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Category Archives: Shakespeare’s World
Shakespeare and the alchemists
I’ve recently been investigating a website that allows us to get a close look at the medical world of Elizabethan and Jacobean England. The Casebooks Project “aims to make available the astrological records of Simon Forman and Richard Napier — … Continue reading
Posted in Shakespeare's World
Tagged astrology, Casebook Project, Macbeth, medicine, Richard Napier, science, Simon Forman
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King Lear and poverty
I’m finally getting to see Simon Russell Beale playing King Lear at the National Theatre this week. I’m not sure how much I’m going to agree with some of the interpretation, but with Beale you know, however difficult the play … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy, Plays and Poems, Shakespeare's World
Tagged foodbanks, King Lear, National Theatre, poeverty, Simon Russell Beale, Timon of Athens, Trussell Trust
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Stratford’s Elizabethan wall-paintings
In 1927, during renovation work in a building in Stratford-upon-Avon, an important discovery was made. The White Swan Hotel was being modernised by the hotel group Trust Houses Limited, and workmen found evidence of surviving wall-paintings concealed behind panelling. Work … Continue reading
Penshurst, the Sidneys and rare Ben Jonson
Next month, on 8 and 9 June 2014, a conference is to be held exploring the idea of connection between writing and location. Literary scholars and architectural historians will come together at Penshurst Place in Kent, the home of … Continue reading
Posted in Shakespeare's World
Tagged Ben Jonson, Edmund Spenser, Lady Mary Wroth, Penshurst, Sir Philip Sidney
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The Rape of Lucrece
Exactly 420 years ago, on 9 May 1594, Shakespeare’s long poem The Rape of Lucrece was registered before being published later that year. In the dedication to the poem he had written the year before, Venus and Adonis, Shakespeare sounds … Continue reading
Posted in Plays and Poems, Shakespeare's World
Tagged Ovid, poem, quarto, The Rape of Lucrece, Titian, Venus and Adonis
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Shakespeare’s baptism at 450
Saturday 26 April 2014 is the 450th Anniversary of the baptism of William Shakespeare in Holy Trinity Church, Stratford-upon-Avon. Doubts may be cast over his exact birthday, but there is no debate about the exact date on which he was … Continue reading
Posted in Shakespeare's World, Stratford-upon-Avon
Tagged baptism, Holy Trinity Church, parish register, Shakespeare Birthday Celebrations
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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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Thomas Wyatt, Hilary Mantel, and the art of poetry
Hilary Mantel’s novel Bring Up the Bodies documents the life of Thomas Cromwell, Henry VIII’s chief minister. History has judged Cromwell harshly for ruthlessly masterminding the downfall of Anne Boleyn, but without backing away from this, she makes him a … Continue reading
Posted in Shakespeare's World, Sources
Tagged Bring up the Bodies, Hilary Mantel, sonnet, Thomas Cromwell, Thomas Wyatt
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John Lyly’s Galatea by Edward’s Boys
Galatea is the first full play by Lyly that Edward’s Boys, the schoolboy troupe from King Edward VI School in Stratford, have performed, and I’d guess that it won’t be the last. Nowadays Lyly is largely remembered as one of … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy, Shakespeare's World, Stratford-upon-Avon
Tagged Edwards' Boys, Galatea, John Lyly, King Edward VI School, Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, Shakespeare's Globe
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