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Category Archives: Legacy
Much Ado About Shakespeare at Easter
For Easter, a round-up of some of the many current Shakespeare-related events. First of all, on Easter Sunday BBC Radio 3 is celebrating Shakespeare’s imminent 450th birthday with two programmes. At 6.45pm, in Shakespeare: For and Against, playwright Mark Ravenhill … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy
Tagged Alex Kingston, animation, Antony and Cleopatra, First Folio, Guildhall, Kenneth Branagh, lego, Mark Ravenhill, Michael Billington, Rory Kinnear, Shakespeare versus Shatner
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“The sweet of the year”: spring in Shakespeare’s Stratford
Shakespeare is famous for his knowledge of plants of all kinds, but especially flowers, and he particularly loved springtime. It’s one of the reasons why spring flowers are brought to lay on his grave in Holy Trinity Church on his birthday on … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy, Stratford-upon-Avon
Tagged April, As You Like it, gardens, National Gardening Week, Royal Horticultural Society, Shakespeare's Birthday, spring, Stratford in Bloom, The Winter's Tale
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Shakespeare, medicine and science, 450 years on
A new book is just about to be published linking Shakespeare and science, a pairing that still doesn’t happen very often in the study of Shakespeare. This is at least partly because scientific methods based on experimentation and logical enquiry were … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy, Shakespeare's World
Tagged astronomy, British Library, Dan Falk, medicine, Royal Society of Medicine, science, Sujata Iyengar, Thomas Digges
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Shakespeare and his world: MOOC in progress
I’m very much enjoying the Shakespeare and his World MOOC created by the University of Warwick in collaboration with the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, devised and presented by Professor Jonathan Bate. Last week the play being examined was The Merchant of … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy, Shakespeare on Stage, Shakespeare's World
Tagged FutureLearn, Jonathan Bate, MOOC, Quiney letter, Shakespeare and his World, Shylock, The Merchant of Venice, Thomas Quiney
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Stratford’s historic spine, Shakespeare forgery and April Fools
Away on holiday last week, but still in touch with email and twitter, I spotted lots of Shakespeare and Stratford-related stories in the press and online. My post on the Market House coincidentally went live on the same day … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy, Stratford-upon-Avon
Tagged April Fool, forgery, Historic Spine, King Edward VI School, Mairi Macdonald, Robert Bearman, William Henry Ireland
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Stratford-upon-Avon’s Market House
In Stratford’s town centre, Barclays Bank overlooks Bridge Street and the traffic island at the junction of Henley Street, Wood Street and High Street. It’s one of the town’s most visible landmarks, and never more so than on Shakespeare’s Birthday, when Bridge Street … Continue reading
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Tagged Barclays Bank, Bridge Street, John Shakespeare, market, Market House, Robert Bearman
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Safeguarding the “first rough draft of history”
Newspapers are a relatively new invention: no character in a Shakespeare play ever reads one, news being conveyed by messenger or letter. In The Merchant of Venice Tubal brings a personal account to Shylock of the misfortunes of Antonio’s ship “I … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy
Tagged British Library, Colindale, Henry IV part 2, letters, messenger, Newspaper Storage Building, newspapers, rumour, The Merchant of Venice
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Veteran Shakespeare actor, Jeffery Dench
I’ve just heard the sad news that veteran Royal Shakespeare Company actor Jeffery Dench has died. He will be remembered fondly, and greatly missed, by thousands who saw him play a mind-boggling range of roles on the RSC’s stages. His career … Continue reading
Celebrating Shakespeare at 450 – updated
With less than a month to go, celebrations for the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare’s birth are getting into gear, and will continue right into the summer. A special website pulls together all the activities going on in Stratford over the … Continue reading
Romeo and Juliet’s balcony scene
Over the past few weeks a lively discussion has been going on at the Shakespeare noticeboard SHAKSPER under the title “Balcony”. The so-called balcony scene in Romeo and Juliet is probably Shakespeare’s most famous single scene, and no wonder as … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy, Plays and Poems, Shakespeare on Stage, Sources
Tagged balcony, Brooke, Juliet Club, Lois Leveen, Peter Holland, Romeo and Juliet, Romeus and Juliet, SHAKSPER, Verona
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