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| Author | Frank O'Connor |
|---|---|
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Subject | William Shakespeare |
| Genre | Literary criticism |
| Published | 1948 |
| Publisher | Methuen Publishing |
| Media type | Print: hardback |
| Pages | 149 |
| 822.33 | |
The Road to Stratford is a 1948 work on William Shakespeare and Elizabethan theatre, written by Frank O'Connor. It was published in Britain by Methuen. [1] [2] A revised edition was published in the US in 1960 as Shakespeare's Progress. [3]
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"A Shakespearean Baseball Game", subtitled "A Comedy of Errors, Hits and Runs", is a sketch by the Canadian comedy duo Wayne and Shuster. First performed on television in 1958 and slightly revised in 1971 and 1977, the sketch depicts a fictional baseball game with the manager, players, and umpires all speaking in Shakespearean verse. The dialogue parodies lines from the plays Hamlet, Macbeth, Julius Caesar, and Richard III while referencing modern baseball culture. It became Wayne and Shuster's signature sketch, and both its television and radio recordings have been preserved as significant works.
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