Because Shakespeare was dead, the folio was compiled by John Heminges and Henry Condell ( fellow actors in Shakespeare's company ), and arranged into comedies, histories and tragedies.

After a series of cross-cuts of Buck and Manny's fellow inmates mourning in their cells at Stonehaven, the film fades to white and closes with an on-screen quote from William Shakespeare's Richard III:

According to the New York Times, it became Wanamaker's " Great Obsession " to realise an exact replica of William Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, eventually securing the financial support of philanthropist and fellow lover of Shakespeare, Samuel H. Scripps.

Then, in 1623, seven years after Shakespeare's death, his fellow actors John Heminges and Henry Condell compiled a Folio collection of his complete plays, now known as the First Folio.

" William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet contains the line, " Live and be prosperous: and farewell good fellow.

The Housedove exploits a popular image from the period: Tichborne sees himself as an innocent dove caught among his fellow conspirators, ( see Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet 1. 5. 48 ).

" Their plays are now the most pleasant and frequent entertainments of the stage ", reported fellow playwright John Dryden in 1668, " two of theirs being acted through the year for one of Shakespeare's or Jonson's ".

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's Henry V, the King of France's reference to " that black name, Edward, Black Prince of Wales " suggests that the playwright may have interpreted the name in this way.

More evidence is found in the fact that John Fletcher, Shakespeare's successor as house playwright for the King's Men, wrote The Woman's Prize, or The Tamer Tamed as a sequel to The Shrew, telling the story of Petruchio's remarriage after Katherina's death.

One of the playwright ’ s functions is that concerned with adaptations of existing traditional drama, such as Charles Marowitz ’ s collages of Hamlet and Macbeth and other re-interpretations of Shakespeare's works, as well as Tom Stoppard ’ s approaches in Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, Dogg's Hamlet, and Cahoot's Macbeth.

She is also the subject of a tragedy by French classical playwright Jean Racine ( 1639 – 1699 ), entitled Andromaque, and a minor character in Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida.

Return to the Forbidden Planet is a Jukebox musical by playwright Bob Carlton based on Shakespeare's The Tempest and the 1950s science fiction film Forbidden Planet ( which itself drew its plot loosely from The Tempest ).

Notable residents have included Mary Fitton, perhaps the " Dark Lady " of Shakespeare's sonnets, and Samuel " Maggoty " Johnson, a playwright described as the last professional jester in England, whose grave is in the grounds.

It was the success of this sequence of plays that firmly established Shakespeare's reputation as a playwright.

" As such, the play's primary interest for critics has tended to lie in relation to what it reveals about Shakespeare's conception of certain themes before he became an accomplished playwright.

* The Two Noble Kinsmen was published in quarto in 1634 as a collaboration between Shakespeare and John Fletcher, the young playwright who took over Shakespeare's job as chief playwright of the King's Men.

Shakespeare's love interest in the film, " Viola " ( Gwyneth Paltrow ), is the daughter of a wealthy merchant who disguises herself as a boy to become an actor ; while Shakespeare, a financially struggling playwright suffering from writer's block is trying to write Romeo and Juliet.

The inclusion in the Arden canon, notwithstanding the caution expressed in their editor's guarded endorsement, is criticised for harming Shakespeare's reputation as a playwright.

A contemporary image of the playwright is the engraving in the posthumously-published First Folio of 1623, which was created by Martin Droeshout and was probably commissioned by Shakespeare's friends and family.

After Adler recruited Jacob Gordin as a playwright and found a way to draw the masses to serious theater with Gordin's The Yiddish King Lear, and then turned to Shakespeare's Othello, Thomashefsky decided to show that he could compete on that ground as well, and responded with the first Yiddish-language production of Shakespeare's Hamlet, in which, by all reports, he acquitted himself excellently.

Following William Shakespeare as house playwright for the King's Men, he was among the most prolific and influential dramatists of his day ; both during his lifetime and in the early Restoration, his fame rivalled Shakespeare's.

Since Herbert, some years Shakespeare's junior, was a patron of the playwright, and since his initials match with the dedication of the Sonnets to one " Mr. W. H.

Some historians have suggested that the Games were alluded to in playwright William Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor, and used that as evidence to suggest that Shakespeare may have seen the Games.

Thus, John Dryden, among many others, compares the " irregular " Shakespeare with the " regular " Ben Jonson in his Essay of Dramatick Poesie ( 1668 ), and makes use of the unity of time in this passage criticizing Shakespeare's history plays:

( Larger collected editions, like those of Shakespeare's, Ben Jonson's, and Beaumont and Fletcher's plays, were a late and limited development.

It was not until 1616, the year of Shakespeare's death, that Ben Jonson defied convention by issuing a folio collection of his own plays and poems.

While in Dublin, Garrick added two new roles to his repertoire: Shakespeare's Hamlet, Abel Drugger in Ben Jonson's The Alchemist ( a role that garnered him much acclaim ) and Captain Plume in Farquhar's The Recruiting Officer.

Getty built an extraordinary library at Wormsley, collecting such treasures as a first edition of Chaucer, Ben Jonson's annotated copy of Spenser, and Shakespeare's Folios.

Nunn directed a modern production of Shakespeare's Hamlet in 2004, which starred Ben Whishaw in the title role, and Imogen Stubbs as Gertrude, and was staged at the Old Vic Theatre in London.

John Sladek noted in the 1970s that the word could also be anagrammatized as I, B. Ionsonii, uurit a lift'd batch, thus " proving " that Shakespeare's works were written by Ben Jonson.

During the late 17th century, critics pursuing a neo-classical standard would criticize William Shakespeare in favor of Ben Jonson precisely on the grounds that Shakespeare's characters change during the course of the play.

Among the highpoints of Dullin's productions are Ben Jonson's Volpone, Molière's L ’ Avare, Sophocles's Antigone in the Jean Cocteau adaptation with music by Arthur Honegger, Pirandello's The Pleasure of Honesty, and Shakespeare's Richard III.

He had begun his stage career in 1999 when he was offered a season with the Royal Shakespeare Company playing roles in Ben Jonson's Volpone, as the title character in Oroonoko ( which he also performed in the BBC radio adaptation ) and Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra ( 1999 ) alongside Guy Henry, Frances de la Tour and Alan Bates.

He may have been the subject of a number of Elizabethan satires such as Thomas Nashe's Lenten Stuffe, Ben Jonson's Every Man in his Humour, and may have been the model of Shakespeare's Falstaff, who was originally given the name ' Oldcastle '.

Greek tragedy and Racine's plays are written in verse, as is almost all of Shakespeare's drama, Ben Jonson, Fletcher and others like Goethe's Faust.

As a boy player, Alexander Cooke, is thought to have created many of Shakespeare's principal female roles, as well as Agrippina in Ben Jonson's Sejanus His Fall.

At one point, Ben Zion says to her " Shakespeare's Ophelia drowns herself.

Jump London followed three French traceurs, Sébastien Foucan, Jérôme Ben Aoues, and Johann Vigroux, as they run around many of London's most famous landmarks, including Royal Albert Hall, Shakespeare's Globe Theater, HMS Belfast, and many others.

Ben Jonson shows Shakespeare's death mask to the sculptorWallis is best remembered for his first great success, The Death of Chatterton, which he exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1856.

He rejoined Ben Greet's theatre company and his sister at the Old Vic in 1916, where he played in Shakespeare's King John, Richard II, and King Lear.