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Tag Archives: The Tempest
Shakespeare and Easter
Over the Easter weekend we’ve probably all eaten too many Easter eggs and chocolate bunnies. As the first festival of spring, it’s also traditionally our first opportunity for getting outdoors after the cold, dark days of winter, when we enjoy the return … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy
Tagged Ariel, Easter, forgiveness, Prospero, resurrection, spring, The Tempest, The Winter's Tale
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Speaking Shakespeare’s tragic verse
Last week Professor Tiffany Stern spoke at Stratford-upon-Avon’s Shakespeare Club on the subject of tragic performances on Shakespeare’s stage. She was struck by the way that writers tended to describe tragedies differently from other dramatic genres. Her thoughts on tragic … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy, Shakespeare on Stage, Shakespeare's World
Tagged Baltimore Shakespeare Factory, Ben Crystal, David Crystal, original pronunciation, poetry, Richard Burbage, Shakespeare Club, The Tempest, Tiffany Stern
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Plays and performances in Shakespeare’s theatres
I recently wrote about how Shakespeare leaves gaps within the text which actors are able to fill using their own imaginations. I’ve been reading a book that describes how theatres themselves contributed to the writing and performance of plays, an … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy, Shakespeare on Stage
Tagged effects, Farah Karim-Cooper, First Folio, Gwilym Jones, Lucy Munro, Nathalie Rivere de Carles, Shakespeare's Globe, The Tempest, theatre, Tiffany Stern
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“Your gown’s a most rare fashion”: costume and Shakespeare
Picture the Elizabethan period and the chances are you will think of portraits, probably one of those dazzling paintings of Queen Elizabeth herself. There are so many, so well-known, they have individual names: the Armada portrait, the Hardwick portrait, the … Continue reading
Posted in Shakespeare's World
Tagged costume, cross-gartering, fashion, Queen Elizabeth 1, ruff, Sarah Jane Downing, Sumptuary Laws, The Taming of the Shrew, The Tempest, The Winter's Tale, Twelfth Night, wool
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Harvest time in Shakespeare’s England
For once the English summer hasn’t let us down and until the last few days we’ve enjoyed weeks of fine, warm weather. August is harvest-time. In The Tempest, Shakespeare writes of the “sunburnt sickle men, of August weary”, and tell … Continue reading
Posted in Shakespeare's World
Tagged August, Breughel, Francis Bacon, harvest, King Lear, Nicholas Breton, summer, The Tempest, Thomas Tusser
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T S Eliot and Shakespeare
Listening to Jeremy Irons’ reading of T S Eliot’s Four Quartets on Radio 4 last weekend reminded me of the power of Eliot’s poetry. The Poetry Foundation’s website includes some information about the reading, and here is an article about Irons’ … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy
Tagged Antony and Cleopatra, Coriolanus, Four Quartets, Hamlet, T S Eliot, The Tempest, The Waste Land
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The Tempest in our time and its own
A great authority on Shakespeare, the academic Anne Barton, died a few days ago. She always wrote with an awareness of the play as a piece of theatre and her thoughts were often reflected in her husband, John Barton’s productions. … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy, Plays and Poems, Shakespeare on Stage, Shakespeare's World
Tagged Anne Barton, Caliban, Erin Sullivan, Herbert Beerbohm Tree, In Our Time, Jonathan Bate, Melvyn Bragg, Montaigne, Night waves, Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, The Tempest
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Peter Brook: from enfant terrible to grand old man of the theatre
Nobody has been more influential in the world of the theatre in the last 70 years than Peter Brook. And at the age of 88, he’s still involved, setting out his ideas about why theatre is so important. Shakespeare has … Continue reading
Posted in Plays and Poems, Shakespeare on Stage
Tagged A Midsummer Night's Dream, Antony and Cleopatra, Hamlet, John Gielgud, Love's Labour's Lost, Marat-Sade, Measure for Measure, Peter Brook, Romeo and Juliet, The Tempest, Theatre of Cruelty
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Prospero’s Costumes on Display: In Stitches with the RSC
The RSC’s Costume Exhibition Into the Wild features three costumes for different Prosperos in The Tempest. It’s the play in which the designer can let his imagination run riot as he or she attempts to create a suitable setting for … Continue reading
Posted in Shakespeare on Stage
Tagged costume, Derek Jacobi, Into the Wild, Loudon Sainthill, Maria Bjornson, Patrick Stewart, Ralph Richardson, The Tempest
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Our revels now are ended: The Tempest, Olympics and Paralympics
2012 has been the year of The Tempest. During this year of the World Shakespeare Festival at least three productions have been seen in the UK, and the play featured in the opening ceremonies for both the Olympics and Paralympics. … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy, Shakespeare on Stage
Tagged Adrian Noble, Ian McKellen, Kenneth Branagh, Olympics, Paralympics, The Tempest, Tim Pigott-Smith
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