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The History of English Podcast - Episode 178: Much Ado About Hamlet
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In this episode, host Kevin Stroud looks at the years that produced Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like It, and Hamlet.
November 27, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Nov 27, 1582: The consistory court, Diocese of Worcester, issues a marriage license for William #Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway. #OTD
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Entry in the Bishop's register concerning the marriage of William Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway
Shakespeare Documented features all primary sources that document the life and career of William Shakespeare. It has images, descriptions, and transcriptions of 500 manuscripts and printed works.
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November 27, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Nov 26, 1607: King Lear is entered into the Stationer's Register in London. #OTD #Shakespeare
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Stationers' Register entry for King Lear
Shakespeare Documented features all primary sources that document the life and career of William Shakespeare. It has images, descriptions, and transcriptions of 500 manuscripts and printed works.
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November 26, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Nov 25, 1566: Globe shareholder and actor John Heminges is baptized at St Peter's Church in Droitwich, Worcestorshire. #OTD #Shakespeare
November 25, 2025 at 12:01 PM
'History has treated her badly': Hamnet and the 400-year-old mystery around Shakespeare's wife and son
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Oscar-tipped new film Hamnet imagines the home life of William and Agnes #Shakespeare–and the "soul-crushing" loss of their child. It's a powerful story that fills in many blanks.
November 24, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Let us not hang like roping icicles
Upon our houses' thatch.

Henry V (3.5) #ShakespeareSunday
November 23, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Descend to darkness and the burning lake!

Henry IV, Part 2 (1.4) #ShakespeareSunday
November 23, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Even to the frozen ridges of the Alps,
Or any other ground inhabitable.

Richard II (1.1) #ShakespeareSunday
November 23, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Rob Eastaway: Shakespeare's mathematical life and times
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In this episode of Maths on the Move, Rob Eastman tells some of the many instances of maths appearing in Shakespeare's work and talks about the mathematical climate that #Shakespeare lived in.
November 20, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Picturing Shakespeare
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There are only two accepted representations of William #Shakespeare that are considered “official” – but could a portrait that has been hanging over a family’s mantelpiece for the last 50 years be the third?
November 17, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Nov 17, 1558: Queen Mary I of England dies at the age of 42 in St. James's Palace, London. #OTD
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November 17, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Learn, good soul,
To think our former state a happy dream,
From which awaked, the truth of what we are
Shows us but this.

Richard II (5.1) #ShakespeareSunday
November 16, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Cannot a plain man live and think no harm,
But thus his simple truth must be abused
By silken, sly, insinuating Jacks?

Richard III (1.3) #ShakespeareSunday
November 16, 2025 at 2:01 PM
What, art thou mad? Art thou mad? Is not the truth the truth?

1 Henry IV (2.4) #ShakespeareSunday
November 16, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Nov 16, 1633: The earliest recorded performance of Richard III occurs at the court of King Charles. #OTD #Shakespeare
November 16, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Writers Theatre Transforms Shakespeare’s “As You Like It” Into A Foot-Tapping Musical
Writers Theatre Transforms Shakespeare's “As You Like It” Into A Foot-Tapping Musical
The musical version of the Bard of Avon's pastoral comedy is fun, but Shakespeare is the crust of this pie, not the filling.
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November 15, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Nov 14, 1532: According to the chronicler Edward Hall, King Henry VIII secretly marries Anne Boleyn in Dover prior to their secret wedding the following January. #OTD
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November 14, 2025 at 12:01 PM
‘I really enjoyed it’: new RSC curriculum brings Shakespeare’s works to life in UK classrooms
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Starting with Macbeth, online platform using rehearsal-based teaching methods aims to transform study of the Bard.
November 13, 2025 at 7:24 PM
9 Misconceptions About Shakespeare | buff.ly/6UuSj0F
November 11, 2025 at 3:06 PM
"Hamnet" actress Jessie Buckley on how #Shakespeare changed everything for her
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CBS News Sunday Morning interviewed Jessie Buckley about her role as Shakespeare's wife in "Hamnet."
November 10, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Nov 10, 1624: Henry Wriothesley, third Earl of Southampton, dies of fever in the Low Countries while commanding troops against the Spanish. #OTD
November 10, 2025 at 12:01 PM
But if the while I think on thee, dear friend,
All losses are restored and sorrows end.

Sonnet 30 #ShakespeareSunday
November 9, 2025 at 2:00 PM
And must we be divided? Must we part?

Richard II (5.1) #ShakespeareSunday
November 9, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Nov 9, 1389: Isabella of Valois, Queen Consort to King Richard II of England, is born in Paris. #OTD
November 9, 2025 at 12:00 PM
It was my turquoise! I had it of Leah when I was a bachelor. I would not have given it for a wilderness of monkeys.

Merchant of Venice (3.1) #ShakespeareSunday
November 9, 2025 at 10:00 AM