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Stratford-Upon-Avon, England
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Welcome to all our new students. Look out for our #HelloSIL tweets with useful info about the Shakespeare Institute Library @ShakesInstitute
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Shakespeare’s plays are full of #EYASurprises. Hero’s return from the dead in ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ is quite the plot twist. Janet Spencer-Turner as Hero, Muriel Barker as Ursula and Kate O'Mara as Beatrice from the Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre Production in 1981.
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A reminder that the Shakespeare Institute Library is open as usual 10am-5pm Monday to Friday during the summer vacation, apart from the Bank Holiday on 31 August.
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#OTD in 1856 playwright George Bernard Shaw was born. In 1934 The Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre staged two of his plays, ‘Androcles and The Lion’ and the premier of ‘The Six of Calais’
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We have updated our Sir Kenneth Branagh exhibition. It now features ‘The Cherry Orchard’ Past and Present. @ShakesInstitute @TheRSC
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To mark the #SummerSolstice here’s a magical image from the production of #AMidsummerNightsDream at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre in 1988 taken from our archive. @ShakesInstitute
ALT Image of a scene from 'A Midsummer Night's Dream
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60 today, wishing Sam West the happiest of Birthdays! Sam’s Twelfth Night script and notebook from the RSC’s 2024 production have been recently added to our collection. If you’d like to know more about our archive, see this article on our website tinyurl.com/bdhmr3ht
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Here are some very #EYAColourful images from the Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre production of The Taming of the Shrew in 1993 it featured Bernard Bresslaw as Grumio. @ShakesInstitute @explorearchives
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A brand new book in the library by one of our former students, Georgina Lucas. Her first monograph – congratulations Georgie!
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Fancy making Lady Macbeth’s posset, Perdita’s Pear Pie of imbibing syrup of violets? Look no further than this lovely little book examining foods mentioned in Shakespeare but then providing actual recipes to help you recreate them.
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The heartbreaking story of the death of Greg Doran’s partner, Antony Sher, told through their diaries, but then followed by the uplifting tale of an adventure which takes Doran all over the world in search of copies of Shakespeare’s First Folio – more than 200 of them!
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Wishing @stanley_wells a very Happy Birthday from everyone at the library. Here’s an article about Stanley being knighted in 2016 from our newscuttings archive. @ShakesInstitute
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To coincide with Sir Kenneth Branagh’s return to the RSC this summer, we have made him the star of our new exhibition in the Library, it also features The Tempest Past and Present. Thanks to Elizabeth Freestone for the photos and script. @ShakesInstitute @TheRSC
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‘I hope my microscopic writing is not illegible or troublesome’ One of the challenges of cataloguing an archive is deciphering #EYAhandwriting! Find out more about our Spielmann collection ‘Shakespeare Treads the Boards’ in our new resource guide tinyurl.com/MHSpielmann
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‘These flowers are like pleasures of the world’ (Cymbeline Act 4, scene 2) Thanks to #NoMowMay our wildflowers are thriving this spring @ShakesInstitute
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#OTD in 1855 novelist Marie Corelli celebrated her birthday. Have you seen our online exhibition? flic.kr/s/aHBqjBkLFG @ShakesInstitute
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