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Monologues not by Shakespeare
Monologues not by Shakespeare. Tr. Marlous Lange Peters. Amsterdam: Uitgeverij International Theatre ...
SHAKESPEARE FOR FREEDOM
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SBT Research Conversation, Wednesday 19 April
‘Shakespeare’s Wood’ By Dr. Tara Hamling and Dr. Cathryn Enis, University of Birmingham. A new series of ‘Research Conversations’ organised by Dr. Paul Edmondson, Head of Research at the Shakespeare ...
Making Shakespeare Brand-new: A Tribute to Michael Bogdanov
Making Shakespeare Brand-new: A Tribute to Michael Bogdanov (15 December 1938 – 16 April 2017) by Paul Edmondson I first met Michael Bogdanov in 2008, when he came to take ...
A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Nanke-ji at the Leeds Intercultural Festival
By Lucy Nordberg Last year I was fortunate to be involved in a fascinating project organised by the University of Leeds to mark the 400th anniversary of the deaths of both ...
The Faith of William Shakespeare
The Faith of William Shakespeare: a one-day conference Saturday 20 May from 10.00am to 5.00pm, the Wolfson Hall, The Shakespeare Centre, Henley Street. By Rev. Dr Paul Edmondson, Head of ...
Shakespeare al fresco
Interview with the Shakespeare Aloud Team at the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust. By Sara Marie Westh When you visit the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, the SBT for short, you first make your ...
Henry E. Huntington, the Greatest Book Collector
In “Why America buys England’s books,” a 1927 article in the Atlantic Monthly, Philadelphia bookseller Rosenbach wrote that Henry E. Huntington was the “greatest collector of books the world has ...
Solving Mysteries in the SBT Archives: Ethel Webling and Herbert Beerbohm Tree
Solving Mysteries in the SBT Archives: Ethel Webling and Herbert Beerbohm Tree By Ella Hawkins Tucked away in the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust’s Rare Books strongroom is an item that ...
Illustrating Shakespeare: A History of Roman Representations in Printed Texts
By Ella Hawkins, SBT Research Advocate Ella Hawkins is currently completing a Midlands3Cities-funded placement with the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust as part of her PhD studies in design for Shakespeare. In the ...
The Silly Side of Shakespeare
By Mya Gosling Shakespeare is hilarious: his comedies are funny and his tragedies are even funnier. Well… at least that’s the mindset I have whenever I sit down to draw ...
