Monthly Archives: April 2014

Stratford’s historic spine, Shakespeare forgery and April Fools

Posted on April 10, 2014 by Sylvia Morris

  Away on holiday last week, but still in touch with email and twitter, I spotted lots of Shakespeare and Stratford-related stories in the press and online. My post on the Market House coincidentally went live on the same day … Continue reading →

Share
Posted in Legacy, Stratford-upon-Avon | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments Off on Stratford’s historic spine, Shakespeare forgery and April Fools

Staging the balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet

Posted on April 7, 2014 by Sylvia Morris

In an earlier post on the subject of Juliet’s balcony, I talked about the original staging of this scene, and how the scene came to be known  as “the balcony scene” even though in Elizabethan England the word balcony was … Continue reading →

Share
Posted in Plays and Poems, Shakespeare on Stage | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments Off on Staging the balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet

Stratford-upon-Avon’s Market House

Posted on April 4, 2014 by Sylvia Morris

In Stratford’s town centre, Barclays Bank overlooks Bridge Street and the traffic island at the junction of Henley Street, Wood Street and High Street. It’s one of the town’s most visible landmarks, and never more so than on Shakespeare’s Birthday, when Bridge Street … Continue reading →

Share
Posted in Legacy, Stratford-upon-Avon | Tagged , , , , , | Comments Off on Stratford-upon-Avon’s Market House

Safeguarding the “first rough draft of history”

Posted on April 2, 2014 by Sylvia Morris

Newspapers are a relatively new invention: no character in a Shakespeare play ever reads one, news being conveyed by messenger or letter. In The Merchant of Venice Tubal brings a personal account to Shylock of the misfortunes of Antonio’s ship “I … Continue reading →

Share
Posted in Legacy | Tagged , , , , , , , , | 2 Comments