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The only nearly complete translation of Bandello's tales into English is "The novels of Matteo Bandello", translated by John Payne in 6 volumes, 1890. [4] This edition is separated into 4 parts, containing 51, 43, 51, and 21 stories, respectively, for a total of 166, minus two (part 2, story 35 and part 4, story 6), omitted because of their being almost identical to those of Marguerite de ...
Such Tweet Sorrow was a modern-day adaptation of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet in tweets. During the period of five weeks (April 10, 2010 – May 12, 2010) six professional actors performed the play on Twitter and other web devices.
Juliet is about a woman named Julie Jacobs who discovers that her ancestor Giulietta is the real-life Juliet of Romeo and Juliet fame. [3] In her encounters with various descendants of the young lovers' families, she realizes that the curse from the story—"A plague on both your houses!"—may be real and may be coming after her—unless she can find her Romeo.
A leap year is when an extra day is added to our modern-day Gregorian calendar — the world’s most widely used calendar, named after Pope Gregory XIII — during the shortest month of the year ...
Even when she lies apparently dead in the tomb, he says her "beauty makes / This vault a feasting presence full of light." [56] Juliet describes Romeo as "day in night" and "Whiter than snow upon a raven's back." [57] [58] This contrast of light and dark can be expanded as symbols—contrasting love and hate, youth and age in a metaphoric way. [49]
As the story occurs, Juliet is approaching her fourteenth birthday. She was born on "Lammas Eve at night" (1 August), so Juliet's birthday is 31 July (1.3.19).Her birthday is "a fortnight hence", putting the action of the play in mid-July (1.3.17).
Leap Day is the extra day we get every four years on Feb. 29. During Leap Years, there are 366 days in the calendar cycle as opposed to 365, with the extra day tacked onto February, the shortest ...
When we add a leap day to the calendar, we overcompensate by 44 minutes because, if you add up the extra five hours 48 minutes and 56 seconds, it comes out to 23.262222 hours instead of 24 hours.