Shakespearean history been filmed stand-alone, outside of the cycle at large. Famous examples include "Henry V" (1944), directed by and starring Laurence Olivier, and "Henry V" (1989), directed by and starring Kenneth Branagh; "Richard III" (1955), directed by and starring Olivier, and "Richard III" (1995), directed by Richard Loncraine and starring Ian McKellen; and "Chimes at Midnight" (1965) (also known as "Falstaff"), directed by and starring Orson Welles, combining "Henry IV, Part I" and "Part II", with some scenes from "Henry V". Shakespearean history In the First Folio, the plays of William Shakespeare were grouped into three categories: comedies, histories, and tragedies.
Giuseppe Verdi except in the matter of sunrise, which he likes to see up and dressed, and I from my bed." Nonetheless on 15 May, Verdi signed a contract with La Fenice for an opera for the following spring. This was to be "Simon Boccanegra". The couple stayed in Paris until January 1857 to deal with these proposals, and also the offer to stage the translated version of "Il trovatore" as a grand opera. Verdi and Strepponi travelled to Venice in March for the premiere of "Simon Boccanegra", which turned out to be "a fiasco" (as Verdi reported, although on the second