Martin Luther King Jr. is shot to death at a hotel in Memphis, Tennessee. A single shot fired by James Earl Ray from over 200 feet away at a nearby motel struck King in the neck. He died an hour later at St. Josephâs Hospital. The death of Americaâs leading...
They became the Kingâs Men -- the official court players for the king. Shakespeare was not just writing his Othello play for King James, but rather he wrote the play about King James. It is important to know that the playâs first recorded performance was 1 November, 1604. It was performed in the Palace of Whitehall, in the Banqueting House, for the king himself.
Where Shakespeare got the idea for Romeo and Juliet Research by David Brown Shakespeare was inspired to write the legendary play Romeo and Juliet by a poem written by Arthur Brooke. Arthur Brooke was an English poet who no body knew anything about, except that he only ever wrote one poem, and he died when he was shipwrecked on his way to Newhaven sometime around the year 1563.