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Tag Archives: Thomas Tusser
Shakespeare and the moon
It’s fifty years since the first moon landing in July 1969, and most people who were alive at the time must have memories of it. My father woke me up to watch Neil Armstrong become the first human ever to … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy
Tagged A Midsummer Night's Dream, Galileo, Hans Lippershey, moon, Neil Armstrong, science, telescope, Thomas Hill, Thomas Tusser
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Plough Monday and Distaff Day
Although Christmas is well past, it’s been only a week since many people got back to normal, so attached are the English to festivities at the turn of the year. It’s not a new phenomenon. From Elizabethan times, and probably … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy, Shakespeare's World
Tagged @ClerkofOxford, A Midsummer Night's Dream, British Library, Christmas, Distaff Day, Eleanor Parker, Plough Monday, Robert Herrick, Thomas Tusser, Twelfth Night
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Winter stories at Charlecote
December isn’t the coldest month of the year, but it’s the darkest, with days getting progressively shorter most of the month. Earlier this week I visited Charlecote Park, the stately home near Stratford-upon-Avon, and couldn’t help thinking how much the lack … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy, Shakespeare's World, Sources
Tagged books, Charlecote Park, conservation, Cymbeline, December, Froissart, Henry Peacham, Holinshed, Nicholas Breton, Sir Thomas Lucy, Thomas Tusser, winter
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Looking forward to spring and the art of the garden
The British love affair with gardening is well-known, and opening on 20 March and running until 11 October is an exhibition at the Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace called Painting Paradise: The Art of the Garden. Building on the success of … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy, Shakespeare's World, Stratford-upon-Avon
Tagged Buckingham Palace, gardens, National Trust, The Winter's Tale, Thomas Tusser, Wolf Hall
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Happy Christmas from the Shakespeare blog
Many thanks to all of you who have been reading the Shakespeare blog during 2014! Over the past year I’ve written 145 posts, and have had nearly 135,000 visits to the site. I’ve also had many responses to posts and suggestions … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy
Tagged charity, Christmas, homelessness, King Lear, poverty, Thomas Tusser
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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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Juliet’s birthday: Shakespeare and Lammas-tide
Lammas Day, 1 August, was an important day in the calendar, but for Shakespeare-lovers Lammas Eve, 31 July, is the more significant because it was the day of Juliet’s birth. Juliet is one of the few Shakespearean characters whose age and … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy, Shakespeare's World
Tagged August, Lammas, Nicholas Breton, Romeo and Juliet, Thomas Tusser
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Shakespeare’s blasts of January
When icicles hang by the wall And Dick the shepherd blows his nail And Tom bears logs into the hall And milk comes frozen home in pail, When blood is nipp’d and ways be foul, Then nightly sings the staring … Continue reading
Posted in Plays and Poems, Shakespeare's World
Tagged Breughel, British Library, Love's Labour's Lost, Nicholas Breton, Thomas Tusser, winter
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Christmas puddings: a taste of tradition
More than any other holiday time, Christmas has always been about food and drink. Thomas Tusser, an East Anglian farmer, wrote his verse calendar of the year Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry, published in 1557 and still full of … Continue reading
Posted in Shakespeare's World
Tagged Christmas, Christmas pudding, Elinor Fettiplace, Hilary Spurling, Middle Temple, Thomas Tusser, Twelfth Night, Yule log
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Shakespeare’s Christmas through the eyes of the Victorians
This year I’ve received a Christmas card featuring an engraving dating back to 1846, originally published to illustrate “A Story about a Christmas in the seventeenth century”*. It’s a charming picture, but one thing is certain: Christmas in the seventeenth … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy, Shakespeare's World
Tagged As You Like it, Christmas, Christmas tree, holly, ivy, mistletoe, Queen Victoria, Shakespeare, Thomas Tusser, Victorian, Yule log
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