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Monthly Archives: May 2015
Rosalinds in Arden
Michelle Terry is blasting her way through Shakespeare’s forthright heroines. Having spent the winter playing Rosaline in Love’s Labour’s Lost and Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing, both for the RSC in Stratford, she is now taking on Shakespeare’s most … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy, Shakespeare on Stage
Tagged As You Like it, Fiona Shaw, Juliet Stevenson, Michelle Terry, Niamh Cusack, Sinead Cusack
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More matter for a May morning: Gerarde’s Herball and Shakespeare
After a few days away out of reach of the internet I returned home to find a new Shakespeare controversy had erupted. Country Life, not normally known for its Shakespeare content, had published a “Special Historic Edition” on 20 May … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy, Shakespeare's World
Tagged Country Life, Dodoens, gardening, Herball, John Gerard, John Gerarde, Mark Griffiths
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Posting Edwardian Stratford to the world: W W Quatremain
In any collection of old postcards of Stratford you are likely to come across the work of the artist William Wells Quatremain (usually referred to as W W Quatremain). Although he was not the only artist painting scenes of the … Continue reading
Posted in Stratford-upon-Avon
Tagged painting, Quatremain, Stratford-upon-Avon, Ursula Bloom
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Reading Shakespeare: new editions
“Why another Shakespeare volume?” ask the editors of the recently-published Bedford Shakespeare, Russ McDonald and Lena Cowen Orlin. Their answer is that most editions don’t answer the requirements of current students, particularly in the USA. ” We asked hundreds of … Continue reading
Music and musicians at the RSC
According to the Royal Shakespeare Company’s website, Shakespeare made over 2,000 references to music, included over 400 separate musical terms, and wrote around 100 songs to be performed in his plays. Music has been an essential component of performances at … Continue reading
Henry Wallis: a pre-Raphaelite’s views of Shakespeare’s Stratford
Henry Wallis isn’t one of the best-known of the Pre-Raphaelite painters, barely getting a mention in books about Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Millais, Holman Hunt et al, but one of his paintings is universally-known and classed as a masterpiece. The Death … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy, Stratford-upon-Avon
Tagged BBC Your Paintings, Birthroom, Charles Dickens, Chatterton, Henry Wallis, John Forster, RSC Collection, Sir Edwin Landseer, Tate Britain, Victoria and Albert Museum
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Keeping up with Shakespeare events in London and Stratford
It’s the middle of May, and debates and discussions with Shakespeare-related themes are happening everywhere. I’ve only just realised that several of these are happening now, so if you want to catch up with ideas about Shakespeare’s relationship to cultural … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy, Sources
Tagged British Academy, culture, Debate, fairy stories, folk tales, Frozen, Globe Education, Institute of Historical Research, Royal Shakespeare Company
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Antony Sher playing Shakespeare’s fat knight
The Radio 4 Book of the Week beginning on 4 May 2015 was Antony Sher’s Year of the Fat Knight: the Falstaff Diaries, his account of the process of preparing for and performing Falstaff in Henry IV parts 1 and … Continue reading
Sir Walter Ralegh and the vagaries of politics
I’m writing this post on the day of the General Election, 7 May 2015, and by the time you read it most of the results will be in. All the indications are that there will be no clear winner, leading … Continue reading
Posted in Shakespeare's World, Sources
Tagged Elizabeth 1, Fuller's Worthies of England, General Election, Mathew Lyons, Plutarch, Sir Walter Ralegh, Sir Walter Raleigh, Sonnet 25
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Peter Brook at the V&A
On Saturday I was lucky to be able to attend a symposium at the Victoria and Albert Museum entitled Peter Brook: Place, Process, Performance, Politics. It was part of the Museum’s Performance Festival and this investigation of Brook’s impact on … Continue reading
Posted in Shakespeare on Stage
Tagged A Midsummer Night's Dream, Andrew Todd, architecture, design, Kathryn Hunter, Peter Brook, Tell Me Lies, Tom Piper, Victoria and Albert Museum
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