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A visit from John Baldwin Buckstone and Company
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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 John Buckstone, and actor, and company.
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Gustavus Vaughan Brooke: a 'Tragedian' whose life ended in tragedy.
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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 G. V. Brooke, the Tragedian.
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James Leander Cathcart visits the Birthplace
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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 James Cathcart, Tragedian.
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The Avonbank School
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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, specifically, those of the Avonbank School, some of whose members include author Mrs Elizabeth Gaskell, and Effie Gray (former wife of John Ruskin).
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Did the Circus Come to Town?
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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, such as the Hengler's Circus Company.
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Thomas Kershaw 1819-1898
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Leading wood grainer and marbler, Thomas Kershaw visited Shakespeare's Birthplace on 5 October 1859
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Pericles, Prince of Tyre
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A complete summary of William Shakespeare's Play, Pericles, Prince of Tyre. Find out more about the contests and shipwrecks that lead to a miraculous family reunion
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Troilus and Cressida
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A complete summary of William Shakespeare’s Play, Troilus and Cressida. Find out more about love amidst the Trojan War and the battles that take place
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King John
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A complete summary of William Shakespeare's Play, King John. Find out more about the rule of King John, the wars with France, and the battle for the crown
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Henry VIII
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A complete summary of William Shakespeare’s Play, Henry VIII. Find out more about King Henry and Anne Boleyn and the circumstances of Queen Elizabeth I’s birth
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Timon of Athens
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A complete summary of William Shakespeare's Play, Timon of Athens. Find out more about Timon's feasts, his loss of money and the betrayal of his friends
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Merry Wives of Windsor
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A complete summary of William Shakespeare’s Play, Merry Wives of Windsor. Find out more about the pursuits of Falstaff and the tricks the wives play on him
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Love's Labour's Lost
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A complete summary of William Shakespeare's Play, Love’s Labour’s Lost. Find out more about the four friends who vow to avoid women and what happens when women come to visit
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Henry IV Part 2
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A complete summary of William Shakespeare’s Play, Henry IV Part 2. Find out more about the exploits of Falstaff and how Prince Hal becomes King
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Coriolanus
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A complete summary of William Shakespeare's Play, Coriolanus. Find out more about the Roman general and his devotion to his mother that results in a tragedy
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Two Gentlemen of Verona
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A complete summary of William Shakespeare’s Play, Two Gentlemen of Verona. Find out more about the best friends in Milan and their trials in love
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Measure for Measure
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A complete summary of William Shakespeare's Play, Measure for Measure. Find out more about the virtuous Isabella who saves her brother from the wicked Angelo
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Titus Andronicus
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A complete summary of William Shakespeare's Play, Titus Andronicus. Find out more about the tragedy surrounding the plan for incrimination, murder and mutilation
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Richard III
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A complete summary of William Shakespeare's Play, Richard III. Find out more about his desire to be King no matter what, his rise to power and his short reign
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The Comedy of Errors
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A complete summary of William Shakespeare's Play, Comedy of Errors. Find out more about the humour and mistaken identity in this, one of Shakespeare's earliest plays