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Search results 981 - 990 of 1622 matching essays
- 981: Leonard Bernstein
- ... as director of the New York Philharmonic and the production West Side Story. West Side Story was an idea by Jerome Robbins of a modern, New York style, version of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. Arthur Laurents wrote the script, Bernstein was the composer and Stephen Sondheim was the lyrist. This tragic comedy premiered in August 1957. Apparently, this was another ...
- 982: Langston Hughes
- ... 1940); I Wonder As I Wander" (1956), his autobiographies. His collections of poetry include: The Weary Blues (1926); The Negro Mother and other Dramatic Recitations (1931); The Dream Keeper (1932); Shakespeare In Harlem (1942); Fields of Wonder (1947); One Way Ticket (1947); The First Book of Jazz (1955); Tambourines To Glory (1958); and Selected Poems (1959); The Best of Simple (1961 ...
- 983: John D. Rockefeller
- ... Council on Foreign Relations, and Russian Institute at Columbia University. In the arts the RF has helped establish or support the Stratford Shakespearean Festival in Ontario, Canada, and the American Shakespeare Festival in Stratford, Connecticut; Arena Stage in Washington, D.C.; Karamu House in Cleveland; and Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York. OTHER ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPIC SUPPORT In addition ...
- 984: Cleopatra
- ... and Marc Antony. However Marc Antony and Cleopatra were involved in the Battle of Actium, in 31 b.c., which they lost. Marc Antony then committed suicide. Their relationship inspired Shakespeare’s play, "Antony and Cleopatra," which dealt with their lives together. In result of losing the Battle of Actium, Cleopatra surrendered and attempted to establish a relationship with Ocatavian, later ...
- 985: Christoper Marlow
- ... on February 6, 1564 (Discovering Christopher Marlowe 2), in Canterbury, England, and baptized at St. George’s Church on the 26th of the same month, exactly two months before William Shakespeare was baptized at Stratford-upon-Avon (Henderson 275). He was the eldest son of John Marlowe of the Shoemaker’s Guild and Katherine Arthur, a Dover girl of yeoman stock ...
- 986: Charles Dickens
- ... 15, and then left for good. He enjoyed reading and was especially fond of adventure stories, fairy tales, and novels. He was influenced by such earlier English writers as William Shakespeare, Tobias Smollet, and Henry Fielding. However, most of the knowledge he later used as an author came from his environment around him. 4 MIDDLE LIFE Dickens became a newspaper writer ...
- 987: Agatha Christie
- ... great honor (Prichard www.mysteries.com/birthday/). To this day, Agatha Christie’s novels and plays have been translated into more worldly languages than any of the works of William Shakespeare. She is perhaps the most famous female mystery writer of all time. Millions of copies of her books and plays, some of which have been made into videos, are sold ...
- 988: Willem De Kooning
- ... reality was quite different. De Kooning succumbed to Alzheimer disease in late 1970s. According to Peter Schjedahl, in his essay, De Kooning later life was compared to King Lear in Shakespeare's play. It is said of him , " The wonder is, he hath endures so long./ He but usurped his life." Peter continued on with these lyrics of King Lear to ...
- 989: Queen Elizabeth
- ... During Elizabeth s reign there was a boom of the arts that would be impossible for almost any other period of English history to match. Edmund Spencer, Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare, and Ben Johnson are great names not only in English literature, but also in World literature. The English Renaissance was a highlight that appeared bloody, dark, and dreary. Elizabeth s ...
- 990: Mark Twain 4
- ... that all humans already misunderstand themselves (Kesterson 27). One example of satire is in the Grangerford episode of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Here, Twain attempts to make fun of Shakespeare s Romeo and Juliet by mocking the story line. Both stories include two otherwise intelligent families who destroy each other because of a feud so old, they don t even ...
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