question: What did William Martin perform in that was based on a play by William Shakespeare?
answer: Roméo et Juliette
context: Title: Ugly Stik
  Passage: Ugly Stik is a subsidiary company of Shakespeare, a fishing equipment retail company.  Ugly Stik is most well known for its fishing rods.  Shakespeare, originally called William Shakespeare, Jr.  Company, was founded by William Shakespeare, Jr. in 1897 in Kalamazoo, Michigan.  The William Shakespeare, Jr.  Company changed its name to Shakespeare in 1915, then moved its base of operations to Columbia, South Carolina in 1970.  In 1976, Shakespeare introduced the Ugly Stik rod.
  Title: Double Falsehood
  Passage: Double Falsehood (archaic spelling: Double Falshood) or The Distrest Lovers is an early 18th-century play by the English writer and playwright Lewis Theobald, although the authorship has been contested ever since the play was first published, with some scholars considering that it may have been written by John Fletcher and William Shakespeare.  Some authors believe that it may be an adaptation of a lost play by William Shakespeare and John Fletcher known as "Cardenio".  Theobald himself claimed his version was based on three manuscripts of an unnamed lost play by Shakespeare.
  Title: Martin, Tennessee
  Passage: Martin is a city in Weakley County, Tennessee, United States.  Martin, Tennessee is named for Captain William Martin.  William Martin was born in Halifax County, Virginia in 1806, and moved to Weakley County, Tennessee with his wife Sarah in 1832.  Captain Martin prospered through tobacco farming and began working to establish a railroad connection in what would later become Martin in 1852.  It was not until after his death in 1859 that his sons, led primarily by George W. Martin, persuaded the Mississippi Central Railroad to locate a connection with the Nashville and Northwestern Railroad in what would become Martin, Tennessee in 1872 Martin is the home of the University of Tennessee at Martin.  The population was 11,473 at the 2010 census.
  Title: Blue Apple Theatre
  Passage: Blue Apple Theatre is an award-winning inclusive theatre company based in Winchester, England.  It was founded in 2005 by Jane Jessop to pioneer the inclusion of actors with intellectual disabilities on mainstream stages.  In May 2012, six Blue Apple actors made history by touring a ground-breaking re-imagining of William Shakespeare's Hamlet around the South of England.  They were the first actors with Down Syndrome to perform the play professionally.in 2016 the company made history again with 5 performers, four of whom have Down's syndrome performing scenes from Shakespeare on stage in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London. .
  Title: William Martin Armistead House
  Passage: The William Martin Armistead House is a historic building at 1510 Hyde Park Street in Sarasota, Florida, United States.  It was owned by William Martin Armistead who was prominent in the advertising industry.  On March 30, 2009, it was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.
  Title: Bulmer (typeface)
  Passage: Bulmer is a transitional serif typeface originally designed by William Martin (1757–1830) in 1792 for the Shakespeare Press.  The types were used for printing the Boydell Shakespeare folio edition.
  Title: Notre Dame Shakespeare Festival
  Passage: The Notre Dame Shakespeare Festival (formerly Summer Shakespeare) at the University of Notre Dame is an annual festival that seeks to combine professional productions of the works of William Shakespeare with community outreach and educational programs.  The Notre Dame Shakespeare Festival is a part of the University of Notre Dame's Shakespeare initiative entitled "Shakespeare at Notre Dame", a program that recognizes the centrality of the study of Shakespeare in humanistic pedagogy at the University.  Its fifteenth season (summer of 2014) was known as the 15/150, also celebrating the 450th birthday of William Shakespeare, and the 150th anniversary of the first full production of Shakespeare at the university in 1864 (Records indicate the first performance of Shakespeare at the University of Notre Dame took place in 1847, a collection of scenes also from "Henry IV)."  The anniversary season consisted of the Professional Company production of "Henry IV" (directed by Michael Goldberg), the Young Company performance of "The Merry Wives of Windsor" (directed by West Hyler), and the annual ShakeScenes shows featuring actors of all ages from South Bend and the surrounding community.
  Title: Cobbe portrait
  Passage: The Cobbe portrait is an early Jacobean panel painting of a gentleman which has been argued to be a life portrait of William Shakespeare.  It is displayed at Hatchlands Park in Surrey, a National Trust property, and the portrait is so-called because of its ownership by Charles Cobbe, Church of Ireland (Anglican) Archbishop of Dublin (1686–1765).  There are numerous early copies of the painting, most of which were once identified as Shakespeare.  The Cobbe original was only identified in the collection of the Anglo-Irish Cobbe family in 2006, and had until then been completely unknown to the world.  Evidence uncovered by researchers at the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust led to the claim, presented in March 2009, that the portrait is of William Shakespeare and painted from life.  Many scholars dismiss this theory and have provided evidence to identify the portrait as one of Sir Thomas Overbury The portrait has been the centrepiece of two exhibitions dedicated to it: "Shakespeare Found: a Life Portrait" at the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, Stratford-upon-Avon, from April–October 2009 and "The Changing Face of William Shakespeare" at the Morgan Library and Museum, New York, from February–May 2011.  An illustrated catalogue provides details of the painting and its provenance.
  Title: William Martin (tenor)
  Passage: William Martin (born 13 April 1898 – ?)  was an American classical tenor.  Born in Massachusetts, he studied singing with Leveret Merrill, A Sujol, and Florence Holtzman.  A graduate of Harvard University, he was for many years a member of the Harvard Glee Club.  He made his professional opera debut in 1923 in the title role of Jules Massenet's "Werther".  He was committed to the Opéra-Comique in Paris from 1925-1929 where he notably sang the role of Philipp in the world premiere of Lucien Chevaillier's "Le poème du soir".  In 1927 he and Mary McCormic became the first two Americans to appear in leading roles at the Opéra National de Paris, respectively portraying the title role and the role of Marguerite in Charles Gounod's "Faust".  In 1929 he had a major success at the Palais Garnier as the Duke of Mantua in Giuseppe Verdi's "Rigoletto".  In 1930 he sang Romeo to Grace Moore's Juliette in Gounod's "Roméo et Juliette" at the Opéra Royal de Wallonie.  Martin is best remembered today for creating the role of Amelia's lover in the world premiere of Gian Carlo Menotti's "Amelia Goes to the Ball" on 1 April 1937 at the Philadelphia Academy of Music.
  Title: Roméo et Juliette
  Passage: Roméo et Juliette ("Romeo and Juliet") is an opera in five acts by Charles Gounod to a French libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré, based on "The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare.  It was first performed at the Théâtre Lyrique (Théâtre-Lyrique Impérial du Châtelet), Paris on 27 April 1867.  This opera is notable for the series of four duets for the main characters and the waltz song ""Je veux vivre"" for the soprano.
citations: William Martin (tenor) Roméo et Juliette