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Othello: The Moor of Venice
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A complete summary of William Shakespeare's Play, Othello. Find out more about how Iago manipulates everyone around him and the rise of Othello's jealousy
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Raymond Antrobus: 'Shakespeare speaks to us all'
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An interview with the multi-award-winning poet who appeared at the 2019 Stratford-upon-Avon Poetry Festival, which is organised by the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust
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New planting scheme pays homage to Shakespeare’s life
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For National Gardening Week, we take a look at the new planting scheme at Shakespeare's New Place, inspired by Shakespeare's life.
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Shakespeare's Borders
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For National Gardening Week, we take a look at the new planting scheme at Shakespeare's Birthplace, inspired by Shakespeare's works, life and times
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Shakespeare's Yearbook
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See which characters you have voted for on Twitter to appear in our very own Shakespeare's Yearbook.
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Play On! Shakespeare and Music
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Welcome to Play On! – the blog series on Shakespeare and music.
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Playing for Shakespeare Resources
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Playing for Shakespeare, a new interactive game that tackles the challenges of introducing two Shakespeare plays at Key Stage 3 without compromising on educational content or historical accuracy.
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Picture of the Month - July 2013
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Dame Judi Dench as the Countess in Gregory Doran's production of 'All's Well that Ends Well' in 2003 at the RSC.
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An Embroidered King James Bible
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Joanna Munholland takes a look at an embroidered Holy Bible (King James I Version) from 1629 that we hold in our Collections, and talks about the influence of the Bible on Shakespeare's works.
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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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A Visit From Ira Aldridge
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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. Meet Ira Aldridge, a prominent African-American Shakespearian actor from the Victorian era.
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A Visit from "The Players"
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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. In this post, meet the mysterious "Players".
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Shakespeare in Māori
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Kia Ora! We're marking Waitangi Day with an introduction to translations of Shakespeare into Māori.
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Shakespeare’s Everyday World
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Halfway through our series of Shakespeare in 100 Objects, Dr. Tara Hamling discusses some of our discoveries thus far.
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Shakespeare in 100 Objects: Truckle Bed
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Truckle beds, stored under a standing-bed, were common pieces of furniture in Shakespeare's day. Here we explore their use and Shakespeare's own references to them
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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 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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Shakespedia Index
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Guiding your search through Shakespeare's life, works, and time.
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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 in Dutch
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In honour of Koningsday, a Netherlands holiday, we've written about an eighteenth-century Dutch translation held in the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Library.
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Tales from the Reading Room
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Just a few stories of the success of our collections