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Shakespeare: Print and Performance

Posted on October 16, 2017 by Sylvia Morris

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 →

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The Merry Wives of Windsor in the Royal Library

Posted on February 20, 2016 by Sylvia Morris

The story that Shakespeare wrote The Merry Wives of Windsor in response to a request from Queen Elizabeth to see Falstaff in love goes back a long way. In the prologue to his 1702 adaptation of the play, The Comical … Continue reading →

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Alas, poor Yorick: the spell of Hamlet

Posted on July 27, 2015 by Sylvia Morris

On 26 July 1602 Shakespeare’s play Hamlet was registered with the Stationers’ Company in London. It’s an important date, but has done little to settle the burning question of when Shakespeare’s most famous play was first written and first performed. … Continue reading →

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The Rape of Lucrece

Posted on May 9, 2014 by Sylvia Morris

Exactly 420 years ago, on 9 May 1594, Shakespeare’s long poem The Rape of Lucrece was registered before being published later that year. In the dedication to the poem he had written the year before, Venus and Adonis, Shakespeare sounds … Continue reading →

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