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Monthly Archives: February 2018
Shakespeare in Italy 2018
In Richard II, after his father, John of Gaunt, has told him to think positive about his banishment, Bolingbroke pours out his despair. How is it possible for imagination to turn bad into good, winter into summer? O, who can … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy
Tagged Italy, Jane Wymark, Janet Suzman, Julian Curry, Mary Chater, Michael Pennington, Shakespeare in Italy, Summer School
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Angles on Shakespeare in Stratford 2018
There’s never any shortage of Shakespeare-related events in Stratford, not just performances at the Royal Shakespeare Company or activities at the Shakespeare properties managed by the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust. At the moment, in February-March 2018, there is a flurry of … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy, Shakespeare's World, Stratford-upon-Avon
Tagged Applying Shakespeare, Edwards' Boys, John Lyly, Juliano Zaffino, King Edward VI School, Nothing of Woman In Me, Shakespeare Institute, Shakespeare Institute Players, The Woman in the Moon
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Hamlets onstage then and now
This week David Ricardo-Pearce has joined the mighty list of actors who have taken on Shakespeare’s most famous part, Hamlet. Until 10 March 2018 he’s playing the role at the Octagon Theatre in Bolton where they are celebrating the fiftieth … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy, Plays and Poems
Tagged British Library, David Garrick, David Ricardo-Pearce, David Thacker, female Hamlet, Hamlet, In Our Time, In the Spotlight, Melvyn Bragg, Octagon Theatre Bolton, Paapa Essiedu, Theatregoing, Tony Howard
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A new source for Shakespeare’s plays?
It’s always exciting when someone claims to have made a new discovery relating to Shakespeare and the writing of his plays. The sources of most of his work are well known: Geoffrey Bullough’s Narrative and Dramatic Sources of Shakespeare, published … Continue reading
Women and suffrage in Shakespeare’s Stratford
In the UK we’re currently celebrating the 100th anniversary, on 6 February 1918, of the Representation of the People Act by which at least some women were granted the right to vote. I’ve written before about Shakespearean links with the … Continue reading
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Tagged Elisabeth Scott, Kathleen Scriven, Shakespeare Club of Stratford-upon-Avon, Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, suffragettes
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2018: The Year of Macbeth
Macbeth is known as Shakespeare’s unluckiest play. For generations it has been referred to by the superstitious as “The Scottish Play” because even speaking its name inside the theatre could bring down disaster. There are many stories of accidents and … Continue reading
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Tagged Anne-Marie Duff, Astor Place riots, Christopher Eccleston, film, Jonathan McGuinness, Katy Stephens, Kit Monkman, Macbeth, National Production Company, National Theatre, Niamh Cusack, opera, Out of Chaos, Phyllida Lloyd, Polly Findlay, Rory Kinnear, RSC, Rufus Norris, Tobacco Factory, Verdi
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