• three plays by William Shakespeare Henry VI, Burgrave of Plauen (1536–1572) Heinrich VI Reuss of Plauen and Köstritz (1707–1783) Henri, Count of Paris (1908–1999)...
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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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    the nine Female Worthies in the late 14th century. In Shakespeare's earliest play King Henry VI (Part I), the Countess of Auvergne, while awaiting Lord...
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    Anton Chekhov Henry V – by William Shakespeare Henry VI – by William Shakespeare Twelfth Night – by William Shakespeare Don Giovanni – by Wolfgang Amadeus...
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    featured in Shakespeare's plays, and the company's expert on jesting was Robert Armin, author of the book Foole upon Foole. In Shakespeare's Twelfth Night...
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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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    Ben Saidi 2001 : Cymbeline by William Shakespeare, directed by Mario Gonzalez 2001 : Henri VI by William Shakespeare, directed by Nadine Varoutsikos 2001 :...
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    when Humbert II sold his seigneury, called the Dauphiné, to King Philippe VI on condition that the heir of France assume the title of le Dauphin. The wife...
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    1543. After Henry's death in 1547, Elizabeth's younger half-brother Edward VI ruled until his own death in 1553, bequeathing the crown to a Protestant cousin...
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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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    Christopher Plummer (category Royal Shakespeare Company members)
    Stratford Shakespeare Festival Theatre where they talk about their young careers, long lasting friendship, and Plummer's role as Chang in Star Trek VI. The...
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  • Spirits was a “feminist-leaning classics troupe”, which produces plays by Shakespeare and his contemporaries, the era of “verse and violence”. The company...
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    Sir Walter Scott. Scott based the name on a scene in William Shakespeare's play Henry VI, Part 1 (Act 2, Scene 4), set in the gardens of the Temple Church...
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  • Warbeck Prime Suspect (1995) Truth or Dare (1996) Mrs. Brown (1997) Shakespeare in Love (1998) Captain Corelli's Mandolin (2001) Proof (2005) Terrence...
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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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    Ben Jonson (category People associated with Shakespeare)
    regarded as "the second most important English dramatist, after William Shakespeare, during the reign of James I." Jonson was a classically educated, well-read...
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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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    Various versions of Shakespeare's play Henry V depict Constable Charles d'Albret, Comte de Dreux, who was appointed by Charles VI of France and was killed...
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  • to his brother Claude, Duke of Aumale. It was later used as a title by Henri d'Orléans, the youngest son of Louis-Philippe, King of the French and Duke...
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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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    December 1945), paralyzed from neck down after automobile collision "Shakespeare, I come." — Theodore Dreiser, American novelist (28 December 1945) "What...
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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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    Compassion! Buzz Hauser 1998 Denial Art Witz 1999 Madeline: Lost in Paris Henri / Uncle Horst Voice, direct-to-video Love and Action in Chicago Frank Bonner...
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    in." Shakespeare used the word Walloon: "A base Walloon, to win the Dauphin's grace/Thrust Talbot with a spear in the back." A note in Henry VI, Part...
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    Other books featured multiple times on the list are the First Folio of Shakespeare's plays with five separate copies and five separate broadside printings...
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    assertion by one theatregoer in 1822 that "Shakespeare, c'est l'aide-de-camp de Wellington" ("Shakespeare is Wellington's aide-de-camp"). Alexandre Dumas...
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    Literary alchemy appears throughout the history of English literature from Shakespeare to J. K. Rowling, and also the popular Japanese manga Fullmetal Alchemist...
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    the way to Rome.[citation needed] It has been suggested that William Shakespeare may have drawn on Leo Africanus' book when preparing to write Othello...
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  • the word essays, and his writings came to be highly influential upon Shakespeare, Rousseau and Nietzsche. His Pyrrhonian philosophical skepticism, summed...
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    ("N'est-ce pas, Henri, que nous n'avons pas été lâches à Sedan?") — Napoleon III, Emperor of the French (9 January 1873), speaking to his doctor, Henri Conneau...
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