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Tag Archives: Twelfth Night
Music and dancing for Queen Elizabeth
We’re just reaching the end of the merry month of May, and about to embark on a weekend of celebrations for the Platinum Anniversary of Queen Elizabeth II’s accession to the throne. Events, many of them outdoors, will be taking … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy, Shakespeare on Stage, Shakespeare's World
Tagged As You Like it, dance, Darren Royston, jig, Lucie Skeaping, music, Orchesographie, Platinum Jubilee, Queen Elizabeth 1, Queen Elizabeth II, The Early Music show, The Winter's Tale, Twelfth Night
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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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Cakes, ale and hearing the chimes at midnight
Last weekend we remembered, again, the birthday of William Shakespeare. In Stratford tradition is important, so the boys of Shakespeare’s school still head the procession as they have done for over a century. The celebration is also a birthday party, … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy, Stratford-upon-Avon
Tagged cake, Hamlet, Henry IV part 2, Much Ado About Nothing, Panettone, Romeo and Juliet, Shipston Home Nursing, Twelfth Night, WRAP
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Vivien Leigh, Shakespeare’s lass unparalleled
In the theatre gardens in Stratford-upon-Avon is a silver birch tree planted in memory of Vivien Leigh, one of several dedicated to people who have worked at the theatres. At its base is a stone tablet, with her dates of birth … Continue reading
“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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Remembering Richard Pasco, Shakespearian actor
On Wednesday 12 November Richard Pasco became the third eminent Shakespeare actor with close associations to Stratford-upon-Avon to die in 2014. Sadly there has been little immediate media interest, unlike that which met the death of Donald Sinden, and, … Continue reading
Howard Blake’s music for Shakespeare in performance
This Friday, 6 June, Stratford-upon-Avon’s Orchestra of the Swan’s celebration of the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare’s birth reaches its climax with a concert of music inspired by A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Three of the four concerts in the series have … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy, Shakespeare on Stage
Tagged A Midsummer Night's Dream, Adrian Noble, As You Like it, Henry V, Howard Blake, Twelfth Night
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A Shakespeare miscellany
One of the most delightful results of writing this blog is receiving responses from people who are using Shakespeare creatively to build a project of their own. I’m always happy to share these projects with other readers. Here are some of the … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy
Tagged art, book, exhibition, film, game, Globe, Hamlet, Henry V, music, mystery, online, Ophelia, Romeo and Juliet, Twelfth Night
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Shakespeare, the BAFTAs, and screening theatre
On Sunday May 12 the award ceremony for the UK’s TV industry, the BAFTAs, is being held. Shakespeare interest is focused on The Hollow Crown, the four-part mini-series which screened during the summer of 2012. The series isn’t badly represented: Ben … Continue reading
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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