We've had a look at some of the most debated place name pronunciations - but we'll let you decide how best to say them.
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“The quality of mercy is not strained…” so begins Portia's lines from The Merchant of Venice (Act IV, Scene 1) where Shylock is intent on...
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Johannes Silvet was an Estonian linguist and lexicographer. Johannes Silvet. Born, (1895-05-12)May 12, 1895. Tartu, Governorate of Livonia, Russian Empire.
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Broadly speaking, the evidence for Shakespeare's Catholicism is biographical, historical and textual.
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Ken Colston writes about Shakespeare's Franciscan Friars in Homiletic & Pastoral Review: Like the present Holy Father, William Shakespeare...
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Measure for Measure is a complex play that deals with many socially charged issues of morality, religion and sexuality. In particular, the play emphasizes...
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example of a post-Conquest formation on the old principle of. Teutonic name composition. Beauvaleand Belvoir, marked by a touch of the romantic spirit.
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by Ramon Jiménez This article was originally published in The Oxfordian, v. 18, p. 9 (2016) (PDF version here); republished on the SOF...
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Clayworth is a village and civil parish in Nottinghamshire, England. At the time of the 2001 census it had a population of 319, increasing to 419 (which...
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