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Tag Archives: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Howard Blake’s music for Shakespeare in performance
This Friday, 6 June, Stratford-upon-Avon’s Orchestra of the Swan’s celebration of the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare’s birth reaches its climax with a concert of music inspired by A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Three of the four concerts in the series have … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy, Shakespeare on Stage
Tagged A Midsummer Night's Dream, Adrian Noble, As You Like it, Henry V, Howard Blake, Twelfth Night
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Celebrating Shakespeare and Purcell with the Orchestra of the Swan
Stratford-upon-Avon’s own chamber orchestra, the Orchestra of the Swan, is currently celebrating Shakespeare’s 450th anniversary by performing four concerts of music inspired by his work. The first concert, last Friday, included the lovely orchestral suite written by Henry Purcell for … Continue reading
Elizabeth 1 and her people in portrait and performance
The new exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, Elizabeth I and her people, puts on display a glorious collection of portraits of Elizabethans, supported by objects, manuscripts and books that provide some background to the world in which these people … Continue reading
Posted in Shakespeare's World
Tagged A Midsummer Night's Dream, David Walliams, Elizabeth 1 and her People, National Portrait Gallery
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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 and the sweet of the year
This week the UK is experiencing the warmest weather of the year. Whether it’s because last year was so disappointing, or because spring arrived so late, summer is bringing with it an explosion of blooms with, it seems to me, … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy, Shakespeare's World
Tagged A Midsummer Night's Dream, flowers, scent, summer, The Winter's Tale
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Midsummer Night’s Dreaming: online experiment and real-time event
This weekend Stratford-upon-Avon has been the venue for a “daring new collaboration” between the RSC and Google’s Creative Lab to stage a real-time performance of A Midsummer Night’s Dream while simultaneously creating a digital presence in which anybody could join. The … Continue reading
Social networking with Shakespeare: Midsummer Night’s Dreaming
The rise of social networking has brought many opportunities for organisations to share their work: immediate, personal communication, instant updates, the ability to reach unconventional audiences. Organisations specialising in Shakespeare might be expected to be slow to join in, but … Continue reading
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Tagged A Midsummer Night's Dream, facebook, Google+, Internet, Joe Dixon, Midsummer Night's Dreaming, Such Tweet Sorrow, twitter
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Peter Brook: from enfant terrible to grand old man of the theatre
Nobody has been more influential in the world of the theatre in the last 70 years than Peter Brook. And at the age of 88, he’s still involved, setting out his ideas about why theatre is so important. Shakespeare has … Continue reading
Posted in Plays and Poems, Shakespeare on Stage
Tagged A Midsummer Night's Dream, Antony and Cleopatra, Hamlet, John Gielgud, Love's Labour's Lost, Marat-Sade, Measure for Measure, Peter Brook, Romeo and Juliet, The Tempest, Theatre of Cruelty
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Seeking A Midsummer Night’s Dream in “the winds of March”
It’s the beginning of March and signs of spring are still few and far between after a long and dreary winter. What does the dedicated Shakespeare-lover need to cheer themselves up? A Midsummer Night’s Dream, of course! And of course … Continue reading
Posted in Shakespeare on Stage
Tagged A Midsummer Night's Dream, Bristol Old Vic, Peter Brook, Shakespeare Institute Players, Touchstone
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Shakespeare and Ovid’s Metamorphoses
In 1598 the writer Francis Meres wrote that “the witty soul of Ovid lives in mellifluous and honey-tongued Shakespeare”. And well he might: Shakespeare had already written his own version of one of Ovid’s tales, as well as borrowing stories … Continue reading
Posted in Shakespeare's World, Sources
Tagged A Midsummer Night's Dream, Francis Meres, Metamorphoses, Ovid, The Winter's Tale
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