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A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Part 2
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Georghia Ellinas, Head of Learning at Shakespeare’s Globe, writes about her new retelling of the play and the importance of making Shakespeare accessible to young children.
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Early Modern Theatre
Education Home Learning 11-14 year olds
Find out more about the theatre of Shakespeare's day with our home learning resources for 11-14 year olds.
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Collections Items on Display
Visit Shakespeare's Family Homes Shakespeare's New Place
The must-see collection items on display to visitors at Shakespeare's New Place
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Mae'r Arglwyddes yn siarad yn Cymraeg: Lady Mortimer and Welsh in 1 Henry IV
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For St. David’s Day, the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust would like to commemorate one of Shakespeare’s most underrated characters: the Welshwoman Lady Mortimer.
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5 people who shaped history on Henley Street
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Travel through time to find out more about some of the real people who will inspire the characters at our Museums at Night event
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Women of the Cottage
Explore Shakespeare Shakespedia Anne Hathaway's Cottage
meet the relatives who put the Anne Hathaway Cottage on the map
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Recreating New Place
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Dr Tara Hamling discusses the challenges of bringing New Place to 'life' in the augmented reality feature of our EYE Shakespeare app.
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A New Face in the Reading Room
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Jessie takes a look at some of the portraits of Shakespeare from our Collections, and examines the desire we humans have to look upon his image, even if we can never be certain as to exactly how the great playwright might have looked.
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The Big Draw 2016
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Help us to create 400 faces of Shakespeare as part of The Big Draw 2016 - with help from Mick Manning and Brita Granström
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HLF Funding for New Place
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We're delighted to have secured Heritage Lottery funding to support our New Place project.
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Susanna Soundscape
Explore Shakespeare Museum From Home The Susanna Hall & Hall’s Croft Project
Soundscape created for the Susanna Hall, Hall's Croft project
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English Tourism: John Byng's Excellent Account of a Visit to Stratford-upon-Avon
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As we enter English National Tourism Week (22nd-31st May 2021) we take a look at evidence of early national tourism in our collection, focussing in this blog on one of our favourite items, the diary of John Byng. A blog by Philippa Vandome and Madeleine Cox
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The Legacy of Mary Baker - First Tour Guide of Anne Hathaway’s Cottage
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Amy Davies takes a look back at how the contribution of one extraordinary woman transformed Anne Hathaway’s Cottage into the popular attraction it is today.
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Reader Services Guides: Pre-20th Century Performance History
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In this guide, find out more about pre-twentieth century theatre ephemera in our collection and how to research performance history in the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
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Tudor Painting and Decorating
Explore Shakespeare Shakespedia Shakespeare's Birthplace
In search of Shakespeare's lost interiors, we look at the variety of painted decoration available in early modern England
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Our favourite books to give this year
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Our favourite books to give this year
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Visiting FAQs
Visit Shakespeare's Family Homes
Information to help you plan your visit to Shakespeare's family homes
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Hathaway Family Artefacts on Display
Explore Shakespeare Shakespedia Anne Hathaway's Cottage
Find out more about some of the original Hathaway family heirlooms still housed at Anne Hathaway's Cottage
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Who were the Hathaways?
Explore Shakespeare Shakespedia Anne Hathaway's Cottage
Get to know the family of Anne Hathaway, Shakespeare's wife
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Burying the Madness: Wuthering Heights and Hamlet
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Examining Emily Bronté’s seminal 1847 novel Wuthering Heights and its grave connections to Hamlet.