Topic: William Shakespeare
Call it Stratford-upon-Hudson. Or maybe the East River. Great Britain's Royal Shakespeare Company will take up residence at New York's Park Avenue Armory in 2011, presenting five Shakespeare plays in repertory July 6-Aug. 14, Lincoln Center Festival and the armory announced Monday. The plays will be chosen ...
LONDON (Reuters) - Elizabethan theater-goers chomped on an exotic array of foods while enjoying the latest plays of the day, new evidence found at the sites of Shakespearean playhouses in London suggests. Archaeologists say choice Tudor snacks included oysters by the cartload, crab and other shellfish like mussels, whelks and periwinkles. Dried raisins and figs, hazelnuts, plums, cherries and peaches were ...
Articles of Faith: Words & Sentences
It has been said that true writers are people who find writing difficult. This adage is meant to suggest that good writing is no easy task, full of pitfalls and struggles. Certainly it is a task worth toiling over. Increasingly, it seems ? putting creative, evocative prose aside ? even the most straightforward written communication is beyond ...
Stratford-Upon-Avon must be one of the most visited places on the tourist trail in England. In the summer it can literally be awash with people, such is the popularity of Shakespeare?s birthplace.
Of course it is little wonder owing to the aura that surrounds William Shakespeare, that this pilgrimage, because of course that is what it is should occur ...
