* Theater: William Shakespeare

* 1564 – Playwright William Shakespeare was baptized in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England ( date of actual birth is unknown ).

Such an anagram may be a synonym or antonym of its subject, a parody, a criticism, or praise ; e. g. George Bush = He bugs Gore ; Madonna Louise Ciccone = Occasional nude income or One cool dance musician ; William Shakespeare = I am a weakish speller, Roger Meddows Taylor = Great words or melody.

* Titus Andronicus, main character in the play of the same name by William Shakespeare, possibly named after one of the above-listed emperors

This day is celebrated as St. George's Day in England, and as the day of the birth and death of William Shakespeare.

The earliest known literary use of the word assassination is in Macbeth by William Shakespeare ( 1605 ).

Housman himself acknowledged the influence of the songs of William Shakespeare, the Scottish Border ballads and Heinrich Heine, but specifically denied any influence of Greek and Latin classics in his poetry.

The end credits featured the words " Additional Dialogue by William Shakespeare ".

Additionally, in the alternate history novel Ruled Britannia by Harry Turtledove, Boudicca is the subject of a play written by William Shakespeare to incite the people of Britain to revolt against Spanish conquerors.

This form of comedy has a long ancestry, dating back at least as far as Much Ado about Nothing by William Shakespeare.

The cynical attitude toward recruited infantry in the face of ever more powerful field artillery is the source of the term cannon fodder, first used by François-René de Chateaubriand, in 1814 ; however, the concept of regarding soldiers as nothing more than " food for powder " was mentioned by William Shakespeare as early as 1598, in Henry IV, Part 1.

In Elizabethan England, William Shakespeare imagined elves as little people.

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Elizabeth's reign is known as the Elizabethan era, famous above all for the flourishing of English drama, led by playwrights such as William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe, and for the seafaring prowess of English adventurers such as Sir Francis Drake.

During the 1590s, some of the great names of English literature entered their maturity, including William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe.

* 1978 – Censorship: the People's Republic of China lifts a ban on works by Aristotle, William Shakespeare and Charles Dickens.

Sir John Falstaff is a fictional character who appears in three plays by William Shakespeare.

In Stratford-upon-Avon, the owners of Shrieves House, the former Three Tunns Tavern and now a museum, claim William Shakespeare based the character Falstaff on William Rogers, one of the Sargeants of the mace and close friend of the Shakespeares.

" William Shakespeare, Richard James, and the House of Cobham.

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.

Soon after that second hospitalization, Cantor's youngest son Rudolph died suddenly ( while Cantor was delivering a lecture on his views on Baconian theory and William Shakespeare ), and this tragedy drained Cantor of much of his passion for mathematics.

Canadian Ambassador William Crosbie makes remarks during the opening of the refurbished Turquoise Mountain Foundation in Kabul on May 9, 2011.

The weeping philosopher makes an appearance in William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice.

David Wirtschafter, the president of the William Morris Agency ( which represented Gellar ), subsequently told The New Yorker that the success of The Grudge " takes our client Sarah Michelle Gellar, who now is nothing at all, and … makes her a star, potentially.

* March – William Dampier makes the first recorded visit to Christmas Island.

** William " Red " Hill Sr. makes his famous five-hour journey down the Niagara lower rapids.

* Count Floris V of Holland makes an unsuccessful attack on Frisia in an attempt to recover the body of his father, Count William II.

Dudo fails to identify her mother, but later chronicler William of Jumieges makes this explicit.

Just about every notable figure of the period is connected with the events in some way, from " Elephant Man " Joseph Merrick to Oscar Wilde, from the Native American writer Black Elk to William Morris, the artist Walter Sickert to Aleister Crowley, who makes a brief appearance as a young boy in short trousers, sucking on a candy cane, and lecturing the police about magic.

He makes friends with fellow recruits William ' Tex ' Jarman, Venus-born Oscar Jensen, and Pierre Armand from Ganymede.

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The biographer of General Douglas MacArthur, noted historian William Manchester makes it plain in his seminal biography of the General, American Caesar, that acting as porters was well down the natives ' list of acceptable voluntary activities and that they would fade away without great inducements.

* 1803 – William Symington's Charlotte Dundas, generally considered to be the world's first practical steamboat, makes her first voyage.

* 1949: William Beebe and Otis Barton makes record dive to 4, 500 feet in the Benthoscope.

The small scale ( compared to Vaux-le-Vicomte for example ) makes it easier to compare it to the approximately contemporary Het Loo, for William III of Orange.

Jocelyn's appearance combines medieval and modern styles, and the armor Kate makes for William is engraved with a symbol resembling the Nike logo.

He followed the Young King in his abortive rebellion against his father in 1173 – 74, and William makes his first appearance in the historical record in a list of rebels compiled by the clerks of Henry II.

* William Marshal makes appearance in James Blish's historical novel, Doctor Mirabilis.

The cathedral is also the subject of William Golding's novel The Spire which deals with the fictional Dean Jocelin who makes the building of the spire his life's work.

After Kobayashi saves the day by eating a lot of hot dogs, a cartoon William Perry makes an appearance saying " Damn!

William Butler Yeats makes reference to it in his poem " Sailing to Byzantium ".

However, George D. Painter makes numerous references to the year 1491 in his book William Caxton: a biography as the year of Caxton's death, since according to the calendar used at the time ( March 24 being the last day of the year ), the year-change hadn't happened yet.

Initially written down by William Blackstone, this theory makes Parliament the sovereign law-maker, preventing the common law courts from not only throwing aside but also reviewing statutes in the fashion Coke suggested.

In his introduction to The New Oxford Book of Seventeenth Century Verse Alastair Fowler makes a case for the existence of a third group centering around Michael Drayton and including William Browne, William Drummond of Hawthornden, John Davies of Hereford, George Sandys, Joshua Sylvester and George Wither.