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Category Archives: Stratford-upon-Avon
Music and musicians at the RSC
According to the Royal Shakespeare Company’s website, Shakespeare made over 2,000 references to music, included over 400 separate musical terms, and wrote around 100 songs to be performed in his plays. Music has been an essential component of performances at … Continue reading
Henry Wallis: a pre-Raphaelite’s views of Shakespeare’s Stratford
Henry Wallis isn’t one of the best-known of the Pre-Raphaelite painters, barely getting a mention in books about Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Millais, Holman Hunt et al, but one of his paintings is universally-known and classed as a masterpiece. The Death … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy, Stratford-upon-Avon
Tagged BBC Your Paintings, Birthroom, Charles Dickens, Chatterton, Henry Wallis, John Forster, RSC Collection, Sir Edwin Landseer, Tate Britain, Victoria and Albert Museum
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Cakes, ale and hearing the chimes at midnight
Last weekend we remembered, again, the birthday of William Shakespeare. In Stratford tradition is important, so the boys of Shakespeare’s school still head the procession as they have done for over a century. The celebration is also a birthday party, … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy, Stratford-upon-Avon
Tagged cake, Hamlet, Henry IV part 2, Much Ado About Nothing, Panettone, Romeo and Juliet, Shipston Home Nursing, Twelfth Night, WRAP
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Shakespeare’s Birthday Celebrations 2015
Yesterday, 25 April 2015, Stratford put its party hat on and celebrated Shakespeare’s 451st Birthday again in style. It’s always a great occasion consisting of lots of different elements: street entertainment, dancing, bands playing, the big procession, a lunch party. … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy, Stratford-upon-Avon
Tagged Birthday Celebrations, Shakespeare's Celebrations
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Celebrating Shakespeare’s birthday on foot and screen
My last blog post looked at some of the more official celebrations of Shakespeare’s birthday being held in Stratford, London, New York and Washington DC. This time I’m filling in some of the gaps by including some links to other … Continue reading
Posted in Shakespeare's World, Stratford-upon-Avon
Tagged Agas Map, Footprints of London, London, New York, ShaLT, Sonnet Project, sonnet Slam, Stratford Town Walks, Stratford-upon-Avon
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Celebrating Shakespeare’s 451st birthday on both sides of the Atlantic
April is a special month for Shakespeare-lovers, as we celebrate both the birth and death of William Shakespeare in 1564 and 1616. The birthday is traditionally celebrated on the 23rd, three days before his baptism at Holy Trinity Church was … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy, Stratford-upon-Avon
Tagged Bottoms Dream, British Film Institute, DC, Folger Shakespeare Library, London, New York, New York Shakespeare Convention, Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare's Birthday, Shakespeare's Birthday Celebrations, Shakespeare's Globe, Washington
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“The best bit of Shakespeareana ever penned” Washington Irving and Stratford
3rd April 1783 was the birthday of the great American writer Washington Irving, one of the first tourists to Stratford-upon-Avon to describe his visit in detail. While living in England he made several visits to the town to see the sites … Continue reading
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Tagged Avon, Charlecote, Holy Trinity Church, Richard Savage, Sexton, Shakespeare Club, Shakespeare's Birthplace, W S Brassington, Washington Irving
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Stratford’s alehouses: the Dirty Duck
In 1556 John Shakespeare’s first official appointment in Stratford was as ale-taster, requiring him to check the measures, prices and quality of beer provided by inn-keepers. As a market-town, Stratford always provided refreshment to visitors, locals and traders, and by … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy, Shakespeare's World, Stratford-upon-Avon
Tagged ale, beer, Black Swan, deer-stealing, Dirty Duck, Flowers Brewery, Leonard Parrish, public houses, Thomas Lucy
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Celebrating Shakespeare with Kenneth Branagh
Kenneth Branagh is best known as one of his generation’s finest Shakespearean actors and directors for both stage and film, so his latest project, a sweetly traditional film of the fairy tale Cinderella, comes as something of a surprise. It … Continue reading
Shakespeare, suffrage, and Stratford-upon-Avon
This week, 8-13 March, International Women’s Week has been celebrated around the world with an examination of the achievements of women and progress towards gender equality. Amanda Vickery’s three-part television series Suffragettes Forever! has documented the history of the struggle … Continue reading