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Celebrating Shakespeare, Exploring Our Collections
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Celebrating Shakespeare, Exploring Our Collections - A Statement from the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust
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Shakespeare's Life, Times and Legacy
Education Schools and CPD Key Stage 3 & 4
Interactive outreach workshop held in your school for Key Stage 3 and Key Stage 4 students delving into Shakespeare's life, times, works and legacy
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Mary Lincoln at the Shakespeare Birthplace
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Saturday, August 27, 1870. An American woman dressed in widow’s weeds enters a house on Henley Street in Stratford-upon-Avon. In this blog Dr. Toni Chappell sheds light on the time Abraham Lincoln's widow visited Shakespeare's Birthplace...
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Shakespeare's Favourite Flowers: The Primrose
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Librarian Mareike Doleschal explores the history and meaning of the primrose in Tudor and Victorian England.
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Shakespeare's Favourite Flowers: The Poppy
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Librarian Mareike Doleschal explores the history of the poppy in Tudor and Victorian England.
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Shakespeare in Armenian, part IV
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Guest blogger Gagik Stepan-Sarkissian writes about the reception of Shakespeare's tragedies in Armenia and the ubiquity of the name 'Hamlet' in his native country.
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Sounding words: on translating Shakespeare
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A blog by Greek poet and translator Dionysis Kapsalis, which discusses the challenges of translating Shakespeare's works into Greek.
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The Heart of America Shakespeare Festival
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Learn more about the first stop for Shakespeare on the Road: Heart of America Shakespeare Festival in Kansas City, Missouri and its current production
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Shakespeare Connected - Marking Time in Shakespeare's England
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This blog introduces as Shakespeare Connected exhibitions, exploring some of the ways in which people experienced time in Shakespeare’s England.
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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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53. University Degrees Doubting Shakespeare
Explore Shakespeare Podcasts 60 Minutes with Shakespeare
In our podcast '60 Minutes with Shakespeare,' Victoria Buckley discusses intellectual justification for the degrees awarded to those doubting Shakespeare's authorship at Brunel and Concordia (Oregon) universities.
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Celebrating Kochanowski and Shakespeare in Stratford
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The Shakespeare Centre welcomed 170 people for an evening of music, dance, and recitals to explore the life and works of Jan Kochanowski, a contemporary of William Shakespeare.
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Shakespeare’s Patrons: Henry Wriothesley
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Who were William Shakespeare’s patrons? Find out about one of them: Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton. His portrait can be found in our Collections.
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Ariel: Shakespeare's Most Musical Character
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Ariel, from "The Tempest", is one of Shakespeare's most musical and magical characters, and it shows through his several songs, instruments, exits and entrances, and abilities.
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Shakespeare in 100 Objects: Candlestick
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A rush-candle was the most basic and crudest form of lighting in Shakespeare’s time.
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Behind the scenes: Shakespeare’s Well
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This project has brought us close to Shakespeare’s day-to-day life in many ways, but the well in particular really sticks with us.
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New Shakespeare’s Treasures Exhibition at Shakespeare's Birthplace
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Learn more about the opening of the new exhibit: Treasures Exhibition at the Shakespeare Centre. The theme this year is the sealing of the Magna Carta
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Spring in Shakespeare’s Town Gardens
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Spring gardening update from Shakespeare's family homes. By mid-March the gardens were blooming with daffodils. High winds blasted, twisting petals (and umbrellas) inside and out. Many flowering bulbs fell to the ground, only to bounce upright the following day – and all before the swallows appeared.
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46. Sigmund Freud and Shakespeare's Authorship
Explore Shakespeare Podcasts 60 Minutes with Shakespeare
In our podcast '60 Minutes with Shakespeare,' Paul Prescott discusses why Sigmund Freud doubted Shakespeare's authorship.
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Shakespeare's Deadly Game of Football
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We discovered a 19th century football in our Collections. Learn about what football would have been like during Shakespeare's time.