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Date: Nov 1 06:59 2012

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Date: Nov 1 00:06 2011

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A record exists of a performance of The Tempest on 1 November 1611 by the King's Men before James I and the English royal court at Whitehall Palace on Hallowmas night. Read more __________________

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Date: Sep 2 07:47 2011

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Film claims William Shakespeare did not write his plays A campaign is set to begin against a new Hollywood film, Anonymous, which questions the authorship of William Shakespeare's plays. The film claims the Earl of Oxford, Edward de Vere, was the true author. Read more Ed ~ The plot thickens, me thinks __________________

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Date: Mar 6 11:56 2011

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The Tempest is a play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1610-11, and thought by many critics to be the last play that Shakespeare wrote alone. It is set on a remote island, where Prospero, the exiled Duke of Milan, plots to restore his daughter Miranda to her rightful place, using illusion and skillful manipulation. Read more Director Julie Taymor has made a gender-bending, feminist version of Shakespeare's last play, but that's the least of its worries. Helen Mirren speaks the lines well as Prospera, and she forms a touching mother-daughter bond with the pretty and promising Felicity Jones, as Miranda. Read more Taymor's principal innovation and the movie's greatest asset is the casting of Helen Mirren as Prospera. This necessitates a little fiddling with the text, which is more than made up for by Mirren's commanding presence, the sensitive delivery of her lines and the way she imbues with warmth and humour a character usually played as bitter and aloof. Read more The Sea Venture was voyaging from London to the two-year-old colony on the Virginia coast in the summer of 1609 when it encountered an intense hurricane. After four days of punishing violence the ship came to rest on a Bermuda reef. All 153 people aboard survived to be remembered as the first to occupy the mid-Atlantic isle. A year later when some of them returned home and told their story, Shakespeare ensured they would also make literary history as a source for his last solo play. Read more __________________

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