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Author Archives: Sylvia Morris
What you will: a Shakespearean treat
Regular readers might remember my interest in one-man Shakespeare shows, which I wrote a post about just a year ago. One of the one-man shows I mentioned, Roger Rees’s What you Will is coming to the Apollo Theatre in London for … Continue reading
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Tagged one-man show, Roger Rees, What You Will
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Archaeology and Shakespeare: London, Leicester and Stratford
Anyone going in search of Shakespeare’s London thirty years ago would have found little to satisfy them. The City and its surroundings has been occupied for hundreds, even thousands of years, and successive generations have built and rebuilt it. … Continue reading
Gregory Doran’s Royal Shakespeare Company Odyssey
On 14 September Gregory Doran becomes Artistic Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, the most high-profile job in the world of Shakespeare. The RSC was founded in 1961 by the young Peter Hall, renaming and giving new life to … Continue reading
Posted in Shakespeare on Stage, Stratford-upon-Avon
Tagged Artistic Director, Gregory Doran, Royal Shakespeare Company, Shakespeare Memorial Theatre
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Our revels now are ended: The Tempest, Olympics and Paralympics
2012 has been the year of The Tempest. During this year of the World Shakespeare Festival at least three productions have been seen in the UK, and the play featured in the opening ceremonies for both the Olympics and Paralympics. … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy, Shakespeare on Stage
Tagged Adrian Noble, Ian McKellen, Kenneth Branagh, Olympics, Paralympics, The Tempest, Tim Pigott-Smith
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Shakespeare for women: from Henry V to Julius Caesar
The announcement that an all-female Julius Caesar production is to be staged at the Donmar Warehouse in London from November to February has been greeted with excitement. Here’s Lyn Gardner’s Guardian piece. The production will be directed by Phyllida Lloyd … Continue reading
Stratford-upon-Avon’s Shakespeare Club
Shakespeare has been celebrated in his home town of Stratford-upon-Avon for centuries. David Garrick’s Jubilee in 1769 was the first major festival, but although it put Stratford on the map it had no lasting legacy. It was another fifty-five years … Continue reading
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Tagged Michael Attenborough, Shakespeare Club
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Heritage Open Days: history for free
Heritage Open Days have become a regular part of the UK’s cultural calendar. For one weekend doors normally closed are thrown open in some of the most historic buildings in the country. This year, between Thursday 6 and Sunday 9 … Continue reading
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Tagged Heritage Open Day, Olympic torch, Stratford-upon-Avon
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Shakespeare’s Dark Lady of the sonnets: fact or fiction?
People have been trying to identify Shakespeare’s Dark Lady, the mysterious woman who is the subject of some of Shakespeare’s sonnets, since the Victorian period. A few years ago Emilia Lanier was the favoured candidate, and before that Mary Fitton. … Continue reading
Posted in Plays and Poems
Tagged Aubrey Burl, Dark Lady, Duncan Salkeld, Grace Ioppolo, Henslowe's Diary, Henslowe-Alleyn Digitisation Project, Jonathan Bate
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Shakespeare and the Paralympics
We’re now into the Paralympics, and once again Shakespeare is a highlight of the cultural celebrations. The pop-up Shakespeare project is bringing fifty actors including some who are deaf or disabled onto the streets of London. Performing extracts of speeches … Continue reading
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Tagged Antony Sher, disability, Emily Bruni, Mamillius, Paralympics, Perdita, Pop-up Shakespeare, Richard III, The Winter's Tale
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Finding Shakespeare’s Forest of Arden
Even during Shakespeare’s lifetime, the ancient Forest of Arden was in decline, and I’ve always undertood that all remnants of the forest were long gone, cleared in order to make way for the expansion of human habitation and agriculture. When … Continue reading