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    for his television and film portrayals of King Henry VIII. He appeared extensively in Shakespeare and other classics and musicals in Britain, and was also...
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  • lists 410 feature-length film and TV versions of William Shakespeare's plays, making Shakespeare the most filmed author ever in any language. As of November...
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    Campbell) Henry VIII (John Stride) Henry VIII (2000) (Philippe Rouillon) Henry VIII (Ray Winstone, Sid Mitchell) Henry VIII at Shakespeare's Globe (2012)...
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    Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant (UK: /ˈmoʊpæsɒ̃/, US: /ˈmoʊpəsɒnt, ˌmoʊpəˈsɒ̃/; French: [ɡi d(ə) mopasɑ̃]; 5 August 1850 – 6 July 1893) was a 19th-century...
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    began his career at Shakespeare's Globe, before taking roles at the Almeida Theatre and the Old Vic. Since appearing at Shakespeare's Globe at the outset...
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    Henry IV (French: Henri IV; 13 December 1553 – 14 May 1610), also known by the epithets Good King Henry or Henry the Great, was King of Navarre (as Henry...
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    speech at the Legatine Trial, a moment accurately rendered in Shakespeare's play about Henry VIII. Her tomb in Peterborough Cathedral can be seen and there...
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    Gilbert Coriolanus – by William Shakespeare Henry VIII – by William Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost – by William Shakespeare The Pirates of Penzance – music...
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    grand bâtard (the great bastard). He was legitimized by King Charles VIII in 1485. Henri IV had many mistresses and illegitimate children. The children of...
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    as Dante Alighieri, Giovanni Boccaccio, Geoffrey Chaucer, and William Shakespeare. Numerous episodes from the poem have been depicted in works of sculpture...
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    Louis, Duke of Guyenne, the Dauphin of Viennois, is a character in Shakespeare's Henry V. In Baronness Emma Orczy's Eldorado, the Scarlet Pimpernel rescues...
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    Elizabeth I (category Children of Henry VIII)
    the Black Plague, the Rise of Shakespeare, Piracy, Witchcraft and the Birth of the Stuart Era. St. Martin's Press. p. viii. ISBN 978-0-3123-2139-0. Jessica...
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    Balao fleet submarine 2,391 12 June 1942 Sold for scrap 11 July 1960 Shakespeare  Royal Navy S (Third Group) submarine 990 10 July 1942 Paid off 14 July...
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    Pantagruel, but only up to book 4. Michel Eyquem de Montaigne Essays William Shakespeare The First Part of King Henry the Sixth The Second Part of King Henry...
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  • scientific advance over the papal jurisdiction, its productions of banned Shakespeare plays and its practice of 'separateness' against Native Americans. New...
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    Thomas More (category People executed under Henry VIII)
    amateur theologian, and noted Renaissance humanist. He also served Henry VIII as Lord High Chancellor of England from October 1529 to May 1532. He wrote...
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    designers and was a precursor of the Old Vic Theatre School; Goring taught Shakespeare there. It had to close in late 1939 due to the outbreak of war. Goring's...
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    Dictionary as "One who stands unduly high in the favour of a prince", citing Shakespeare: "Like favourites/ Made proud by Princes" (Much Ado about Nothing, 3...
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    successful, first entitled Everybody's Shakespeare, for the first three volumes, and subsequently, The Mercury Shakespeare. In Spring 1933, Welles traveled...
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    2005, Neville was put forward as a candidate for the authorship of Shakespeare's works. Neville was the elder son of Sir Henry Neville (died 1593) and...
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    Nanterre-Amandiers 1988 The Winter's Tale William Shakespeare Luc Bondy Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers Hamlet William Shakespeare Patrice Chéreau (2) Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers...
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    May 2013.. Shakespeare, William, Henri V (play), act IV, scene 3, "Henri V's speech". gonderzone.org. Retrieved 5 May 2013.. Shakespeare, William, The...
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    Herschel Baker noted in his introduction to Henry VI for The Riverside Shakespeare how appalled William Warburton was by the depiction of Joan in Henry...
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  • Merchant of Venice (William Shakespeare. c. 1597) 1871 music by Arthur Sullivan 1905 music by Engelbert Humperdinck 1917 music by Henri Rabaud music by Johan...
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  • Opera in 4 acts; libretto by Louis Gallet Opera — 291 1881–1882 Henry VIII Henry VIII Opera in 4 acts; libretto by Léonce Détroyat and Armand Silvestre Opera...
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    the form of a woman crowning Byron. The statue is by the French sculptors Henri-Michel Chapu and Alexandre Falguière. As of 2008[update], the anniversary...
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    МОНТЕ-КРИСТО"" [Shakespeare and "Graffe Monte Cristo"]. Электронная энциклопедия "Мир Шекспира" [Electronic encyclopedia "Shakespeare's World"] (in Russian)...
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  • Mayne Lynton Fletcher Christian Errol Flynn The Private Life of Henry VIII Henry VIII Charles Laughton Queen Christina Queen Christina of Sweden Greta Garbo...
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    Thomas Stukley (category Illegitimate children of Henry VIII of England)
    Devon, head of an ancient gentry family, a Knight of the Body to King Henry VIII and Sheriff of Devon in 1545. His mother was Jane Pollard, daughter of Sir...
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     xv Henri Suhamy 1971, pp. 9–11 Henri Suhamy 1971, p. 11 Charles Dickens 1993, p. 101 Henri Suhamy 1971, p. 13 Charles Dickens 1993, p. 43 Henri Suhamy...
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