We put on several Shakespeare plays back when I was a thespian in high school.
It's like people who read Shakespeare plays, but they never see a Shakespeare play.
As well as saying his name, he also recites a series of numbers and lines from several Shakespeare plays.
Under an overhaul of the national curriculum in England, 14- to 16-year-olds will study two Shakespeare plays, rather than the one currently required, while seven- to 11-year-olds will learn about the playwright in history lessons.
In Shakespeare's plays, the only major bourgeois character, Antonio, is a fool because of his affection for Bassanio.
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There are references to it in Homer's Odyssey and Shakespeare's plays Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet and Anthony and Cleopatra.
The company's 1603-04 season saw seven of Shakespeare's plays performed, including Othello, The Merry Wives of Windsor and Measure for Measure.
He said the couple's patronage of Shakespeare's plays was boosting their popularity.
How do you make Shakespeare's plays more easily accessible to potentially interested people who feel intimidated by their high seriousness and high-flown rhetoric?
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The British Museum is also sponsoring a companion exhibition, "Crowns and Ducats: Shakespeare's Money and Medals, " showing the importance of money in Shakespeare's plays.
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The Royal Shakespeare Company has been working with international troupes to create a roster of new productions, either of or inspired by Shakespeare's plays.
Fiona Banks, head of learning at Globe Education at Shakespeare s Globe, in Southwark, London, said the initiative would help "students engage with Shakespeare's plays - as plays - to be experienced practically and through performance".
Experts generally agree the most accurate depictions are a bust of the playwright originally put up in Holy Trinity Church in Stratford-upon-Avon and an engraving made for the title page of the first collected edition of Shakespeare's plays.
In honour of the birthday celebrations, the Birthplace visitor centre will open a new exhibition, Famous Beyond Words, in March, retelling the story of Shakespeare's development from Stratford local to world famous playwright, using artefacts from the museum's collection (such as the 1623 First Folio, the first published collection of Shakespeare's plays and the only reliable source for more than 20 of his works).
Instead he believes the plays were the work of six to eight different writers, including Shakespeare, who contributed to plays in a way that was "complex and messy".
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Further transmissions are planned in the autumn and winter, and they include plays by Shakespeare and Alan Bennett.
He would work, with slow but gathering excitement, through the plays of Shakespeare, the novels of Tolstoy and the teeming streets of Dickens.
They are World War One drama Parade's End, starring Benedict Cumberbatch, police corruption drama, Line of Duty and The Hollow Crown, a series of adaptations of Shakespeare's history plays.
The collective unconscious is rather like the operating system on our computer and it is by exploring those archetypes in the plays of Shakespeare, that corporate leaders can enhance their rational and analytical core competencies.
Better to turn to the greatest set of case studies ever written: the plays of William Shakespeare.
In this version, Shakespeare was a broker of plays, organising, editing and writing scripts, but not necessarily the prime author of all the plays now attributed to him.
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Gide built on a sea-change in attitudes during the inter-war years that called for fully authentic versions of the plays, liberating Shakespeare from the romanticists and classicists alike.
Built 200 yards from the site of the original theatre where many of Shakespeare's most famous plays made their debut, including Hamlet, King Lear and Macbeth, the Globe is putting on four of the Bard's plays this year in celebration of the anniversary.
In Shakespeare's cycle of eight plays, the story of the Wars of the Roses is told as an epic drama.
Both plays started out at Shakespeare's Globe, but critics were not invited to review Fry's performance in Twelfth Night until its West End transfer.
To help pay the increase the Lord Chamberlain's Men had to do something theater companies usually were loath to: They sold publication rights to four of their most popular plays, all by Shakespeare--Richard III, Richard II, Henry IV and Love's Labour's Lost.
Shakespeare reflected those attitudes in his history plays.
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By any standards, "Coriolanus" is an ambitious undertaking, a modern-day interpretation of one of Shakespeare's meatiest but less frequently performed plays.
"This is an old recourse in the theater when you're looking for material, " he says, pointing out that Shakespeare borrowed plots for 35 of his 37 plays.
William Shakespeare mentioned several dozen sports and games in his plays, including archery, football, tennis and the ever-popular bearbaiting.
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