The Play’s the Film – Hamlet 2008/2009
Today’s blog is by Holly Parsons. I joined the Trust as Library and Archive Assistant at the beginning of November, and as a Film Studies graduate (and former cinema usher!), I am keen that my first...
View ArticleShakespeare’s World in 100 objects: Number 3, ‘a Tempest in a Box’
Birmingham University PhD student Peter Hewitt’s blog There is a small, tattered leather bound box in the SBT’s collection that keys into some of the major themes of the sixteenth and seventeenth...
View ArticleMy speech is plaine… Holinshed’s Chronicles Part 1
This post is written by Jo Wilding, User Services Librarian. This is the first of a two-part post on Holinshed’s Chronicles – it is in memory of Marian Pringle 1947–2010. Marian was Head of Library at...
View ArticleI never thought to hear you speak again: Holinshed’s Chronicles Part 2
Today’s blog is by Jo Wilding, User Services Librarian Shakespeare takes the information in Holinshed and, never one to let accuracy get in the way of a good story, compresses the bloody history of the...
View ArticleShakespeare’s World in a 100 objects: Number 4, bedsteads
Decorative headboard of the ‘Hathaway Bed’ Elizabeth Sharrett is studying for a PhD in English Literature at the Shakespeare Institute. Here is her fresh take on the Hathaway bedsteads. “How bravely...
View Article“Something of his charm has survived the centuries”: John Heffernan shines as...
Last Saturday afternoon I went to Bristol to see the penultimate performance of the Tobacco Factory’s production of Shakespeare’s lyrical history play Richard II. It was an excellent production with a...
View Article“The red rose and the white are on his face, the fatal colours of our...
“It was reported, that men alive passed the river upon dead carcasses, and that the great river of Wharfe whereinto that brooke dooth run, and of all the water comming from Towton, was coloured with...
View ArticleArchive display on King Lear
The photo above shows a visiting group from ACE Cultural Tours looking at items from the Shakespeare Centre Library and Archive’s collections relating to King Lear in an archive session. I have done...
View ArticleLetters from Liski: Part III
Today’s blog is written by Madeleine Cox, Reading Room Services Coordinator. Macbeth seems to be the play of the moment, with the forthcoming production for the re-opening of the RST and the choice of...
View Article“A pearl in every cowslip’s ear”
Today is Shakespeare’s birthday and Stratford is basking in glorious sunshine. A number of recent spells of warm weather leading up to today have caused the natural world here in Warwickshire to burst...
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