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Category Archives: Shakespeare’s World
One-man shows and Shakespeare’s theatre
Last week I saw Eduardo de Filippo’s play The Syndicate, currently touring UK towns and cities. It stars two great Shakespearean actors, Ian McKellen and Michael Pennington. Watching them in this subtle play it occurred to me that the last … Continue reading
Posted in Plays and Poems, Shakespeare on Stage, Shakespeare's World
Tagged Acting Shakespeare, Ages of Man, Being Shakespeare, Ellen Terry, Ian McKellen, John Gielgud, Judi Dench, Michael Pennington, Roger Rees, Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare, Shakespeare in Love, Shakespeare's Heroines, Simon Callow, Sweet William, The Syndicate, What You Will
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Your actions are my dreams: Shakespeare and conspiracy
A week on Sunday it will be exactly ten years since the awful events of 9/11 in which thousands of people died and which sparked the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. On Monday it was revealed that a poll undertaken … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy, Shakespeare's World
Tagged 9/11, conspiracy, Guy Smith, Irvin Light Matus, James Shapiro, Jonathan Bate, Jonathan Kay, Leontes, Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale
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Shakespeare and Anonymous: authorship, truth and drama
I’m part of an online group currently running a lively discussion thread on “Was Shakespeare a fraud?”. This is based on the soon-to-be-released film Anonymous, directed by Roland Emmerlich and written by John Orloff, on the subject of the authorship of Shakespeare’s plays and … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy, Shakespeare's World
Tagged Anonymous, authorship, Ben Jonson, Christopher Marlowe, Emmerich, Shakespeare
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Time and the gilded galleon
A visit to the British Museum is always a great reminder of the ingenuity, skill and imagination of the human race over thousands of years and in all parts of the world. In all areas of endeavour there are people … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy, Shakespeare's World
Tagged As You Like it, British Museum, Clock, Galleon, Germany, Hamlet, Hanover, Mechanical, Shakespeare, Time, Watch
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Shakespeare and the Jacobethans at the Swan
This year the Royal Shakespeare Company is celebrating 50 years of existence by staging a series of events marking some of its key moments of theatremaking. Exactly half way through this half-century, in 1986, the RSC opened the Swan theatre … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy, Plays and Poems, Shakespeare's World, Stratford-upon-Avon
Tagged Antony Sher, Ben Jonson, Christopher Marlowe, Gregory Doran, John Fletcher, John Webster, Michael Reardon, Royal Shakespeare Company, Shakespeare, Swan Theatre, Thomas Middleton
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Disorder, riot, and unweeded gardens
Bill Bratton, the supercop who’s credited with successfully cutting gang crime in New York and Los Angeles, is going to be consulted by the UK prime minister about how to solve the issue of the recent riots in English cities. … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy, Shakespeare's World
Tagged Bill Bratton, disorder, formal, gardens, Hamlet, knot gardens, Richard II, riots, unrest, weeds
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Riots and Shakespeare’s ragged multitude
The riots that are currently spreading through UK cities are unprecedented. Mike Butcher, interviewed this morning on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme spoke of how mobile phones have become “weaponised”, and in an interesting turn of phrase he stated “thugs … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy, Plays and Poems, Shakespeare's World
Tagged Blackberry, Coriolanus, Gutenberg, Henry VI Part 2, Jack Cade, Julius Caesar, mobile phone, printing, riots, Shakespeare, subversive, unrest, violence
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Ben Jonson and Anne Hathaways’s shared anniversaries
I couldn’t let the 6 August go by without mentioning that it’s the anniversary of the death of two of the people most important to Shakespeare. Ben Jonson Ben Jonson’s relationship with Shakespeare spanned almost twenty years, beginning, according to … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy, Shakespeare's World, Stratford-upon-Avon
Tagged Anne Hathaway, anniversary, Ben Jonson, burial, Carol Ann Duffy, death, John Hall, Shakespeare
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I’ll write it straight: The Catalogue of English Literary Manuscripts 1450-1700
This is the second post looking at the subjects raised by the 29 July conference launching the new online Catalogue of English Literary Manuscripts 1450-1700. The first paper was contributed by the prolific writer and academic Germaine Greer. Ever since the publication of … Continue reading
Living monuments: Shakespeare’s epitaphs
I’d never heard of the little village of Tong and its church until recently when some visiting relatives mentioned its Shakespeare connections. So I paid a visit to this tiny village in Shropshire to find out more. The church is sometimes … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy, Plays and Poems, Shakespeare's World, Sources
Tagged Earl of Derby, epitaph, grave, Lord Stange, monument, Plutarch, Richard III, Shakespeare, Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, Shropshire, Stanley, Tong, Vernon
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