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The Food of Love
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Music, in William Shakespeare's day, was believed to be a genuine substance that could pierce one's soul and decisively enhance emotions - particularly that of love... for better or for worse.
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What 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 Shakespeare's eldest daughter Susanna, was the only physician in Stratford-upon-Avon and prescribed medicine that contained ingredients such as liquorice and opium.
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The RSC Comes Home
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For the next post in "The Tempest 400th Anniversary" celebration series, Jo Wilding writes an account about the celebrated return of the Royal Shakespeare Company on the night the Royal Shakespeare Theatre reopened their doors.
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Art to Enchant: Illustrating "The Tempest"
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For another post in our 400th anniversary of "The Tempest" celebration series, Jo takes us through the various illustrations over the years inspired by Shakespeare's magical play.
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Nathaniel Hawthorne 1804–1864
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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, one of them being "The Scarlet Letter" author Nathaniel Hawthorne.
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The Avonbank School
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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, specifically, those of the Avonbank School, some of whose members include author Mrs Elizabeth Gaskell, and Effie Gray (former wife of John Ruskin).
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"Stratford-super-Avon": Sir William Dugdale’s "Antiquities of Warwickshire"
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Sir William Dugdale's "The Antiquities of Warwickshire" is one of the greatest county histories ever written, describing Warwickshire in terms of its history, topography, and genealogy. It contains an early reference to Stratford upon Avon as the birthplace of William Shakespeare.
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Top 5 Shakespeare books for the festive season
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Our top five book recommendations from the expert team at the Shakespeare Bookshop.
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Shakespeare in 100 Objects: A Glover's Paring Knife
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Read about the glove making process that Shakespeare's father, John would have undertaken
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Shakespeare in 100 Objects: Book of Common Prayer and Psalter
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This post from our 100 objects series looks at this beautiful Book of Common Prayer and Psalter, published in 1596, from the Library collection of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust.
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Shakespeare in 100 Objects: Shakespeare's Signet Ring
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Read about one of the most prized possessions in the collection of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust
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Shakespeare in 100 Objects: Toasting Fork
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People in the middling or upper levels of society used a toasting fork, sometimes called a toasting iron, to roast food in front of an open fire.
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Shakespeare in 100 Objects: Tapestry Panels
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Even fairly modest houses during Shakespeare’s lifetime were decorated with colourful imagery depicted in hangings or painted directly onto the wall surface, such as this tapestry woven with hunting scenes.
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Shakespeare in 100 Objects: Blackwork Coif
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Peter Hewitt explores this coif, or ladies bonnet-style cap, which was probably made in the early 1600s
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Shakespeare in 100 Objects: Dornix Textile Fragment
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This sixteenth-century textile fragment was originally thought to be part of a wall-hanging, often called an arras, which features in some Shakespeare's works.
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Shakespeare in 100 Objects: Joint-stool
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Elizabeth Sharrett explores the humble joint stool, which would have proved useful as a prop on the Renaissance stage.
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Shakespeare in 100 Objects: A 'Jordan'
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The ‘jordan’ was popular slang for a chamber-pot or potty, used to urinate in at night in the relative comfort of the bedroom, a domestic item Shakespeare would have been familiar with
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The Winter's Tale
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A complete summary of William Shakespeare's Play, The Winter’s Tale. Find out more about the King's jealousy and false accusations against his wife that lead to her death
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Coriolanus
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A complete summary of William Shakespeare's Play, Coriolanus. Find out more about the Roman general and his devotion to his mother that results in a tragedy
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Shakespeare's Villains - Tamora
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Anna Griffiths is in the stacks at the Shakespeare Centre looking at early representations of Tamora, a villain from Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus.