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Creative Digitisation
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Bringing objects from the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust archives to life using digital images, video recordings, audio, and other creative digitisation methods.
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Picture of the Month - April 2012
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In 1993, director Sam Mendes envisaged 'The Tempest' as a play about theatre, where Prospero’s magic was portrayed specifically as theatre magic.
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Picture of the Month - May 2012
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This photo depicts the 1960 production of The Winter's Tale, a highly regarded production conjuring up a “mythical Renaissance, a world in which anything could happen and anything did”.
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Picture of the Month - February 2013
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February’s photo shows Berowne (David Tennant) reading his sonnet addressed to his beloved Rosaline, from 'Love’s Labour's Lost', directed by Greg Doran in 2008.
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Picture of the Month - January 2012
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A photo from David Thacker’s post-1789 revolutionary France production of "Coriolanus" at the RSC in 1994.
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#SaluteToStratford
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Celebrate the town of Shakespeare's birth in a #SaluteToStratford
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The Winter is at Hand...
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W. W. Quatremain was an artist who grew up in Stratford-upon-Avon and consequently painted several local scenes, including Palmer's Farm, Anne Hathaway's Cottage, and Harvard House.
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John Harvard and Stratford-upon-Avon: 'Friendship between Two Nations'
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Today is the birthday of John Harvard, son of a Stratford-upon-Avon native and the founder of Harvard University.
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Heath Robinson's 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'
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Despite Heath Robinson being often synonymous with unnecessarily complicated and complex machinery, his work in depicting scenes of Shakespeare's plays hearkens back to his days as a young artist fresh out of university.
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National Gardening Week
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In celebration of National Gardening Week, we'd like to take the opportunity to give you a taste of what we have in store for Heritage Open Days this year.
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Hamlet in Afrikaans
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This donation is a copy of Hamlet translated into Afrikaans from 1945. It is illustrated and signed by actors in Pretoria.
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Sir Frank Benson and the town of Stratford-upon-Avon
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Find out about actor and manager, Sir Frank Benson, and his relationship with the townsfolk of Stratford-upon-Avon, in this blog post inspired by the 'Cry Havoc! and let slip the dogs of war' - The First World War, Shakespeare, and Stratford exhibition at Hall's Croft.
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The Book World's Jekyll and Hyde: James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps
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James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps was a notorious antiquarian who collected books but also had a habit of cutting them up and removing his favourite pages.
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A First Folio Facsimile from Japan
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A donation from Meisei University in Tokyo, Japan is a First Folio Facsimile that, though just a reproduction, looks very much like it's the "real thing".
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Gender Pay Gap Report
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Our report on how large the pay gap is between male and female employees at the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust
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The Perjured: Ching Ling Foo and Chung Ling Soo
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Maosheng Hu details the story of two purportedly Chinese magicians (Ching Ling Foo and Chung Ling Soo) from the 20th century, whose rivalry famously revolved around who was of true Chinese descent, and how their signatures in Shakespeare's Birthplace Visitors' Book hold the key to answering the mystery...
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Richard Burton as Hamlet
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For Shakespeare's 450th birthday, we're going back 50 years to see what was done for his 400th birthday celebrations. In 1964, renowned Shakespearian actor Richard Burton took on the role of Hamlet, which went on to be one of the most acclaimed performances of the character.
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Shakespearian Dinner Parties
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For William Shakespeare's 450th birthday celebration, we're hosting a blog series to highlight the events that took place around the world for the Bard's 400th birthday back in 1964. Check out how some parties created menus based entirely on food mentioned in Shakespeare's plays!
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A Hundred Merry Tales: visiting groups enjoy a very rare book!
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Shakespeare's "A Hundred Merry Tales" is one of the earliest versions of rowdy and indecent jestbooks, which were collections of humorous stories that would've been more popular than one might think - appealing even to, perhaps, a certain royal monarch...
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Falstaff: A Musical Inspiration
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Shakespeare’s rich stock of characters have inspired many people to write music over hundreds of years, and the beloved Falstaff has been one of the most popular characters to set to music.