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Tag Archives: Shakespeare Institute
Getting to grips with Shakespeare in Education
This week I attended a symposium titled Shakespeare in Education: Current Trends and New Directions, organised and led by students of The Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham. Just between you and me, I was hoping to spend most of the … Continue reading
The Beaumont and Fletcher marathon
The students of the Shakespeare Institute in Stratford-upon-Avon are currently undertaking a project which I think is almost certainly unique: to read out loud all the works of the playwrights Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher in what they are calling … Continue reading
Marie Corelli, the Avon and her Venetian gondola
On Saturday, 27 April Mason’s Croft, now the Shakespeare Institute, is celebrating the life of another of Stratford-upon-Avon’s writers, Marie Corelli. The event is part of Stratford’s Literary Festival, and Mason’s Croft was the Victorian novelist’s home from 1901 to … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy, Stratford-upon-Avon
Tagged Boat Club, gondola, Marie Corelli, Shakespeare Institute
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Timbuktu and Shakespeare for National Libraries Day
At last a news item in which Librarians are the heroes of the day, and in the same week as National Libraries Day too! The city of Timbuktu in Mali is of significance for the whole continent of Africa. Official … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy, Stratford-upon-Avon
Tagged Africa, digitisation, Europeana, Karin Brown, Mali, National Libraries Day, Shakespeare Institute, Timbuktu, University of Birmingham, Virtual Shakespeare Theatre Archive
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Acting companies and the ensemble
A couple of weeks ago Gregory Doran, the new Artistic Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, was “In conversation” with Michael Dobson, the head of the Shakespeare Institute in Stratford-upon-Avon. The session was recorded on video and is now generously … Continue reading
Posted in Shakespeare on Stage, Shakespeare's World
Tagged Charles Dickens, David Tennant, First Folio, Frank Benson, Gregory Doran, Henry Irving, Julius Caesar, Saxe-Meiningen, Shakespeare Institute
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Black History month: communities and visitors in Tudor England
October is Black History month, and this year’s focus on Shakespeare has included a number of discussions of the presence of non-white people in England in the early modern period. Historian Michael Wood’s piece suggests there was a black community in London, … Continue reading
Posted in Shakespeare's World
Tagged Bideford, Black History Month, blacks, British Museum, Michael Wood, Othello, Shakespeare Institute, Sir Richard Grenville, Sir Walter Raleigh
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O this learning, what a thing it is!
Last week the biennial International Shakespeare Conference was held at the Shakespeare Institute in Stratford-upon-Avon. With only space for two hundred and thirty, places are strictly limited. Now technology is being used to open this exclusive conference up to anyone … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy
Tagged Backdoor Broadcasting, JISC, Open Shakespeare, Shakespeare Institute
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Setting Shakespeare’s drama in context
I’ve been looking at the first volume of a new reference work, British Drama 1533-1642: A Catalogue. Volume 1, 1533-1566, and recently met with its author Dr Martin Wiggins, Senior Lecturer and Fellow of the Shakespeare Institute in Stratford-upon-Avon. It’s a … Continue reading
Shakespeare unbounded: the digital domain
On 7 April I was part of a panel on the subject of performance archives at the Shakespeare Association of America’s annual meeting in Boston. The panel was chaired by Michael Warren and the speakers were Kate Dorney from the … Continue reading
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Tagged Bardbox, digitisation, Hamlet on the Ramparts, Shakespeare Association of America, Shakespeare Institute, Shakespeare's Global Communities, World Shakespeare Festival
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Picturing Shakespeare: Alan O’Cain’s The Tempest
Responses to Shakespeare’s plays come in many forms, and his influence on other art forms such as music, painting and design was explored as part of the British Shakespeare Association’s Lancaster University conference last weekend. Picturing Shakespeare was one … Continue reading