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Tag Archives: Romeo and Juliet
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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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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“The point envenom’d too” onstage fighting or the real thing?
On 13 December 2016, the members of Stratford-upon-Avon’s Shakespeare Club will be able to get an inside view on the subject of staging battles and fights in productions of Shakespeare’s plays, from a man who really knows his subject. Alan … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy, Shakespeare on Stage, Shakespeare's World
Tagged Alan Smith, armoury, battle, fighting, Hamlet, rapier, Romeo and Juliet, Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford-upon-Avon Shakespeare Club, swordplay, Wallace Collection
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Shakespeare 400 continues
Following the fabulously successful but exhausting weekend celebrating the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, and his 452nd birthday, I’ve had a few days rest from the blog, but it doesn’t mean I haven’t been busy researching and writing a book … Continue reading
Cakes, ale and hearing the chimes at midnight
Last weekend we remembered, again, the birthday of William Shakespeare. In Stratford tradition is important, so the boys of Shakespeare’s school still head the procession as they have done for over a century. The celebration is also a birthday party, … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy, Stratford-upon-Avon
Tagged cake, Hamlet, Henry IV part 2, Much Ado About Nothing, Panettone, Romeo and Juliet, Shipston Home Nursing, Twelfth Night, WRAP
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Celebrating Shakespeare’s 451st birthday on both sides of the Atlantic
April is a special month for Shakespeare-lovers, as we celebrate both the birth and death of William Shakespeare in 1564 and 1616. The birthday is traditionally celebrated on the 23rd, three days before his baptism at Holy Trinity Church was … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy, Stratford-upon-Avon
Tagged Bottoms Dream, British Film Institute, DC, Folger Shakespeare Library, London, New York, New York Shakespeare Convention, Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare's Birthday, Shakespeare's Birthday Celebrations, Shakespeare's Globe, Washington
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Mary Anderson, an American actress abroad
On the 29th August 1885 a special performance took place at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre. The famous Mary Anderson and her Company staged As You Like It as a Benefit for the Shakespeare Memorial Fund. Although her name is now … Continue reading
Posted in Shakespeare on Stage, Stratford-upon-Avon
Tagged 1916, American, As You Like it, Johnston Forbes-Robertson, Macbeth, Mary Anderson, Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, terracotta, The Winter's Tale, USA
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Shakespeare for children: Charles and Mary Lamb
In a recent survey of childrens’ favourite books A A Milne’s much-loved Winnie the Pooh, written in 1926 came top. Second, perhaps more surprisingly, came the even older and quirkier Alice in Wonderland, published in 1865. Given that most of … Continue reading
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Tagged British Shakespeare Association, Charles Lamb, children, education, Harold Copping, King Lear, Mary Lamb, Romeo and Juliet, William Harvey
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Shakespeare across the gender boundaries
There’s lots going on just now with all-female and cross-gender productions of Shakespeare, so this post is a quick round-up. Following their success with an all-female Julius Caesar directed by Phyllida Lloyd, the Donmar Warehouse recently announced they will be … Continue reading
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Tagged all-female, gender, Hamlet, Henry IV, Julius Caesar, King Lear, Romeo and Juliet
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Staging the balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet
In an earlier post on the subject of Juliet’s balcony, I talked about the original staging of this scene, and how the scene came to be known as “the balcony scene” even though in Elizabethan England the word balcony was … Continue reading
Posted in Plays and Poems, Shakespeare on Stage
Tagged balcony, Juliet, Romeo, Romeo and Juliet, scene, set design, stage
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