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Documenting Shakespeare

Posted on March 15, 2016 by Sylvia Morris

A couple of weeks ago I acquired, from a second hand book dealer, a copy of a book I have long coveted, Samuel Schoenbaum’s William Shakespeare: a Documentary Life. This book was published in 1975 and when I began work … Continue reading →

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Shakespeare in trouble with the law

Posted on November 29, 2015 by Sylvia Morris

On the whole, Shakespeare kept out of trouble. He got his girlfriend pregnant, and didn’t always pay his taxes, but compared with the violence of the lives of his contemporaries Marlowe, Kyd and Jonson, his was uneventful and that was … Continue reading →

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Bidford-on-Avon and the Shakespeare legend

Posted on July 29, 2015 by Sylvia Morris

Back in June 2015 a farm vehicle struck the fifteenth-century stone bridge at Bidford-on-Avon, a few miles downstream from Stratford. Bidford was once, as Stratford still is, a market town and its bridge marks a crossing that goes back to … Continue reading →

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Fact or fiction: Shakespeare at Charlecote

Posted on March 3, 2014 by Sylvia Morris

There are many legends about Shakespeare’s life, but none is more compelling than that linking him with Charlecote Park, near Stratford-upon-Avon. Local historian Dr Robert Bearman has just sent me details of a new publication that relates to it: Anyone … Continue reading →

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Lives of Shakespeare

Posted on July 11, 2012 by Sylvia Morris

For a man about whom we are supposed to know next to nothing, an awful lot of books have been written about Shakespeare’s life. A couple of weeks ago I wrote a piece about Nicholas Fogg’s new biography of Shakespeare, … Continue reading →

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