Word: annee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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¶ Stratford-upon-Avon, at the age of 80, is not only the oldest continuing Shakespeare stage, but also a shijne and an industry. A quarter-million tourists a year, 25,000 from the U.S., pour into this medieval town in the green-girt Cotswolds to poke curiously through Anne...
Second-Best Bed. "Shakespeare led a life of allegory," wrote Keats. "His works are the comments on it." The allegory is gap-filled, encouraging the strange game of pseudoscholarship designed to show that Shakespeare did not really write the plays, that he was a front man for Sir Francis Bacon...
Although John Shakespeare applied for a gentleman's coat of arms around 1576, he slipped into money troubles and was dropped from the list of aldermen. Will had not been overly prudent himself. According to parish records, he and Anne Hathaway were married posthaste, without the customary three readings...
Shakespeare died five years later, at 52, of unknown causes-though one 17th century chronicler reported that "Shakespeare, Drayton, and Ben Jonson had a merry meeting, and it seems drank too hard, for Shakespeare died of a fever there contracted." Anne outlived him by seven years, and asked to be...
The Miracle Worker. An occasionally makeshift but unforgettable portrayal of Helen Keller's search for insight as a substitute for sight, with remarkable acting by Patty Duke and Anne Bancroft.