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 Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Stratford, Ontario, Canada production ran from June 11 to November 7, 2009, with Des McAnuff directing and Wayne Cilento as choreographer.

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.

After Quiney was elected bailiff in September, 1601, without Greville's approval, Greene wrote him that Coke had promised to be of counsel for Stratford and had advised `` that the office of bayly may be exercised as it is taken upon you, ( Sr. Edwardes his consent not beinge hadd to the swearinge of you ) ''.

Nor is there any evidence of a monument to Oxford in Stratford, London, or anywhere else ; his widow provided for the creation of one at Hackney in her 1613 will, but no trace of it exists.

A few miles further on it enters Milton Keynes at the outskirts of Bletchley at Fenny Stratford Lock, which is unusual in lowering the level by only 12 inches ( 30 cm ).

From what is known of Edward's character, he could be impulsive and temperamental, as was seen by his actions against Stratford and the ministers in 1340 / 41.

Stratford is a place name found in many English-speaking countries.

* Stratford, Ontario, is a city in Perth County

* Stratford, Wisconsin, is a village in Marathon County

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John Harvard's mother's house is in Stratford upon Avon.

Stratford-upon-Avon (, known locally as Stratford ) is a market town and civil parish in south Warwickshire, England.

Stratford is close to the Cotswolds, with Chipping Campden to the south.

Stratford experiences a temperate maritime climate, as is usual for the British Isles, meaning extreme heat, or extreme cold are rare, sunshine is on the low side, and rainfall is spread evenly throughout the year.

With an average of 62 frosts a year, Stratford is a relatively frosty location.

Inland summer cloud development, July 2010, Stratford is denoted by the yellow dot.

Like much of inland Britain, Stratford is afflicted by cloud development on many days, while more coastal areas remain clear.

Non-Shakespearean attractions include the Stratford Butterfly Farm, which is on the eastern side of the river and the Bancroft Gardens and Stratford Armouries located three miles from the centre of Stratford on Gospel Oak Lane.

Each year on 12 October ( unless this is a Sunday, in which case 11 October ) Stratford hosts one of the largest Mop Fairs in the country.

Stratford is close to the UK's second largest city, Birmingham, and is easily accessible from junction 15 of the M40 motorway.