Subscribe to the blog
Search the site
-
Latest posts
Categories
- Legacy (699)
- Plays and Poems (174)
- Shakespeare on Stage (302)
- Shakespeare's World (328)
- Sources (43)
- Stratford-upon-Avon (331)
- Uncategorized (2)
Recent comments
- Richard Morris on King Charles III, Shakespeare, and coronations
- Roger Gregory on A sad farewell to Peter Brook
- mary beth shipley on Shakespeare’s Come Home!
Tags
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- As You Like it
- BBC
- Ben Jonson
- British Library
- British Museum
- Christmas
- David Garrick
- education
- Edwards' Boys
- First Folio
- Folger Shakespeare Library
- Gregory Doran
- Hamlet
- Henry V
- Holy Trinity Church
- Jonathan Bate
- Julius Caesar
- Kenneth Branagh
- King Edward VI School
- King Lear
- London
- Love's Labour's Lost
- Macbeth
- music
- National Theatre
- Othello
- Peter Brook
- Richard II
- Richard III
- Romeo and Juliet
- Royal Shakespeare Company
- Shakespeare
- Shakespeare's Globe
- Shakespeare Birthplace Trust
- Shakespeare Club
- Shakespeare Club of Stratford-upon-Avon
- Shakespeare Institute
- Shakespeare Memorial Theatre
- Simon Russell Beale
- spring
- Stratford-upon-Avon
- The Merchant of Venice
- The Tempest
- The Winter's Tale
More blog posts
- May 2023
- February 2023
- September 2022
- July 2022
- June 2022
- May 2022
- April 2022
- December 2021
- November 2021
- October 2021
- August 2021
- April 2021
- February 2021
- December 2020
- November 2020
- October 2020
- September 2020
- August 2020
- July 2020
- June 2020
- May 2020
- April 2020
- March 2020
- February 2020
- January 2020
- December 2019
- November 2019
- October 2019
- September 2019
- August 2019
- July 2019
- June 2019
- May 2019
- April 2019
- March 2019
- February 2019
- December 2018
- November 2018
- October 2018
- August 2018
- June 2018
- May 2018
- April 2018
- March 2018
- February 2018
- January 2018
- December 2017
- November 2017
- October 2017
- September 2017
- August 2017
- July 2017
- June 2017
- May 2017
- April 2017
- March 2017
- February 2017
- January 2017
- December 2016
- November 2016
- October 2016
- September 2016
- August 2016
- July 2016
- June 2016
- May 2016
- April 2016
- March 2016
- February 2016
- January 2016
- December 2015
- November 2015
- October 2015
- September 2015
- August 2015
- July 2015
- June 2015
- May 2015
- April 2015
- March 2015
- February 2015
- January 2015
- December 2014
- November 2014
- October 2014
- September 2014
- August 2014
- July 2014
- June 2014
- May 2014
- April 2014
- March 2014
- February 2014
- January 2014
- December 2013
- November 2013
- October 2013
- September 2013
- August 2013
- July 2013
- June 2013
- May 2013
- April 2013
- March 2013
- February 2013
- January 2013
- December 2012
- November 2012
- October 2012
- September 2012
- August 2012
- July 2012
- June 2012
- May 2012
- April 2012
- March 2012
- February 2012
- January 2012
- December 2011
- November 2011
- October 2011
- September 2011
- August 2011
- July 2011
- June 2011
- May 2011
- April 2011
Category Archives: Shakespeare’s World
Juliet’s birthday: Shakespeare and Lammas-tide
Lammas Day, 1 August, was an important day in the calendar, but for Shakespeare-lovers Lammas Eve, 31 July, is the more significant because it was the day of Juliet’s birth. Juliet is one of the few Shakespearean characters whose age and … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy, Shakespeare's World
Tagged August, Lammas, Nicholas Breton, Romeo and Juliet, Thomas Tusser
Comments Off on Juliet’s birthday: Shakespeare and Lammas-tide
Shakespeare’s first female critic: Margaret Cavendish
Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, is one of the less well-known early commentators on Shakespeare, yet her “Sociable Letter” on Shakespeare, published in 1664, is “the first critical essay ever to be published on Shakespeare”. This judgement appears in Women … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy, Shakespeare's World, Stratford-upon-Avon
Tagged civil war, Henrietta Maria, Margaret Cavendish, New Place, William Cavendish
Comments Off on Shakespeare’s first female critic: Margaret Cavendish
Shakespeare’s royal babies
Waking up this morning to the news that Kate has been admitted to hospital in the early stages of labour I cursed myself for not having a blog post about royal babies all ready to go. It has been after … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy, Shakespeare's World
Tagged baby, birth, Elizabeth, Henry VIII, Kate, Richard III, The White Queen
Comments Off on Shakespeare’s royal babies
Walking with Shakespeare: the new Shakespeare’s Stratford-upon-Avon app
When I chose the sub-title for this blog, I picked “In Shakespeare’s footsteps” partly to suggest that I would be following, rather than stating my own opinions, but also because I love walking. There’s something about the act of putting … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy, Shakespeare's World, Stratford-upon-Avon
Tagged app, pedestrianisation, Pocket Guide, Shakespeare's Stratford-upon-Avon, traffic, walking
Comments Off on Walking with Shakespeare: the new Shakespeare’s Stratford-upon-Avon app
Shakespeare and the sweet of the year
This week the UK is experiencing the warmest weather of the year. Whether it’s because last year was so disappointing, or because spring arrived so late, summer is bringing with it an explosion of blooms with, it seems to me, … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy, Shakespeare's World
Tagged A Midsummer Night's Dream, flowers, scent, summer, The Winter's Tale
1 Comment
On the road: travelling and communicating with Shakespeare
Of all the times for it to happen, on the day Andy Murray won Wimbledon my broadband connection failed, finally coming back to life about half an hour after he raised that trophy. I was painfully aware, all day, of … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy, Shakespeare on Stage, Shakespeare's World
Tagged Andy Murray, Ben Jonson, Bess of Hardwick, bicycle, communication, Handlebards, letters, tennis, University of Edinburgh, University of Glasgow, Wimbledon
Comments Off on On the road: travelling and communicating with Shakespeare
Shakespeare’s world view: the history of maps
It’s hard, indeed impossible, for us to imagine what it would be like to live without a clear idea of the world outside our own immediate locality. But many people of Shakespeare’s period might never have seen what we would … Continue reading
Posted in Shakespeare's World
Tagged British Library, Library of Congress, maps, Mercator, Ptolemy, Vinland
1 Comment
The Beaumont and Fletcher marathon
The students of the Shakespeare Institute in Stratford-upon-Avon are currently undertaking a project which I think is almost certainly unique: to read out loud all the works of the playwrights Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher in what they are calling … Continue reading
Robes and furred gowns: costume in Shakespeare’s England
One of the most compelling exhibitions of the year for anyone with an interest in life in Shakespeare’s period is that currently at the Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace where In Fine Style: the Art of Tudor and Stuart Fashion is … Continue reading
Posted in Shakespeare's World
Tagged children, costume, Quen's Gallery, Schwarz, The Taming of the Shrew
Comments Off on Robes and furred gowns: costume in Shakespeare’s England
Travelling to Scotland: Ben Jonson and John Taylor’s journeys on foot
Many Shakespeare enthusiasts will know that Ben Jonson visited Scotland in 1618-19, after Shakespeare’s death. His aim was to visit some of his friends, and he spent Christmas with a poet, William Drummond, the Laird of Hawthornden, who recorded some … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy, Shakespeare's World
Tagged Ben Jonson, Edinburgh, John Taylor, travel, walking
3 Comments