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Tag Archives: British Library
The John Webster #websterthon
In June 2019 the Shakespeare Institute in Stratford-upon-Avon, is celebrating another of Shakespeare’s contemporaries, John Webster, in the seventh of their marathon playreadings. Webster’s canon is too compact for the three weeks of the event, and this year they … Continue reading
Posted in Shakespeare's World
Tagged #websterthon, British Library, John Webster, Martin Wiggins, Shakespeare in Love, Shakespeare Institute, T S Eliot, The Duchess of Malfi, The White Devil, tragedy
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Happy 80th birthday, Sir Ian McKellen!
25 May 2019, the 80th birthday of Ian McKellen! I was recently lucky enough to catch his one-man show Ian McKellen on Stage at the Belgrade Theatre in Coventry. He’s performing this show up and down the country for most … Continue reading
Posted in Shakespeare on Stage
Tagged British Library, Gandalf, Ian McKellen, Ian McKellen on Stage, Lord of the Rings, Sir Thomas More
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Shakespeare and the Europeans in Italy
With the equinox now passed and spring firmly under way here in the UK it’s time to look forward to the warmth of the summer. How better than to celebrate it with the charity Shakespeare in Italy’s wonderful annual Summer … Continue reading
Posted in Shakespeare's World
Tagged Album Amicorum, Andrew Dickson, Austria, British Library, Florence, Germany, Italy, John Mullan, Julian Curry, Mary Chater, Shakespeare in Italy
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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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Plough Monday and Distaff Day
Although Christmas is well past, it’s been only a week since many people got back to normal, so attached are the English to festivities at the turn of the year. It’s not a new phenomenon. From Elizabethan times, and probably … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy, Shakespeare's World
Tagged @ClerkofOxford, A Midsummer Night's Dream, British Library, Christmas, Distaff Day, Eleanor Parker, Plough Monday, Robert Herrick, Thomas Tusser, Twelfth Night
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Playbills in the spotlight
The British Library’s Digital Scholarship blog has today, 9 November 2017, launched their new crowdsourcing site In the Spotlight. This project encourages the public to help transcribe information about historic performances from the BL’s major collection of theatrical playbills dating … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy
Tagged British Library, British Library Digital Scholarship, Folger Shakespeare Library, In the Spotlight, playbills, Sarah Hoyde
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Theatregoing with Luke McKernan
Following on from my post about the MOOC that began 23 October 2017, I’ve only just discovered a relatively new site that reproduces lots of material relating to going to the theatre, put together by the British Library’s prolific Lead … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy, Shakespeare on Stage
Tagged British Library, Luke McKernan, performance, Theatregoing
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Shakespeare: Print and Performance
For many years, even centuries, there was a huge divide between Shakespeare’s plays as they were performed and how they appeared in print. Scholars wrestled with the numerous different editions of the plays issued in the early modern period, trying … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy, Shakespeare on Stage, Shakespeare's World
Tagged British Library, Erica Moulton, FutureLearn, Kings College London, MOOC, Print and Performance, quarto, Romeo and Juliet, Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, Shakespeare's Globe, Stationers' Company
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Celebrating Ovid 2000 years on
2017 marks the 2000th anniversary of the death of the Roman writer Ovid, whose Metamorphoses has continued to be one of the most influential of literary works. As Shakespeare’s favourite writer, the RSC, and its current Artistic Director Gregory Doran … Continue reading
Springtime in Stratford with Shakespeare and Chaucer
This year, 2017, the blossom trees in Stratford-upon-Avon seem to me to be even more glorious than ever, and Easter has come at just the right time to enjoy the spectacle at its finest. It always seems a pity that … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy, Stratford-upon-Avon
Tagged blossom, British Library, Digitised Manuscripts, Easter, Geoffrey Chaucer, herbals, spring, swans
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