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10 de may. de 2024 · Transcendentalism, 19th-century movement of writers and philosophers in New England who were loosely bound together by adherence to an idealistic system of thought based on a belief in the essential unity of all creation, the innate goodness of humanity, and the supremacy of insight over logic and experience for the revelation of the ...
Hace 4 días · Irving, Henry, Frank A. Marshall, Edward Dowden, and Gordon Browne. 1905. The Henry Irving Shakespeare: the works of William Shakespeare. London: Gresham Publishing Company. Creator. Henry Irving, Frank A. Marshall, Edward Dowden, and Gordon Browne. Source. Special Collections, University of Delaware Library. Publisher. Gresham ...
5 de may. de 2024 · originally John Henry Brodribb. Born at Keinton Mandeville, Somerset, Irving spent his early years in Cornwall, moving to London (where he was educated at the City Commercial School) at the age of 11. After a long theatrical apprenticeship, much of it spent in provincial theatres, he achieved fame as an actor for his performance in ...
20 de may. de 2024 · The Merchant of Venice, comedy in five acts by William Shakespeare, written about 1596–97 and printed in a quarto edition in 1600 from an authorial manuscript or copy of one. Bassanio, a noble but penniless Venetian, asks his wealthy merchant friend Antonio for a loan so that Bassanio can undertake a journey to woo the heiress Portia.
Hace 1 día · Henry III., indeed, seems to have been chronically troubled by the London mayors, for in 1264, on the mayor and aldermen doing fealty to the king in St. Paul's, the mayor, with blunt honesty, dared to say to the weak monarch, "My lord, so long as you unto us will be a good lord and king, we will be faithful and duteous unto you."
20 de may. de 2024 · Born into an English family descended from Portuguese Jews, Pinero abandoned legal studies at age 19 to become an actor; and, though still a young man, he played older character parts for the leading theatre company headed by Henry Irving. His first play, £200 a Year, was produced in 1877.
Hace 4 días · Mixing It presents a history of multinational and multi-ethnic Britain during the Second World War, considering the experiences of those who arrived in Britain and the (often contradictory) responses to them (p. 16). It is an ambitious book that combines an analysis of government policy with social and cultural history.
