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Showing posts with label Shakespeare. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Shakespeare. Show all posts
Saturday, October 21, 2017

Shakespeare’s best (or worst) villains

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History Extra Tamora – Titus Andronicus Tamora, Queen of the Goths, is a cruel and brutal central player in Shakespeare’s ultimate re...
Friday, October 14, 2016

Shakespeare: 7 burning questions about his life

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History Extra The Cobbe portrait, which dates from c1610. This image’s “provenance and claim to be painted from life make a compellin...
Wednesday, April 27, 2016

Have we completely misinterpreted Shakespeare’s Richard III?

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History Extra King Richard speaks to James Tyrrell (portrayed by Shakespeare as the man who organises the murder of the princes in t...
Tuesday, February 16, 2016

The 7 most romantic moments in history

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History Extra Wallis and Edward, 1939. (Keystone-France\Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images) Marie Curie dedicates her life to t...
Friday, November 27, 2015

History Trivia - First Eddystone Lighthouse destroyed in Great Storm

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November 27 8 BC, Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) the great Roman lyric poet, died at Venusia, in Apulia at age 56.  1582 William ...
Monday, August 10, 2015

Stoner Shakespeare? Scientists say pipes from playwright's garden contain cannabis

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  This engraving of a man identified as William Shakespeare appears on the front of a First Folio of Shakespeare's plays dating from...
Wednesday, March 11, 2015

History Trivia - Romeo & Juliet's wedding day

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March 11 222   Emperor Elagabalus was assassinated, along with his mother, Julia Soaemias, by the Praetorian Guard during a revolt. Thei...
Saturday, January 31, 2015

Has the mystery of Shakespeare’s Sonnets finally been solved?

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New evidence points to identity of enigmatic ‘Mr WH’ to whom the poems are dedicated      A portrait of William Shakespeare from aro...
Monday, December 8, 2014

History Trivia - first Shakespearian actress appears on an English stage as Desdemona

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December 8 65 BC Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) was born.   He was one of the most familiar and admired of the Roman poets. 877 L...
Thursday, November 27, 2014

History Trivia - Commodus becomes Supreme Commander of the Roman legions

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November 27 176 Emperor Marcus Aurelius granted his son Commodus the rank of Imperator and made him Supreme Commander of the Roman legi...
Saturday, April 26, 2014

History Trivia -

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April 26 121 Marcus Aurelius (Roman Emperor 161-180) was born. He was the last of the "Five Good Emperors", and is also consid...