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We offer a range of inspiring and inteactive sessions from key stage 2 to A level covering literature and heritage. 

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  • Tales from the Reading Room – Episode 19

    Fri 3 Feb 2012

    A couple of weeks ago we brought you a post from Julia Paraisz, who was researching German editions of Shakespeare’s works in our Collections Library at the Shakespeare Centre (to re-visit that post click here). This week’s ‘Tale…

  • Behind the Scenes – Pest Management

    Tue 31 Jan 2012

    Sheila McVey, Museum Collections Assistant at the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, demonstrates how we monitor and manage pests in the museum stores.

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  • Shakespeare, Marx and Theatre: An Interview with Dominic Dromgoole

    Fri 3 Feb 2012
      Shakespeare, Marx and Theatre: An Interview with Dominic Dromgoole By Christian Smith (University of Warwick   Dominic Dromgoole is Artistic Director of Shakespeare’s Globe inLondon – photo by Sheila Burnet Part 1: The tectonic plates of…

  • Send Up for Shakespeare!

    Thu 2 Feb 2012
    It’s not new. Individual lines and passages from Shakespeare’s plays were imitated and parodied even in his own time, as in The Knight of the Burning Pestle, where there is a send-up of Hotspur’s lines on honour from 1 Henry IV, and in…