Shakespeare by the Sea, Newfoundland Dream, Salt Water Moon, "Shake It Up!", "Tunes and Tales with Kelly Russell" 2017 The Tempest, Timon of Athens, Soldier's Heart (play), "Shake It Up!", "Tunes and Tales with Kelly Russell" 2018 As You Like It, "Shake It Up!", "Tunes and Tales with Kelly Russell" Shakespeare by the Sea, Newfoundland The Shakespeare by the Sea Festival is an annual event that runs throughout the months of July and August in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada that presents outdoor productions of the plays of William Shakespeare, as well as pieces related to the province and culture. The Festival is under
History of the Shakespeare authorship question had suggested Shakespeare was an Irishman, a certain Patrick O'Toole of Ennis.. Thomas Fingal Healy, writing for "The American Mercury" in 1940, picked up the idea, claiming that many of the plays draw on Irish folklore. Shakespeare was forced to conceal his Irish background because the Irish were considered a "rebel race" by Queen Elizabeth. Healy found numerous references in the text of "Hamlet" to clothes which, he thought, showed that the Dane was based on a legendary Irish tailor called Howndale. The distinguished Meath historian Elizabeth Hickey writing under the pen name of Basil Iske, claimed in 1978 that