Encyclopedia - William Shakespeare: Encyclopedia - William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare (baptised April 26, 1564 – April 23, 1616) was an English poet and playwright. Shakespeare is considered by many to...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Shakespeare's Reputation: Encyclopedia - Shakespeare's Reputation
In his own time, William Shakespeare (1564–1616) was seen as merely one among many talented playwrights and poets, but ever since the l...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ariel Shakespeare: Encyclopedia - Ariel Shakespeare
Ariel is a fictional sprite who appears in William Shakespeare's play The Tempest. He is bound to serve the magician Prospero, who rescue...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Shakespeare Anthony Burgess: Encyclopedia - Shakespeare Anthony Burgess
Shakespeare, a biographical study of William Shakespeare by Anthony Burgess, was published in 1970. Other related archivesAnthony Burges...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chronology Of Shakespeare Plays: Encyclopedia - Chronology Of Shakespeare Plays
The precise chronology of Shakespeare's plays as they were first written and performed is difficult to determine, as there is no authorit...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bell Shakespeare Company: Encyclopedia - Bell Shakespeare Company
The Bell Shakespeare Theatre Company is a famous Australian theater company specialising in the works of William Shakespeare. It is named...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Complete Works Of Shakespeare: Encyclopedia - Complete Works Of Shakespeare
The Complete Works of Shakespeare is the standard name given to any volume containing all the plays and poems of William Shakespeare. The...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anne Hathaway Shakespeare's Wife: Encyclopedia - Anne Hathaway Shakespeare's Wife
Anne Hathaway (1556 – August 6, 1623) was the wife of William Shakespeare. Little is known about her. Anne Hathaway Shakespeare's wife ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Brownist: Encyclopedia - Brownist
The Brownists were followers of Robert Browne who was born at Tolethorpe Hall in Rutland, England in about 1550. Brownist - Origins. The...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ben Jonson: Encyclopedia - Ben Jonson
Benjamin Jonson (June 11, 1572 – August 6, 1637) was an English Renaissance dramatist, poet and actor. He is best known for his plays V...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Francis Bacon: Encyclopedia - Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Albans, KC (22 January 1561 – 9 April 1626) was an English astrologer, philosopher, statesman, spy, free...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Francis Bacon Philosopher: Encyclopedia - Francis Bacon Philosopher
Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Albans, KC (22 January 1561 – 9 April 1626) was an English astrologer, philosopher, statesman, spy, free...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - William Shakespeare: Encyclopedia Ii - William Shakespeare - Bibliography
William Shakespeare - Comedies. Main articles: Shakespearean comedies, and [[]], and [[]], and [[]], and [[]] ... See also:William Sha...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - William Shakespeare: Encyclopedia Ii - William Shakespeare - Works
William Shakespeare - Plays. Main articles: Shakespeare's plays, and [[]], and [[]], and [[]]   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Shakespeare's Plays: Encyclopedia Ii - Shakespeare's Plays - Shakespeare And The Textual Problem
Unlike his contemporary Ben Jonson, Shakespeare did not have direct involvement in publishing his plays and produced no overall authorita...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - William Shakespeare: Encyclopedia Ii - William Shakespeare - Life
William Shakespeare - Early life. William Shakespeare (also spelled Shakspere, Shaksper, and Shake-speare, due to the fact that Elizabe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - William Shakespeare: Encyclopedia Ii - William Shakespeare - Works
William Shakespeare - Plays. Main article: Shakespeare's plays A number of Shakespeare's plays have the reputation of being among the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Shakespeare On Screen: Encyclopedia Ii - Shakespeare On Screen - Comedies
Shakespeare on screen - All's Well That Ends Well. BBC Television Shakespeare All's Well That Ends Well (TV, UK, 1980) Released in t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Shakespeare On Screen: Encyclopedia Ii - Shakespeare On Screen - Histories
Shakespeare on screen - Henry IV Part 1. BBC Television Shakespeare Henry IV Part I (TV, UK, 1979) Released in the USA as part of t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Shakespeare On Screen: Encyclopedia Ii - Shakespeare On Screen - Tragedies
Shakespeare on screen - Antony and Cleopatra. BBC Television Shakespeare Antony and Cleopatra (TV, UK, 1981) Released in the USA as...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - William Shakespeare: Encyclopedia Ii - William Shakespeare - Life
William Shakespeare - Early life. Willaim Shakespeare (also spelled Shakspere, Shaksper, and Shake-speare, due to the fact that Elizabe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - William Shakespeare: Encyclopedia Ii - William Shakespeare - Reputation
Shakespeare's reputation has grown considerably since his own time. During his lifetime and shortly after his death, Shakespeare was well...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Shakespeare's Sonnets: Encyclopedia Ii - Shakespeare's Sonnets - Subject
Most of the sonnets deal with a beautiful "Young Man" (the Fair Lord), a rival poet, and a Dark Lady whose identities have been the subje...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - William Shakespeare: Encyclopedia Ii - William Shakespeare - Style
Shakespeare's impact on modern theatre cannot be overestimated. Not only did Shakespeare create some of the most admired plays in Western...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - William Shakespeare: Encyclopedia Ii - William Shakespeare - Speculations About Shakespeare
William Shakespeare - Identity. Main articles: Shakespearean authorship, and [[]], and [[]], and    » Read the article

Encyclopedia - William Shakespeare: Encyclopedia Ii - William Shakespeare - Works
William Shakespeare - Plays. Main articles: Shakespeare's plays, and [[{{{2}}}]], and [[{{{3}}}]], and [[{{{4}}}]]   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Shakespeare Apocrypha: Encyclopedia Ii - Shakespeare Apocrypha - The Problem
In his own lifetime, Shakespeare saw only about half of his plays enter print. Some individual plays were published in quarto, a small, c...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - William Shakespeare: Encyclopedia Ii - William Shakespeare - Speculations About Shakespeare
William Shakespeare - Identity. Main articles: Shakespearean authorship, and [[{{{2}}}]], and [[{{{3}}}]], and [[{{{4}}}]]   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Shakespeare's Plays: Encyclopedia Ii - Shakespeare's Plays - The Plays
Shakespeare's plays have the reputation of being among greatest in the English language and in Western literature and cover the genres of...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - William Shakespeare: Encyclopedia Ii - William Shakespeare - Bibliography
William Shakespeare - Comedies. Main articles: Shakespearean comedies, and [[{{{2}}}]], and [[{{{3}}}]], and [[{{{4}}}]]   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Shakespeare In Love: Encyclopedia Ii - Shakespeare In Love - Synopsis
At an audition for a play—"Romeo and Ethel, the Pirate's Daughter"—that he actually has not yet written a word of, young William Shak...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Shakespeare's Reputation: Encyclopedia Ii - Shakespeare's Reputation - 20th Century
Shakespeare continued to be considered the greatest English writer of all time throughout the 20th century. Most Western educational syst...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Shakespeare-told: Encyclopedia Ii - Shakespeare-told - The Episodes
ShakespeaRe-Told - Much Ado About Nothing. Adapted by David Nicholls Broadcast 7th November 2005 Set in a local news studio, with Beat...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Shakespeare's Reputation: Encyclopedia Ii - Shakespeare's Reputation - 18th Century
Shakespeare's reputation - Britain. In the 18th century, Shakespeare dominated the London stage, while Shakespeare production turned in...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Shakespeare's Life: Encyclopedia Ii - Shakespeare's Life - Early Life
William Shakespeare (also spelled Shakspere, Shaksper, and Shake-speare, due to the fact that Elizabethan spelling was very erratic[1]) w...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Shakespeare's Reputation: Encyclopedia Ii - Shakespeare's Reputation - 19th Century
Shakespeare's reputation - Shakespeare in performance. Theatres and theatrical scenery became ever more elaborate in the 19th century, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Shakespeare's Reputation: Encyclopedia Ii - Shakespeare's Reputation - 17th Century
It is impossible to calculate Shakespeare's reputation in his own lifetime and shortly after. England scarcely had a modern literature to...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Shakespeare Apocrypha: Encyclopedia Ii - Shakespeare Apocrypha - Plays Attributed To Shakespeare During The 17th Century But Not Included In The First Folio
There were several plays published in quarto during the seventeenth century which bear Shakespeare's name on the title page (or the intit...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Shakespeare's Life: Encyclopedia Ii - Shakespeare's Life - Later Years
Shakespeare retired in about 1611. His retirement was not entirely without controversy. He was drawn into a legal quarrel regarding the e...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Shakespeare's Plays: Encyclopedia Ii - Shakespeare's Plays - Canonical Plays
Shakespeare's plays - Comedies. Main articles: Shakespearean comedies, and [[{{{2}}}]], and [[{{{3}}}]], and [[{{{4}}}]]   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anne Hathaway Shakespeare's Wife: Encyclopedia Ii - Anne Hathaway Shakespeare's Wife - References In Shakespeare's Poems
One of Shakespeare's sonnets, number 145, has been claimed to make reference to Anne Hathaway; the words 'hate away' may be a pun (in Eli...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Shakespeare's Sonnets: Encyclopedia Ii - Shakespeare's Sonnets - Specific Sonnets Of Note
Shakespeare's sonnets - Sonnet 18. Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate. Rough winds do shak...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Shakespeare's Life: Encyclopedia Ii - Shakespeare's Life - London And Theatrical Career
By 1592 Shakespeare was a playwright in London and had enough of a reputation for Robert Greene to denounce him as "an upstart Crow, beau...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Folger Shakespeare Library: Encyclopedia Ii - Folger Shakespeare Library - History
Standard Oil president, then chairman of the board, Henry Clay Folger was an avid collector of Shakespeareana. Toward the end of World Wa...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Shakespeare's Plays: Encyclopedia Ii - Shakespeare's Plays - Stylistic Groupings Of The Plays
While there is some dispute about the exact Chronology of Shakespeare plays, the plays tend to fall into three main stylistic groupings. ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - William Shakespeare Hays: Encyclopedia Ii - William Shakespeare Hays - Biography
Hays was born in Louisville, Kentucky, a town where he would spend most of his life. He published his first poetry in 1856 and 1857 throu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sexuality Of William Shakespeare: Encyclopedia Ii - Sexuality Of William Shakespeare - Biographical Evidence
There is little in the historical record about Shakespeare's sexuality. However, it has often been noted that despite their three childre...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sexuality Of William Shakespeare: Encyclopedia Ii - Sexuality Of William Shakespeare - Sexuality In The Plays
Some readers have found similar evidence in Shakespeare's plays. The most often-cited evidence is several comedies, including Twelfth Nig...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Shakespeare And Company: Encyclopedia Ii - Shakespeare And Company - Sylvia Beach Years
The bookstore's most famous proprietor was Sylvia Beach, who ran the shop at 12 rue de l'Odéon, from 1919 to 1941. During this era, the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mary, The Mother Of Jesus: Encyclopedia Ii - Mary, The Mother Of Jesus - Mary And Shakespeare
In sixteenth-century England, veneration of Mary was a central issue in public controversy about the sense of Scriptural text, religious ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Shakespeare And Company: Encyclopedia Ii - Shakespeare And Company - George Whitman Years
In 1951, another English-language bookstore was opened in Paris' left bank by American George Whitman, under the name of Le Mistral. Much...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sexuality Of William Shakespeare: Encyclopedia Ii - Sexuality Of William Shakespeare - Sexuality In The Sonnets
Shakespeare's Sonnets are the principal evidence for his possible bisexuality. The poems were initially published, perhaps without his ap...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anne Hathaway Shakespeare's Wife: Encyclopedia Ii - Anne Hathaway Shakespeare's Wife - Life
Anne Hathaway is believed to have grown up in Shottery, a small village just to the west of Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England. A...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Timeline Of Shakespeare Criticism: Encyclopedia Ii - Timeline Of Shakespeare Criticism - 18th Century
Joseph Addison, 1712: "Among the English, Shakespeare has incomparably excelled all others. That noble extravagance of fancy, which he ha...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Timeline Of Shakespeare Criticism: Encyclopedia Ii - Timeline Of Shakespeare Criticism - 17th Century
Ben Jonson, 1630: "I remember the players have often mentioned it as an honor to Shakespeare, that in his writing, whatsoever he penned, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anne Hathaway Shakespeare's Wife: Encyclopedia Ii - Anne Hathaway Shakespeare's Wife - References In Later Texts
A trend in (mostly fanciful) speculation on Hathway is to imagine her as a sexually incontinent cradle-robber, or, alternatively, a frigi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mary The Mother Of Jesus: Encyclopedia Ii - Mary The Mother Of Jesus - Mary And Shakespeare
In sixteenth-century England, veneration of Mary was a central issue in public controversy about the sense of Scriptural text, religious ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Timeline Of Shakespeare Criticism: Encyclopedia Ii - Timeline Of Shakespeare Criticism - 19th Century
Charles Lamb, 1811: "We talk of Shakespeare's admirable observation of life, when we should feel, that not from a petty inquisition into ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - William Shakespeare Hays: Encyclopedia Ii - William Shakespeare Hays - Hays And Dixie
In his later years, Hays claimed to have written the lyrics to "Dixie", a song that had enjoyed unprecedented popularity since before the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Shakespear's Sister: Encyclopedia Ii - Shakespear's Sister - Track List For Sacred Heart
They released the tracks "Break My Heart", "You're History", "Run Silent", and "Dirty Mind" as singles. Tracks 6 and 13 did not appear on...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Stratford Connecticut: Encyclopedia Ii - Stratford Connecticut - Stratford Shakespeare Festival Theater
Stratford, Connecticut once had a thriving theater, the American Shakespeare Festival Theater. It opened in 1955. Some of the world's big...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Shakespearean Authorship: Encyclopedia Ii - Shakespearean Authorship - Candidates And Their Champions
As early as the 18th century, unorthodox views of Shakespeare were expressed in two allegorical stories. In The Life and Adventures of Co...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ben Jonson: Encyclopedia Ii - Ben Jonson - Reputation
Jonson has been criticised for being inferior in poetic power to William Shakespeare, and lacking Shakespeare's gift for creating realist...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Shakespearean Authorship: Encyclopedia Ii - Shakespearean Authorship - Terminology
Shakespearean authorship - Stratfordians and anti-Stratfordians. Those who question whether William Shakespeare of Stratford-upon-Avon ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Shakespearean Authorship: Encyclopedia Ii - Shakespearean Authorship - Overview
In the 19th Century the most popular alternative candidate was Sir Francis Bacon. Many 19th century doubters, however, declared themselve...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Shakespearean Authorship: Encyclopedia Ii - Shakespearean Authorship - Common Arguments
The conventional view is that Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon in 1564. He then moved to London and became a poet, a playwrigh...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mark Rylance: Encyclopedia Ii - Mark Rylance - Filmography
Mark Rylance - As himself. Changing Stages (2001) (mini) TV Series .... Himself William Shakespeare (2000) .... Artistic Director, Sha...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - John Bell Actor: Encyclopedia Ii - John Bell Actor - Career Moves
John Bell actor - The Bell Shakespeare Company. In 1990, John founded The Bell Shakespeare Company and has produced, among others, Haml...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gentleman: Encyclopedia Ii - Gentleman - William Harrison
William Harrison, writing a century earlier, says "gentlemen be those whom their race and blood, or at the least their virtues, do make n...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Earl Of Wessex: Encyclopedia Ii - Earl Of Wessex - Second Creation Current
In 1999, Queen Elizabeth II's youngest son, Prince Edward, married Sophie Rhys-Jones. Younger sons of the monarch are normally given duke...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Thomas North: Encyclopedia Ii - Thomas North - Reception
It is almost impossible to over-estimate the influence of North's vigorous English on contemporary writers, and some critics have called ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sol Plaatje: Encyclopedia Ii - Sol Plaatje - Life
Born 9 October near Boshof, Free State he received a mission-education at Pniel. When he outpaced fellow learners he was given additional...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mark Rylance: Encyclopedia Ii - Mark Rylance - Theatre Credits
Mark Rylance - At Shakespeare's Globe Theatre he played. 1996 The Two Gentlemen of Verona: Proteus 1997 Chaste Maid of Cheapside: Mr A...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Francis Bacon: Encyclopedia Ii - Francis Bacon - Summary
... See also:Francis Bacon, Francis Bacon - Early life, Francis Bacon - Career, Francis Bacon - Death, Francis Bacon - Works and Phil...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gentleman: Encyclopedia Ii - Gentleman - Gentry
The fundamental social cleavage in the middle ages was between the nobiles, i.e. the tenants in chivalry, whether earls, barons, knights,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gentleman: Encyclopedia Ii - Gentleman - Superiority Of The Fighting Man
The fundamental idea of "gentry", symbolised in this grant of coat-armour, had come to be that of the essential superiority of the fighti...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mark Rylance: Encyclopedia Ii - Mark Rylance - Life And Career
Rylance was born in Ashford, England, to Anne and David Rylance, both English teachers. When he was two, his parents moved to Connecticut...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gentleman: Encyclopedia Ii - Gentleman - A Line Between Classes
A frontier line between classes so indefinite could not be maintained, especially as in England there was never a "nobiliary prefix" to s...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Francis Bacon: Encyclopedia Ii - Francis Bacon - Posthumous Reputation
Bacon's ideas about the improvement of the human lot were influential in the 1740s and 1750s among a number of Parliamentarian scholars. ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gentleman: Encyclopedia Ii - Gentleman - Gentleman By Conduct
Chaucer in the Meliboeus (circa 1386) says: "Certes he sholde not be called a gentil man, that ... ne dooth his diligence and bisynesse, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gentleman: Encyclopedia Ii - Gentleman - Modern Usage
The word "gentleman" as an index of rank had already become of doubtful value before the great political and social changes of the 19th c...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Francis Bacon Philosopher: Encyclopedia Ii - Francis Bacon Philosopher - Summary
... See also:Francis Bacon philosopher, Francis Bacon philosopher - Early life, Francis Bacon philosopher - Career, Francis Bacon phi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Macbeth: Encyclopedia Ii - Macbeth - Synopsis
The play opens with the three witches ("weird sisters") discussing their upcoming meeting with Macbeth. Macbeth, Thane of Glamis, and Ban...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Thomas North: Encyclopedia Ii - Thomas North - Translations
Thomas North - Guevara. He translated, in 1557, Guevara's Reloj de Principes (commonly known as Libro áureo), a compendium of moral co...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Francis Bacon: Encyclopedia Ii - Francis Bacon - Works And Philosophy
Bacon's works include his Essays, as well as the Colours of Good and Evil and the Meditationes Sacrae, all published in 1597. His famous ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Brooklyn Botanic Garden: Encyclopedia Ii - Brooklyn Botanic Garden - The Japanese Hill-and-pond Garden
The Japanese Hill-and-Pond Garden was designed by Japanese landscape designer Takeo Shiota (1881-1943). Shiota, who was born in a small J...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Francis Bacon: Encyclopedia Ii - Francis Bacon - Early Life
Francis Bacon was born at York House Strand, London. He was the youngest of five sons of Sir Nicholas Bacon, Lord Keeper of the Great Sea...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Francis Bacon: Encyclopedia Ii - Francis Bacon - Career
In the fragment De Interpretatione Naturae Prooemium (written probably about 1603) Bacon analyses his own mental character and establishe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ben Jonson: Encyclopedia Ii - Ben Jonson - Biography
Ben Jonson - Early life. Although he was born in Westminster, Jonson claimed his family was of Border descent, and this may be confirme...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Francis Bacon Philosopher: Encyclopedia Ii - Francis Bacon Philosopher - Posthumous Reputation
Bacon's ideas about the improvement of the human lot were influential in the 1740s and 1750s among a number of Parliamentarian scholars. ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sonnet: Encyclopedia Ii - Sonnet - The English Sonnet
Sonnet - History. The sonnet was introduced into English by Thomas Wyatt in the early 16th century. His sonnets and those of his contem...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Temple Church: Encyclopedia Ii - Temple Church - Current Use
The Temple continues to offer regular church services, including Holy Communion on Sunday morning. It also offers regular choral music pe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ben Jonson: Encyclopedia Ii - Ben Jonson - Jonson's Works
Ben Jonson - Plays. The Case is Altered (date unknown) Every Man in His Humour (1598) Every Man out of His Humour (1598) Cynthia's Rev...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Two Gentlemen Of Verona: Encyclopedia Ii - The Two Gentlemen Of Verona - Synopsis
The two gentlemen of the title are Valentine and Proteus. Valentine leaves Verona to visit Padua (or possibly Milan, the context is often...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Francis Bacon Philosopher: Encyclopedia Ii - Francis Bacon Philosopher - Works And Philosophy
Bacon's works include his Essays, as well as the Colours of Good and Evil and the Meditationes Sacrae, all published in 1597. His famous ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Temple Church: Encyclopedia Ii - Temple Church - Design And Construction
In the mid 12th century, before the construction of the church, the Knights Templar in London had met at a site in High Holborn in a stru...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Temple Church: Encyclopedia Ii - Temple Church - Later History
After the destruction and abolition of the Knights Templar in 1307, Edward II took control of the church as a Crown possession. It was la...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Fictional Fictional Character: Encyclopedia Ii - Fictional Fictional Character - Examples
Fictional fictional character - Individual characters. Itchy and Scratchy Suicide Squid Captain Proton Dixon Hill Atreyu Wart from Sup...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Temple Church: Encyclopedia Ii - Temple Church - Current Use
The Temple continues to offer regular church services, including Holy Communion on Sunday morning. It also offers regular choral music pe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Francis Bacon Philosopher: Encyclopedia Ii - Francis Bacon Philosopher - Early Life
Francis Bacon was born at York House Strand, London. He was the youngest of five sons of Sir Nicholas Bacon, Lord Keeper of the Great Sea...   » Read the article