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Category Archives: Stratford-upon-Avon
Dido, Queen of Carthage: Marlowe and Shakespeare’s visions of Troy
Dido, Queen of Carthage is one of Christopher Marlowe’s least-performed and least-read plays. It’s sometimes been suggested that this unpopularity has been caused by it being an early, perhaps undergraduate effort. Recently there has been a revival of interest in … Continue reading
Posted in Shakespeare's World, Stratford-upon-Avon
Tagged Christ Church Oxford, Christopher Marlowe, Dido Queen of Carthage, King Edward VI School, National Theatre, Rose Theatre, Shakespeare's Globe, Virgil
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Shakespeare’s scenes in terracotta
Stratford-upon-Avon is not exactly short of memorials to William Shakespeare, with statues, busts and portraits on view in many public and not so public places. But representations of his plays are less common. The earliest of these were incorporated into … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy, Stratford-upon-Avon
Tagged Angelica Kauffmann, Samuel Barfield, sculpture, terracotta
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Reaping the harvest: growing food in Shakespeare’s England and our own
With the weather on the turn and autumn just around the corner, there’s just time to celebrate the joys of gardening and farming edible plants. This blog post, A Field Guide to Renaissance Gardens, offers some glorious images of sumptuous … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy, Shakespeare's World, Stratford-upon-Avon
Tagged BBC, farming, food, Getty Museum, harvest, Ruth Goodman
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Warwickshire witchcraft: Macbeth and the mystery of Meon Hill
“And over there, the hill with the flat top, that’s Meon Hill”. The guide at the top of the RSC’s tower didn’t need to say more, knowing we were locals. With our guest for the weekend we were admiring the … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy, Shakespeare on Stage, Shakespeare's World, Stratford-upon-Avon
Tagged Falstaff Experience, Macbeth, magic, Meon Hill, Pitchfork Murder, Shakespeare Centre Library and Archive, Steve Punt, Stratford Town Walks, The Creaky Cauldron, The Dell, Titian Rep, witchcraft
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Playing Shakespeare’s and Ibsen’s heroines: the career of Janet Achurch
After Shakespeare’s, Henrik Ibsen’s plays are the most-performed dramas ever written. They were immediately popular and were produced around the world even during his lifetime. Set in his native Norway, the plays explored what lay behind the strict moral regime … Continue reading
Posted in Shakespeare on Stage, Stratford-upon-Avon
Tagged Australia, Charles Edward Flower, Frank Benson, Henrik Ibsen, Janet Achurch, Macbeth
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Richard II and Edward II take the stage
Next week rehearsals begin for the most high-profile event of the RSC’s year, Richard II starring David Tennant, directed by Artistic Director Gregory Doran. There is a lot of information on the RSC’s website including a brief interview with Tennant, … Continue reading
All’s Well That Ends Well at the RSC
High summer in Stratford-upon-Avon and at the RST the season is in full swing. Three Shakespeare productions are running in the main theatre, and on Thursday it was possible to see two plays back to back. In the afternoon there … Continue reading
Posted in Shakespeare on Stage, Stratford-upon-Avon
Tagged All's Well That Ends Well, dance, music, Nancy Meckler
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Art Everywhere: Shakespeare’s Ophelia
For the next ten days, until 25 August, copies of 57 British works of art will be displayed in thousands of locations in the UK: at bus stops, billboards and shopping centres. It’s billed as the world’s largest art show. … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy, Stratford-upon-Avon
Tagged Art Everywhere, Getty Foundation, Millais, Ophelia, Tennyson, The Lady of Shalott, Waterhouse, Your Paintings
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Shakespeare’s mulberries: trees of history and legend
Last Sunday, 4 August 2013, one of Stratford’s mulberry trees split in two. There are many ancient mulberries in the town, principally in the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust’s gardens, and they’re mostly propped up by metal or brick supports, making them look … Continue reading
Posted in Shakespeare's World, Stratford-upon-Avon
Tagged A Midsummer Night's Dream, Buckingham Palace, Coriolanus, Great Garden, Hall's Croft, mulberries, mythology, National Collection, New Place, Pyramus and Thisbe, Royal Horticultural Society
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Shakespeare’s first female critic: Margaret Cavendish
Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, is one of the less well-known early commentators on Shakespeare, yet her “Sociable Letter” on Shakespeare, published in 1664, is “the first critical essay ever to be published on Shakespeare”. This judgement appears in Women … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy, Shakespeare's World, Stratford-upon-Avon
Tagged civil war, Henrietta Maria, Margaret Cavendish, New Place, William Cavendish
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