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William Shakespeare (baptised 26 April 1564; died 23 April 1616) was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist.
Read More at Wikipedia ›British police say a man has been arrested after pro-Palestinian protesters disrupted a performance by the Israeli national theater company at the Globe Theater in London.
Tel Aviv's Habima company was performing Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice" on Monday evening during the "Globe to Globe" festival when a small number of demonstrators unfurled banners and displayed a Palestinian flag.Metropolitan Police said one man was arrested for assault on a security guard and remains in custody.The "Globe to Globe" festival includes companies from six continents, including the world's most populous countries, China and India, and the youngest — South Sudan, which recently became an independent nation.The festival will see all 37 of William Shakespeare's plays performed in 37 languages, from Urdu to Swahili, over six weeks in 2012....Time to get out the cameras: Britain's most photogenic man will be bringing the Olympic flame back from Greece.David Beckham is joining officials at a handover cerem...
To dig, or not to dig? That's the latest question.Paleontologists are looking to examine the remains of William Shakespeare , hoping to unlock the mysteries of the l...
Let’s play who does not belong: Shakespeare , Queen Elizabeth, Roland Emmerich. Likely when one thinks of Emmerich, the director of some outrageous Hollywood spectac...
Chinese premier Wen Jiabao , reportedly a big Shakespeare fan, made a pilgrimage to the Bard's birthplace of Stratford-upon-Avon on Sunday.Wen is in Britain as part ...
This weekend, a million monkeys will recreate a work of Shakespeare , claims programmer and technology enthusiast Jesse Anderson .Virtual monkeys, that is.Anderson, ...
In a new staging of Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet," a Baghdad theater director has transformed the Montagues and Capulets into religious rivals in war-torn Iraq.An...
VENICE, Italy (AP) — Julie Taymor's interpretation of "The Tempest" is a gender-flipped fantasy film, with Helen Mirren playing the lead in the take on the William S...
Shakespeare said all the world's a stage. Next spring, all the world will be on stage at Shakespeare's Globe theater.The theater is planning a six-week run of the ba...
LONDON (AP) — An unemployed book dealer who paraded as a wealthy playboy was sentenced Monday to eight years in prison for possessing a stolen first edition of Shake...
LONDON (AP) — A book dealer has been cleared of stealing a rare first edition of Shakespeare's plays, but was found guilty of handling stolen goods and removing stol...
LONDON (AP) — A flashy British book dealer accused of stealing a rare first edition of Shakespeare's plays appeared for trial Wednesday in a silver limousine, sporti...
MILAN (AP) — The Venice Film Festival says this year's edition will close with Julie Taymor's adaptation of Shakespeare's "The Tempest."The movie by the American dir...
The deep, croaking-frog rhythm of the talking drums sound out across the stage as canoeists in animal hide row a condemned servant and royal infant into the unknown....
"What we have to remember is that we can still do anything," Marina Keegan wrote to fellow Yale University graduates. "... We can't, we must not lose this sense of p...
A performance of "Troilus and Cressida" in Maori has kicked off an international festival featuring William Shakespeare's plays in 37 different languages.The Globe T...
Researchers using high-tech photography have reconstructed a signature that may belong to William Shakespeare — or perhaps a clever forger.It's not yet known who scr...
Excited, likely jet-lagged, bursting with ambition and surely a little nervous, too, the thousands of Olympians speaking a multitude of tongues will find and settle ...
Excited, likely jet-lagged, bursting with ambition and surely a little nervous, too, the thousands of Olympians speaking a multitude of tongues will find and settle ...
From the Upper Eastside to the south of France - via medieval Italy - Ed Westwick is on the move.The "Gossip Girl" star was in Cannes on Saturday to celebrate a new ...
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