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The mysterious Passionate Pilgrim and Shakespeare
I’ve been spending some time just recently re-reading James Shapiro’s great book 1599, which I strongly recommend if you haven’t already read it. It focuses on a single year, decisive in Shakespeare’s creative life as well being as the year … Continue reading
Michael Rosen and Shakespeare for children
I recently spent a day at the Cambridge Shakespeare Conference, its theme Shakespeare: sources and adaptations. It opened with a thought-provoking lecture by Michael Rosen, Children’s Laureate 2007-2009 and Shakespeare enthusiast. To an audience who needed no convincing of the … Continue reading
Posted in Plays and Poems, Shakespeare on Stage
Tagged Cambridge, education, Michael Rosen, poetry, Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare, Such Tweet Sorrow, Tim Crouch
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The Nicholas Nickleby phenomenon: a Royal Shakespeare Company triumph remembered
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, one of the most successful productions in the RSC’s history, has rightly been marked with an event in the RSC’s programme celebrating 50 years of outstanding theatremaking. The adaptation of Charles Dickens’ comic … Continue reading
One-man shows and Shakespeare’s theatre
Last week I saw Eduardo de Filippo’s play The Syndicate, currently touring UK towns and cities. It stars two great Shakespearean actors, Ian McKellen and Michael Pennington. Watching them in this subtle play it occurred to me that the last … Continue reading
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Tagged Acting Shakespeare, Ages of Man, Being Shakespeare, Ellen Terry, Ian McKellen, John Gielgud, Judi Dench, Michael Pennington, Roger Rees, Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare, Shakespeare in Love, Shakespeare's Heroines, Simon Callow, Sweet William, The Syndicate, What You Will
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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