pyramus and Thisbe ( Metamorphoses Book 4 ), and, in A Midsummer Night's Dream, a band of amateur actors performs a play about Pyramus and Thisbe.

Moreover, by making both Angelo and Mariana, and Claudio and Juliet, secretly married, he eliminates almost all of the illicit sexuality that is so central to Shakespeare's play.

Clamorous Voices, Shakespeare's Women Today with Sinead Cusack, Paola Dionisotti, Fiona Shaw, Juliet Stevenson and Harriet Walter ( London: The Woman's Press, 1988 )

Are we better off for having Shakespeare's idea of Shylock??

Accompanied by `` Master Greene our solicitor '' ( Thomas Greene of the Middle Temple, Shakespeare's `` cousin '' ), Quiney tried to consult Sir Edward Coke, attorney general, and gave money to a clerk and a doorkeeper `` that we might have access to their master for his counsel butt colde nott have him att Leasure by the reason of thees trobles '' ( the Essex rising on February 8 ).

* Shakespeare's Hamlet is an anagram for the Danish Prince Amleth.

Nelson publicly encouraged this close bond with his officers and on 29 September 1798 described them as " We few, we happy few, we band of brothers ", echoing William Shakespeare's play Henry V. From this grew the notion of the Nelsonic Band of Brothers, a cadre of high-quality naval officers that served with Nelson for the remainder of his life.

Similarly, when Jean de Schelandre wrote about Banquo in his Stuartide in 1611, he also changed the character by portraying him as a noble and honourable man — the critic D. W. Maskell describes him as “… Schelandre's paragon of valour and virtue ”— probably for reasons similar to Shakespeare's.

What Shakespeare writes here thus amounts to a strong support of James ' right to the throne by lineage, and for audiences of Shakespeare's day, a very real fulfillment of the witches ' prophecy to Banquo that his sons would take the throne.

* 1660 – A woman ( either Margaret Hughes or Anne Marshall ) appears on an English public stage for the first time, in the role of Desdemona in a production of Shakespeare's play Othello.

It is known internationally for its castle Kronborg, where William Shakespeare's play Hamlet is set.

Although he had a reckless, unpredictable, and violent nature that precluded him from attaining any court or government responsibility and led to the ruination of his estate, Oxford was noted in his own time as a patron of the arts, lyric poet, and playwright, and since the 1920s he has been the most popular alternative candidate proposed for the authorship of Shakespeare's works.

In Shakespeare Identified, published in 1920, J. Thomas Looney, an English schoolteacher, proposed Oxford as a candidate for the authorship of Shakespeare's works.

In that year, Vitagraph's An Auto Heroine ; or, The Race for the Vitagraph Cup and How It Was Won, contains a couple of dialogue titles, and the same firm's Julius Caesar includes three lines of dialogue from Shakespeare's play quoted in intertitles before the actors speak them, finishing with " This was the noblest Roman of them all ".

In addition to the anonymous The Famous Victories of Henry V, in which Oldcastle is Henry V's companion, Oldcastle's history is described in Raphael Holinshed's Chronicles, Shakespeare's usual source for his histories.

Notorious for a life of dissipation and debauchery somewhat similar to Falstaff, he was among the first to mention Shakespeare in his work ( in Greene's Groats-Worth of Wit ), suggesting to Greenblatt that the older writer may have influenced Shakespeare's characterization.

Its name is often used as a general term for graphic, amoral horror entertainment, a genre popular from Elizabethan and Jacobean theatre ( for instance Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus and Webster's The White Devil ) to today's splatter films.

He particularly criticized the simple imitation of the French example and pleaded for a recollection of the classic theorems of Aristotle and for a serious reception of Shakespeare's works.

Certain aspects of Gesta Danorum formed the basis for William Shakespeare's play, Hamlet.

For example, in the 17th century cross dressing was common in plays, as, for example, evident in the content of many of William Shakespeare's plays ( and by the actors in the actual performances, since female roles in Elizabethan Theater were always performed by males, usually prepubescent boys ).

He almost certainly created the title role for Richard Burbage, the leading tragedian of Shakespeare's time.

Shakespeare's company, the Chamberlain's Men, may have purchased that play and performed a version for some time, which Shakespeare reworked.

However, Stephen Greenblatt has argued that the coincidence of the names and Shakespeare's grief for the loss of his son may lie at the heart of the tragedy.

Finally, in a period when most plays ran for two hours or so, the full text of Hamlet — Shakespeare's longest play, with 4, 042 lines, totalling 29, 551 words — takes over four hours to deliver.

In 1692, he composed The Fairy-Queen ( an adaptation of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream ), the score of which ( his longest for theatre ) was rediscovered in 1901 and published by the Purcell Society.

The Indian Queen followed in 1695, in which year he also wrote songs for Dryden and Davenant's version of Shakespeare's The Tempest ( recently, this has been disputed by music scholars < ref >