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The BBC produced a feature-length television drama, All the King's Men ( not to be confused with the novel of the same name by Robert Penn Warren ), that focused attention on a unit ( the " Sandringham Company ") that was decimated at Gallipoli and included men from King George V's estate at Sandringham House.
The play's brevity and certain aspects of its staging ( for instance, the large proportion of night-time scenes and the unusually large number of off-stage sounds ) have been taken as suggesting that the text now extant was revised for production indoors, perhaps at the Blackfriars Theatre, which the King's Men acquired in 1608.
Evidence for this includes allusions to historical events and literary sources which postdate 1604, as well as Shakespeare's adaptation of his style to accommodate Jacobean literary tastes and the changing circumstances of the King's Men.
He received the 1947 Pulitzer Prize for the Novel for his novel All the King's Men ( 1946 ) and the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1958 and 1979.
* Oscar winners: Rebecca ( 1940 ), How Green Was My Valley ( 1941 ), Mrs. Miniver ( 1942 ), Casablanca ( 1943 ), Going My Way ( 1944 ), The Lost Weekend ( 1945 ), The Best Years of Our Lives ( 1946 ), Gentleman's Agreement ( 1947 ), Hamlet ( 1948 ), All the King's Men ( 1949 ).
* August 5 – 14 – The King's Men perform Thomas Middleton's satire A Game at Chess at the Globe Theatre, London, until it is suppressed in view of its allusions to the Spanish Match.
* October / November-Ben Jonson's satirical five-act comedy The Devil Is an Ass is produced at Blackfriars Theatre by the King's Men.
* King's Revels Men
* The King's Men
The link was nevertheless popularised by a children's opera All the King's Men by Richard Rodney Bennett, first performed in 1969.
Robert Penn Warren's 1946 American novel All the King's Men, the story of populist politician Willie Stark's rise to the position of governor and eventual fall, based on the career of the corrupt Louisiana Senator Huey Long, won the 1947 Pulitzer Prize.
It was made into a film All the King's Men, which won the 1949 Academy Award for best motion picture.
The 1946 novel All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren described a lobotomy, saying it " would have made a Comanche brave look like a tyro with a scalping knife.
A series of distinguished British actresses have portrayed Queen Mary on stage and screen, including Dame Wendy Hiller ( on the London stage in Crown Matrimonial ), Dame Flora Robson ( in A King's Story ), Dame Peggy Ashcroft ( in Edward & Mrs Simpson ), Phyllis Calvert ( in The Woman He Loved ), Gaye Brown ( in All the King's Men ), Dame Eileen Atkins ( in Bertie and Elizabeth ), Miranda Richardson ( in The Lost Prince ), Margaret Tyzack ( in Wallis & Edward ), and Claire Bloom ( in The King's Speech ).
* 1947: All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
Queen Alexandra has been portrayed on British television by Deborah Grant and Helen Ryan in Edward the Seventh, Ann Firbank in Lillie, Maggie Smith in All the King's Men, and Bibi Andersson in The Lost Prince.
In 1999 he starred as Captain Frank Beck in BBC's feature-length drama All the King's Men about the Sandringham regiment lost in World War I.
In 2007, he appeared in The Bicycle Men at The King's Head Theatre in London.
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.
Additionally, the title page of the 1631 quarto states that the play had been acted by the King's Men both at the Globe and Blackfriars, and as the King's Men had only been performing at Blackfriars since 1610, it suggests that the play was still popular enough to be performed at least sixteen years after its debut.

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* Brian Eno's album Before and After Science includes a song entitled " King's Lead Hat ", an anagram of " Talking Heads ", a band Eno has worked with.
The only object in the King's Chamber is a rectangular granite " sarcophagus ", one corner of which is broken.
The surname Stark was later used in King's novel The Dark Half, in which an author's malevolent pseudonym, " George Stark ", comes to life.
The early compilation, A Gest of Robyn Hode, names the king as " Edward ", and while it does show Robin Hood as accepting the King's pardon he later repudiates it and returns to the greenwood.
King's next book is Joyland, a novel about " an amusement-park serial killer ", according to an article in The Sunday Times published on April 8, 2012.
Some in the literary community expressed disapproval of the award: Richard Snyder, the former CEO of Simon & Schuster, described King's work as " non-literature ", and critic Harold Bloom denounced the choice:
Some of which include Annie ( 1982 ), Clue ( 1985 ), and most notably, the 1990 horror miniseries Stephen King's It in which he stars as " Pennywise the Dancing Clown ", an alternate physical appearance of the titular antagonist, It.
After reciting the long poem " The Walrus and the Carpenter ", the Tweedles draw Alice's attention to the Red King — loudly snoring away under a nearby tree — and maliciously provoke her with idle philosophical banter that she exists only as an imaginary figure in the Red King's dreams ( thereby implying that she will cease to exist the instant he wakes up ).
For example, " Wardan the Butcher's Adventure With the Lady and the Bear " is paralleled by " The King's Daughter and the Ape ", " Harun al-Rashid and the Two Slave-Girls " by " Harun al-Rashid and the Three Slave-Girls ", and " The Angel of Death With the Proud King and the Devout Man " by " The Angel of Death and the Rich King ".
Although the rebels ' grievances were wide-ranging, the most significant was the suppression of the monasteries, blamed on the King's " evil counsellors ", principally Cromwell and Cranmer.
An ode in her memory, " So many true princesses who have gone ", composed by the then Master of the King's Musick Sir Edward Elgar to words by the Poet Laureate John Masefield, was sung at the unveiling and conducted by the composer.
* Many buildings at colleges and universities are formally titled " _______ Hall ", typically being named after the person who endowed it, for example, King's Hall, Cambridge.
* " King's Cross ", a Pet Shop Boys song from their 1987 album Actually, also covered and released as a single by Tracey Thorn in 2007.
* " King's Crossing ", an Elliott Smith song on the album From a Basement on the Hill.
Princes as people who got a title from the King are called " Mirza ", diminutive of " Amir Zadeh " ( King's Son ).
According to later tradition, Sun Quan was born on Sunzhou (" Sun Island ", later Wangzhou-" King's Island "), an islet at the intersection of the Fuchun River and one of its tributaries.
Kingston is widely accepted as a contraction of the English " King's Town ", of which there are many examples.
Nearby is " King's Gate ", built in stone with a statement inscribed which reads " any slave who passes through this gate is declared a free man ", and it was this gate through which Liberated Africans passed through.
On this topic, Oelph includes a transcript he claims to have found in Vosill's journal, purported to be an exchange between Duke Walen and Adlain in which they make an agreement, " should it become necessary ", to covertly kidnap the lady doctor and have Nolieti, the King's chief torturer, " put her to the question.
The 21 Alta California missions were established along the northernmost section of California's El Camino Real ( Spanish for " The Royal Highway ", though often referred to as " The King's Highway "), christened in honor of King Charles III ), much of which is now U. S. Route 101 and several Mission Streets.
After finishing " Guardian Angel ", Clarke enrolled at King's College London and served as the chairman of the British Interplanetary Society from 1946 – 1947, and later from 1951 – 1953.
In order to facilitate overland travel, the mission settlements were situated approximately 30 miles ( 48 kilometers ) apart, so that they were separated by one day's long ride on horseback along the 600-mile ( 966-kilometer ) long el Camino Real, Spanish for " the Royal Road ", though often referred to today as the King's Highway, and also known as the California Mission Trail.

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