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Past and present voices in lockdown
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Featuring a brand new audio performance giving a voice to Susanna Hall, Shakespeare’s eldest daughter
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The forgotten day a Prince met his subjects on a crumbling bridge
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The future King George IV drew gawping crowds as he walked over Stratford-upon-Avon’s ‘so very dangerous’ throughfare
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Arts Degrees in the Outside World
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Holly Cockburn, an English Literature student at The University of Birmingham, tells us about her two-week placement with the Digital Team and gives her advice for Arts students.
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55. Other Examples of Authorship Questions
Explore Shakespeare Podcasts 60 Minutes with Shakespeare
In our podcast '60 Minutes with Shakespeare,' Martin Wiggins answers the question: are there any other writers whose authorship is questioned?
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William Basse
Explore Shakespeare Shakespedia Shakespeare's Circle
Listen to an imagined account from the English poet and composer of Shakespeare's elegy
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Will Kemp
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Listen to an imagined account from actor, founder, and shareholder of Shakespeare's theatre company The Lord Chamberlain's Men
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The Women Behind Fierce Sisters
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Meet the fiery female characters who are stepping up from the sidelines and taking centre stage in a thought-provoking new performance in the gardens at Shakespeare's New Place.
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'Sardine Constructions': a Look at the Exhibition
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Exhibition Guide Elinor Cole explores her favourite piece in the current ShakespeariAnne exhibition on display by the Birthplace
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CultureShake
Education Education Projects
An intercultural and multilingual learning project funded through the ErasmusPlus programme of the European Union.
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Stratford-upon-Avon
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Find out about the history of the town where Shakespeare grew up.
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The Second-Best Bed
Explore Shakespeare Shakespedia William Shakespeare
Shakespeare famously left his wife, Anne Hathaway, his ‘second best bed.’ But why?
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About Hall’s Croft
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Learn more about the home of Shakespeare's daughter.
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Picture of the Month - July 2012
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In 1973, John Barton directed Richard Pasco and Ian Richardson in his “mirror-image” version of the play where the two actors alternated the roles of Richard and Bullingbrook.
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Picture of the Month - May 2013
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Looking at a photo from Deborah Warner's 1987 uncut production of 'Titus Andronicus' at the RSC.
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"There's Husbandry in Heaven"
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What is husbandry, and what does it mean in Shakespeare's plays? Intern Elena Porter refers back to Thomas Tusser's "Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry" to expound upon the subject.
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“A Pearl in Every Cowslip's Ear”
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In celebration of Shakespeare's birthday, Jo Wilding talks to us about the beautiful - and commonly referenced by the Bard himself - cowslip flower.
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Imagining Anne Hathaway
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Avril Rowlands imagines Anne Hathaway, Shakespeare's wife, as a talented female writer that comes up with the cunning plan to get her plays performed under her husband's name when he suffers rejection as a playwright.
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Gardens of Morocco
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Bertie Smith took a trip to Morocco with REEP (the Religions & Environment Education Programme) to learn about the several different kinds of gardens there, least of all the Anglo-Moroccan Shakespeare Garden in Marrakech.
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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 Portrait of an Actor
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Take a look at some dramatic portraits of William Sly, Nathan Field, and Richard Burbage (all of whom were friends of William Shakespeare and acted in his plays), and see what these sorts of paintings can tell us about the statuses of their subjects.