Oldcastle
Americannoun
noun
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It is being presented by Bickford in a partnership with Oldcastle and the Playwrights Theater of New Jersey, based in Madison and currently without a performing space, where Mr. Pietrowski is the artistic director.
From New York Times ● Oct. 1, 2011
Perhaps the set functioned better at the Oldcastle Theater Company in Vermont, where this production first appeared in August.
From New York Times ● Oct. 1, 2011
Grant Richards, publisher of such authors as Shaw and Housman, appears in the novel as Doron Oldcastle, "an ostentatious tyrannical turpilucricupidous half-licked pragmatic provincial bumpkin."
From Time Magazine Archive
What a rumbling, jolting, delicious journey, down the first hill, up Duck Bank, through the market-place, and down the steep declivity of Oldcastle Street!
From Anna of the Five Towns by Arnold Bennett
In 1413 he took a leading part in the proceedings against Sir John Oldcastle, Lord Cobham, and in the following year he died on the 19th of February, and was buried at Canterbury.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" by Various
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