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Tag Archives: Pericles
Shakespeare’s shipwrecks
Last week on Twitter, someone drily pointed out in response to the RSC’s new season, that Shakespeare never wrote a shipwreck trilogy. The What country friends is this? season is certainly unusual, and the cynical might say it’s a marketing … Continue reading
Health and illness in Shakespeare
Shakespeare’s interest in all things medical is well known, and Sujata Iyengar’s recent book Shakespeare’s medical language – a dictionary, published by Continuum, is a successful addition to the literature on the subject, both a fascinating read and a valuable reference … Continue reading
The mysteries of emblems, mottoes, and Shakespeare’s own chair
In my last post I looked at how Shakespeare acquired his family’s coat of arms. It is set down in two drafts made on 20 October 1596, described as follows: The arms are blazoned. “Gold, on a bend sable, a spear of … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy, Stratford-upon-Avon
Tagged Ann Donnelly, coat of arms, Courting chair, heraldry, Pericles, Shakespeare, Victor Chinnery, William Collins
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Very like a whale: Adventures in the far North, Part 1
Most people are familiar with the phrase “very like a whale”, used nowadays to indicate a mocking disbelief. It is, of course, Shakespeare, from the scene in which Hamlet, in his antic disposition, taunts the “tedious old fool” Polonius by … Continue reading
Posted in Shakespeare's World
Tagged Arctic, Pericles, sea monster, Shakespeare, Spitsbergen, whaling
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Shakespeare’s plays in his lifetime: the Cambridge Conference
One of the sessions in the recent Cambridge Shakespeare Conference was on Shakespeare’s Plays in his Lifetime. Frustratingly little is known about the performance of Shakespeare’s plays and how they were originally received so I looked forward to hearing from people … Continue reading
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight
It seems that music, whether being listened to or performed, really is good for you. It was recently reported that musicians have better memories than the rest of us, and playing music may result in higher levels of proficiency in … Continue reading
Posted in Shakespeare on Stage
Tagged brain, emotion, Hamlet, music, Pericles, poetry, Shakespeare, The Tempest
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