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Category Archives: Legacy
Painting the Boydell Shakespeare Gallery
The Boydell Shakespeare Gallery influenced how many people visualised Shakespeare’s plays for most of the nineteenth century, and I’m going to look at some of the images, following up my post on 20 April. The gallery of images is at … Continue reading
Shakespeare, Italy and the theatre
With so much going on in the World Shakespeare Festival at the moment it’s hard to keep up. I spent last week away, with no TV or internet access and just catching programmes I missed is quite a job. One that … Continue reading
Remembering Shakespeare at Yale
I know I’ve written about it before, but if you’re interested in the history of Shakespeare in print you really should take a look at the blog attached to Yale University’s current exhibition Remembering Shakespeare. The University’s Beinecke Library contains … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy
Tagged Beinecke Library, Ben Jonson, David Scott Kastan, Matt Hunter, Nicholas Rowe, William Winstanley, Yale
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Stratford’s American Fountain: a monument to temperance?
The American fountain In recent weeks I’ve written several times of Stratford-upon-Avon’s links with America, and how Shakespeare supplies shared cultural values in spite of political differences. The American Fountain is a favourite focal point in the town’s marketplace, … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy, Stratford-upon-Avon
Tagged America, brewery, eagle, Flower, George Childs, Henry Irving, Henry VIII, lion, owl, Reverend Arbuthnot, Stratford-upon-Avon, temperance, The American Fountain, Timon of Athens, USA
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Julius Caesar: Shakespeare’s African play
In this year of firsts, Greg Doran, who’s about to take over the running of the Royal Shakespeare Company, is creating a few firsts of his own. He’s currently rehearsing the first RSC Shakespeare production featuring a completely black cast. … Continue reading
Global Shakespeares
The World Shakespeare Festival, which has just begun, is already opening our eyes to performances of Shakespeare from some of the most remote corners of the world. Nothing does more to prove that Shakespeare is the world’s dramatist than productions … Continue reading
Happy Birthday Shakespeare 2012
People all round the world will be celebrating Shakespeare’s birthday today, 23rd April. This year we in the UK welcome productions of Shakespeare’s plays in many languages from all parts of the world as part of the Cultural Olympiad. Even though these … Continue reading
Shakespeare Unlocked with the BBC
In case it had escaped your notice, the World Shakespeare Festival’s about to kick off in theatres around the country. But even if you don’t intend to go anywhere near a theatre, the BBC is providing enough programmes in the … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy
Tagged BBC, British Broadcasting Corporation, Shakespeare Unlocked, World Shakespeare Festival
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Picturing Shakespeare: the Boydell Shakespeare Gallery
In November 1786 the printer Josiah Boydell held a dinner at his London home to which he invited several leading artists including George Romney and Benjamin West. The discussion turned to the idea of creating a lavishly illustrated edition of Shakespeare’s … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy, Stratford-upon-Avon
Tagged Boydell Shakespeare Gallery, Fuseli, John Boydell, Josiah Boydell, New Place, Remembering Shakespeare, statue, Thomas Banks, Yale
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Shakespeare unbounded: the digital domain
On 7 April I was part of a panel on the subject of performance archives at the Shakespeare Association of America’s annual meeting in Boston. The panel was chaired by Michael Warren and the speakers were Kate Dorney from the … Continue reading
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Tagged Bardbox, digitisation, Hamlet on the Ramparts, Shakespeare Association of America, Shakespeare Institute, Shakespeare's Global Communities, World Shakespeare Festival
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