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William Shakespeare
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Learn about the man behind the works with Shakespedia, from the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust
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Saving Hall's Croft
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In 1949 Hall's Croft was purchased by the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust and a restoration project began.
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Who Were the Halls?
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A summary of what is known about John and Susanna Hall.
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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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Marie Corelli: What She Did for Stratford-upon-Avon
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Jann Tracy talks about the many achievements of best-selling novelist and Stratford resident Marie Corelli.
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Let's Have One Other Gaudy Night: Call to Me All My Sad Captains
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Jo Wilding reflects on the wide range of artistic endeavours whose titles are taken from Shakespeare's works.
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A Near Move for Parliament to Stratford-upon-Avon?
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In the 1930s, in preparation for the upcoming war, the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre was once named an alternative location for housing Parliament.
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Knitting Sheaths
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In Elizabethan times the humble knitting sheath would have been a useful household tool.
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“What Wound Did Ever Heal But By Degrees?”
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This blog series supports a new exhibition at Hall's Croft: 'Cry Havoc! and let slip the dogs of war' - The First World War, Shakespeare, and Stratford. In this post, we're making comparisons between treatment of wounds in Shakespeare's day and the medical advances of the First World War.
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William Hogarth: Satirising 'All is True'
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Gemma Sykes takes a look at how artist William Hogarth used the 1727 production of William Shakespeare and John Fletcher's play 'All is True', or 'Henry VIII', to comment on eighteenth century British politics.
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Michael Bogdanov and the Never-Ending Labels!
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Flossie Baldock has been working on making the Michael Bogdanov Collection here at the Trust more accessible for the public, and collaborated with Maddie Cox to put together a Michael Bogdanov display for the Winter School. Find out what she discovered during her three week-long stay.
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Vivien Leigh's Birthday Centenary
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In celebration of the 100 year anniversary of acclaimed actress Vivien Leigh's birth, we're taking a dive into the vast array of Vivien Leigh collections that we have here at the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust.
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Herne the Hunter: a May Day Figure of Folklore
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The tale of the Greenman (otherwise known as Herne the Hunter) was a popular part of folklore in Shakespeare's day. In fact, this Lord of the Greenwood makes a special cameo in Shakespeare's "Merry Wives of Windsor" in the form of a certain favourite knight...
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“Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say”
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Helen Hargest takes a look at the National Theatre's production of "King Lear", directed by Sam Mendes and starring Simon Russell Beale, and discusses the complexity of the character of Edgar in reflection of Beale's 1993 performance of the legitimate son of the Earl of Gloucester.
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The Rarer Action is in Virtue than in Vengeance
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In the final blog post for "The Tempest 400th Anniversary" series, Jo Wilding recounts impressions she experienced whilst watching The RSC's 2009 production of the play.
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The Weapons of War
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In light of our exhibition at Hall's Croft, read about the evolution of weapons from Shakespeare's times to the days of the first World War.
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New Light through Old Windows
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What began as a window onto 19th century Henley Street now stands as a monument not only to Shakespeare but also to the pilgrimage of the many - both the famous and the ordinary - to the place of his birth.
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"I never thought to hear you speak again" - Holinshed's Chronicles Part 2
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In this blog post, Jo Wilding takes a look at how Shakespeare adapted the stories of King Henry IV and his son Prince Hal from Holinshed's Chronicles for purposes of dramatisation.
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What Disease Hast Thou?
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The common cough and cold spread quickly in the winters of Elizabethan and Jacobean England. Dr John Hall, married to Shakespeare's eldest daughter Susanna, was the only physician in Stratford-upon-Avon and prescribed medicine that contained ingredients such as liquorice and opium.
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"The Tempest" and the Supernatural
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Sylvia Morris highlights the supernatural in Shakespeare's "The Tempest" and draws up comparisons between a passage in the play and one in Ovid's "Metamorphoses".
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"When I waked, I cried to dream again"
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To celebrate the 400th anniversary of The Tempest, we are running a weekly post on the play once a week until Christmas. This is our second post, where we look at the adaptations of the enigmatic Prospero, Ariel, and Caliban over the years.