A 26-year-old Pima Indian, reporter for the " Gila River Indian Newspaper " and English literature graduate of Arizona State University, Jackson likes to read a few passages in his spare time from the Bard of Avon.
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From his first production with Great Britain's National Theatre Company to his film debut in Franco Zeffirelli's lavish version of The Taming of the Shrew to his countless international tours, the British-born York has been buddies with the Bard of Avon.
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A new book from Harvard University English professor Stephen Greenblatt, " Will in the World, " has made something of a splash for his approach to one of the abiding mysteries of literature : Who was William Shakespeare, and how did he become the Bard of Avon?
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Shakespeare in Love _ This Oscar-bound, what-if romantic comedy about the Bard of Avon finding the inspiration he needs to write " Romeo and Juliet " was a voluptuous romance, a delightfully goofy historical pastiche and the year's most witty and sophisticated comedy.
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The Bard of Avon had England's spring as material, but in the bards-of-baseball grandstand, it's always SRO . Eugene McCarthy, John Updike, David Halberstam, et al . have given the game a lit'ry cachet that soccer has not yet found.
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LOVE THAT BARD : " Shakespeare in Love, " which also comes out on Tuesday, doesn't have as many guns as " Lock, " but it has lots of swordplay _ in both senses of the way the Bard of Avon used it in his plays.
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Yes, the Bard of Avon can make you a Master of the Universe _ or so says Cranfield University, which has teamed up with Shakespeare's Globe Theater and the late Laurence Olivier's son to offer courses that mine the playwright's works for advice on climbing the corporate ladder.
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Because of his shared name with William Shakespeare, " The Bard of Avon ", he acquired nicknames " The Bard of Staten Island " and " The Merchant of Menace . " Newspapers reported that, though he claimed to be a direct descendant of the Bard, Shakespeare had flunked his sophomore English class.
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The diminutive Nelson, made up to resemble the bald-pated bard of Avon, is not only amusing; he's actually quite touching as an earnest, nerdy dreamer used to living in the shadow of others and who, wakened to the creative life as though sprinkled with fairy dust, grows into the authority of an artist.
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It also allows for free interpretations of the intricacies and mysteries surrounding the works and life of the " Bard of Avon " . For example, there is still speculation out there that the plays attributed to Shakespeare were not actually written by him . Experts are also still losing their bearings about where and what Shakespeare was doing in seven consecutive years after the birth of his twins, Hamnet and Judith, in 1585 . One version claims he was a schoolmaster in this town; another has him becoming a soldier; yet another puts him with a group of private players in neighboring Lancashire . " We don't even know his exact date of birth.
