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Category Archives: Shakespeare’s World
Walking with Simon Armitage and Shakespeare
Congratulations to Simon Armitage, who was appointed Poet Laureate on 11 May 2019. It’s a strange job, nominally the official court poet, though these days it isn’t important to write new poems for royal occasions. It’s definitely an honour to … Continue reading
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Tagged In Praise of Air, National Walking Month, Poet Laureate, poetry, Simon Armitage, walking
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Shakespeare and National Gardening Week
The first of May seems to have been one of Shakespeare’s favourite days. In Much Ado About Nothing Beatrice is compared with her cousin Hero : she “exceeds her as much in beauty as the first of May doth the … Continue reading
Births, baptisms and burials
I wrote in 2014 about the documentary records of Shakespeare’s baptism at Holy Trinity Church on 26 April 1564. There’s a lot of confusion about the actual date of Shakespeare’s birth, but at the time it was the date of … Continue reading
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Tagged baptism, Birthplace, burial, family, Holy Trinity Church, Shakespeare's Birthday Celebrations
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Shakespeare and the Europeans in Italy
With the equinox now passed and spring firmly under way here in the UK it’s time to look forward to the warmth of the summer. How better than to celebrate it with the charity Shakespeare in Italy’s wonderful annual Summer … Continue reading
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Tagged Album Amicorum, Andrew Dickson, Austria, British Library, Florence, Germany, Italy, John Mullan, Julian Curry, Mary Chater, Shakespeare in Italy
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Giving Emilia Lanier her own voice
In 1973, historian A L Rowse declared in Shakespeare the Man that he had solved the greatest mystery in Shakespeare’s life, the identity of the Dark Lady of the Sonnets. She was, he said, Emilia Lanier (Aemilia Lanyer). Rowse’s starting … Continue reading
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Tagged A L Rowse, Dark Lady, Emilia, Emilia Lanier, Michelle Terry, Morgan Lloyd Malcolm, Shakespeare's Globe, Stanley Wells
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Ben Elton’s Shakespeares
Shakespeare seems to have haunted writer Ben Elton. He was always hovering in the background during Blackadder 2, the superb Elizabethan TV series. His current sitcom Upstart Crow, based around Shakespeare’s plays and life, has had three series and he’s … Continue reading
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Tagged All is True, Ben Elton, Ian McKellen, Judi Dench, Kenneth Branagh, Upstart Crow
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Shakespeare and the strangers: Refugee Week
This week, 18-24 June 2018, has been Refugee Week in the UK . This is its twentieth year, timed to coincide with the worldwide Refugee Day, 20 June. The need to remember the plight of refugees is just as acute, … Continue reading
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Tagged British Black and Asian Shakespeare, Michelle Terry, Refugee Day, Refugee Week, refugees, Shakespeare's Globe, Sir Thomas More, The Stranger's Case, Tony Howard, University of Warwick
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Philip Massinger re-read: #MassiMara
It’s become a tradition now for the Shakespeare Institute in Stratford-upon-Avon to spend most of June reading the surviving works of writers contemporary with Shakespeare. In 2018, beginning on 11 June, it’s the turn of Philip Massinger, one of the … Continue reading
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Tagged A new Way to pay Old Debts, Adrian Noble, Edmund Kean, Emrys James, John Fletcher, Philip Massinger, Shakespeare Institute, The King's Men, The Other Place
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Shakespeare’s spring
One of the greatest pleasures of spring in England is watching life returning over weeks or even months, beginning in gardens and parks with the blooming of snowdrops, moving on to daffodils, apple blossom and bluebells, to the mighty trees, … Continue reading
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Tagged gardens, Glyn Jones, herbals, plants, Shakespeare Brithplace Trust, Shakespeare Club of Stratford-upon-Avon, spring
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Sir Walter Raleigh’s 400th anniversary
2018 marks 400 years since the death by execution of one of the most remarkable men of Shakespeare’s period, Sir Walter Raleigh. Raleigh is popularly known for bringing back the first potatoes from Virginia, for popularising tobacco, and for placing … Continue reading
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Tagged Bicton Park, Budleigh Salterton, East Budleigh, Edward Millais, Hayes Barton, Queen Elizabeth 1, Sir Walter Ralegh, Sir Walter Raleigh, The History of the World, Tower of London, Virginia
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