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A Dance to the Music of Time
A Dance to the Music of Time is a 12-volume cycle of novels by Anthony Powell, inspired by the painting of the same name by Nicolas Poussin and published between 1951 and 1975 to critical acclaim.
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Abbey Theatre
The Abbey Theatre (Amharclann na Mainistreach), also known as the National Theatre of Ireland (Amharclann Náisiúnta na hÉireann), in Dublin, Republic of Ireland, first opened its doors to the public on 27 December 1904.
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Adrian Noble
Adrian Keith Noble (born 19 July 1950) is a theatre director, and was also the artistic director and chief executive of the Royal Shakespeare Company from 1990 to 2003.
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Agatha Christie
Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, (born Miller; 15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976) was an English writer.
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Aldwych Theatre
The Aldwych Theatre is a West End theatre, located in Aldwych in the City of Westminster.
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Alec McCowen
Alexander Duncan McCowen, (26 May 1925 – 6 February 2017) was an English actor.
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Alex Waldmann
Alex Waldmann (born 1979 in Cambridge) is an English actor from London.
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Alfonso I Piccolomini
Alfonso I Piccolomini (1468–1498) was Duke of Amalfi.
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Amalfi
Amalfi is a town and comune in the province of Salerno, in the region of Campania, Italy, on the Gulf of Salerno.
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Ancona
Ancona ((elbow)) is a city and a seaport in the Marche region in central Italy, with a population of around 101,997.
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Anne Rice
Anne Rice (born Howard Allen Frances O'Brien; October 4, 1941) is an American author of gothic fiction, Christian literature, and erotica.
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Anthony Powell
Anthony Dymoke Powell (21 December 1905 – 28 March 2000) was an English novelist best known for his twelve-volume work A Dance to the Music of Time, published between 1951 and 1975.
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Antonio Beccadelli di Bologna
Antonio Beccadelli of Bologna (c.1475-1513) was an Italian aristocrat, whose tragic love affair and secret marriage with Giovanna d'Aragona, Duchess of Amalfi, inspired several works of literature, most notably John Webster's The Duchess of Malfi and Lope de Vega's El mayordomo de la Duquesa Amalfi.
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Apotheosis
Apotheosis (from Greek ἀποθέωσις from ἀποθεοῦν, apotheoun "to deify"; in Latin deificatio "making divine"; also called divinization and deification) is the glorification of a subject to divine level.
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Arthur Duff
Arthur Knox Duff (13 March 1899 – 23 September 1956) was an Irish composer and conductor, best known for his short orchestral pieces such as the Handel-inspired Echoes of Georgian Dublin.
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Barbara Jefford
Mary Barbara Jefford, OBE (born 26 July 1930) is a British Shakespearean actress best known for her theatrical performances with the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Old Vic and the National Theatre, and her role as Molly Bloom in the 1967 film of James Joyce's Ulysses.
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BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.
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BBC Television
BBC Television is a service of the British Broadcasting Corporation.
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Blackfriars Theatre
Blackfriars Theatre was the name given to two separate theatres located in the former Blackfriars Dominican priory in the City of London during the Renaissance.
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Bob Hoskins
Robert William Hoskins (26 October 1942 – 29 April 2014) was an English actor.
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Boy player
Boy player refers to male children, ranging in age from six or seven to their teens, who performed in Medieval and English Renaissance playing companies.
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Calabria
Calabria (Calàbbria in Calabrian; Calavría in Calabrian Greek; Καλαβρία in Greek; Kalavrì in Arbëresh/Albanian), known in antiquity as Bruttium, is a region in Southern Italy.
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Call for the Dead
Call for the Dead is John le Carré's first novel, published in 1961.
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Canada Lee
Canada Lee (born Leonard Lionel Cornelius Canegata, March 3, 1907 – May 9, 1952) was an American actor who pioneered roles for African Americans.
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Cardinal (Catholic Church)
A cardinal (Sanctae Romanae Ecclesiae cardinalis, literally Cardinal of the Holy Roman Church) is a senior ecclesiastical leader, considered a Prince of the Church, and usually an ordained bishop of the Roman Catholic Church.
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Castration
Castration (also known as gonadectomy) is any action, surgical, chemical, or otherwise, by which an individual loses use of the testicles.
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Cathleen Nesbitt
Cathleen Nesbitt, CBE (24 November 18882 August 1982) was a British actress of stage, film and television.
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Catholic Church
The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with more than 1.299 billion members worldwide.
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Cecil Trouncer
Cecil Stallard Trouncer (5 April 1898 – 15 December 1953) was an English actor.
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Charles I of England
Charles I (19 November 1600 – 30 January 1649) was monarch of the three kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 27 March 1625 until his execution in 1649.
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Charles Lamb
Charles Lamb (10 February 1775 – 27 December 1834) was an English essayist, poet, and antiquarian, best known for his Essays of Elia and for the children's book Tales from Shakespeare, co-authored with his sister, Mary Lamb (1764–1847).
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Classical unities
The classical unities, Aristotelian unities, or three unities are rules for drama derived from a passage in Aristotle's Poetics.
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Clifford Williams (actor)
Clifford Williams (1926 – 20 August 2005) was a Welsh theatre director and stage actor.
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Cockpit-in-Court
The Cockpit-in-Court (also known as the Royal Cockpit) was an early theatre in London, located at the rear of the Palace of Whitehall, next to St. James's Park, now the site of 70 Whitehall, in Westminster.
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Codpiece
A codpiece (from cod, meaning "scrotum") is a covering flap or pouch that attaches to the front of the crotch of men's trousers and usually accentuates the genital area.
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Corruption
Corruption is a form of dishonesty undertaken by a person entrusted with a position of authority, often to acquire personal benefit.
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Cover Her Face
Cover Her Face is the debut 1962 crime novel of P. D. James.
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Cruelty
Cruelty is indifference to suffering or pleasure in inflicting suffering.
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Dadie Rylands
George Humphrey Wolferstan Rylands (23 October 1902 – 16 January 1999), known as Dadie Rylands, was a British literary scholar and theatre director.
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David Dawson (actor)
David Robert Dawson (born 7 September 1982) is an English actor.
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David Oakes
Rowan David Oakes (born 14 October 1983) is an English film, television, and theatre actor known for his roles in The Pillars of the Earth, The Borgias, and The White Queen.
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Dogme 95
Dogme 95 was a filmmaking movement started in 1995 by the Danish directors Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg, who created the "Dogme 95 Manifesto" and the "Vows of Chastity" (kyskhedsløfter).
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Dominic Dromgoole
Dominic Dromgoole (born 25 October 1963) is an English theatre director and writer about the theatre who has recently begun to work in film.
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Donald McWhinnie
Donald McWhinnie (16 October 1920 – 8 October 1987) was a BBC executive and later a radio, television, and stage director.
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Duke of Amalfi
Medieval Amalfi was ruled, in the tenth and eleventh centuries, by a series of dukes (duces), sometimes called dogi (singular doge) corresponding with the republic of Venice, a maritime rival throughout the Middle Ages.
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Dylan Thomas
Dylan Marlais Thomas (27 October 1914 – 9 November 1953) was a Welsh poet and writer whose works include the poems "Do not go gentle into that good night" and "And death shall have no dominion"; the 'play for voices' Under Milk Wood; and stories and radio broadcasts such as A Child's Christmas in Wales and Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog.
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Early modern Britain
Early modern Britain is the history of the island of Great Britain roughly corresponding to the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries.
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Early Modern English
Early Modern English, Early New English (sometimes abbreviated to EModE, EMnE or EME) is the stage of the English language from the beginning of the Tudor period to the English Interregnum and Restoration, or from the transition from Middle English, in the late 15th century, to the transition to Modern English, in the mid-to-late 17th century.
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Echo & the Bunnymen
Echo & the Bunnymen are an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1978.
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Edmund Wilson
Edmund Wilson (May 8, 1895 – June 12, 1972) was an American writer and critic who explored Freudian and Marxist themes.
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Edward Chaney
Edward Chaney PhD FSA FRHistS (born 1951) is a British cultural historian.
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Edward Petherbridge
Edward Petherbridge (born on 3 August 1936) is an English actor, writer and artist.
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Eleanor Bron
Eleanor Bron (born 14 March 1938) is an English stage, film and television actress, and an author.
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Elisabeth Bergner
Elisabeth Bergner (22 August 1897 – 12 May 1986) was a European actress.
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Embassy Theatre (London)
The Embassy Theatre is a theatre at 64, Eton Avenue, Swiss Cottage, London.
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Emma Waller
Emma Waller (1815 – February 28, 1899) was an English actress who achieved fame in America.
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Emrys James
Emrys James (1 September 1928 – 5 February 1989) was a Welsh Shakespearean actor.
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English National Opera
English National Opera (ENO) is an opera company based in London, resident at the London Coliseum in St. Martin's Lane.
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Eric Porter
Eric Richard Porter (8 April 192815 May 1995) was an English actor of stage, film and television.
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Eve Best
Emily "Eve" Best (born 31 July 1971) is an English stage and screen actress and director, known for her television roles as Dr.
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Ferdinand I of Naples
Ferdinand I (2 June 1423 – 25 January 1494), also called Ferrante, was the King of Naples from 1458 to 1494.
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Fernando d'Ávalos
Fernando Francesco d'Ávalos, 5th marquis of Pescara (or Ferrante Francesco d'Ávalos; Spanish: Francisco Fernando de Ávalos, 1489 – December 3, 1525), was an Italian condottiero of Spanish extraction.
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Fiona Shaw
Fiona Shaw, CBE (born Fiona Mary Wilson; 10 July 1958) is an Irish actress and theatre and opera director, known for her role as Petunia Dursley in the Harry Potter films and her role as Marnie Stonebrook in season four of the HBO series True Blood (2011).
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François de Belleforest
François de Belleforest (1530 – 1 January 1583) was a prolific French author, poet and translator of the Renaissance.
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Gemma Arterton
Gemma Christina Arterton (born 2 February 1986) is an English actress.
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Geoffrey Hutchings
Geoffrey Hutchings (8 June 1939 – 1 July 2010) was an English stage, film and television actor.
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George Henry Lewes
George Henry Lewes (18 April 1817 – 30 November 1878) was an English philosopher and critic of literature and theatre.
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George Smiley
George Smiley OBE is a fictional character created by John le Carré.
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Gerace
Gerace is a town and comune in the Metropolitan City of Reggio Calabria, Calabria, southern Italy.
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Giovanna d'Aragona, Duchess of Amalfi
Giovanna d'Aragona, Duchess of Amalfi (1478–1510) was an Italian aristocrat, regent of the Duchy of Amalfi during the minority of her son from 1498 until 1510.
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Globe Theatre
The Globe Theatre was a theatre in London associated with William Shakespeare.
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Grand Guignol
Le Théâtre du Grand-Guignol ("The Theatre of the Great Puppet") — known as the Grand Guignol — was a theatre in the Pigalle area of Paris (at 20 bis). From its opening in 1897 until its closing in 1962, it specialised in naturalistic horror shows.
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Heathcote Williams
John Henley Heathcote-Williams (15 November 1941 – 1 July 2017), known as Heathcote Williams, was an English poet, actor, political activist and dramatist.
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Helen Mirren
Dame Helen Lydia Mirren, (born 26 July 1945) is an English actor.
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Henry Condell
Henry Condell (5 September 1576 (baptised) – December 1627) was an actor in the King's Men, the playing company for which William Shakespeare wrote.
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Hose (clothing)
Hose are any of various styles of men's clothing for the legs and lower body, worn from the Middle Ages through the 17th century, when the term fell out of use in favour of breeches and stockings.
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Hotel (2001 film)
Hotel is a 2001 experimental British-Italian comedy thriller film directed by Mike Figgis.
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Ian McKellen
Sir Ian Murray McKellen (born 25 May 1939) is an English actor.
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Isabella Glyn
Isabella Glyn (22 May 1823 – 18 May 1889) was a well-known Victorian-era Shakespearean actress.
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Ivor Brown
Ivor John Carnegie Brown (25 April 1891 – 22 April 1974) was a British journalist and man of letters.
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Jamie Lloyd (director)
Jamie Lloyd (born 1980) is a British director, best known for his work with his eponymous theatre company (The Jamie Lloyd Company).
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John Carradine
John Carradine (born Richmond Reed Carradine; February 5, 1906 – November 27, 1988) was an American actor, best known for his roles in horror films, Westerns, and Shakespearean theatre.
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John Gielgud
Sir Arthur John Gielgud (14 April 1904 – 21 May 2000) was an English actor and theatre director whose career spanned eight decades.
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John Lowin
John Lowin (baptized 9 December 1576 – buried – 24 August 1653) was an English actor.
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John Shrapnel
John Shrapnel (born 27 April 1942) is an English actor.
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John Webster
John Webster (c. 1580 – c. 1634) was an English Jacobean dramatist best known for his tragedies The White Devil and The Duchess of Malfi, which are often regarded as masterpieces of the early 17th-century English stage.
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Jonathan Hyde
Jonathan "Nash" Hyde (born 21 May 1948) is an Australian born British actor, known to his film fans for roles such as Herbert Cadbury in Richie Rich, J. Bruce Ismay in the 1997 hit film Titanic, Culverton Smith in The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, Warren Westridge in Anaconda, Sam Parrish/Van Pelt in Jumanji, and Eldritch Palmer in the FX TV series The Strain.
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Joseph Taylor (actor)
Joseph Taylor (died 1652) was a 17th-century English actor.
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Judi Dench
Dame Judith Olivia Dench, (born 9 December 1934) is an English actress.
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King's Men (playing company)
The King's Men was the acting company to which William Shakespeare (1564–1616) belonged for most of his career.
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Kingsley Amis
Sir Kingsley William Amis, CBE (16 April 1922 – 22 October 1995) was an English novelist, poet, critic, and teacher.
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Lewis Theobald
Lewis Theobald (baptised 2 April 1688 – 18 September 1744), British textual editor and author, was a landmark figure both in the history of Shakespearean editing and in literary satire.
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Luigi d'Aragona
Luigi d'Aragona (1474–1519) (called the Cardinal of Aragón) was an Italian Roman Catholic cardinal.
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Macabre
In works of art, macabre is the quality of having a grim or ghastly atmosphere.
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Madame Tussauds
Madame Tussauds is a wax museum in London with smaller museums in a number of other major cities.
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Malcontent
The malcontent is a character type that often appeared in early modern drama.
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Marquess
A marquess (marquis) is a nobleman of hereditary rank in various European peerages and in those of some of their former colonies.
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Matteo Bandello
Matteo Bandello (Mathieu Bandel; 1480 – 1562) was an Italian writer, soldier, monk, and later, a Bishop mostly known for his novellas.
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Max Adrian
Max Adrian (1 November 1903 – 19 January 1973) was a Northern Irish stage, film and television actor and singer.
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Max Beesley
Maxton Gig "Max" Beesley Jr. (born 16 April 1971) is an English actor and musician.
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Michael Williams (actor)
Michael Leonard Williams, (9 July 1935 – 11 January 2001) was an English actor who played both classical and comedy roles.
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Mike Figgis
Michael "Mike" Figgis (born 28 February 1948) is an English film director, screenwriter, and composer.
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Mike Gwilym
Mike Gwilym (born 5 March 1949) is a Welsh actor.
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Milan
Milan (Milano; Milan) is a city in northern Italy, capital of Lombardy, and the second-most populous city in Italy after Rome, with the city proper having a population of 1,380,873 while its province-level municipality has a population of 3,235,000.
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Neoclassicism
Neoclassicism (from Greek νέος nèos, "new" and Latin classicus, "of the highest rank") is the name given to Western movements in the decorative and visual arts, literature, theatre, music, and architecture that draw inspiration from the "classical" art and culture of classical antiquity.
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Nicholas Tooley
Nicholas Tooley (c. 1583 – June 1623) was a Renaissance actor in the King's Men, the acting company of William Shakespeare.
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Opera Comique
The Opera Comique was a 19th-century theatre constructed in Westminster, London, between Wych Street and Holywell Street with entrances on the East Strand.
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Oxford University Film Foundation
The Oxford University Film Foundation (originally a charity registered as the Oxford Film Foundation) is the principal funding body and provider of film equipment for the many independent films made by students in Oxford, England.
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P. D. James
Phyllis Dorothy James, Baroness James of Holland Park, (3 August 1920 – 27 November 2014), known professionally as P. D. James, was an English crime writer.
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Patrick Wymark
Patrick Wymark (11 July 192620 October 1970) was an English, stage, film and television actor.
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Paul Scofield
David Paul Scofield CH CBE (21 January 1922 – 19 March 2008) was an English actor of stage and screen who was known for his striking presence, distinctive voice, and for the clarity and effortless intensity of his delivery.
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Peggy Ashcroft
Dame Edith Margaret Emily Ashcroft, DBE (22 December 1907 – 14 June 1991), known professionally as Peggy Ashcroft, was an English actress whose career spanned more than sixty years.
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Pete Postlethwaite
Peter William Postlethwaite, OBE (7 February 1946 – 2 January 2011) was an English character actor, known for acting in films including Dragonheart (1996), Romeo + Juliet (1996), Brassed Off (1996), Amistad (1997), The Constant Gardener (2005), Clash of the Titans (2010), and Inception (2010).
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Peter Guillam
Pierre Guillame, better known by the anglicanized Peter Guillam, is a fictional character in John le Carré's series of espionage novels.
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Philip Prowse
Philip Prowse (born 1937) is a stage director and designer, and an actor and was one of the triumvirate of directors at the Citizens Theatre in Glasgow from 1970 until 2004.
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Phoenix Theatre (New York City)
The Phoenix Theatre was a pioneering off-Broadway theatre in New York City, extant from 1953 to 1982.
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Porcupine (album)
Porcupine is the third studio album by the English post-punk band Echo & the Bunnymen.
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Privileged (1982 film)
Privileged is a 1982 film notable for being the first theatrical release from the Oxford Film Foundation and the screen debut of Hugh Grant, Imogen Stubbs, Mark Williams and James Wilby.
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Punchdrunk
Punchdrunk is a British theatre company, formed in 2000, by Artistic Director Felix Barrett MBE.
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Queen of the Damned
Queen of the Damned is a 2002 Australian-American horror film, and a loose adaptation of the third novel of Anne Rice's The Vampire Chronicles series, The Queen of the Damned, although the film contains many plot elements from the latter novel's predecessor, The Vampire Lestat.
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Revenge tragedy
Revenge tragedy (sometimes referred to as revenge drama, revenge play, or tragedy of blood) is a theatrical genre in which the principal theme is revenge and revenge's fatal consequences.
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Rex Stout
Rex Todhunter Stout (December 1, 1886 – October 27, 1975) was an American writer noted for his detective fiction.
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Richard Burbage
Richard Burbage (6 January 1567 – 12 March 1619) was an English stage actor, widely considered to have been one of the most famous actors of the Globe Theatre and of his time.
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Richard Henry Horne
Richard Hengist Horne (born Richard Henry Horne) (31 December 1802 – 13 March 1884) was an English poet and critic most famous for his poem ''Orion''.
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Robert Johnson (English composer)
Robert Johnson (c. 1583 – 1633) was an English composer and lutenist of the late Tudor and early Jacobean eras.
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Robert Stephens
Sir Robert Graham Stephens (14 July 193112 November 1995) was a leading English actor in the early years of Britain's Royal National Theatre.
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Roger Allam
Roger William Allam (born 26 October 1953) is an English actor, known primarily for his stage career, although he has performed in film, television and radio.
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Romanticism
Romanticism (also known as the Romantic era) was an artistic, literary, musical and intellectual movement that originated in Europe toward the end of the 18th century, and in most areas was at its peak in the approximate period from 1800 to 1850.
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Rome
Rome (Roma; Roma) is the capital city of Italy and a special comune (named Comune di Roma Capitale).
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Royal Exchange, Manchester
The Royal Exchange is a grade II listed building in Manchester, England.
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Royal National Theatre
The Royal National Theatre in London, commonly known as the National Theatre (NT) is one of the United Kingdom's three most prominent publicly funded performing arts venues, alongside the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Royal Opera House.
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Royal Shakespeare Company
The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) is a major British theatre company, based in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England.
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Sadler's Wells Theatre
Sadler's Wells Theatre is a performing arts venue in Clerkenwell, London, England located on Rosebery Avenue.
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Saffron Burrows
Saffron Domini Burrows (born 22 October 1972) is a British-American actress and model.
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Samuel Pepys
Samuel Pepys (23 February 1633 – 26 May 1703) was an administrator of the navy of England and Member of Parliament who is most famous for the diary he kept for a decade while still a relatively young man.
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Samuel Phelps
Samuel Phelps (born 13 February 1804, Plymouth Dock (now Devonport), Plymouth, Devon, died 6 November 1878, Anson’s Farm, Coopersale, near Epping, Essex) was an English actor and theatre manager.
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Sean Gilder
Sean Brian Gilder (born 1 March 1964) is an English stage, film and screen actor, he is also a playwright.
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Second Avenue (Manhattan)
Second Avenue is an avenue on the East Side of the New York City borough of Manhattan extending from Houston Street at its south end to the Harlem River Drive at 128th Street at its north end.
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Seneca the Younger
Seneca the Younger AD65), fully Lucius Annaeus Seneca and also known simply as Seneca, was a Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, dramatist, and—in one work—satirist of the Silver Age of Latin literature.
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Senecan tragedy
Senecan tragedy refers to a set of ancient Roman tragedies.
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Shakespeare's Globe
Shakespeare's Globe is the complex housing a reconstruction of the Globe Theatre, an Elizabethan playhouse associated with William Shakespeare, in the London Borough of Southwark, on the south bank of the River Thames.
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Sleeping Murder
Sleeping Murder: Miss Marple's Last Case is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club in October 1976Collins Crime Club – A checklist of First Editions Chris Peers, Ralph Spurrier and Jamie Sturgeon.
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Social class
A social class is a set of subjectively defined concepts in the social sciences and political theory centered on models of social stratification in which people are grouped into a set of hierarchical social categories, the most common being the upper, middle and lower classes.
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Stephen Fry
Stephen John Fry (born 24 August 1957) is an English comedian, actor, writer, presenter, and activist.
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Stephen Oliver (composer)
Stephen Michael Harding Oliver (10 March 1950 – 29 April 1992) was an English composer, best known for his operas.
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Stratford-upon-Avon
Stratford-upon-Avon is a market town and civil parish in the Stratford-on-Avon District, in the county of Warwickshire, England, on the River Avon, north west of London, south east of Birmingham, and south west of Warwick.
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Struan Rodger
Struan Rodger (born 18 September 1946) is a British actor who has appeared widely in a range of supporting roles.
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Sumptuary law
Sumptuary laws (from Latin sumptuāriae lēgēs) are laws that attempt to regulate consumption; Black's Law Dictionary defines them as "Laws made for the purpose of restraining luxury or extravagance, particularly against inordinate expenditures in the matter of apparel, food, furniture, etc." Historically, they were laws that were intended to regulate and reinforce social hierarchies and morals through restrictions, often depending upon a person's social rank, on their permitted clothing, food, and luxury expenditures.
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Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon
The Swan Theatre is a theatre belonging to the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon-Avon, England.
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T. H. White
Terence Hanbury "Tim" White (29 May 1906 – 17 January 1964) was an English author best known for his Arthurian novels, The Once and Future King, first published together in 1958.
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T. S. Eliot
Thomas Stearns Eliot, (26 September 1888 – 4 January 1965), was an essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic, and "one of the twentieth century's major poets".
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The Athenaeum (British magazine)
The Athenaeum was a literary magazine published in London, England from 1828 to 1921.
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The Old Vic
The Old Vic is a 1,000-seat, not-for-profit producing theatre, located just south-east of Waterloo station on the corner of the Cut and Waterloo Road in Lambeth, London, England.
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The Once and Future King
The Once and Future King is a work by T. H. White based upon Le Morte d'Arthur by Sir Thomas Malory.
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The Skull Beneath the Skin
The Skull Beneath The Skin is a 1982 detective novel by P. D. James, featuring her female private detective Cordelia Gray.
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The Stars' Tennis Balls
The Stars' Tennis Balls is a psychological thriller novel by Stephen Fry, first published in 2000.
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Theatre Royal Haymarket
The Theatre Royal Haymarket (also known as Haymarket Theatre or the Little Theatre) is a West End theatre in the Haymarket in the City of Westminster which dates back to 1720, making it the third-oldest London playhouse still in use.
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Thomas Betterton
Thomas Patrick Betterton (c. 1635 – 28 April 1710), the leading male actor and theatre manager during Restoration England, son of an under-cook to King Charles I, was born in London.
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Title page
The title page of a book, thesis or other written work is the page at or near the front which displays its title, subtitle, author, publisher, and edition.
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Too Many Clients
Too Many Clients is a Nero Wolfe detective novel by Rex Stout, published by the Viking Press in 1960, and collected in the omnibus volume Three Aces (Viking 1971).
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Torsten Rasch
Torsten Rasch (born 1965 in Dresden) is a German composer of contemporary classical music.
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Tragedy
Tragedy (from the τραγῳδία, tragōidia) is a form of drama based on human suffering that invokes an accompanying catharsis or pleasure in audiences.
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Venice
Venice (Venezia,; Venesia) is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto region.
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W. H. Auden
Wystan Hugh Auden (21 February 1907 – 29 September 1973) was an English-American poet.
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Walter Kerr
Walter Francis Kerr (July 8, 1913 – October 9, 1996) was an American writer and Broadway theater critic.
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Werewolf
In folklore, a werewolf (werwulf, "man-wolf") or occasionally lycanthrope (λυκάνθρωπος lukánthrōpos, "wolf-person") is a human with the ability to shapeshift into a wolf (or, especially in modern film, a therianthropic hybrid wolflike creature), either purposely or after being placed under a curse or affliction (often a bite or scratch from another werewolf).
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Whispers of Immortality
"Whispers of Immortality" is a poem by T. S. Eliot.
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William Archer (critic)
William Archer (23 September 1856 – 27 December 1924) was a Scottish writer and theatre critic, based, for most of his career, in London.
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William Hazlitt
William Hazlitt (10 April 1778 – 18 September 1830) was an English writer, drama and literary critic, painter, social commentator, and philosopher.
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William Ostler
William Ostler (died 16 December 1614) was an actor in English Renaissance theatre, a member of the King's Men, the company of William Shakespeare.
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William Painter (author)
William Painter (or Paynter, c. 1540 – mid-February 1595 in London)) was an English author and translator.
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William Poel
William Poel (1852-1934) was an English actor, theatrical manager and dramatist best known for his presentations of Shakespeare.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Duchess_of_Malfi
