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Tag Archives: Richard III
World Listening Day: Shakespeare in concert
Today is World Listening Day, and although it’s mostly focused on hearing music and the sounds of nature, there is also a link with Shakespeare. Earlier this week a journalist, Rupert Christiansen, wrote a piece in the Telegraph expressing his wish … Continue reading
Posted in Plays and Poems, Shakespeare on Stage
Tagged concert, Hamlet, Henry VI, Ian McKellen, performance, poetry, Richard Burton, Richard III, Richard Pasco, Rupert Christiansen, verse
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Richard III: the story continues
The story of the discovery of the skeleton of Richard III in Leicester is, you can tell, going to run and run. On Wednesday 27 February at 9pm the More4 TV Channel screens another documentary, Richard III: the Unseen Story. The earlier … Continue reading
Richard III: an update on the King in the car park
Last week’s revelations about the discovery of Richard III’s skeleton in a car park in Leicester has sparked off a flurry of articles about the real and fictitious monarch. Here are links to just a few of them. First of all, … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy, Plays and Poems, Sources
Tagged archaeology, burial, excavation, Ian McKellen, Michael Dobson, Richard III, Simon Russell Beale, Stephen Greenblatt, University of Leicester, York Minster
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Richard III is found!
This morning Richard Buckley, head archaeologist at Leicester University, has stated that “beyond reasonable doubt”, they have reached the “sound academic conclusion” that they have found “Richard III, the last Plantagenet King of England”. Richard’s death at the Battle of … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy, Sources
Tagged archaeology, car park, Richard Buckley, Richard III, The King in the Car Park, University of Leicester
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Adapting Shakespeare’s Henry VI: The Wars of the Roses
Until a few years ago the Henry VI plays were rarely performed, especially outside Stratford-upon-Avon, so the news that next year Shakespeare’s Globe is going to be touring the plays to venues in the UK is to be welcomed. I’ve … Continue reading
Funeral monuments: remembering Shakespeare’s Henry V and Richard III
Hung be the heavens with black, yield day to night! Comets, importing change of times and states, Brandish your crystal tresses in the sky, And with them scourge the bad revolting stars That have consented unto Henry’s death! King Henry … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy, Plays and Poems, Shakespeare's World
Tagged burial, funeral, Henry V, Henry VI Part 1, memorial, Richard III, Shakespeare: staging the world
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Archaeology and Shakespeare: London, Leicester and Stratford
Anyone going in search of Shakespeare’s London thirty years ago would have found little to satisfy them. The City and its surroundings has been occupied for hundreds, even thousands of years, and successive generations have built and rebuilt it. … Continue reading
Shakespeare and the Paralympics
We’re now into the Paralympics, and once again Shakespeare is a highlight of the cultural celebrations. The pop-up Shakespeare project is bringing fifty actors including some who are deaf or disabled onto the streets of London. Performing extracts of speeches … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy
Tagged Antony Sher, disability, Emily Bruni, Mamillius, Paralympics, Perdita, Pop-up Shakespeare, Richard III, The Winter's Tale
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The rule of law: Anders Breivik and Richard III
This morning the court in Norway has ruled that Anders Behring Breivik, the killer of 77 Norwegians last summer, is sane. He will be sent to high-security prison from where he hopes to be able to argue that his views … Continue reading
Becoming a courtier: Castiglione, Shakespeare and Richard III
Earlier this week Amanda Vickery, in her radio programme On… Men, looked at the concept of the ideal man, defined in Italy in the sixteenth century, which remained a standard for centuries. You can listen again here for a few … Continue reading
Posted in Plays and Poems, Shakespeare's World
Tagged Amanda Vickery, Castiglione, Richard III, The book of the Courtier, Thomas Peacham, Urbino
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