Coriolanus
A play by Shakespeare first printed in the Folio of 1623. In order of composition, however, it was probably Shakespeare's last tragedy, written about 1608. Its source is North's version of Plutarch's ...
fool
All Fools' Day a humorous term for 1 April as a day for testing the credulity of others; recorded from the early 18th century, and probably modelled on All Saints' Day and All Souls' Day.fools and ...
John Shank
(?–1636),English actor, who appears in the actor-list of Shakespeare's plays, and whose name is found in many different spellings. He apparently began his career with Queen Anne's Men, though ...
Twelfth Night
AT: What You Will A: William Shakespeare Pf: c.1601–2, London Pb: 1623 G: Com. in 5 acts; blank verse and prose S: Illyria, Renaissance period C: 11m, 3f, extrasOrsino, Duke of Illyria, is in love ...
William Kempe
(fl.1600),a comic actor and dancer, who acted in plays by Shakespeare and Jonson. He danced a morris‐dance from London to Norwich, recorded in his Kemps Nine Daies Wonder (1600).
