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Viewed from the American side of the water, the fanfare about the discovery of the bones of the last Plantagenet monarch probably seems a bit quaint.
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A skeleton found in the remains of an English church is that of King Richard III, scientists said, solving a 500-year-old mystery of what happened to a ruler immortalized by William Shakespeare as a hunchbacked villain.
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William Shakespeare was a drunken, whore-mongering, semiliterate murderer who took credit for plays written by someone of much higher standing. And he was a pretty poor actor, too.
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Juliet asked Romeo, “What’s in a name?” in one of William Shakespeare’s most famous plays. A European Union court ruled quite a lot is in a name, upholding the Royal Shakespeare Company’s EU-wide rights to its moniker.
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It’s mid-October, and Jeffrey Gundlach is giving a stump speech to a luncheon crowd of about 200 financial advisers and investors at Los Angeles’s City Club. The renowned money manager’s theme: the financial catastrophe on the horizon.
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F. Murray Abraham has a soft spot for Shylock, a role he performed off Broadway.
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Edward Bond’s 1974 play “Bingo,” about the last years of William Shakespeare, provides a gift of a role for a great actor. Patrick Stewart commands it fully.
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General Electric Co. didn’t infringe a patent owned by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. over a way to control the angle of wind-turbine blades to reduce wear and tear, a federal judge said.
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Meltdown, one of London’s cooler festivals, raises the stakes with a stellar roster this year: Lou Reed and his other half Laurie Anderson are joined by Diamanda Galas, Marc Almond and Buffy Sainte-Marie.
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Joan Baez brings her folk guitar, vibrato voice and 21st-century song adaptations to London.
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