Shakespeare scholars point out that Sobran has simply misread Barkstead ’ s poem, the last stanza of which is a comparison of Barkstead ’ s poem to Shakespeare ’ s " Venus and Adonis ", and has mistaken the grammar also, which makes it clear that Barkstead is referring to Shakespeare ’ s " song " in the past tense, not Shakespeare himself.

The great volume of literature on Shakespeare makes it easy for Oxfordians to find mainstream scholars who have expressed opinions favourable to their theory.

William Shakespeare makes reference to Robin Hood in his late-16th-century play The Two Gentlemen of Verona, one of his earliest.

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:

But he makes an absolute claim which Shakespeare will not support.

* Shakespeare makes Caesar's triumph take place on the day of Lupercalia ( 15 February ) instead of six months earlier.

* Shakespeare makes the Triumvirs meet in Rome instead of near Bolonia, so as to avoid an additional locale.

For example, in his 2003 Oxford Shakespeare edition of Henry VI, Part 2, Roger Warren makes the same argument for The First Part of the Contention.

For Shakespeare, ' this is the liver-vein, which makes flesh a deity, a green goose a goddess ; pure, pure idolatry '.

In the latter, human experiences are described in terms of an outsized metaphor ( a kind of metaphorical hyperbole ), like the stock comparison of eyes to the sun, which Shakespeare makes light of in his sonnet 130: " My mistress ' eyes are nothing like the sun.

In his 2001 introduction to Henry VI: Critical Essays, Thomas A. Pendleton makes a similar argument, as does Roger Warren, in his 2003 edition of 2 Henry VI for The Oxford Shakespeare.

Shakespeare, relying on his Latin sources, makes repeated references in his plays to the " Hyrcan tiger " ( Macbeth, III. iv. 1281 ) or " th ' Hyrcanian beast " ( Hamlet, II. ii. 447 ) as an emblem of bloodthirsty cruelty.

1971: The Royal Shakespeare Company makes its BAM debut with A Midsummer Night ’ s Dream, directed by Peter Brook

* Gregory Hines as Sergeant Cass, a strict Drill Sergeant, who makes it clear to Rago upon their first meeting that he finds classroom teaching of this civilian's " students " to be a waste of time and money, mockingly calling him " Shakespeare.

Warren cites a number of productions of the play as evidence for this argument, including Robin Phillips ' Royal Shakespeare Company ( RSC ) production at the Aldwych Theatre in 1970, where Valentine kisses Silvia, makes his offer and then kisses Proteus.

William Shakespeare also speaks of Henry VIII playing at Primero with his brother-in-law Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk, and makes Falstaff say: " I never prospered since I forswore myself at Primero ;” and among the epigrams of Sir John Harington we have one which describes The Story of Marcus ' Life at Primero in which many of the terms of the game are majestically developed in detail.

The town has a number of bars and restaurants and, beyond these, there are 27 pubs, most of which traditional, which makes the town attractive to many tourists, such as the Railwayman's Arms, Golden Lion, New Inn, King's Head and Stable Bar, Bear, Shakespeare and Bell & Talbot.

Shakespeare makes yet another reference to the cannibalist anthropophagus in the Merry Wives of Windsor:

A comedy was performed at the Elizabethan court in 1567-8 with the title Jack and Jill and the phrase was used twice by Shakespeare: in A Midsummer Night's Dream, which contains the line: " Jack shall have Jill ; Nought shall go ill " ( III: ii: 460-2 ) and in Love's Labour's Lost, which has the lines: " Our wooing doth not end like an old play ; Jack hath not Jill " ( V: ii: 874 – 5 ), suggesting that it was a phase that indicated a romantically attached couple, as in the proverb " A good Jack makes a good Jill ".

McCrea compares Florio's own poetry to Shakespeare's, observing that " Reading Shakespeare alongside Florio makes one painfully aware of how beautiful and poetic even the two dedications to Southampton are, and how prosaic and fundamentally different is Florio's mind.

Shakespeare makes a more direct reference, probably to V. tricolor in A Midsummer Night's Dream.

" Shakespeare must have been well aware of this subtle change to the firm structure of the English sonnets.

This is a subtle reminder by Shakespeare that the mechanicals are not learned men, for they think that Snug's lion costume is fearsome and that they will be sentenced to death if the ladies are afraid.

The company also publishes several specialised reference works, such as Shakespeare: The Essential Guide to the Life and Works of the Bard ( Wiley, 2006 ).

Shakespeare may have intended a reference to the great chain of being, although the play's images of disorder are mostly not specific enough to support detailed intellectual readings.

More was portrayed as a wise and honest statesman in the 1592 play Sir Thomas More, which was probably written in collaboration by Henry Chettle, Anthony Munday, William Shakespeare, and others, and which survives only in fragmentary form after being censored by Edmund Tylney, Master of the Revels in the government of Queen Elizabeth I ( any direct reference to the Act of Supremacy was censored out ).

" Shakespeare may have had direct involvement in the publication of the two poems, as Ben Jonson exercised in reference to the publication of his works, but as Shakespeare clearly did not do in connection with his plays.

Charles Lamb established the Romantics ' attitude to King Lear in his 1811 essay " On the Tragedies of Shakespeare, considered with reference to their fitness for stage representation " where he says that the play " is essentially impossible to be represented on the stage ", preferring to experience it in the study.

Of particular note, Tolstoy's epic novel War and Peace – her magnum opus, as well as completing translations of Rilke, Mann, Chekov, Veraline, Akmatova, Shakespeare, and Petrarch, among others, plus many other works including reference books and works for children.

Shakespeare made the reference to priests because the religious use of equivocation was well known in those periods of early modern England ( e. g. under James VI / I ) when it was a capital offence for a Roman Catholic priest to enter England.

Many scholars interpret these lines as a metatheatrical reference to Shakespeare ’ s own production, and by doing so comments on his own stage.

Shakespeare, utilizing the metatheatrical reference to his own stage, perpetuates his motif of recklessness by purposefully shattering " the audience's acceptance of the dramatic illusion ".

In another work of Shakespeare, Othello ( 1603 ), it has been suggested that he has made another reference.

* Shakespeare reference Reference to Machiavelli's influence on Shakespeare.

Spanish is often referred to in educated circles as ' the Language of Cervantes ' or la lengua de Cervantes, in reference to Don Quixote author Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, a usage akin to that of Shakespeare for English, Dante for Italian, etc.

Although the usage may be intended simply as a plausible name for a country of which the listener ( William Shakespeare in the former case ) has not heard, it is specifically linked to Duck Soup in at least one official reference work.

William Shakespeare made reference to Danish tribute in Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, Act 3, scene 1 ( King Claudius is talking of Prince Hamlet's insanity ):

The original name for the Macross project was Battle City Megarodo ( or Battle City Megaroad, as the Japanese transliteration to either " L " or " R " gives the title a double meaning in reference to the story line: Megaload, referring to the spacecraft containing an entire city of people ; and Megaroad, referring to the long journey through space back to Earth ); however, one of the sponsors of the project, Big West Advertising, was a fan of Shakespeare and wanted the series and the spacecraft to be named.

Mr " Everything Comes From India "-A man who insists that just about everything comes from India or was invented by Indians ( often to the chagrin of his better knowledged son ), including William Shakespeare, Cliff Richard ( who was actually born in India and is of Indian descent ), Leonardo da Vinci, most English words: ( veranda, shampoo, conditioner ), the British Royal Family ( all except Prince Charles, whom he claims to be African, due to the size of his ears ), Superman ( who is apparently Indian as he has two jobs, a bad haircut and, in a reference to Indian railways, can run faster than a train ) and the number zero ( which is a widely attributed discovery in Indian culture ).

In 1983, impressed by reading a book on English architecture, he scoured the libraries to find information linking on Elizabethan buildings to Shakespeare, only to find that virtually no good reference books had been written.

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