Picture of the Month - December 2011
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Tom and Mig Holte's photo featuring the Night of Revels scene from the RSC’s 1979 production of 'Twelfth Night'.
Helen Hargest Picture of the MonthCopyright of the artist
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Shakespeare in 100 Objects: Berkemeier Glass
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Portia's reference to a ‘deep glass’ in Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice suggests something like this, a remarkably fine and well preserved example of a sixteenth-century berkemeier.
Peter Hewitt Merchant of Venice Shakespeare in 100 ObjectsWhat Disease Hast Thou?
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The common cough and cold spread quickly in the winters of Elizabethan and Jacobean England. Dr John Hall, married to William Shakespeare's eldest daughter Susanna, was the only physician in Stratford-upon-Avon.
Shakespeare and his World--MOOCShakespeare in 100 Objects: Sampler
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Throughout the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, samplers were increasingly used by girls and young women to practise their embroidery technique
Stephanie Appleton A Midsummer Night's Dream Othello Shakespeare in 100 ObjectsShakespeare in 100 Objects: Baby Walker
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Elizabeth Sharrett discusses the Tudor baby walker in our collections
Elizabeth Sharrett Shakespeare in 100 ObjectsThe Winter is at Hand...
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W. W. Quatremain was an artist who grew up in Stratford-upon-Avon and consequently painted several local scenes, including Palmer's Farm, Anne Hathaway's Cottage, and Harvard House.
Thanksgiving A Winter's TalePicture of the Month - November 2011
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November’s Picture of the Month depicts a scene from the 2003 production of this “problematic comedy”, set in 1940’s Vienna and directed by Sean Holmes.
Helen Hargest Picture of the MonthShakespeare in 100 Objects: Posy Trenchers
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Victoria Jackson explains the practical and symbolic use of trenchers in Shakespeare's day.
Shakespeare in 100 ObjectsExit, Pursued by a Bear
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In this video from the Collections, Anna Griffiths discusses John Massey Wright's watercolour painting (from early 19th century) of the famous scene in "The Winter's Tale", wherein Antigonus is told to "exit, pursued by a bear".
A Winter's Tale Shakespeare's PlaysShakespeare in 100 Objects: Vanitas
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Peter Hewitt examines a beautiful sixteenth-century allegorical painting
Peter Hewitt Shakespeare in 100 Objects