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The RSC’s golden years: Terry Hands and Alan Howard
What better way to end the RSC’s season of events celebrating the Company’s 50th anniversary than with a discussion between two people who for many epitomised the RSC during the 1970s and early 1980s? On Saturday morning Greg Doran hosted … Continue reading
Seeing the spider
Autumn’s coming round, and that means we are all seeing more spiders in homes, gardens and in the countryside. Spiders have always got a bad press. In folklore they’re associated with evil, malevolence, and rumoured to be venomous. Spiders don’t … Continue reading
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Tagged folklore, insect, Richard III, Shakespeare, spider, superstition, The Winter's Tale
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Seeking out Shakespeare’s villains
The series of blogs about Shakespeare’s villains posted by the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust at Blogging Shakespeare and Finding Shakespeare, has raised interesting questions about what that word “villain”means. The dictionary definition is a “person guilty or capable of great wickedness, … Continue reading
Posted in Plays and Poems, Shakespeare on Stage
Tagged Falstaff, Globe Theatre, Henry IV, Iago, Launcelot Gobbo, Macbeth, Richard III, Roger Allam, Shakespeare, villain
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Living monuments: Shakespeare’s epitaphs
I’d never heard of the little village of Tong and its church until recently when some visiting relatives mentioned its Shakespeare connections. So I paid a visit to this tiny village in Shropshire to find out more. The church is sometimes … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy, Plays and Poems, Shakespeare's World, Sources
Tagged Earl of Derby, epitaph, grave, Lord Stange, monument, Plutarch, Richard III, Shakespeare, Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, Shropshire, Stanley, Tong, Vernon
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#Shakespeare4Murdoch #Hackgate
For a time on Saturday afternoon the hashtag #Shakespeare4Murdoch was the leading trend on twitter. Tweeters quoted appropriate bits of Shakespeare or adjusted a line or two to suit what’s become known as Hackgate. Here are a few examples: Remorse, … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy
Tagged Brooks, Hackgate, Measure for Measure, Murdoch, News International, News of the World, Richard III, Shakespeare, twitter
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Kevin Spacey as Richard III, the “cunning, conniving, charismatic king”
One of this summer’s hottest theatre tickets will be Kevin Spacey’s performance as Shakespeare’s most famous villain Richard III, currently previewing at the Old Vic in London. In a Radio interview with Spacey and his director, Sam Mendes it’s clear … Continue reading
Obama and Shakespeare
Watching President Obama make the official statement about the death of Osama Bin Laden, it was impossible not to be reminded of the Earl of Richmond’s speech at the end of Shakespeare’s Richard III. I almost expected him to say … Continue reading
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Tagged Macbeth, Osama Bin Laden, President Obama, Richard III, Royal Shakespeare Company, Shakespeare
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