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Category Archives: Stratford-upon-Avon
Royal Shakespeare Company’s plans for 2016
All the large Shakespeare organisations are celebrating the four-hundredth anniversary of Shakespeare’s death in 2016 with events to show that Shakespeare is universal, appealing to people of all ages and backgrounds. As befits the best-funded Shakespeare company in the UK … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy, Shakespeare on Stage, Stratford-upon-Avon
Tagged 2016, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Antony Sher, Cymbeline, David Tennant, Erica Whyman, Gregory Doran, Hamlet, John Wyver, King and Country, RSC, Simon Russell Beale, The Tempest, Vanessa Redgrave
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The rain it raineth every day
Over the last few weeks the news has been dominated by the dreadful and repeated flooding in parts of northern England and Scotland as a series of storms have swept across the UK. Cities have been swamped and ancient bridges … Continue reading
Posted in Stratford-upon-Avon
Tagged David Garrick, floods, Garrick's Folly, Johanne M Stockholm, Jubilee, River Avon, Robert Bell Wheler, Titus Andronicus
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Uncovering my Stratford roots
On 28 December 1798 William Tompkins was christened in Holy Trinity Church, Stratford-upon-Avon. He was my great-great-grandfather. I came across this fact, as it happened, on 28 December 2015, reading the book written by my cousin, Carolyn Swain in which … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy, Stratford-upon-Avon
Tagged Carolyn Swain, Robert Bell Wheler, Tompkins, William Tompkins
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All our yesterdays on film with the BFI
The Christmas pudding’s hardly cold and all those retrospectives on the year just gone are coming at us full tilt. And predictions for next year are following only just behind. As the quatercentenary of his death 2016 is going to … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy, Stratford-upon-Avon
Tagged British Film Institute, Pathe News, Stratford-upon-Avon, YouTube
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Following the Shakespeare Trail
The weather now, in mid-December, is as dreary as Shakespeare describes at the end of Love’s Labour’s Lost. Ways are truly foul and there is little incentive to get anywhere on foot, even though that’s always my favourite method of exploring … Continue reading
The tale of “Shakespeare’s skull”
In writing posts for this blog I’ve looked at lots of the myths surrounding Shakespeare’s life. They cover almost every aspect of his life: who he married, and where, what he looked like, whether he was gay or straight, whether … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy, Stratford-upon-Avon
Tagged Beoley, C L Langstone, Charles Mynors, gothic, grave, Holy Trinity Church, Horace Walpole, myth, skull, The Castle of Otranto, The Moonstone, Wilkie Collins
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Shakespeare Jubilees
And now, a fanfare. Earlier this week I received my contributor’s copy of a new book entitled Shakespeare Jubilees: 1769-2014, edited by Christa Jansohn and Dieter Mehl, and published in Germany. More details of the publication, including the contents list, … Continue reading
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Tagged celebrations, Christa Jansohn, Germany, Shakespeare Jubilees
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Stratford and “the sere, the yellow leaf”
It’s that time of year when everything feels as if it’s shutting down. Days get shorter, nights colder, and once they’ve had their brief blaze of colour, leaves are gone from the bare branches. The sense of things coming to … Continue reading
The Battle of Waterloo: a Shakespeare connection
2015 is a good year for centenaries. 800 years on, Magna Carta is probably the most important of these, and towards the end of October we’ll be celebrating 600 years since the great victory of Agincourt. Both of these have … Continue reading
Queen Elizabeth’s record-breaking reign
On 9 September 2015 Queen Elizabeth II becomes officially the longest-reigning British monarch in history, having survived for over 63 years, just longer than Queen Victoria. The Queen has refused to mark the day in any way, but the press … Continue reading