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DruidShakespeare Comes to America

By Irish America Staff
June / July 2015

May 14, 2015 by Leave a Comment

Galway’s Druid Theatre Company comes to Lincoln Center in New York this July with DruidShakespeare: The History Plays. Penned by Mark O’Rowe, the production pares down versions of the bard’s four plays about the English monarchy. The plays will be presented as a marathon theatrical experience, or in two consecutive installments by the Druid Ensemble, a “remarkable company,” … [Read more...] about DruidShakespeare Comes to America

March 31, 1855

Charlotte Brontë, author of “Jane Eyre,” died on this day in 1885. She was born in 1816 to the Reverend Patrick Brontë (formerly Brunty) and Maria Branwell. Maria died of cancer while her six children were still very young. Charlotte’s father sent her away to school, where conditions were so terrible that Charlotte’s two older sisters died of tuberculosis. Her experiences at this school later served as the inspiration for the fictional Lowood School in “Jane Eyre.” Charlotte’s remaining siblings died in quick succession not long after this, her most famous novel, was published. She reluctantly married the Reverend Arthur Bell Nicholls in 1854, and soon became pregnant. She died of pneumonia while pregnant, just thirty-nine years old.

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