Tag Archives: Shakespeare Club of Stratford-upon-Avon

Mark Carey’s Into the Breach: a Shakespearean one-man show

Posted on December 10, 2017 by Sylvia Morris

People who are best known as actors often have many strings to their bows. David Garrick was a talented writer and today Antony Sher has become a distinguished artist and writer of fiction. Shakespeare himself began his life in the … Continue reading →

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Ovid and Shakespeare: the world’s greatest storytellers

Posted on November 19, 2017 by Sylvia Morris

Anyone who’s interested in Shakespeare will have heard the name Ovid, but how much do we really know about him? I’ve written a couple of posts on Ovid myself, but I have never really investigated the story of this great … Continue reading →

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Influences on Shakespeare

Posted on October 9, 2017 by Sylvia Morris

The source books from which Shakespeare took the main stories of his plays are well-known, sometimes so important that he quoted almost word for word, as in Enobarbus’s description of Cleopatra from Plutarch’s Lives. Other sources seem to have been … Continue reading →

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Announcing the Shakespeare Club of Stratford-upon-Avon’s new season

Posted on September 4, 2017 by Sylvia Morris

With summer turning to autumn, it’s time to think about the many enjoyable ways to fill the longer evenings. Shakespeare-lovers can now look forward to the new season of meetings of the Stratford-upon-Avon Shakespeare Club. The Club is the oldest … Continue reading →

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Marie Corelli’s Stratford-upon-Avon memorial restored

Posted on July 17, 2017 by Sylvia Morris

The monument to Shakespeare in Holy Trinity Church was put in place by 1623, and has been visited by tourists almost ever since. Over the past four centuries it has occasionally suffered damage, and has been restored several times. At … Continue reading →

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Shakespeare Birthday Celebrations 2017 in Stratford-upon-Avon

Posted on April 23, 2017 by Sylvia Morris

In 2017 I am more aware than ever how lucky I am to live in Stratford-upon-Avon, able to take a full part in the whole weekend of the Birthday Celebrations, not just the day itself. So many events take place it … Continue reading →

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Shakespeare’s Schooldays brought to life

Posted on April 7, 2017 by Sylvia Morris

On Tuesday 4 April I addressed the pupils of King Edward VI School in Stratford-upon-Avon, Shakespeare’s School, at their morning assembly, part of our efforts to publicise the town’s two hundred-year old Shakespeare Club. The school has been in existence … Continue reading →

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Talking to the Stratford Society

Posted on February 17, 2017 by Sylvia Morris

The publication and now the promotion of the book I’ve co-written with Susan Brock on the history of Stratford’s Shakespeare Club has been a constant and enjoyable preoccupation over the last few months. I’m pleased to report that with the … Continue reading →

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Documenting the oldest Shakespeare organisation in the world

Posted on January 17, 2017 by Sylvia Morris

Regular readers will be aware that The Story of Stratford-upon-Avon’s Shakespeare Club, 1824-2016: Long life to the Club call’d Shakspearean has recently been published, documenting the history of the oldest surviving Shakespeare organisation in the world. The Club began as … Continue reading →

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New Year’s Honours for Shakespeare

Posted on January 8, 2017 by Sylvia Morris

At the beginning of 2017 the New Year’s Honours List was published in which the great and the good were recognised for their services. Following the successful 2016 Rio Olympics it was inevitable that many of those honoured would be … Continue reading →

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