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William Shakespeare [a] (c. 23 [b] April 1564 – 23 April 1616) [c] was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon" (or simply "the Bard").
Shakespeare has been known as "the Bard" since the eighteenth century. [2] One who idolizes Shakespeare is known as a bardolator. The term bardolatry , derived from Shakespeare's sobriquet "the Bard of Avon" and the Greek word latria "worship" (as in idolatry , worship of idols ), was coined by George Bernard Shaw in the preface to his ...
The Bard (1778) by Benjamin West. In Celtic cultures, a bard is an oral repository and professional story teller, verse-maker, music composer, oral historian and genealogist, employed by a patron (such as a monarch or chieftain) to commemorate one or more of the patron's ancestors and to praise the patron's own activities.
Apr. 25—As the end of the school year approaches, Logansport High School English teacher Chris Pearcy is preparing for a tradition: introducing his students to William Shakespeare through the ...
The traditional origin is said to be a curse set upon the play by a coven of witches, angry at Shakespeare for using a real spell. [2] One hypothesis for the origin of this superstition is that Macbeth, being a popular play, was commonly put on by theatres in financial trouble, or that the high production costs of Macbeth put theatres in financial trouble.
Royal Shakespeare Company’s co-artistic directors Daniel Evans and Tamara Harvey unveiled their inaugural season at the Stratforn-upon-Avon institution
The concept of Shakespeare in the Park was created in 1956 by famous theatre producer Joe Papp and originated with the New York Shakespeare Festival’s production of "Julius Caeser" in Central Park.
William Shakespeare (1564–1616), the Bard of Avon or the Bard; Robert Burns (1759–1796), the Bard of Ayrshire or the Bard; Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941), the Bard of Bengal; John Cooper Clarke (born 1949), the Bard of Salford; Richard Llwyd (1752–1835), the Bard of Snowdon; Thomas Rowley (poet) (1721–1796), the Bard of the Green ...