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Shakespeare and Easter
Easter Eggs 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...
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Wordsworth and Shakespeare
A plaster model for a bust of Wordsworth, at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford 7 April 2015 was the 345th birthday of William Wordsworth, the Romantic poet most closely associated with nature, and one of...
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Retelling the stories of the world’s favourite playwright: the Hogarth...
Shakespeare’s plays have been adapted, rewritten, altered, reimagined for centuries, beginning just forty years or so after he died. These revisions keep Shakespeare fresh, giving the stories a modern...
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Shakespeare 400 continues
Shakespeare’s monument in Holy Trinity Church Following the fabulously successful but exhausting weekend celebrating the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, and his 452nd birthday, I’ve had a few...
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Tim Pigott-Smith and Shakespeare
Tim Pigott-Smith as King Lear 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...
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The Winter’s Tale live streaming: a play for our times
A scene from Cheek by Jowl’s The Winter’s Tale The Winter’s Tale, with its theme of the pain of loss followed by the joy of resurrection, is a play that is particularly appropriate around Easter and...
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Directing Shakespeare
Michael Bogdanov With the sudden death of Michael Bogdanov this week theatre directors and their importance in the staging of Shakespeare’s plays have been on my mind in the build up to Shakespeare’s...
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Living statues and literary pageants: Shakespeare’s Birthday 2018
Mr Shakespeare ready for the 2018 celebrations 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...
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Happy Birthday William Shakespeare 23 April 2021
Flowers for Shakespeare’s Birthday at Holy Trinity Church 2021 “I would I had some flowers of the spring” Today, 23 April, is William Shakespeare’s Birthday. I’ve already been down to Holy Trinity...
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Music and dancing for Queen Elizabeth
Buttercups in a Warwickshire field. By Phil Mills 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...
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