Terry Pratchett

...facial attributes. The female dwarves in fantasy fiction are often depicted as having beards; examples include dwarves of J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth, and dwarfs of Terry Pratchett's Discworld series. In the movie SpaceBalls the...

In this article: Discworld series, Sunny Baudelaire, Macbeth, Androgen, A Series of Unfortunate Events, Hypertrichosis, Genetic disorder, Steroid, Frida Kahlo, and William Shakespeare

...be preached at, I'll go to midnight mass. Author Terry Pratchett and playwright Mark Ravenhill explain why you should enter our competition and make a video inspired by Pratchett's novel Nation 14 Mar 2008: From Rick Shapiro's rants to...

In this article: War Horse, Mark Ravenhill, Royal National Theatre, Romeo and Juliet, and Daily Heil

...that British companies are seeking to assert their reach - as in the National Theatre's large-scale cinema screenings (Terry Pratchett's Nation follows in January), or DVD producer Opus Arte's partnership with the Royal Opera House and...

In this article: Hamlet, William Shakespeare, English Touring Theatre, Kathryn Hunter, Cash cow, JavaScript, DVD, Royal Shakespeare Company, and Anxiety

...Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead is a pastiche of Shakespeare's Hamlet. The fantasy writer Terry Pratchett is known for his use of pastiche, particularly in his early works Strata , a pastiche of various science fiction...

In this article: Arthur Conan Doyle, Hamlet, Bohemian Rhapsody, William Shakespeare, Robert E. Howard, David Lodge, Bob Dylan, and George Lucas

...comedies and Shakespearean plays . Performances in recent years have included William Shakespeare's Macbeth, the 1945 comedy Harvey '', and a stage adaptation of Terry Pratchett's ''Discworld novel Guards! Guards!. The troupe is notable for...

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...1 with Shakespeare's "All's Well That Ends Well." After that will be "Nation," an adaptation of Terry Pratchett's young-adult novel (which will show as a Saturday matinee to attract families). "Then finally," Hytner says, a sense of excitement...

In this article: Nicholas Hytner, Phedre, Helen Mirren, Royal National Theatre, London, Alan Bennett, The History Boys, Austin, Ted Hughes, and Dominic Cooper

Discworld is a comic fantasy book series by the British author Terry Pratchett set on the Discworld , a flat world balanced on the backs of four elephants which are in turn standing on the back of a giant turtle, the Great A'Tuin . The...

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