Hear the Ambassadors
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Watch a short film that explores how governments conduct diplomacy by looking at the world of Ambassador Henry Wotton and Shakespeare.
Carol RutterCopyright of the artist
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All the latest Shakespeare news and behind the scenes action at SBT
Is this the “real Shakespeare”? – A Hungarian Hamlet
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Balázs Szigeti tells us about the adventurous balancing act of surtitling a Hungarian Hamlet production into modern English.
Balázs Szigeti Translating ShakespeareFrom Stratford to Venice via Oxford: Travelling with Thomas Coryat
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Miranda investigates the madcap adventures of Thomas Coryat, an eccentric early modern travel writer
Miranda Gleaves coryat travelShakespeare in Spanish
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Katey Workman, Learning intern, explores the reception of Shakespeare in Spain.
Katey Workman Translating Shakespeare"We'll Coal Together": The Friendship of Henry Irving and Thomas Nast
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"We'll Coal Together!" How Henry Irving and Thomas Nast exemplify the special relationship between the United Kingdom and the United States
Kimber Shepard Internship America Bram Stoker CollectionFrom Henley Street to Henley-in-Arden
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Manorial Court Records at the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust
Jim RanahanThe Bard in Bengali: Sampling the Sonnets
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Dattatreya Dutt sheds light on the creative process of translating Shakespeare's sonnets into Bengali.
Dattatreya Dutt Translating ShakespeareThe Shakespearian forgeries of William Henry Ireland
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We've been exploring stories of inspiration for our latest exhibition, including the curious tale of the Ireland Shakespeare Forgeries
Sophie Misson ShakespeareAndMeUsing Shakespeare Scrapbooks to project our own expectations onto the ancient world
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Read about how George Williams appropriated images to illustrate his imagined vision of the world of Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra, as Williams imagined it
Gary F. Fisher Shakespeare ScrapbooksShakespeare Scrapbooks as a means to understand ourselves
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Read about how George Williams' illustrated Cymbeline sheds light on the varied representations that exist of pre-Roman Britain
Gary F. Fisher Shakespeare Scrapbooks