Jesseca ferguson biography of william shakespeare
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Why Shakespeare?
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Armitage, David. “Literature and Empire.” The Oxford History of the British Empire, ed. William bekräftelse Louis, Vol. 1,The Origins of Empire, ed. Nicholas Canny (Oxford: Oxford University
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Broadway BUZZ
Jesse Tyler Ferguson is the winner of a Tony Award and an Outer Critics Circle Award for his performance in Take Me Out. Broadway: On the Town, …Spelling Bee (Drama Desk Award), Fully Committed (Drama Desk Award). In addition to numerous off-Broadway credits, Ferguson has performed five seasons with The Public Theater’s Shakespeare in the Park, as well as The Producers and Spamalot at The Hollywood Bowl. Film/TV: Ivy + Bean (Netflix), Modern Family (5 Emmy Nominations, 4 SAG Awards, 4 People’s Choice Nominations), Cocaine Bear opposite Margo Martindale and Keri Russell (February ). Ferguson is the co-founder of Pronoun, a foundation fighting oppression in the LGBTQIA+ community.
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Ive been busy reading about Shakespeare at the moment, for a project at the Bodleian (discussion about which, incidentally, inspired my recent short story Jane Austen wrote the works of William Shakespeare) and have grown irresistibly attracted to the anti-Stratfordian theories. That is, the theories that someone other than William-Shakespeare-from-Stratford wrote the plays of William Shakespeare.
Now, when I say that I have grown irresistibly attracted to them, I do not mean that I believe any of them. Far from it. I simply love reading about them from Francis Bacon to the Earl of Oxford to (yes) Queen Elizabeth I and the curious bendings of logic and likelihood which are necessary for their promulgation. Ive only been reading online so far (let me say, comments on Amazon reviews on Contested Will are hilarious, albeit admirably polite for the most part). Here is a wonderful excerpt from Bill Brysons concise, amusing, and br