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Category Archives: Legacy
A heart that even cracks for woe
This week has been full of heartbreaking stories, including the coverage of repeated bouts of flooding in Cumbria, one of my favourite places. I can’t imagine what it must be like to find treasured possessions ruined and one’s home uninhabitable … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy
Tagged Ali Alsaho, Christmas, Cumbria, flooding, Pericles, refugees, Syria
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The Great Annual Sheep Drive: a reminder of Shakespeare’s London
I wrote a few weeks ago about my visit to London’s Guildhall to attend the ceremony by which my niece was made a Freeman of the City of London. The best-known privilege to which Freemen are entitled is that of … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy, Shakespeare's World
Tagged Guildhall, John Shakespeare, London, Michael Wood, sheep, Sheep Drive, shepherd, The worshipful Company of Woolmen, wool
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Winter stories at Charlecote
December isn’t the coldest month of the year, but it’s the darkest, with days getting progressively shorter most of the month. Earlier this week I visited Charlecote Park, the stately home near Stratford-upon-Avon, and couldn’t help thinking how much the lack … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy, Shakespeare's World, Sources
Tagged books, Charlecote Park, conservation, Cymbeline, December, Froissart, Henry Peacham, Holinshed, Nicholas Breton, Sir Thomas Lucy, Thomas Tusser, winter
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Full of sound and fury: recording Shakespeare
There are few things that take people back to their past more effectively than sound recordings. Mostly, of course, it’s recordings of favourite songs. Last week Radio 4 broadcast a series of programmes entitled His Master’s Voice which looked at … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy
Tagged British Museum, Charles Wyndham, Enrico Caruso, Gramophone, Gramophone Company, Henry Irving, Kenneth Cranham, Lewis Waller, National Audit of UK Sound Collections, Radio 4, Save our Sounds, Smithsonian Museum, sound recordings
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Harley Granville Barker, Shakespeare and the theatre
25 November is the birthday of the great man of the theatre, Harley Granville Barker. Barker was born in 1877 and in 2009 Richard Eyre proclaimed him his hero and “the father of modern British theatre”. Barker’s talents were many. … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy, Shakespeare on Stage
Tagged Harley Granville Barker, National Theatre, Richard Eyre, Royal Court Theatre, Savoy Theatre, William Poel
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Reinterpreting Shakespeare – again
In 2013 Downton Abbey author Julian Fellowes was hauled over the coals for his film adaptation of Romeo and Juliet, in which he rewrote large chunks of Shakespeare’s famous and much-loved play. His explanation just got him into more trouble: … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy
Tagged Anna Maxwell Martin, Anthony Hopkins, Antony Sher, Carrie Cracknell, Helen Mirren, Ian McKellen, Intermission Youth Theatre, John Heffernan, Julian Fellowes, Lucy Guerin, Macbeth, Mark Rylance, RSC Learning Performance Network, Stand Up for Shakespeare, Young Vic
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Shakespeare and the London critics
There is still time to visit the exhibition at Dr Johnson’s house in London on Shakespeare in the 18th Century before it closes on 28 November. Although it’s primarily about Johnson’s edition of Shakespeare’s works, I was particularly interested in … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy
Tagged Charlotte Lennox, Elizabeth Carter, Elizabeth Montagu, National Maritime Museum, Samuel Johnson, Samuel Pepys
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Shakespeare and the Pre-Raphaelites
In the mid nineteenth-century a group of young artists joined together with the aim of challenging the practices of the Royal Academy, wishing to paint serious subjects using the art of the middle ages and great works of literature as … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy
Tagged Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Edward Robert Hughes, Enchanted Dreams, Holman Hunt, Millais, painting, Pre-Raphaelite
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The men who gave us Shakespeare
While visiting London recently we went in search of a relatively little-known Shakespeare monument. It’s the memorial to John Heminges and Henry Condell just around the back of the Guild Hall. It stands in what used to be the churchyard … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy, Shakespeare's World
Tagged Charles Connell, First Folio, Henry Condell, John Heminge, John Heminges, Sarah Werner, St Mary Aldermanbury
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The tale of “Shakespeare’s skull”
In writing posts for this blog I’ve looked at lots of the myths surrounding Shakespeare’s life. They cover almost every aspect of his life: who he married, and where, what he looked like, whether he was gay or straight, whether … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy, Stratford-upon-Avon
Tagged Beoley, C L Langstone, Charles Mynors, gothic, grave, Holy Trinity Church, Horace Walpole, myth, skull, The Castle of Otranto, The Moonstone, Wilkie Collins
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