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Category Archives: Legacy
Pericles onstage
On 13 November 2015, for the first time since its opening in 1992, Pericles is to be staged at the Folger Theatre in Washington, DC. The production premiered at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in February 2015 and after its season … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy
Tagged Folget Theatre, John Coleman, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Pericles, Sarah Flower, Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon
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BBC Theatre Month now on
On Saturday 31 October 2015 the BBC screened a new adaptation of Ronald Harwood’s play The Dresser, famously made into a film. It tells the story of one fateful night in a provincial repertory theatre during World War 2, and … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy, Shakespeare on Stage
Tagged Anthony Hopkins, Antony Sher, BBC, David Garrick, Derek Jacobi, Gregory Doran, Harriet Walter, Ian McKellen, Lenny Henry, The Dresser, theatre
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In the City of London
This week I visited London’s Guildhall where my niece was granted the Freedom of the City of London. I hadn’t realised that about 1800 Freemen are admitted each year by the Clerk to the Chamberlain of the City of London, and … Continue reading
Anthony Burgess’s Shakespeare
It’s been a good many years since I looked at Anthony Burgess’s 1970 biography Shakespeare. While working in the library at the Shakespeare Centre I always favoured Samuel Schoenbaum’s Documentary Life, so safely based on verifiable facts. Burgess was a … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy, Shakespeare's World
Tagged Anthony Burgess, biography, Christopher Marlowe, Folio Society, Stanley Wells
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Agincourt at 600
Today, 25 October 2015 is the day history and Shakespeare-lovers have been waiting to celebrate: the 600th anniversary of the Battle of Agincourt. Here again is the website that is coordinating today’s activities. Here’s Dan Spencer’s account of what actually … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy, Shakespeare on Stage
Tagged Adrian Noble, Agincourt, Anne Curry, Henry V, Kenneth Branagh
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Shakespeare Jubilees
And now, a fanfare. Earlier this week I received my contributor’s copy of a new book entitled Shakespeare Jubilees: 1769-2014, edited by Christa Jansohn and Dieter Mehl, and published in Germany. More details of the publication, including the contents list, … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy, Stratford-upon-Avon
Tagged celebrations, Christa Jansohn, Germany, Shakespeare Jubilees
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Shakespeare
21 October is the anniversary of Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s birth in 1772. Born in Devon, he spent much of his life in the West Country including the little village of Nether Stowey where the cottage he lived in can still … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy
Tagged Nether Stowey, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Watchet, Wordsworth
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Stratford and “the sere, the yellow leaf”
It’s that time of year when everything feels as if it’s shutting down. Days get shorter, nights colder, and once they’ve had their brief blaze of colour, leaves are gone from the bare branches. The sense of things coming to … Continue reading
Shakespeare lost in translation?
A week or so ago the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, one of the oldest and largest US Shakespeare festivals, announced they have commissioned “translations” of 39 Shakespeare plays into contemporary English in order to make them accessible to the public. I … Continue reading
Remembering the Battle of Agincourt
The 600th anniversary of one of the most famous British military victories is being celebrated this month. The actual date is the 25th October 1415, the event the Battle of Agincourt when Henry V, with an outnumbered and outclassed army, … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy, Plays and Poems
Tagged Agincourt, anniversary, battle, Henry V, Laurence Olivier, war, William Walton
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