The Folger Shakespeare Library’s Grand Reopening
June 28, 2024
By: Dorothea Dickerman “These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits and Are melted into air, into thin air: And, like the
June 2024
Denver Conference Schedule Announced
June 25, 2024
Full details including registration and the preliminary schedule of the four-day event – scheduled for September 26 to 29 at Denver’s Hyatt Centric Hotel —
Response to Henry Oliver
June 21, 2024
By Tom Woosnam On June 16th Henry Oliver published this on his blog: https://www.commonreader.co.uk/p/shakespeare-wrote-shakespeare. It deserves a response. During the lifetime of the man
The Merry Wives of Windsor in the Guardian
June 18, 2024
Under the heading “Need Proof who wrote Shakespeare’s Plays? See the Merry Wives of Windsor”, the Guardian critic Michael Billington wrote this: https://www.theguardian.com/stage/article/2024/may/20/proof-who-wrote-shakespeare-plays-see-the-merry-wives-of-windsor Derek Jacobi
A light hearted item for the end of the week
June 14, 2024
This comes from the BBC’s Horrible Histories series.
Shakespeare’s Songbook
June 11, 2024
Paul Bredderman Sr shared the following with us recently: The Complete Collection of Ballads, Rounds, Ayres & other Songs from the Plays of William Shakespeare
Pembroke Intervention? The Pavier Quartos
June 7, 2024
In 1619, just a few years before the release of the 1623 First Folio, publisher William Jaggard printed a series of playbooks which seems to
The Financial Times: “Who was Shakespeare?”
June 4, 2024
Elizabeth Winkler’s article in last weekend’s FT weekend supplement can be found here: Who was Shakespeare? (ft.com) You may hit a paywall, but if you
