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Category Archives: Shakespeare’s World
Fireworks for Queen Elizabeth
One of the most famous legends of Shakespeare’s life is the story that Shakespeare might have attended some of the celebrations that accompanied Queen Elizabeth 1’s visit to Kenilworth Castle in 1575. It would have been easy for the 11-year … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy, Shakespeare's World
Tagged Farah Karim-Cooper, fireworks, John Babington, Kenilworth, Lucy Worsley, Pyrotechnia, Queen Elizabeth 1, Robert Dudley, Robert Laneham, Shakespeare's Globe, Zoe Laughlin
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Angles on Shakespeare in Stratford 2018
There’s never any shortage of Shakespeare-related events in Stratford, not just performances at the Royal Shakespeare Company or activities at the Shakespeare properties managed by the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust. At the moment, in February-March 2018, there is a flurry of … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy, Shakespeare's World, Stratford-upon-Avon
Tagged Applying Shakespeare, Edwards' Boys, John Lyly, Juliano Zaffino, King Edward VI School, Nothing of Woman In Me, Shakespeare Institute, Shakespeare Institute Players, The Woman in the Moon
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A new source for Shakespeare’s plays?
It’s always exciting when someone claims to have made a new discovery relating to Shakespeare and the writing of his plays. The sources of most of his work are well known: Geoffrey Bullough’s Narrative and Dramatic Sources of Shakespeare, published … Continue reading
Shakespeare and the monarchy
The BBC is currently running a Royal Collection season, focusing on the million or so objects owned by British royalty. Many are priceless artefacts, but the Collection also includes objects with extraordinary symbolic and cultural value to the nation. Some … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy, Shakespeare's World
Tagged Andrew Graham-Dixon, Ben Elton, Charles 1, Charles II, Coronation Spoon, Crown Jewels, David Mitchell, Emma Thompson, Richard II, Royal Collection, royalty, The Upstart Crow
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Plough Monday and Distaff Day
Although Christmas is well past, it’s been only a week since many people got back to normal, so attached are the English to festivities at the turn of the year. It’s not a new phenomenon. From Elizabethan times, and probably … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy, Shakespeare's World
Tagged @ClerkofOxford, A Midsummer Night's Dream, British Library, Christmas, Distaff Day, Eleanor Parker, Plough Monday, Robert Herrick, Thomas Tusser, Twelfth Night
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Ovid and Shakespeare: the world’s greatest storytellers
Anyone who’s interested in Shakespeare will have heard the name Ovid, but how much do we really know about him? I’ve written a couple of posts on Ovid myself, but I have never really investigated the story of this great … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy, Shakespeare's World, Sources, Stratford-upon-Avon
Tagged Fiona Shaw, MayaVision, Michael Wood, Ovid, Rome, Royal Shakespeare Company, Shakespeare Club of Stratford-upon-Avon, Simon Russell Beale, The Tempest
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The importance of image: Martin Luther and the 95 Theses
It’s one of the most famous of images: a simply dressed monk takes a hammer and nails, the symbols of the crucifixion of Christ, and fixes a large document to the wooden door of a church. The date was 31 … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy, Shakespeare's World
Tagged Donald Sinden, Exeter, Greg Copeland, Henry VIII, Martin Luther, National Archives, Reformation on the Record, Thomas Benet
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Shakespeare: Print and Performance
For many years, even centuries, there was a huge divide between Shakespeare’s plays as they were performed and how they appeared in print. Scholars wrestled with the numerous different editions of the plays issued in the early modern period, trying … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy, Shakespeare on Stage, Shakespeare's World
Tagged British Library, Erica Moulton, FutureLearn, Kings College London, MOOC, Print and Performance, quarto, Romeo and Juliet, Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, Shakespeare's Globe, Stationers' Company
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Influences on Shakespeare
The source books from which Shakespeare took the main stories of his plays are well-known, sometimes so important that he quoted almost word for word, as in Enobarbus’s description of Cleopatra from Plutarch’s Lives. Other sources seem to have been … Continue reading
Posted in Shakespeare's World, Sources
Tagged Christopher Marlowe, Dido Queen of Carthage, Hamlet, Metamorphoses, Michael Wood, Ovid, Plutarch, Royal Shakespeare Company, Shakespeare Club of Stratford-upon-Avon, The Aeneid, Trojan War
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Fulke Greville, a great Elizabethan
On 30 September 1628, Fulke Greville died, just days before his 74th birthday. He had lived a remarkable life, that ended dramatically after being stabbed by a servant who supposedly felt cheated after being left out of his master’s will. … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy, Shakespeare's World
Tagged Collegiate Church of St Mary Warwick, Fulke Greville, Philip Sidney, Sarah Knight, Sonnets, Warwick
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