radical acts like Simeon Stylites’ 36 years atop a pillar have been immortalized in works as far ranging as a poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson and a 1965 film by the Mexican director Luis Bunuel.

For more than a decade, the eye-catching artwork had hung from the ceiling of Wellington International Airport in New Zealand ...

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As well as belonging to its pool of actors and playwrights, Shakespeare was one of the managing partners of the Lord ... Shakespeare’s first poems, 'Venus and Adonis' and 'The Rape of Lucrece ...

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