Robert II. 1054-1134. Duke of Normandy 1087-1106. Son of William I. Led First Crusade.

Rogers, Will. 1879-1935. Home-spun US satirist.

Romains, Jules. 1885-1972. French writer. 27 vol.Men of Good Will 1932-46.

Romantic. Literary movement. Nature, spirit and emotion. Subjective. Gothic novel. Hugo, Rousseau, Schiller. Wordsworth. Goethe. Scott.

Roosevelt, Theodore. 1858-1919. US president 1901-9 after McKinley assassination. Founded Bull Moose Party 1912. Led Rough Riders. Panama Canal Zone.

Rossini, Gioacchino. 1792-1868. Italian opera composer: Barber of Seville 1816. William Tell 1829.

Rowley, William. 1585-1642. English actor, playwright. All’s Lost by Lust 1619.

Royal Academy of Arts. 1768. 40 members. Based on Hogarth’s Society of Independent Artists.

Russell, William. 1639-83. English Whig. Executed, then acquitted for Rye House Plot.

Ruthven, Raid of. 1582. James VI of Scotland kidnapped by William Ruthven (1541-84).

Rymer, Thomas. 1641-1713. English Neoclassical literary critic: attacked Shakespeare.

Salesbury, William. c1520-84. Welsh lexicographer. Translated New Testament to Welsh 1567.

Salvation Army. 1865. Booth Christian charitable organization. Named 1878.

Sancho III. c992-1035. King of Navarre 1000-. Unified Spain. Re-divided it in his will.

Saroyan, William. 1908-81. US writer. The Time of Your Life 1939.

Sarsfield, Patrick. -1693. Irish Jacobite vs William III.

Schiller, Friedrich. 1759-1805. German Romantic writer of historical dramas and lyric poetry. Popularized William Tell 1804. -“inner direction” Wallenstein 1800.

Schlegel, August von. 1767-1854. German Romantic scholar, Shakespeare translator.

Schopenhauer, Arthur. 1788-1860. German pessimist Idealist philosopher. Will is superior to knowledge. World viewed as will and ideas. Every individual is a part of a Universal Will.

Scopes Trial. 1925. Scopes found guilty of teaching evolution in Tennessee high school. Bryan. Darrow.

Seward, William. 1801-72. Anti-slavery US statesman. “Seward’s Folly”-bought Alaska 1867.

Shakespeare, William. 1564-1616. English dramatic poet. Master of language, characters, perception.Titus Andronicus c1593. Romeo and Juliet c1594. Hamlet c1602. Othello c1604. King Lear c1606. Lover’s Complaint c1609. Sonnets 1609. Tempest 1611.

Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft. 1787-1851. English writer. (Daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft, Godwin). Married Percy Shelley. Frankenstein 1818.

Sherman, William. 1820-91. American Civil War general. -“War is hell”.

Shockley, William. 1910-89. US. Transistor 1948.

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