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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.
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Ferdinand and Miranda
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Rethink the relationship behind Ferdinand and Miranda in William Shakespeare's 'Tempest'.
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Macbeth
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A complete summary of William Shakespeare's Play, Macbeth. Find out more about his desire to be King and the lengths that he and his wife will both go
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'Mislike me not for my complexion...'
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Ira Aldridge broke new ground by managing a theatre in 1828, taking on "white" Shakespearian roles and rewriting Titus Andronicus so he could play Aaron as a hero.
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Shakespeare’s Stratford and the 1553 Royal Charter
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In this Monarchy in the Archives post I'm looking at a very significant record in the history of Stratford-upon-Avon: a Royal Charter of 1553.
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Royal Records: Queen Victoria visits Stoneleigh
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The Stoneleigh manuscript collection can tell us much about how the upper classes, and even sometimes how royalty, lived and built relationships with one another in the 19th century.
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Richard III and the Perils of Foam!
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The 'Shakespeare by Design' project team aids in preserving important costumes for the RSC. There are many dangers that face costumes as time passes and the elements take their toll.
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A Victorian replica of Shakespeare’s Birthplace
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Read about the replica Birthplace built as a visitor attraction in 1847 by Royal Surrey Zoological Gardens