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Tag Archives: The Tempest
Ovid and Shakespeare: the world’s greatest storytellers
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
Posted in Legacy, Shakespeare's World, Sources, Stratford-upon-Avon
Tagged Fiona Shaw, MayaVision, Michael Wood, Ovid, Rome, Royal Shakespeare Company, Shakespeare Club of Stratford-upon-Avon, Simon Russell Beale, The Tempest
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Tim Pigott-Smith and Shakespeare
Since the announcement of Tim Pigott-Smith’s death on Friday 7 April 2017 tributes have flooded in for this much-loved and admired actor. Many have also commented that in the last few years he was reaching his peak. His kindness and … Continue reading
The Tempest in production
On Wednesday 11 January the Royal Shakespeare Company’s The Tempest is to be live streamed to cinemas around the UK. The play always brings with it a number of challenges, with its magical elements and the difficulty of putting a … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy, Shakespeare on Stage, Stratford-upon-Avon
Tagged all-female, Donmar, Gregory Doran, Harriet Walter, John Gielgud, Mark Quartley, Michael Redgrave, Orlando Gough, Philip Voss, Royal Shakespeare Company, Simon Russell Beale, The Tempest
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Women taking power in Shakespeare’s plays
2016 seems to have been characterised by women staging a takeover of traditional male roles, at least as far as Shakespeare is concerned. While planning this post I was hoping to be able to link this trend to the election of … Continue reading
Finding Shakespeare in the tropics
I’m writing this from the tropical paradise that is Northern Queensland, Australia. We’ve been staying just north of Cairns at the hotel Paradise on the beach at Palm Cove. It certainly lives up to its name, with sea-washed beaches fringed … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy
Tagged Australia, Cairns, Palm Cove, Queensland, The Tempest, Townsville
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Henry James and Shakespeare
28 February 2016 is the centenary of the death of the author Henry James. James was born in 1843 in New York but spent most of his adult life in Europe, particularly England. His early novels explore the conflicting cultures … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy, Stratford-upon-Avon
Tagged Colm Toibin, Contested Will, Henry James, James Shapiro, Joseph Skipsey, The Birthplace Welcombe Hotel, The Tempest, Trevelyan
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His most potent art: the library of John Dee
A new exhibition has just opened in London that explains more about one of the most intriguing people in Elizabethan London, John Dee. The Royal College of Physicians in Regents Park is hosting Scholar, courtier, magician: the lost library of … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy, Shakespeare's World
Tagged John Dee, Mortlake, Prospero, Ritman Library Amsterdam, Royal College of Physicians, The Tempest
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Royal Shakespeare Company’s plans for 2016
All the large Shakespeare organisations are celebrating the four-hundredth anniversary of Shakespeare’s death in 2016 with events to show that Shakespeare is universal, appealing to people of all ages and backgrounds. As befits the best-funded Shakespeare company in the UK … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy, Shakespeare on Stage, Stratford-upon-Avon
Tagged 2016, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Antony Sher, Cymbeline, David Tennant, Erica Whyman, Gregory Doran, Hamlet, John Wyver, King and Country, RSC, Simon Russell Beale, The Tempest, Vanessa Redgrave
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We can be heroes [not] just for one day
The first news I heard on Monday morning, 11 January 2016, was the death of rock star David Bowie. Like most of us, I’ve lived with his songs through my adult life. All day I’ve been hearing his music, people talking … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy
Tagged Blackstar, David Bowie, Lazarus, The Tempest
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Shakespeare and the British Renaissance
James Fox’s three-part documentary series A Very British Renaissance has just finished on BBC 4. It was first shown in 2014, and having missed it first time I’m very pleased to have caught up with it. The presenter, an art historian, … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy, Shakespeare's World
Tagged Hans Holbein, Inigo Jones, James Fox, John Dee, Palladio, Renaissance, The Tempest
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