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Tag Archives: Queen Elizabeth 1
“The long day’s task is done, and we must sleep”
With the death of Queen Elizabeth II today, 8 September 2022, we’re now going to live through something that few British people alive can remember as a new monarch succeeds to the throne. Tributes are flooding in, crowds carrying flowers … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy
Tagged death, monarchy, Queen Elizabeth 1, Queen Elizabeth II, Richard II, succession
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Music and dancing for Queen Elizabeth
We’re just reaching the end of the merry month of May, and about to embark on a weekend of celebrations for the Platinum Anniversary of Queen Elizabeth II’s accession to the throne. Events, many of them outdoors, will be taking … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy, Shakespeare on Stage, Shakespeare's World
Tagged As You Like it, dance, Darren Royston, jig, Lucie Skeaping, music, Orchesographie, Platinum Jubilee, Queen Elizabeth 1, Queen Elizabeth II, The Early Music show, The Winter's Tale, Twelfth Night
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Sir Walter Raleigh’s 400th anniversary
2018 marks 400 years since the death by execution of one of the most remarkable men of Shakespeare’s period, Sir Walter Raleigh. Raleigh is popularly known for bringing back the first potatoes from Virginia, for popularising tobacco, and for placing … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy, Shakespeare's World
Tagged Bicton Park, Budleigh Salterton, East Budleigh, Edward Millais, Hayes Barton, Queen Elizabeth 1, Sir Walter Ralegh, Sir Walter Raleigh, The History of the World, Tower of London, Virginia
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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
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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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The Merry Wives of Windsor in the Royal Library
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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Tagged carving, Falstaff, George IV, Herne's Oak, quarto, Queen Elizabeth 1, Queen Mary, The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Order of the Garter, William Perry, Windsor Castle
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Queen Elizabeth’s record-breaking reign
On 9 September 2015 Queen Elizabeth II becomes officially the longest-reigning British monarch in history, having survived for over 63 years, just longer than Queen Victoria. The Queen has refused to mark the day in any way, but the press … Continue reading
Burghley, Gerarde and Shakespeare examined again
Last week the second of Mark Griffiths’ pieces about Gerarde’s Herball and its connections with Shakespeare was published in Country Life, and I’m grateful to friends for lending me copies of both. They’ve made interesting reading: Griffiths is extremely knowledgeable … Continue reading
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Tagged allegory, Burghley, Country Life, Herball, John Gerard, John Gerarde, Mark Griffiths, Queen Elizabeth 1, title page
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“Your gown’s a most rare fashion”: costume and Shakespeare
Picture the Elizabethan period and the chances are you will think of portraits, probably one of those dazzling paintings of Queen Elizabeth herself. There are so many, so well-known, they have individual names: the Armada portrait, the Hardwick portrait, the … Continue reading
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Tagged costume, cross-gartering, fashion, Queen Elizabeth 1, ruff, Sarah Jane Downing, Sumptuary Laws, The Taming of the Shrew, The Tempest, The Winter's Tale, Twelfth Night, wool
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Shakespeare and the Warwick Pageant
I’ve recently listened to an illustrated podcast of a talk given by Professor Michael Dobson in September 2012 at the Shakespeare Institute in Stratford, entitled A boy from Stratford 1769-1916, freely available on the Backdoor Broadcasting site. The lecture was … Continue reading