Monthly Archives: June 2013

Blogging with Titus Andronicus

Last Thursday, 25 June, I attended an event at which the Royal Shakespeare Company invited bloggers to a performance of their current production of Titus Andronicus followed by a Question and Answer session with the director and members of the cast. I’m … Continue reading

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Shakespeare’s world view: the history of maps

It’s hard, indeed impossible, for us to imagine what it would be like to live without a clear idea of the world outside our own immediate locality. But many people of Shakespeare’s period might never have seen what we would … Continue reading

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Midsummer Night’s Dreaming: online experiment and real-time event

This weekend Stratford-upon-Avon has been the venue for a “daring new collaboration” between the RSC and Google’s Creative Lab to stage a real-time performance of A Midsummer Night’s Dream while simultaneously creating a digital presence in which anybody could join. The … Continue reading

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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

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Robes and furred gowns: costume in Shakespeare’s England

One of the most compelling exhibitions of the year for anyone with an interest in life in Shakespeare’s period is that currently at the Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace where In Fine Style: the Art of Tudor and Stuart Fashion is … Continue reading

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Shakespeare festivals here, there and everywhere

It’s that time of year when at least for those of us in the northern hemisphere thoughts turn to summer Shakespeare festivals. It’s a subject that has recently been in the mind of Hardy M Cook, the man behind SHAKSPER, … Continue reading

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Into the Wild with Timothy O’Brien’s Love’s Labour’s Lost

I’m revisiting the RSC’s Into the Wild exhibition again, where one of the costumes from the RSC’s 1973 Love’s Labour’s Lost is exhibited. It’s the formal version of Rosaline’s costume (Estelle Kohler) with a train and matching parasol. One of … Continue reading

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Shakespeare on film: Joss Whedon’s Much Ado

It is I suppose possible that you won’t have heard about the latest Shakespeare film to be released in the US that is due to be screened in the UK from 14 June 2013. Its director is Joss Whedon, best known for … Continue reading

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Travelling to Scotland: Ben Jonson and John Taylor’s journeys on foot

Many Shakespeare enthusiasts will know that Ben Jonson visited Scotland in 1618-19, after Shakespeare’s death. His aim was to visit some of his friends, and he spent Christmas with a poet, William Drummond, the Laird of Hawthornden, who recorded some … Continue reading

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A Shakespeare miscellany

One of the most delightful results of writing this blog is receiving responses from people who are using Shakespeare creatively to build a project of their own. I’m always happy to share these projects with other readers. Here are some of the … Continue reading

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