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AVON (64A: The Bard of ___ (Shakespeare)) The River AVON is located in central England. It flows through several towns, including Stratford-upon-AVON, where William Shakespeare (c. 1564-1616) was ...
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.
William Valentine Shakespeare (September 27, 1912 – January 17, 1974) was an American football player. He played at the halfback position, and also handled punting, for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish football teams from 1933 to 1935.
He was born in Stratford-upon-Avon, where he was baptised on 26 April 1564. His date of birth is unknown but is traditionally observed on 23 April, Saint George's Day . [ 1 ] This date, which can be traced to William Oldys and George Steevens , has proved appealing to biographers because Shakespeare died on the same date in 1616.
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 ...
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 ...
Former day care worker Melissa Calusinski has served 16 years of a 31-year prison sentence for a crime she insists she didn't commit — a murder that may not have even happened.
Novello, Ewer & Co., London, published vocal scores of Around the Winter Fire, The Bard of Avon, The Elfin Hill, The Hare and the Tortoise, The Holy City, Israel in the Wilderness, Joan of Arc, The Legend of the Wood, The Passion Service, The Prince of Peace, Ruth, A Song of Life, The Ten Virgins, Toilers of the Deep and Una together with ...