He would work, with slow but gathering excitement, through the plays of Shakespeare, the novels of Tolstoy and the teeming streets of Dickens.
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).
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.
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.
The company's 1603-04 season saw seven of Shakespeare's plays performed, including Othello, The Merry Wives of Windsor and Measure for Measure.
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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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.
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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Much like the Reduced Shakespeare Company's performances of all the bard's plays in one evening, in 90 action-packed minutes units and display teams from the three armed services parachuted, charged, marched and drummed their way through a thousand years of imperial history.
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.
The Memory Lane area will offer Shakespeare recitations, tours of the Malkin Bowl outdoor theatre and plays performed by local drama troupes.
Besides legal matters--deeds, tax rolls, lawsuits--there was the frequent mention of Shakespeare by fellow authors and other contemporary observers, and of course there was the publication of the plays and poems themselves in his lifetime, with his name attached as the author.
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.
He said the couple's patronage of Shakespeare's plays was boosting their popularity.
In Shakespeare's cycle of eight plays, the story of the Wars of the Roses is told as an epic drama.
Other plays in the season include a production of William Shakespeare's Richard II and Inadmissible Evidence by John Osborne.
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The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) is to take a season of plays to Newcastle, two years after its annual visits were scrapped due to funding cuts.
The Royal Shakespeare company has announced it will not bring a full season of plays to Newcastle this year due to funding pressures.
Shakespeare is not known to have traveled outside of England, yet the plays reveal an extensive knowledge of Italy and France.
In Shakespeare's plays, the only major bourgeois character, Antonio, is a fool because of his affection for Bassanio.
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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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He said the open-air theatre was one of London's first dedicated playhouses and it was here that a young William Shakespeare performed as part of The Lord Chamberlain's Men company of players, and had his first plays performed.
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.
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