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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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Mozart, Shakespeare and genius
Maybe it’s because I’ve been away from the BBC for two weeks, but the Radio 4 documentary by Dr Robert Winston about Mozart, broadcast a couple of days ago, struck me as a fascinating mix of analysis and glorious music. … Continue reading
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Tagged Beethoven, Ben Jonson, genius, Jane Glover, Mozart, music, Robert Winston, Shakespeare
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Edward Alleyn’s legacy and Shakespeare’s theatre
Most of what we know about the elusive world of Elizabethan and Jacobean theatre is found in one unique collection of manuscripts. These are known as the Henslowe-Alleyn archive, working theatrical documents created by impresario Philip Henslowe and his illustrious … Continue reading
Simon Forman, Shakespeare and the stage
12 September 2011 is the 400th anniversary of the death of the colourful astrologer-cum-physician Simon Forman – or perhaps it was 11 September, or even 5 September, accounts vary. Whichever is correct, Forman was a well-known, even notorious figure in Shakespeare’s … Continue reading
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Tagged astrology, Ben Jonson, Casebook Project, John Dee, John Hall, Macbeth, medicine, science, Simon Forman, The Alchemist
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Shakespeare and Anonymous: authorship, truth and drama
I’m part of an online group currently running a lively discussion thread on “Was Shakespeare a fraud?”. This is based on the soon-to-be-released film Anonymous, directed by Roland Emmerlich and written by John Orloff, on the subject of the authorship of Shakespeare’s plays and … Continue reading
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Tagged Anonymous, authorship, Ben Jonson, Christopher Marlowe, Emmerich, Shakespeare
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Shakespeare and the Jacobethans at the Swan
This year the Royal Shakespeare Company is celebrating 50 years of existence by staging a series of events marking some of its key moments of theatremaking. Exactly half way through this half-century, in 1986, the RSC opened the Swan theatre … Continue reading
After the riots: Shakespeare’s tragic fathers and sons
Over the past few days we’ve witnessed the inspirational dignity and grace of Tariq Jahan, the father of one of the young men killed during the riots in Winson Green, Birmingham. For any of you who haven’t seen it, you’ll … Continue reading
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Tagged battle, Ben Jonson, father, Hamnet, Henry VI Part 3, riots, Shakespeare, son, Tariq Jahan, Towton
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Ben Jonson and Anne Hathaways’s shared anniversaries
I couldn’t let the 6 August go by without mentioning that it’s the anniversary of the death of two of the people most important to Shakespeare. Ben Jonson Ben Jonson’s relationship with Shakespeare spanned almost twenty years, beginning, according to … Continue reading
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Tagged Anne Hathaway, anniversary, Ben Jonson, burial, Carol Ann Duffy, death, John Hall, Shakespeare
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Shakespeare’s Avon, Act 8: Sweet Swan of Avon
Ben Jonson’s memorial poem to Shakespeare published seven years after his death in the First Folio contains lines which famously link Shakespeare to the River Avon and to the magnificent birds that live on it. Sweet Swan of Avon! What … Continue reading
Shakespeare’s First Folio: “read him, … and again and again”
Shakespeare’s First Folio has been in the news again recently due to two new exhibitions featuring this most famous of books. The Folger Shakespeare Library’s summer exhibition in Washington, DC, will be Fame, Fortune and Theft, looking at the book’s … Continue reading