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Kenneth Branagh Biography

Kenneth Branaghactor, director, producerBorn: 12/10/1960Birthplace: Belfast, Northern Ireland Having escaped the poverty of his childhood in Belfast, Branagh moved to London to study at the Royal…

Four Riddles

These consist of two Double Acrostics and two Charades. No. I. was written at the request of some young friends, who had gone to a ball at an Oxford Commemoration—and also as a specimen of…

Percy Bysshe Shelley: Peter Bell the Third

by Percy Bysshe Shelley The Mask of AnarchyLetter to Maria GisbornePeter Bell the Third Is it a party in a parlour, Crammed just as they on earth were crammed, Some sipping punch—some sipping tea…

Mel Gibson

A movie star and a controversial filmmaker, Mel Gibson got his start as an action hero in George Miller's Mad Max (1979), a low-budget thriller which cast him as a grim, leather-clad ex-cop in a…

1972–1973 Obie Awards

Best American PlayJoseph A. Walker, The River NigerLanford Wilson, The Hot L BaltimoreBest Foreign PlaySamuel Beckett, Not IPeter Handke, KasparDistinguished PlaysJ.E. Gaines, What if It Had…

1988–1989 Obie Awards

PlaywrightingIntar Hispanic Playwrights-in-Residence LaboratoryThe Frank Silva Writers WorkshopDirectionIngmar Bergman, HamletRene Buch, sustained excellence of directionPeter Stein,…

Kenneth Branagh

Name at birth: Kenneth Charles BranaghKenneth Branagh was 29 years old when he became an instant Hollywood celebrity as the writer, director and star of the 1989 film adaptation of William…

A. E. Housman: The Merry Guide

The Merry GuideOnce in the wind of morning I ranged the thymy wold; The world-wide air was azure And all the brooks ran gold.There through the dews beside me Behold a youth that trod, With…