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Tag Archives: Venus and Adonis
Easter at Anne Hathaway’s in lockdown
Describing Easter, Nicholas Breton in Fastasticks wrote “There is mirth and job where there is health and liberty…I conclude it is a day of much delightfulness: the sun’s dancing day and the Earth’s holiday”. It’s also a time of hope … Continue reading
Posted in Shakespeare's World, Stratford-upon-Avon
Tagged Anne Hathaway's Cottage, coronavirus, Easter, Good Friday, lockdown, Nicholas Breton, Shottery, spring, Venus and Adonis
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Living statues and literary pageants: Shakespeare’s Birthday 2018
This weekend Shakespeare’s 454th birthday will be celebrated in the town of his birth, as it has been for nearly two centuries. While there are elements of the Birthday that have become traditional, almost every year the organisers add new … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy, Stratford-upon-Avon
Tagged Literary Carnival Pageant, Metamorphoses, National Living Statue Championship, Ovid, Pygmalion, Shakespeare Birthday Celebrations, The Winter's Tale, Venus and Adonis
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Shakespeare and Gay Britannia
On 27 July 1967 the Sexual Offences Act received Royal Approval in the UK, making private homosexual acts between men over the age of 21 legal. In the intervening fifty years attitudes have changed profoundly. Back in 1953 the newly-knighted … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy
Tagged Antony Sher, gay, Gay Britannia, Gregory Doran, John Gielgud, LGBT, sexuality, Simon Callow, Venus and Adonis
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Celebrating Ovid 2000 years on
2017 marks the 2000th anniversary of the death of the Roman writer Ovid, whose Metamorphoses has continued to be one of the most influential of literary works. As Shakespeare’s favourite writer, the RSC, and its current Artistic Director Gregory Doran … Continue reading
Suiting the word to the action: Dr Johnson and unsuitable language
You don’t have to look very far into Shakespeare’s works to find archaic words, or words difficult for us to understand. As well as coining new words, he made use of many that were probably already old-fashioned. Many words have … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy, Shakespeare's World
Tagged bawdy, Bowdler, Family Shakespeae, innuendo, knife, language, Macbeth, Monty Python, Samuel Johnson, Venus and Adonis
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The Rape of Lucrece
Exactly 420 years ago, on 9 May 1594, Shakespeare’s long poem The Rape of Lucrece was registered before being published later that year. In the dedication to the poem he had written the year before, Venus and Adonis, Shakespeare sounds … Continue reading
Posted in Plays and Poems, Shakespeare's World
Tagged Ovid, poem, quarto, The Rape of Lucrece, Titian, Venus and Adonis
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