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Shakespeare 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
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Representing Shakespeare: the Chesterfield Portrait
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The Chesterfield portrait of Shakespeare is just one of many examples of representations of the playwright.
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Shakespeare's Stories: Instruments of Power
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In this video, Jan Blake looks at a number of instruments of power and restraint that she selected for display from the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust’s collections.
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1814 - The Shakespeare Myths Grow
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In 1814, Robert Bell Wheler was recording and discussing rumours about Shakespeare's life, and Edmund Kean was saving Drury Lane Theatre with his performances.
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Shakespeare's Favourite Plants: The Hawthorn
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Librarian Mareike Doleschal investigates how Shakespeare and Victorian artists represented an iconic plant, the hawthorn, in their works.
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Shakespeare’s Favourite Flowers: The Thistle
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Librarian Mareike Doleschal explores the contrasting associations of nature's most prickly flower, the thistle.
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Shakespeare’s Lost Interiors: Inventories
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How did people in the early modern period furnish their homes? Alexandra Hewitt takes a look at inventories to get a sense of the type and variety of goods found in early modern homes.
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Winter in Shakespeare’s Town Gardens
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Senior Gardener, Jane Shaw gives her account of working in the Shakespeare gardens during the winter
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Shakespeare's Stories: Twin Masks
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For the final two posts of 'Shakespeare's Stories', we visit Hall’s Croft, which is displaying items relating to The Comedy of Errors.
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Shakespeare in Armenian, part II
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On Armenian Independence Day, we explore Armenian translations held in the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Library and shed light on the history behind them.
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Shakespeare & his Contemporaries: Comedies and Tragedies
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Take your A level literature and language students’ Shakespeare knowledge up a level through a deep dive into the theatrical scene of the period that Shakespeare absorbed and helped shape
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Shakespeare's Favourite Flowers: The Marigold
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Librarian Mareike Doleschal discusses the history of a beneficial and beautiful flower, the marigold.
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Shakespeare's Favourite Flowers: The Lily
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Discover the meaning and medicinal uses of one of Shakespeare's flowers, the lily.
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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.
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33. Praise of Shakespeare in his First Folio
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In our podcast '60 Minutes with Shakespeare,' Ewan Fernie explains what role the poems in praise of Shakespeare by other writers that are included in the 1623 Folio play in the authorship question.
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1564 - The Year of Shakespeare's Birth
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What was life like when William Shakespeare was born in 1564? This is the first in a series of blog posts that discovers what life was like in 1564, and in years since.
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Tagore Celebrations at Shakespeare's Birthplace
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On Saturday 6th May the annual celebration of Bengali poet RabindranathTagore’s birth was held in the Shakespeare Birthplace garden.
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Signed and Sealed – writing with Shakespeare
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Find out more about new additions to the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust shop
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The Shakespeare Fun Palace 2016
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On Saturday 1 October the second Shakespeare Fun Palace opened its doors to the public.
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Let’s Talk Shakespeare Podcast
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Let’s Talk Shakespeare - a podcast series exploring the commonly asked questions about Shakespeare’s life.