• The Birth of Merlin, or, The Child Hath Found his Father is a Jacobean play, probably written in whole or part by William Rowley. It was first performed...
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    shapeshifting. Merlin matures to an ascendant sagehood and engineers the birth of Arthur through magic and intrigue. Later stories have Merlin as an advisor...
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  • from the legendary tales of Camelot, the plot adds the antagonistic Queen Mab and expands Merlin's backstory before the birth of King Arthur. The retelling...
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    Merlin is a partly lost French epic poem written by Robert de Boron in Old French and dating from either the end of the 12th or beginning of the 13th century...
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  • This is a list of characters in the BBC fantasy drama television series Merlin. Note: All characters, including main and recurring characters, are listed...
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  • Merlin is one of the main characters in Walt Disney Animation Studios' animated film The Sword in the Stone (1963). After that, also appearing in several...
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    The Rolls-Royce Merlin is a British liquid-cooled V-12 piston aero engine of 27-litre (1,650 cu in) capacity. Rolls-Royce designed the engine and first...
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    Pericles, Prince of Tyre* The Taming of the Shrew The Tempest* Twelfth Night The Two Gentlemen of Verona The Two Noble Kinsmen* The Winter's Tale** Cymbeline*...
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  • Stories involving the mythical wizard Merlin have been popular since the Renaissance, especially with the renewed interest in the legend of King Arthur in...
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  • The first series of Merlin, a British fantasy television series, began on 20 September 2008 and ended on 13 December 2008. Regular cast members for the...
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    plays are a canon of approximately 39 dramatic works written by English poet, playwright, and actor William Shakespeare. The exact number of plays as well...
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  • life and the reign of Uther Pendragon until the conception of Uther's son, Arthur. In The Hollow Hills (1973), Merlin recounts Arthur's birth and boyhood...
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    tragedy is the designation given to most tragedies written by playwright William Shakespeare. Many of his history plays share the qualifiers of a Shakespearean...
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    providing Arthur with the sword Excalibur, eliminating Merlin, raising Lancelot after the death of his father, and helping to take the dying Arthur to Avalon...
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  • Avalon, Merlin’s Prophecy, begins with the birth of Merlin, and ends with the conception of King Arthur. Future books in the series explore the birth and...
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    The Globe Theatre was a theatre in London associated with William Shakespeare. It was built in 1599 at Southwark, close to the south bank of the Thames...
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  • Merlin Santana (March 14, 1976 – November 9, 2002) was an American actor and rapper. Beginning his career in the early 1990s, Santana was best known for...
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  • entirely on location in Wales. In Pre-England Britain, before the birth of King Arthur, Merlin (Simon Lloyd Roberts) serves under King Vortigern (Hefin Wyn)...
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    Merlin Jay Olsen (/ˈoʊlsən/; September 15, 1940 – March 11, 2010) was an American football player, announcer, and actor. For his entire 15-year professional...
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    first publication. The poem tells the story of Venus, the goddess of Love; of her unrequited love; and of her attempted seduction of Adonis, an extremely...
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  • The Star Trek franchise, begun in 1966, has frequently included stories inspired by and alluding to the works of William Shakespeare. The science fiction...
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    Christopher Merlin Vyvyan Holland (born December 1945) is a British biographer and editor. He is the only grandchild of Oscar Wilde, whose life he has...
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    Shakespearean scholarship, the Henriad refers to a group of William Shakespeare's history plays depicting the rise of the English kings. It is sometimes...
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    coincidental; the Pauline and Ephesian aspect of the play, noted under Sources, may have had the effect of linking The Comedy of Errors to the holiday season—much...
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    Myrddin Emrys ("Ambrosius"), Merlinus Caledonensis ("of Caledonia") or Merlin Sylvestris ("of the woods"). Myrddin Wylt was born in 540 CE.[citation needed]...
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    Merlin (born Jean-Joseph Merlin, 6 September 1735 – 8 May 1803) was a Belgian Freemason, clock-maker, musical-instrument maker, and inventor from the...
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  • Retrieved September 21, 2023. Alderslade, Merlin (August 5, 2019). "The first reaction to Slipknot's new single Birth Of The Cruel". Metal Hammer. Retrieved September...
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  • Merlin German (November 15, 1985 – April 11, 2008) was a United States Marine sergeant stationed in Iraq who survived a roadside bomb blast in 2005. He...
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  • Layamon (category Writers of Arthurian literature)
    Among the new material Layamon provided were an account of the birth of Merlin and one of the origins of the Round Table, as well as details of Arthur's...
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    majority, leaving only most of those listed below, with some additions. The Birth of Merlin was published in 1662 as the work of Shakespeare and William Rowley...
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