Since more is known about Quiney than about any other acquaintance of Shakespeare in Stratford, his career may be followed to its sudden end in 1602.

The Baconian theory of Shakespearean authorship, first proposed in the mid-19th century, contends that Sir Francis Bacon wrote some or all the plays conventionally attributed to William Shakespeare, in opposition to the scholarly consensus that William Shakespeare of Stratford was the author.

* Performances and Photographs from London and Stratford performances of Macbeth 1960 – 2000 – From the Designing Shakespeare resource

Some Oxfordians believe that Shakespeare acted as a " front man ," receiving the plays from Oxford and pretending to have written them, but others claim that he was simply a merchant from Stratford who had nothing to do with the theatre.

A series of critical academic books and articles, however, held in check any appreciable growth of anti-Stratfordism and Oxfordism, most notably The Shakespeare Ciphers Examined ( 1957 ), by William and Elizebeth Friedman, The Poacher from Stratford ( 1958 ), by Frank Wadsworth, Shakespeare and His Betters ( 1958 ), by Reginald Churchill, The Shakespeare Claimants ( 1962 ), by H. N. Gibson, and Shakespeare and His Rivals: A Casebook on the Authorship Controversy ( 1962 ), by George L. McMichael and Edgar M. Glenn.

Shakespeare's native Avon and Stratford are referred to in two prefatory poems in the 1623 First Folio, one of which refers to Shakespeare as " Swan of Avon " and another to the author's " Stratford monument ".

The play has been performed at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival five times beginning in 1975 with William Hutt playing " Lady Bracknell " in both the 1975 and 1976 productions and Brian Bedford in the 2009 production.

In 2011 the Roundabout Theatre Company produced a Broadway revival based on the 2009 Stratford Shakespeare Festival production featuring Brian Bedford as director and as Lady Bracknell.

Canada's Stratford Shakespeare Festival performed West Side Story in 1999, starring Tyley Ross as Tony and Ma-Anne Dionisio as Maria, and again in 2009 to rave reviews, with Chilina Kennedy as Maria and Paul Nolan as Tony.

" Richard Field, Shakespeare's first publisher and printer, was a Stratford man, probably a friend of Shakespeare, and the two produced an excellent text.

** Stratford Shakespeare Festival, a theatre festival in Ontario

* Stratford Shakespeare festival ( disambiguation )

* The play was produced in 1982 at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival, with Brian Bedford as Bluntschli and Len Cariou as Sergius.

The crowning achievement of repertory theater in Canada is the world-renowned Stratford Shakespeare Festival, founded in 1953 to primarily present productions of William Shakespeare's plays.

In 1975 he played the Stage Manager in Our Town at the American Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford, Connecticut.

The first real theatre in Stratford was a temporary wooden affair built in 1769 by the actor David Garrick for his Shakespeare Jubilee celebrations of that year to mark Shakespeare's birthday.

Stratford is also home to several institutions set up for the study of Shakespeare, including the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, which holds books and documents related to the playwright, and the Shakespeare Institute.

At the Stratford Festival, the play was directed in 1970 by Jean Gascon and in 1987 by Robin Phillips.

He wrote an original score for director Michael Langham's production of Shakespeare's Timon of Athens at the Stratford Festival in Ontario, Canada which opened on July 29, 1963.

In 1989, Jeanette Lambermont directed a heavily edited kabuki version of the play at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival, in a double bill with The Comedy of Errors, starring Nicholas Pennell as Titus, Goldie Semple as Tamora, Hubert Baron Kelly as Aaron and Lucy Peacock as Lavinia.

He was part of the original Stratford Festival company in the 1950s, acting alongside Alec Guinness, and appeared in the first production of Thornton Wilder's The Matchmaker at the Edinburgh Festival.

Elizabeth Rex, his most successful play, premiered at the Stratford Festival of Canada to rave reviews and won a Governor General's award.

In 1982, CBC broadcast Peter Dews's production from the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Ontario.

It has also been staged four times from 1953 to 2010 at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival.

On October 16, 2006, university president David Johnston announced that the university has entered discussions with the City of Stratford and the Stratford Festival of Canada exploring the possibility of establishing a satellite campus in Stratford.

The play is in the repertory of the Stratford Festival of Canada and was seen at the New York Shakespeare Festival, Central Park, in 2010.

John Curwen ’ s son, John Spencer Curwen ( who founded the Stratford & East London Music Festival – the oldest English music festival – in 1882 ), published a paper called “ Old Plaistow ” in 1891 describing houses of the area.

In 2007, he appeared as Shylock in the Stratford Shakespeare Festival production of The Merchant of Venice as well as " Breakfast with Scot ," the first gay-themed film ever to receive this type of approval from a professional sports league ( NHL ).

Stratford is known as the Peach capital of Oklahoma and holds its Peach Festival, annual rodeo, and car show the second Saturday each July.

* A Stratford Shakespeare Festival production was videotaped and broadcast on television in 1983 starring Len Cariou as Prospero.

Edison's first telegraphy job away from Port Huron was at Stratford Junction, Ontario, on the Grand Trunk Railway.

These have included Tyrone Guthrie's 1960 production from Stratford, Ontario, seen on Broadway in 1960 and in London in 1962 and a New Sadler's Wells Opera Company production first seen on 4 June 1984 at Sadler's Wells Theatre, which was seen also in New York.

* Stratford, Ontario, is a city in Perth County

* Stratford, Ontario

In the final years of Findley's life, declining health led him to move his Canadian residence to Stratford, Ontario, and Stone Orchard was purchased by Canadian dancer Rex Harrington.

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Born Jennie Kidd Gowanlock in Wooden Mills, Kelso, Scotland, Jennie ( whose name is variously spelled ' Jenny ') moved with her parents to Canada in 1847, settling near Stratford, Ontario.

Stratford, Ontario: Mercury Press, 1996.

Stratford, Ontario: Mercury Press, 1992.

From there, the video switched first to Washington, D. C .; then to Cape Canaveral, Florida ; then to Quebec City, Quebec, and finally to Stratford, Ontario.

* Canadian Fabricated Products Ltd. – An AMC division ( part of AMC Canada, Ltd .) in Stratford, Ontario ; established 1971 and sold post-buyout by DaimlerChrysler in 1994 ; produced automotive interior trim.

In 2002, Leon Rubin presented the tetralogy as a trilogy at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Ontario.

In 2002, Leon Rubin presented the tetralogy as a trilogy at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Ontario.

In 2002, Leon Rubin presented the tetralogy as a trilogy at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Ontario.

In the early 1970s, Irene Worth played Hedda at Stratford, Ontario, prompting New York Times critic Walter Kerr to write, " Miss Worth is just possibly the best actress in the world.

* Stratford 14th Regiment defeats Kingston Frontenacs 8 – 6 to win Ontario Hockey Association title.

* March-Queen's University defeats Stratford, Ontario 12 – 3 to win the Ontario Hockey Association ( OHA ) title.

* 1994: Stratford Festival of Canada, Stratford, Ontario ; with William Hutt ( James ), Martha Henry ( Mary ), Peter Donaldson ( Jamie ), Tom McCamus ( Edmund ), and Martha Burns ( Cathleen ), directed by Diana Leblanc.