Burying the Madness: Wuthering Heights and Hamlet
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Examining Emily Bronté’s seminal 1847 novel Wuthering Heights and its grave connections to Hamlet.
Katherine Reeve juliet filesCopyright of the artist
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Stratford’s First Female Mayor
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Explore the life of Annie Justins, Stratford-upon-Avon’s first female mayor.
Jann Tracy juliet filesAdelaide Neilson: star of the Victorian stage
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Discover the life of Adelaide Neilson, a talented Victorian Shakespearean actor, whose life was marked by tragedy.
Anjna Chouhan juliet filesMarie Corelli: What She Did for Stratford-upon-Avon
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Jann Tracy talks about the many achievements of best-selling novelist and Stratford resident Marie Corelli.
Jann Tracy juliet filesOphelia, after Millais
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For Museum Week 2018, we examine one of the least ‘poetical’ images of the drowned Ophelia: Bryan Organ’s “Ophelia, after Millais.”
Kelsey Ridge juliet files‘The Juliet Files’: Representations of Women in the SBT Collections
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Introducing a new blog series exploring women in the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust's Collection.
Mareike Doleschal juliet filesBuzz Goodbody: the Classical Revolutionary
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This International Women’s Day, we remember Buzz Goodbody - the first woman director with the Royal Shakespeare Company, who campaigned for social justice for all marginalised groups. We hold collections that shed light on this and other aspects of her li
Jim Ranahan International Women's Day Royal Shakespeare Company juliet filesThe Underrated Heroines of Shakespeare
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We all know of Beatrice, Rosalind, and Viola – some of Shakespeare's strongest and most well-known female characters – but for International Women's Day we're shedding light on some of Shakespeare's lesser known (but in no way less empowering) heroines.
Rio Turnbull juliet files International Women's DaySolving Mysteries in the SBT Archives: Ethel Webling and Herbert Beerbohm Tree
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Ethel Webling is the artist behind a unique edition of "Julius Caesar" in our collections, which makes record of the noteworthy Herbert Tree's production of the show in 1898.
Ella Hawkins juliet filesImagining Anne Hathaway
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Avril Rowlands imagines Anne Hathaway, Shakespeare's wife, as a talented female writer that comes up with the cunning plan to get her plays performed under her husband's name when he suffers rejection as a playwright.
Mareike Doleschal juliet files Shakespeare's Life