In a midsummer nights dream Robin Starveling was one of the Mechanicals, who wrote the play?
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Robin Starveling Robin Starveling is a character in William Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" (1596), one of the Rude Mechanicals of Athens who plays the part of Moonshine in their performance of "Pyramus and Thisbe". His part is often considered one of the more humorous in the play, as he uses a lantern in a failed attempt to portray Moonshine and is wittily derided by his audience. Scholars have argued that his amateur performance communicates many of the problems Shakespeare would have been familiar with in the theatre: heckling, lack of adequate props, and amateur acting abilities.
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Mechanical (character) A mechanical is any of six characters in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" who perform the play-within-a-play "Pyramus and Thisbe". Named for their occupations as skilled manual laborers, they are a group of amateur (mostly incompetent) actors from around Athens, looking to make names for themselves by having their production chosen among several acts as the courtly entertainment for the royal wedding party of Theseus and Hippolyta. The biggest ham among them, Bottom, becomes the unlikely object of interest for love-potion-charmed fairy queen Titania after he is turned into a monster with the head, eyes and ears of an ass by the servant-spirit Puck.
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Pickwick (musical) Pickwick is a musical with a book by Wolf Mankowitz, music by Cyril Ornadel, and lyrics by Leslie Bricusse. Based on "The Pickwick Papers" by Charles Dickens, it is set in and around London and Rochester in 1828.
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John Heminges John Heminges (sometimes spelled Heming or Heminge) (bapt. 25 November 1566 – 10 October 1630) was an actor in the King's Men, the playing company for which William Shakespeare wrote. Along with Henry Condell, he was an editor of the First Folio, the collected plays of Shakespeare, published in 1623. He was also the financial manager for the King's Men.
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Sly (opera) Sly, ovvero La leggenda del dormiente risvegliato (English: "Sly, or The Legend of the Sleeper Awoken") is an opera in three acts by Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari to an Italian libretto by Giovacchino Forzano, based on the Induction (the Prologue) to William Shakespeare's "The Taming of the Shrew" (the German version of libretto, "Sly, oder Die Legende vom wiedererweckten Schläfer", was translated by ). Unlike most of Wolf-Ferrari's other operas, this is a tragedy.
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A Yorkshire Tragedy A Yorkshire Tragedy is an early Jacobean era stage play, a domestic tragedy printed in 1608. The play was originally assigned to William Shakespeare, though the modern critical consensus rejects this attribution, favouring Thomas Middleton.
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Glenn Simon Glenn Simon is an American actor best known for his appearances with the Virginia City Players, Montana’s oldest summer stock company, specializing in authentic 19th century entertainment. Among Simon’s many stage appearances are "The Brewery Follies", "A Midsummer Night's Dream" with Kelie McIver, "Romeo and Juliet," "Taming of the Shrew," and Mark Ringer’s production of "The Alchemist" at the Globe Playhouse. He is a frequent presenter at the Golden Raspberry Awards ceremony.
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Sebastian (Twelfth Night) Sebastian is one of the main characters from William Shakespeare's play "Twelfth Night", believed to have been written around 1600 or 1601. It has been played by several famous actors, and even by actress Vivien Leigh in an acclaimed production directed by John Gielgud in 1955.
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RSC production of A Midsummer Night's Dream (1970) RSC production of A Midsummer Night's Dream (1970)
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Timothy Mason (playwright) Timothy Peter Mason (born February 14, 1950) is an American playwright. He has written a number of plays including the book and lyrics for the Broadway musical, "Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas!’’
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The Glass Menagerie The Glass Menagerie is a five-character memory play by Tennessee Williams that premiered in 1944 and catapulted Williams from obscurity to fame. The play has strong autobiographical elements, featuring characters based on Williams himself, his histrionic mother, and his mentally fragile sister Rose. In writing the play, Williams drew on an earlier short story, as well as a screenplay he had written under the title of "The Gentleman Caller".
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Henry IV, Part 2 Henry IV, Part 2 is a history play by William Shakespeare believed to have been written between 1596 and 1599. It is the third part of a tetralogy, preceded by "Richard II" and "Henry IV, Part 1" and succeeded by "Henry V".
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The Royal Master The Royal Master is a Caroline era stage play, a comedy written by James Shirley, and first published in 1638. The play is "ranked by many critics as Shirley's ablest work in romantic comedy...It is a play notable for well-knit plot, effective scenes, pleasing characterization, clever dialogue, and poetic atmosphere."
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The Day-Dream "The Day-Dream" is a poem written by Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson that was published in 1842. It was an expanded version of his 1830 poem "The Sleeping Beauty". It was further altered in 1848 for a dramatic performance for a private gathering with Tennyson starring as the Prince. "The Day-Dream" discusses the nature of sleeping and of dreaming, especially in relation to individuals that would want to escape from reality. The poem also compares the act of poetry with dreaming and asserts that the two are the same.
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The Dream (ballet) The Dream is a one-act ballet adapted from Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream", with choreography by Frederick Ashton to music by Mendelssohn arranged by John Lanchbery. It was premiered by The Royal Ballet at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden on 2 April 1964 in a triple bill with Kenneth MacMillan's "Images of Love" and Robert Helpmann's "Hamlet".
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Twelfth Night Twelfth Night, or What You Will is a comedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written around 1601–02 as a Twelfth Night's entertainment for the close of the Christmas season. The play centres on the twins Viola and Sebastian, who are separated in a shipwreck. Viola (who is disguised as Cesario) falls in love with Duke Orsino, who in turn is in love with the Countess Olivia. Upon meeting Viola, Countess Olivia falls in love with her thinking she is a man. The play expanded on the musical interludes and riotous disorder expected of the occasion, with plot elements drawn from the short story "Of Apollonius and Silla" by Barnabe Rich, based on a story by Matteo Bandello. The first recorded performance was on 2 February 1602, at Candlemas, the formal end of Christmastide in the year's calendar. The play was not published until its inclusion in the 1623 First Folio.
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Baconian theory of Shakespeare authorship The Baconian theory of Shakespearean authorship holds that Sir Francis Bacon, philosopher, essayist and scientist, wrote the plays which were publicly attributed to William Shakespeare. Various explanations are offered for this alleged subterfuge, most commonly that Bacon's rise to high office might have been hindered were it to become known that he wrote plays for the public stage. Thus the plays were credited to Shakespeare, who was merely a front to shield the identity of Bacon.
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A Midsummer Night's Dream A Midsummer Night's Dream is a comedy written by William Shakespeare in 1595/96. It portrays the events surrounding the marriage of Theseus, the Duke of Athens, to Hippolyta, the former queen of the Amazons. These include the adventures of four young Athenian lovers and a group of six amateur actors (the mechanicals) who are controlled and manipulated by the fairies who inhabit the forest in which most of the play is set. The play is one of Shakespeare's most popular works for the stage and is widely performed across the world.
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The Phoenix (play) The Phoenix is a Jacobean play, a city comedy written by Thomas Middleton c. 1603-4, and performed by the Children of Paul's. It may be Middleton's earliest surviving play.
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Strolling players Strolling players were travelling theatre groups in Tudor period in England, who toured the country delivering theatrical performances. They performed in "Inn Courtyards", which were houses of noble men. One of the most popular plays performed by these strolling players was Robin Hood.
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MacHomer MacHomer is a one-person play by Rick Miller which blends William Shakespeare's tragedy "Macbeth" with the animated television series "The Simpsons". Miller first conceived of the idea in 1994, when he was performing in a production of "Macbeth". The first performance of "MacHomer" was at the Montreal Fringe Festival in 1995. "MacHomer" has been re-written a number of times. The early version of the play was more of a stand-up comedy routine, but in 2000, it was expanded into a theatrical production. In 2006, for the 10th anniversary tour, Miller further revamped the play, adding new songs and characters, and incorporating videos.
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The Jew (play) The Jew is a comedy written by playwright Richard Cumberland and first presented at the Drury Lane Theatre in London in May 1794. The play is notable as the first play in the English theatre to portray a Jewish moneylender as the hero of a stage production. An adaptation of the original play along with a facsimile copy of "The Jew" was published in 2012 as "Sheva, the Benevolent".