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Memory, forgetting, and performance
Rebekah Brooks and others testifying to the Leveson Inquiry claim to have staggeringly poor memories of events. Zoe Williams, in her Guardian article of 11 May commented “You couldn’t live a life with this bad a memory. Never mind that you’d … Continue reading
Nine Men’s Morris and the English weather
Last week I was contacted by a reader of this blog with a query about the Nine Men’s Morris in the Theatre Gardens in Stratford-upon-Avon. How old, he wondered, was it? I should explain. Nine Men’s Morris is an ancient … Continue reading
The Comedy of Errors
The RSC’s Shipwreck trilogy is subtitled “What country friends is this?” and in the production of The Comedy of Errors directed by the Palestinian Amir Nizar Zuabi, it’s a question that the audience might easily find themselves asking. Set in … Continue reading
Painting the Boydell Shakespeare Gallery
The Boydell Shakespeare Gallery influenced how many people visualised Shakespeare’s plays for most of the nineteenth century, and I’m going to look at some of the images, following up my post on 20 April. The gallery of images is at … Continue reading
Shakespeare, Italy and the theatre
With so much going on in the World Shakespeare Festival at the moment it’s hard to keep up. I spent last week away, with no TV or internet access and just catching programmes I missed is quite a job. One that … Continue reading
Remembering Shakespeare at Yale
I know I’ve written about it before, but if you’re interested in the history of Shakespeare in print you really should take a look at the blog attached to Yale University’s current exhibition Remembering Shakespeare. The University’s Beinecke Library contains … Continue reading
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Tagged Beinecke Library, Ben Jonson, David Scott Kastan, Matt Hunter, Nicholas Rowe, William Winstanley, Yale
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Stratford’s American Fountain: a monument to temperance?
The American fountain In recent weeks I’ve written several times of Stratford-upon-Avon’s links with America, and how Shakespeare supplies shared cultural values in spite of political differences. The American Fountain is a favourite focal point in the town’s marketplace, … Continue reading
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Tagged America, brewery, eagle, Flower, George Childs, Henry Irving, Henry VIII, lion, owl, Reverend Arbuthnot, Stratford-upon-Avon, temperance, The American Fountain, Timon of Athens, USA
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Julius Caesar: Shakespeare’s African play
In this year of firsts, Greg Doran, who’s about to take over the running of the Royal Shakespeare Company, is creating a few firsts of his own. He’s currently rehearsing the first RSC Shakespeare production featuring a completely black cast. … Continue reading
Shakespeare’s well-apparell’d April
Shakespeare loved spring, and April, with its freshness and optimism is the month of which he writes most fondly. I couldn’t let it go by without a post containing a few of his lines, together with a selection of photographs … Continue reading
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Tagged April, May, poetry, spring, Stratford-upon-Avon
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Global Shakespeares
The World Shakespeare Festival, which has just begun, is already opening our eyes to performances of Shakespeare from some of the most remote corners of the world. Nothing does more to prove that Shakespeare is the world’s dramatist than productions … Continue reading