Category Archives: Shakespeare’s World

Shakespeare’s blasts of January

Posted on January 3, 2013 by Sylvia Morris

When icicles hang by the wall And Dick the shepherd blows his nail And Tom bears logs into the hall And milk comes frozen home in pail, When blood is nipp’d and ways be foul, Then nightly sings the staring … Continue reading →

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“New-fangled shows”: Christmas and the Rose Theatre

Posted on December 27, 2012 by Sylvia Morris

Christmas must have been anything but relaxing for Shakespeare when he was at the height of his career. Instead of putting his feet up in front of a roaring fire with a warming drink in his hand, he was hard … Continue reading →

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Medieval images of Christmas-time

Posted on December 24, 2012 by Sylvia Morris

As it’s Christmas, the darkest time of the year I’m putting on the Shakespeare blog a few images drawn from the British Library’s Illuminated Manuscripts stunningly beautiful collection. Thousands of images are now online: the connections to Shakespeare are a … Continue reading →

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Christmas puddings: a taste of tradition

Posted on December 21, 2012 by Sylvia Morris

More than any other holiday time, Christmas has always been about food and drink. Thomas Tusser, an East Anglian farmer, wrote his verse calendar of the year Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry, published in 1557 and still full of … Continue reading →

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Michael Attenborough and Shakespeare

Posted on December 19, 2012 by Sylvia Morris

Last week Stratford’s Shakespeare Club was lucky enough to be given a look into internationally-renowned director Michael Attenborough’s views of Shakespeare. Attenborough is currently Artistic Director of the Almeida Theatre in London, though he is resigning from that post after … Continue reading →

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Measure for Measure, Pericles and Leveson

Posted on December 11, 2012 by Sylvia Morris

O place and greatness … millions of false eyes Are stuck upon thee: volumes of report Run with these false and most contrarious quests Upon thy doings: thousand escapes of wit Make thee the father of their idle dream, And … Continue reading →

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Discussing the evidence for Shakespeare’s Theatre: Andrew Gurr, Stanley Wells and Reg Foakes

Posted on December 5, 2012 by Sylvia Morris

The Who Invented the “Shakespearean Theatre”? conference held recently at the University of Reading ended with a round table discussion between senior academics Andrew Gurr, Stanley Wells and Reg Foakes. Over the past fifty years these three have probably written … Continue reading →

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Shakespeare among the Courtesans

Posted on December 3, 2012 by Sylvia Morris

Since Eric Partridge’s 1968 book Shakespeare’s Bawdy the subject of sex in Shakespeare has been commonplace. With titles including words like “desire”, “eroticism”, and “sexuality” the reader knows what to expect, but both the jacket image and the title of … Continue reading →

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The Sam Wanamaker Theatre

Posted on November 28, 2012 by Sylvia Morris

Major congratulations are due to Shakespeare’s Globe, where the building of their new indoor theatre has just begun. It has just been announced, here and here, that the theatre will be named after the man who devoted himself to the creation … Continue reading →

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C Walter Hodges and Shakespeare’s Theatre

Posted on November 26, 2012 by Sylvia Morris

I spent Saturday at the conference Who invented the “Shakespearean theatre”?, held at the University of Reading. I wrote about the conference in advance,  and I’ll be writing more about the conference in a later blog (or two), but just now … Continue reading →

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