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Tag Archives: Shakespeare
Was Shakespeare a soldier?
The one-man play Being Shakespeare is just reaching the end of its run at the Trafalgar Studios. It’s a real tour de force by distinguished actor Simon Callow who switches effortlessly from narrative to speeches from Shakespeare’s plays, bringing characters … Continue reading
Posted in Plays and Poems, Shakespeare's World, Sources, Stratford-upon-Avon
Tagged As You Like it, Being Shakespeare. Simon Callow, Constable, Edgar Fripp, Henry IV, Jonathan Bate, muster rolls, Shakespeare, Shakespeare Centre Library and Archive, soldier, The Taming of the Shrew, Warwick
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World Shakespeare Congress putting a girdle round about the earth #wsc #wscPrague
The biggest meeting of Shakespeare scholars for five years is taking place in Prague this week, 17-22 July. The theme of the World Shakespeare Congress is Renaissance Shakespeare, Shakespeare renaissances, and the conference is undergoing its own renaissance as … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy
Tagged blog, International Shakespeare Association, Internet, Prague, Shakespeare, Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, video, World Shakespeare Congress
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Shakespeare’s Avon, Act 7: Holy Trinity Church
Anyone visiting Stratford interested in places associated with Shakespeare will be aware that the parish church where he worshipped is a good 15 minutes walk from Shakespeare’s Birthplace. Why is Stratford’s church on the outskirts of the town, and on … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy, Plays and Poems, Shakespeare's World, Stratford-upon-Avon
Tagged A Midsummer Night's Dream, flooding, graveyard, Hamlet, Holy Trinity Church, River Avon, Shakespeare, Stratford-upon-Avon, Tempest
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#Shakespeare4Murdoch #Hackgate
For a time on Saturday afternoon the hashtag #Shakespeare4Murdoch was the leading trend on twitter. Tweeters quoted appropriate bits of Shakespeare or adjusted a line or two to suit what’s become known as Hackgate. Here are a few examples: Remorse, … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy
Tagged Brooks, Hackgate, Measure for Measure, Murdoch, News International, News of the World, Richard III, Shakespeare, twitter
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Jane Austen and Shakespeare “blotting their papers”
It’s been an exciting few days for anyone interested in manuscript versions of literary works. At Sotheby’s on 14 July a large number of magnificent manuscripts written by some of the most famous names of English literature was auctioned. Items … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy, Sources
Tagged Bodleian Library, British Library, digitisation, Jane Austen, literary, manuscripts, original, Shakespeare
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Shakespeare and the French
Today has been Bastille Day, and a day for thinking about Shakespeare in France. Shakespeare’s Globe has been running a competition on Twitter regarding which of his plays Shakespeare set in France. The question isn’t as simple as it appears. … Continue reading
Shakespeare’s Avon, Act 6: Royal Shakespeare Theatre
The Royal Shakespeare Theatre sits right on the bank of the River Avon in Stratford. When the idea of a permanent memorial to Shakespeare in his town was first suggested in the aftermath of the 1864 Tercentenary Celebrations, it was … Continue reading
The News of the World and Shakespeare’s Venice #NOTW
On the evening the News of the World’s closure was announced, I went to Rupert Goold’s RSC production of The Merchant of Venice. During the interval a friend and I wondered which of Shakespeare’s plays was most relevant to the … Continue reading
Blackadder and Shakespeare
My all-time favourite TV comedies are the 1980s Blackadder series, best of all the second in which the unpleasant and incompetent Edmund morphed into the clever but surrounded-by-idiots Edmund, dazzlingly glamorous in ruff and thigh-length boots, set in the Elizabethan … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy, Shakespeare's World
Tagged Blackadder, Colin Firth, Elizabeth, Macbeth, Rowan Atkinson, Shakespeare, Tim McInnerny, Tony Robinson
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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Sailor: Shakespeare’s Lost Years
This week’s Start the Week on BBC Radio 4, broadcast on 4 July, asked how much we need to know about writers’ lives in order to fully appreciate their works. Contributors included a specialist on the medieval poet Dante and … Continue reading
Posted in Plays and Poems, Shakespeare's World
Tagged Andrew Marr, Being Shakespeare, Hamlet, Henry IV part 2, Jonathan Bate, lost years, Mairi Macdonald, sea, Shakespeare, ships, Simon Callow, The Merry Wives of Windsor
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