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Category Archives: Shakespeare’s World
Shakespeare and Black History Month 2020
October is Black History Month, and this year, 2020, the Black Lives Matter movement has raised awareness of issues relating to race in both the UK and USA. Although it was founded in 2013 Black Lives Matter protests began in … Continue reading
#SaluteToStratford: Shakespeare and Welcombe
As their contribution to Shakespeare’s Birthday this year, the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust has created #SaluteToStratford, where people can share what makes Stratford special to them. Most people have just put up a photo and note about a favourite place, but … Continue reading
Easter at Anne Hathaway’s in lockdown
Describing Easter, Nicholas Breton in Fastasticks wrote “There is mirth and job where there is health and liberty…I conclude it is a day of much delightfulness: the sun’s dancing day and the Earth’s holiday”. It’s also a time of hope … Continue reading
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Tagged Anne Hathaway's Cottage, coronavirus, Easter, Good Friday, lockdown, Nicholas Breton, Shottery, spring, Venus and Adonis
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Wordsworth, Shakespeare and nature in time of crisis
7 April 2020 is the 250th anniversary of the birth of William Wordsworth. Since most of the world entered into lockdown, short walks have become our only distraction, and we have been taking more notice of the natural world. David … Continue reading
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Tagged April, birds, blossom, butterfly, David Attenborough, flowers, nature, poetry, Sonnet 98, spring, Tintern Abbey, William Wordsworth
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The Dugdale Society’s centenary
One hundred years ago this week, on 22 January 1920 to be exact, the Dugdale Society was formed with the aim of promoting the history of Warwickshire. Over the past century the Society has grown to be a significant force. … Continue reading
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Tagged College of Arms, Dugdale Society, Frederick Wellstood, Robert Bearman, Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, Sir William Dugdale, Warwickshire, Warwickshire's Changing Past
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The John Webster #websterthon
In June 2019 the Shakespeare Institute in Stratford-upon-Avon, is celebrating another of Shakespeare’s contemporaries, John Webster, in the seventh of their marathon playreadings. Webster’s canon is too compact for the three weeks of the event, and this year they … Continue reading
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Tagged #websterthon, British Library, John Webster, Martin Wiggins, Shakespeare in Love, Shakespeare Institute, T S Eliot, The Duchess of Malfi, The White Devil, tragedy
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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
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Tagged flowers, fruit, gardening, herbs, Mary Arden's Farm, May Day, Michael Drayton, National Gardening Week, Poly-Olbion, Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, spring, vegetables
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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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