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Category Archives: Shakespeare’s World
The story of Shakespeare’s brooch
On Tuesday 8 September 2015 the new season of meetings of Stratford’s Shakespeare Club will begin. Following the AGM to be held at 7.15 the subject of the evening’s talk will be Shakespeare and Jewellery. It will be given by David … Continue reading
Posted in Shakespeare's World, Stratford-upon-Avon
Tagged David Roberts, James Saunders. Robert Bell Wheler, jewellery, legends, Luckenbooth, myths, ring, Shakespeare's brooch
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Shakespeare and the Book of Common Prayer
On Radio 4 on 26 August 2015 Quentin Letts asked “What’s the point of the Book of Common Prayer?” This little book, written by Archbishop Thomas Cranmer, was originally published in 1549 during the brief but emphatically protestant reign of King Edward … Continue reading
Shakespeare and the British Renaissance
James Fox’s three-part documentary series A Very British Renaissance has just finished on BBC 4. It was first shown in 2014, and having missed it first time I’m very pleased to have caught up with it. The presenter, an art historian, … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy, Shakespeare's World
Tagged Hans Holbein, Inigo Jones, James Fox, John Dee, Palladio, Renaissance, The Tempest
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Ben Jonson, Shakespeare and Burbage: Volpone on stage
When Ben Jonson delivered his new comedy Volpone to the King’s Men in early 1606, Richard Burbage must have cheered. Jonson would have written the leading role with Burbage in mind, as Shakespeare also wrote roles for his most popular … Continue reading
Posted in Shakespeare's World
Tagged beds, Ben Jonson, Henry Goodman, Pericles, Trevor Nunn, Volpone
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Bidford-on-Avon and the Shakespeare legend
Back in June 2015 a farm vehicle struck the fifteenth-century stone bridge at Bidford-on-Avon, a few miles downstream from Stratford. Bidford was once, as Stratford still is, a market town and its bridge marks a crossing that goes back to … Continue reading
Archaeology: uncovering Shakespeare’s England
I always used to think of archaeologists as people who dug up the remains of Roman settlements and prehistoric burial chambers, but in the last few years they seem to have been examining a much wider range of sites, working … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy, Shakespeare's World
Tagged archaeology, Bedlam, Bethlem, Coventry Cathedral, Julian Bowsher, King Lear, Museum of London archaeology, Richard II
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News about Shakespeare’s School
Last week the news broke that Stratford’s King Edward VI School (Shakespeare’s School) has won its bid for £1.4 million from the Heritage Lottery Fund. This is excellent news: this money will enable the school to carry out much-needed conservation … Continue reading
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Tagged Edwards' Boys, King Edward VI School, Perry Mills
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Not Shakespeare, and not Blackfriars
It’s always tempting to speculate on what might have happened if things had been different, and in the Artsnight programme Not Shakespeare, broadcast on 19 June Andrew Marr looked at the world of the Elizabethan and Jacobean theatre, and what … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy, Shakespeare's World
Tagged Andrew Marr, Ben Jonson, Chris Laoutaris, Christopher Marlowe, Eion Price, Elizabeth Russell, John Ford, John Webster, Shakespeare and the Countess
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John Gerarde’s History of Plants and other herbals
A valuable aspect of the debate about the proposed new lifetime portrait of Shakespeare is the interest it has raised in John Gerarde’s Herball. The previous Director of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, Roger Pringle, and his wife Marian (Senior Librarian … Continue reading
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Tagged Dodoens, Grete Herball, herbals, John Gerard, John Gerarde, Mark Griffiths, plants, Shakespeare Centre Library and Archive, William Turner
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Burghley, Gerarde and Shakespeare examined again
Last week the second of Mark Griffiths’ pieces about Gerarde’s Herball and its connections with Shakespeare was published in Country Life, and I’m grateful to friends for lending me copies of both. They’ve made interesting reading: Griffiths is extremely knowledgeable … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy, Shakespeare's World
Tagged allegory, Burghley, Country Life, Herball, John Gerard, John Gerarde, Mark Griffiths, Queen Elizabeth 1, title page
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