the Bard of Avon

A minstrel or poet, eg the bard of Avon (Shakespeare).

"My name is Bard, as in the Bard of Avon.

The Oxford Challenge to the Bard of Avon.

The Bard of Avon had the Globe Theater in London to stage his plays.

For example, William Shakespeare is known as the Bard or the Bard of Avon.

And Mr. Fiennes's Shakespeare, although charming, seems awfully lightweight for the Bard of Avon. '

Shakespeare Death Day Equivalence: a reminder that the Bard of Avon wasn't the only poet who died on the twenty-third of April.

Its appearance is rather more reminiscent of Garrick than Shakespeare; it is said that the actor struck a pose and exclaimed, "Lo, the Bard of Avon!"

Yes, and I am here to suggest that the greatest writer in the English language so far was Lancelot Andrewes (1555-1526), and not the Bard of Avon (1564-1616).

By the time the head is full grown, its owner will have the capacity of Shakespeare without the Bard of Avon's immorality ..." At that moment, Helen screamed.

The bard of Avon is another example of the limited tenure which Genius has of life, though I believe that he outlived the greater part of his own family, who were not a healthy stock.

Because of his shared name with William Shakespeare, "The Bard of Avon", he acquired nicknames "The Bard of Staten Island" and "The Merchant of Menace."

In other news, the latest issue of Rolling Stone features an interview with William Shakespeare, in which the Bard of Avon decries Bradbury's use of the phrase "something wicked this way comes."

The route is intended to shadow a possible route taken by the Bard of Avon himself when journeying between London where he acted and wrote his plays and his house, wife and children back in Stratford.

The language was not easy but Aari had read another book that referred to Shakespeare as inventing the language of love, so he thought it might be interesting to see what the Bard of Avon had to say.

A faint cold fear thrilled through my veins, as the Bard of Avon would put it, not because I thought the dog and cat might bite me but because of what this amused baring of teeth implied.

Several candidates have been mentioned as possible Shakespeares over the years, including the philosopher Sir Francis Bacon and even Queen Elizabeth I. It was also the first time the Bard of Avon went on trial in his homeland.

Sharing the same name as "The Bard of Avon", Shakespeare earned nicknames including "The Bard of Staten Island", "The Bard of South Bend", and "The Merchant of Menace."

Joseph Pearce is the host of the EWTN television series The Quest for Shakespeare based on his book The Quest for Shakespeare: The Bard of Avon and the Church of Rome.

But that may change on Tuesday at the Joyce Theater, where the choreographer and director Rennie Harris will unmask the Bard of Avon as a hip-hop M.C. steeped in street jive and well-versed in gang warfare and gangsta psychology.

He went on to fill the chief office in several lodges, including the Bard of Avon Lodge, No. 778, Hampton Court; The Royal Alpha Lodge, No. 16, London; and the Grand Master's Lodge, No. 1.

The term Bardolatry, derived from Shakespeare's sobriquet "the Bard of Avon" and the Greek word latria 'worship' (as in idolatry, worship of idols), was coined by George Bernard Shaw in the preface to his collection Three Plays for Puritans published in 1901.

Unless the legitimate theater was one day turned over to the management of chimps and baboons, there was no chance whatsoever that he would be cast in anything by the Bard of Avon, and so no danger that he would hear the name Don Adriano de Armado other than directly from the doctor himself.