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Sep 19, 2024 · He wrote about ancient Rome, a distant land called Illyria, an unnamed island haunted with spirits, European courts like Navarre and Aquitaine and the Italian city-states of Verona, Padua and Venice. He often drew from popular oral traditions for the shape of his plots.
Sep 13, 2024 · Arthurian legend, the body of stories and medieval romances centering on the legendary king Arthur. Medieval writers, especially the French, variously treated stories of Arthur’s birth, the adventures of his knights, and the adulterous love between his knight Sir Lancelot and his queen, Guinevere.
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Sep 10, 2024 · Shakespeare’s principal source for the plot was The Tragicall Historye of Romeus and Juliet (1562), a long narrative poem by the English poet Arthur Brooke, who had based his poem on a French translation of a tale by the Italian Matteo Bandello.
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- Romeo and Juliet is about a young hero and heroine whose families, the Montagues and the Capulets, respectively, are ferocious enemies. Romeo and J...
- Shakespeare’s principal source for the plot of Romeo and Juliet was The Tragicall Historye of Romeus and Juliet, a long narrative poem written in 1...
- Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet is set in Verona, Italy.
- The characters of Romeo and Juliet have been continuously depicted in literature, music, dance, and theatre. The premise of the young hero and hero...
- Some of the most distinct film adaptations of Romeo and Juliet are Franco Zeffirelli’s 1968 version of the same name, which notably cast actors sim...
1 day ago · A round-up of intriguing looks at "Romeo and Juliet". As we welcome the Folger Theatre’s new production of Romeo and Juliet (learn more about it from our recent Q&A with director Raymond O. Caldwell, among other sources), we’ve also been looking over the abundance of varied, intriguing, and sometimes surprising posts we’ve published about ...
1 day ago · Romance authors of the late 12th century established Morgan as Arthur's supernatural elder sister. In the 13th-century prose cycles – and the later works based on them, including the influential Le Morte d'Arthur – she is usually described as the youngest daughter of Arthur's mother Igraine and her first husband Gorlois.
Sep 3, 2024 · Paul McCartney has eight grandchildren: Arthur, Elliot, Miller, Beckett, Bailey, Sam, Reiley and Sid. Here's everything to know about Paul McCartney's grandkids.
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3 days ago · King Arthur, legendary British king who appears in a cycle of medieval romances (known as the Matter of Britain) as the sovereign of a knightly fellowship of the Round Table. It is not certain how these legends originated or whether the figure of Arthur was based on a historical person.
