Victoria Joynes recounts the most memorable productions of "Richard II" over the past 150 years, starting with the 1857 staging by Charles Kean at the Princess's Theatre.
Norma Hampson is a long-standing volunteer at the Shakespeare Centre Library and Archive and has written this blog to share details from her current project: listing visitors from the early Birthplace visitor books. Meet G. V. Brooke, the Tragedian.
Norma Hampson is a long-standing volunteer at the Shakespeare Centre Library and Archive, and has written this blog to share details from her current project: listing visitors from the early Birthplace visitor books, including one Dante Gabriel Rossetti,
In honour of Thanksgiving, we're highlighting an early Stratford-upon-Avon connection with America: specifically, the very first visitor recorded in July of the oldest surviving visitors’ book in our collection was TH Perkins of Boston, Massachusetts.