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.
Titus Andronicus is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1588 and 1593, probably in collaboration with George Peele.he first definite reference to the ballad Titus Andronicus' Complaint is an entry in the Stationers' Register by the printer John Danter on 6 February 1594, where the entry A booke intitled a Noble Roman Historye of Tytus Andronicus is immediately followed by Entred also vnto him, the ballad thereof.