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Article: VIRGINIA WAS FELT IN SHAKESPEARE'S WORK, LIFE.(COMMENTARY)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- April 28, 1996
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Byline: George Tucker
Shakespeare, born 432 years ago this year in Stratford-upon-Avon inWarwickshire, England, had two ties with Virginia's infancy.
First: Scholars have proven that he drew the graphic imagery for the storm scene at the beginning of The Tempest (1611), from an account of the wreck of a Jamestown-bound vessel that foundered on the coral reefs of Bermuda in 1609. Second: Lower Brandon, earlier known as Martin's Brandon, one of the most famous James River plantations, was at one time the joint property of Richard Quiney, the eldest son of one of Shakespeare's boyhood companions. Since one of Quiney's brothers married Shakespeare's daughter ...