Shakespeare based Hamlet on the legend of Amleth, preserved by 13th-century chronicler Saxo Grammaticus in his Gesta Danorum as subsequently retold by 16th-century scholar François de Belleforest.

However, other scholars have found Grillo's arguments unpersuasive, arguing that Shakespeare could have derived much of this material from John Florio, an Italian scholar living in England who was later thanked by Ben Jonson for helping him get Italian details right for his play Volpone.

Bradbury was related to the American Shakespeare scholar Douglas Spaulding.

* The Second Maiden's Tragedy, a tragedy ( 1611 ); an anonymous manuscript ; stylistic analysis indicates Middleton's authorship ( though one scholar, Charles Hamilton, has attributed it to Shakespeare ; see The History of Cardenio for details ).

* Edmond Malone, Irish Shakespearean scholar and editor of the works of William Shakespeare

According to scholar Larry Kreitzer, The Undiscovered Country has more references to William Shakespeare than any other Star Trek work until at least 1996.

Shakespeare scholar Stephen Greenblatt notes how Richard even refers to himself as " the formal Vice, Iniquity " ( 3. 1. 82 ), which informs the audience that he knows what his function is ; but also like Vice in the morality plays, the fates will turn and get Richard in the end, which Elizabethan audiences would have recognised.

He got along well with the one Leale sister, who shared his love of literature ( notably Shakespeare — his tutor at UCL was the Shakespeare scholar W. J. Craig — and Milton ) and spoke fluent French, much to his admiration.

* June 23-Israel Gollancz, Shakespeare scholar ( born 1864 )

Marie was born in Edinburgh, the daughter of Henry Stopes, a brewer, engineer, architect and palaeontologist and the Shakespeare scholar and women's rights campaigner Charlotte Carmichael Stopes.

His contribution to the English-language literature are also manifold: as a scholar and author of a series of publications on Skanderbeg, Shakespeare, Beethoven, religious texts and translations.

* Shakespeare scholar Stephen Greenblatt and playwright Charles L. Mee collaborated on a contemporary re-imagining of Cardenio.

) The next scholar to examine the manuscripts was John Payne Collier, who inserted forgeries supporting his theories about Shakespeare.

* Professor Emrys Jones ( 1931-2012, b. Hoxton ), scholar on Shakespeare and the Renaissance who spent his teenage years in Neath as an evacuee, of Welsh parentage ;

His father, William Henry Furness, was a prominent Unitarian minister and abolitionist, and his brother, Horace Howard Furness, became America's outstanding Shakespeare scholar.

: First attribution to Shakespeare: 1871-2, Shakespearean appearance of ms. additions to the play first noted by Richard Simpson, a prominent Shakespeare scholar, and by James Spedding, editor of the works of Sir Francis Bacon.

Some commentators ( like Georg Brandes, the Danish Shakespeare scholar of the late 19th century ) have attempted to reconcile these contradictory claims by arguing that the play was composed originally around 1600 – 02, but heavily revised shortly before its 1609 printing.

Kittredge, in addition to being a well-known scholar of Chaucer and Shakespeare, was the son-in-law of renowned ballad scholar Francis James Child, whose professorship of English literature he inherited, and who continued Child's work in folklore. It was Kittredge who pioneered modern methods of ballad study, and who encouraged collectors to get out of their armchairs and library halls and to get out into the countryside to collect ballads first hand.

The gargoyles on the top level depict Yale's students at war and in study ( a pen-wielding writer, a proficient athlete, a tea-drinking socialite, and a diligent scholar ), along with masks of Homer, Virgil, Dante, and Shakespeare.

The situation changed in 1998 when Shakespeare scholar and " literary detective " Don Foster-who had gained publicity by correctly identifying Joe Klein as the author of Primary Colors-fingered an obscure Beat poet and writer, Tom Hawkins, as the author of the letters.

Initially Foster did not claim that his identification was definitive, but in 1995 another Shakespeare scholar, Richard Abrams of the University of Southern Maine, published an article strengthening Foster's claims of the Elegys Shakespearean authorship.

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.

* The American Shakespeare Center ( ASC ) in Staunton, Virginia, produced a comedy entitled The Brats of Clarence, written specifically for the ASC ' Blackfriars ' stage by Paul Menzer.

According to this reading, Egypt is viewed as destructive and vulgar ; the critic Paul Lawrence Rose writes: “ Shakespeare clearly envisages Egypt as a political hell for the subject, where natural rights count for nothing .” Through the lens of such a reading, the ascendancy of Rome over Egypt does not speak to the practice of empire-building as much as it suggests the inevitable advantage of reason over sensuality.

She played Lady Macbeth to Paul Scofield's Macbeth for the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1967, directed by Sir Peter Hall.

He acted at the Piccadilly Theatre in 1959 and was with the Royal Shakespeare Company in the 1962 Arts Theatre Experimental season ( Nil Carborundum and Afore Night Come ) 1964 ' Dirty Plays ' season Night Come, Victor and the premiere productions of The Marat Sade and the revival of Afore Night Come ), in 1965 at Stratford where he appeared in The Comedy of Errors, Timon of Athens, The Jew of Malta, Love's Labour's Lost, and Peter Hall's outstanding production of The Government Inspector at the Aldwych Theatre with Paul Scofield, Eric Porter, Donald Burton, Stanley Lebor, Bruce Condell, John Corvin and Tim Wylton among others.

Literary critic Paul Haeffner writes that Shakespeare had a great understanding of language and the potential of every word he used.

In 1959, he joined the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre company at Stratford-upon-Avon, playing Iago to Paul Robeson's Othello in Tony Richardson's production that year.

Louise loved history and poetry, and not only enjoyed reading Schiller, but also came to like the works of Goethe, Paul, Herder and Shakespeare, as well as ancient Greek tragedies.

In 1959, Faulds and his wife played host to Paul Robeson who had travelled to England to appear at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford upon Avon in Tony Richardson's production of Othello.

Once again, Avery played the title role of Paul Robeson at the Shakespeare Theater from March 24 – 27 in 2011.

Above all, Countdown was crucial to the success of many leading Australian acts, including AC / DC, Olivia Newton-John, INXS, Hush ( band ) Kylie Minogue, I'm Talking, John Paul Young, Sherbet, Skyhooks, Marcia Hines, Mark Holden, The Angels, Mondo Rock, Men at Work, Icehouse, Australian Crawl, Mental As Anything, Little River Band, William Shakespeare, Renée Geyer, Wa Wa Nee and Jon English.

" She quotes poetry by André Breton, Léopold Sédar Senghor, Michel Leiris, Paul Verlaine, Edgar Allan Poe, Paul Valéry, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and William Shakespeare ( Hamlet ) along with other novels, philosophers, and films ( Citizen Kane ).

Academy Award nominee Paul Giamatti returns to the Yale Rep stage as the Prince of Denmark in Hamlet, Shakespeare ’ s harrowing tragedy of corruption, betrayal, and madness.

Staged by Artistic Director James Bundy, Hamlet marks the first Yale Rep appearance for Paul Giamatti since Shakespeare ’ s As You Like It in 1994.

The Shakespeare Theatre Company of Washington, DC, presented a semi-staged concert version at its Sidney Harman Hall, November 4-6, 2011, with direction by Alan Paul, musical direction by George Fulginiti-Shakar, and artistic direction by Michael Kahn, with the concert adaptation by David Ives.

He joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in September 1962, appearing at Stratford-upon-Avon playing Antipholus of Syracuse in The Comedy of Errors and the Fool to Paul Scofield's King Lear, subsequently appearing in both plays at the Aldwych Theatre in December 1962 — performing these roles again for a British Council tour of the USSR, Europe and the US from February to June 1964.

A short life of forty-six years did not permit serious undertakings beyond the Bavarian capital, yet time was found for the groups within the north pediment of the Walhalla, Ratisbon, and also for numerous portrait statues, including those of Mozart, Jean Paul, Goethe and Shakespeare.

Prior to entering Formula One, Paul Shakespeare had purchased the majority shares of the team in September 1988 and this provided Onyx with the much needed injection of cash to make the step up.

It focuses on the arrival of a mysterious figure called Kaston Iago ( named for the manipulative character from Shakespeare's Othello and the noted Shakespeare editor David Kastan and played by Paul Darrow ) and his insinuation into the confidence of Chairholder Uvanov ( played by Russell Hunter, reprising his role from The Robots of Death ).

From 1974 onwards they enjoyed huge success in Australia and elsewhere, writing and producing hits for a number of popular Australian groups and solo singers, including John Paul Young, Cheetah, Stevie Wright, Ted Mulry, Rose Tattoo, The Angels, William Shakespeare, Mark Williams and, most notably, AC / DC.

He also produced several cast recordings of West End musicals for First Night Records — Seven Brides For Seven Brothers-Original London Cast ( 1986 ), Annie Get Your Gun-1986 London Cast ( starring Suzi Quatro and Eric Flynn ), Kiss Me, Kate-1987 Royal Shakespeare Company Cast ( starring Paul Jones, Nichola McAuliffe and Fiona Hendley ), and South Pacific-1988 London Cast ( starring Gemma Craven and Emile Belcourt ).

* 1999 Paul Tazewell-Peer Gynt-The Shakespeare Theatre

* Shakespeare ’ s Lost Kingdom: The True History of Shakespeare and Elizabeth, Book Review by Christopher Paul, Brief Chronicles, Vol.