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Rehabilitating Shakespeare’s “she-wolf of France”, Margaret of Anjou
For many years attempts have been made to establish that Richard III was not the out and out villain that Shakespeare presents to us, a difficult task since Richard III is one of his most compelling characters in a … Continue reading
Posted in Plays and Poems, Sources
Tagged Edward Hall, Henry VI, In Our Time, Margaret of Anjou, Richard III, sources, Trojan War
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Anthony Hopkins’ King Lear
The Shakespeare event of the Bank Holiday weekend is the new version of King Lear to be screened by BBC2 on Monday 28 May 2018. And hopefully people won’t be too tired after a day having fun to tune in, … Continue reading
Posted in Plays and Poems, Shakespeare on Stage
Tagged Anthony Hopkins, Antony Sher, BBC, Ian McKellen, King Lear, Reg Foakes, Richard Eyre
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Shakespeare’s spring
One of the greatest pleasures of spring in England is watching life returning over weeks or even months, beginning in gardens and parks with the blooming of snowdrops, moving on to daffodils, apple blossom and bluebells, to the mighty trees, … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy, Shakespeare's World, Stratford-upon-Avon
Tagged gardens, Glyn Jones, herbals, plants, Shakespeare Brithplace Trust, Shakespeare Club of Stratford-upon-Avon, spring
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Shakespeare and the actors
The annual Olivier Awards ceremony took place on 8 April 2018, and this year, sadly, there were no awards for any Shakespeare productions. Even more unusually, there were only three nominations, all for Robert Icke’s production of Hamlet at the … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Scott, Antony Sher, Benedict Cumberbatch, Ian McKellen, Nimah Cusack, Olivier Awards, Paterson Joseph
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Fireworks for Queen Elizabeth
One of the most famous legends of Shakespeare’s life is the story that Shakespeare might have attended some of the celebrations that accompanied Queen Elizabeth 1’s visit to Kenilworth Castle in 1575. It would have been easy for the 11-year … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy, Shakespeare's World
Tagged Farah Karim-Cooper, fireworks, John Babington, Kenilworth, Lucy Worsley, Pyrotechnia, Queen Elizabeth 1, Robert Dudley, Robert Laneham, Shakespeare's Globe, Zoe Laughlin
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Hamlets onstage then and now
This week David Ricardo-Pearce has joined the mighty list of actors who have taken on Shakespeare’s most famous part, Hamlet. Until 10 March 2018 he’s playing the role at the Octagon Theatre in Bolton where they are celebrating the fiftieth … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy, Plays and Poems
Tagged British Library, David Garrick, David Ricardo-Pearce, David Thacker, female Hamlet, Hamlet, In Our Time, In the Spotlight, Melvyn Bragg, Octagon Theatre Bolton, Paapa Essiedu, Theatregoing, Tony Howard
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Shakespeare and the monarchy
The BBC is currently running a Royal Collection season, focusing on the million or so objects owned by British royalty. Many are priceless artefacts, but the Collection also includes objects with extraordinary symbolic and cultural value to the nation. Some … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy, Shakespeare's World
Tagged Andrew Graham-Dixon, Ben Elton, Charles 1, Charles II, Coronation Spoon, Crown Jewels, David Mitchell, Emma Thompson, Richard II, Royal Collection, royalty, The Upstart Crow
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Bright angels: Shakespeare and medieval wall paintings
Angels have been part of the Christmas story ever since it was told in St Luke’s Gospel where the Angel Gabriel appeared to Mary at the Annunciation, and where angels appeared to the shepherds to tell them of the birth … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy
Tagged angels, Guild Chapel, Reformation, Romeo and Juliet, wall paintings
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International Migrants Day: Ira Aldridge and theatre
18 December is International Migrants Day, when the courage and contribution of migrants and refugees around the world is especially celebrated. In the play Sir Thomas More, Shakespeare wrote persuasively about the plight of people fleeing their own countries: he … Continue reading
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Tagged Coventry, Dublin, International Migrants Day, Ira Aldridge, migration, Nottingham, refugee, Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, Sir Thomas More, Tony Howard, United Nations
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Ovid and Shakespeare: the world’s greatest storytellers
Anyone who’s interested in Shakespeare will have heard the name Ovid, but how much do we really know about him? I’ve written a couple of posts on Ovid myself, but I have never really investigated the story of this great … Continue reading
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Tagged Fiona Shaw, MayaVision, Michael Wood, Ovid, Rome, Royal Shakespeare Company, Shakespeare Club of Stratford-upon-Avon, Simon Russell Beale, The Tempest
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