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Shakespeare’s Birthplace Take Part in Nationwide Flash Mob to Celebrate 10 Years of Shakespeare Week
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Stratford-upon-Avon played host to a special performance inspired by one of Shakespeare’s most famous plays on Monday 18 March.
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Visualising Shakespeare's New Place
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This month’s post gives a sneak peek into some of the features available in the second version of our Eye Shakespeare app, namely: augmented reality.
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Shakespeare Connected - Our German Shakespeare!
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Introducing a Shakespeare Connected exhibition on Germany's relationship with Shakespeare.
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Shakespeare et les traducteurs or: Shakespeare in French
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To celebrate Bastille Day, Shakespeare Birthplace Trust's Digitisation Officer Andrew Thomas explores French translations held in the Trust's library collection.
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Elizabeth Barnard (Part One)
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Phil Spinks sheds light on the early life of Elizabeth Barnard, Shakespeare's granddaughter and his last direct descendant.
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Sessions for University, International Schools, and Special Interest Groups from the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust
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Hardy Hamlet
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The ongoing digitisation happening in the SBT studio, focusing on two interesting items in the SBT Library collection: Hardy's copy of 'Hamlet' and Rowe's compilation of Shakespeare's works.
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Shakespeare timeline
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A timeline of William Shakespeare's life, all beginning at the birthplace on Henley Street in 1564
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Honouring Shakespeare and German unity
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To mark German Unity Day, Helen Hopkins explores the importance of Shakespeare to the unification effort of nineteenth-century Germany.
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35. Shakespeare's Will and his Books
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In our podcast '60 Minutes with Shakespeare,' Diana Owen answers the question: is it suspicious that no books are mentioned in Shakespeare's will?
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Shakespeare’s Lost Interiors: Inventories
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How did people in the early modern period furnish their homes? Alexandra Hewitt takes a look at inventories to get a sense of the type and variety of goods found in early modern homes.
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Portraits of Shakespeare in translations
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Hannah Barker looks at the different approaches to representing Shakespeare’s portrait in translated editions of his works.
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A Victorian replica of Shakespeare’s Birthplace
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Read about the replica Birthplace built as a visitor attraction in 1847 by Royal Surrey Zoological Gardens
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Text in Performance
Education Schools A Level Digital Set-Text Sessions
Explore the performance history and context of the play of your choice with our illustrated talks, from the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust.
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Elizabeth Barnard (Part Two)
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In this follow-up piece, Phil Spinks tells us about Elizabeth Barnard's later life.
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The Custodians of Shakespeare's Birthplace
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Shakespeare's Birthplace has always been looked after by custodians, guiding visitors round the house and taking care of the building.
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Theatre Text in Action
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A practical workshop exploring original performance conditions of Shakespeare's plays.
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Shakespeare in 100 Objects: Quill pen
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Read about this iconic writing tool, often closely associated with Shakespeare himself
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A Visit from "The Players"
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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 the mysterious "Players".
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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.