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 )

* 1856 – William Martin Conway, English art critic and mountaineer ( d. 1937 )

* 1849 – William Ernest Henley, English poet, critic, and editor ( d. 1903 )

* 1927 – Kenneth Tynan, English critic and writer ( d. 1980 )

* 1839 – Walter Pater, English essayist and critic ( d. 1894 )

* 1850 – William Lisle Bowles, English poet and critic ( b. 1762 )

* 1900 – V. S. Pritchett, English author and critic ( d. 1997 )

* 1985 – Philip Larkin, English writer and jazz critic ( b. 1922 )

Reviewing the volume, critic Philip Toynbee declared that " Thomas is the greatest living poet in the English language ".

* 1866 – Roger Fry, English artist and art critic ( d. 1934 )

A. Richards, English literary critic ( d. 1979 )

Polish literary critic and University of Warsaw professor Paweł Dudziak remarked that " in spite of the unclear role of its author, The Painted Bird is an achievement in English literature.

* 1779 – William Warburton, English critic and bishop ( b. 1698 )

Chalker earned a BA degree in English from Towson University in Towson, Maryland, where he was a theater critic on the school newspaper, The Towerlight.

* 1995 – Eric Mottram, English poet, teacher, critic, and editor ( b. 1924 )

" He later argued that the poem " is probably the most original poem about poetry in English, and the first hint outside his notebooks and letters that a major critic lies hidden in the twenty-five-year-old Coleridge.

Amongst those who followed these ideas were the English poets and painters that constituted the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, who, from about 1850, opposed the dominant trend of industrial Victorian England, because of their " opposition to technical skill without inspiration " They were influenced by the writings of the art critic John Ruskin ( 1819 – 1900 ), who had strong feelings about the role of art in helping to improve the lives of the urban working classes, in the rapidly expanding industrial cities of Britain.

* 1840 – William Cosmo Monkhouse, English poet and critic ( d. 1901 )

In 2009, English automotive critic Jeremy Clarkson wrote:

* 1896 – Edmund Blunden, English poet, author and critic ( d. 1974 )

* Os Guinness ( born 1941 ), English author and social critic

* 1784 – James Henry Leigh Hunt, English Romantic critic, essayist, and poet ( d. 1859 )

The English author, critic, and biographer, Samuel Johnson, was convinced that Macpherson was " a mountebank, a liar, and a fraud, and that the poems were forgeries ".

* 1881 – Clive Bell, English critic ( d. 1964 )

* 1883 – T. E. Hulme, English poet and critic ( d. 1917 )

A recent critic, who is a legal as well as a literary scholar, argues that Old Mortality not only reflects the evolution of Scottish nationalism but also invokes a foundational moment in British sovereignty, namely, the Act of Habeas corpus ( also known as the Great Writ ), passed by the English Parliament in 1679.