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Shakespeare Resource Center @shakespearerc.bsky.social · 17h

Oct 8, 1600: A Misummer Night's Dream is entered into the Stationer's Register in London. #OTD #Shakespeare
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Stationers' Register entry for A Midsummer Night's Dream

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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Shakespeare Resource Center @shakespearerc.bsky.social · 2d

Troilus and Cressida review – history repeats as farce in Pythonesque takedown of ancient heroes
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Achilles is a slob and Ajax is a meathead in Owen Horsley’s streamlined production, which is bursting with invention and comic inversions.

Straying into the wacky … Troilus and Cressida at Shakespeare’s Globe, London. Photograph: Helen Murray

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Shakespeare Resource Center @shakespearerc.bsky.social · 2d

Oct 6, 1621: Othello is entered into the Stationer's Register in London. #OTD #Shakespeare
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Stationers' Register entry for Othello

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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Shakespeare Resource Center @shakespearerc.bsky.social · 2d

Oct 6, 1600: William #Shakespeare is named in tax records as owing 13s. 4d. in tax in Sussex. #OTD
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Exchequer, Lord Treasurer’s Remembrancer, Pipe Rolls, naming William Shakespeare as a tax defaulter in 1600

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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Shakespeare Resource Center @shakespearerc.bsky.social · 2d

Oct 6, 1599: William #Shakespeare is named in tax records for owing taxes in St. Helen's Parish, Bishopsgate. #OTD
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Exchequer, Lord Treasurer’s Remembrancer, Pipe Rolls, naming William Shakespeare as a tax defaulter in 1599

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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Shakespeare Resource Center @shakespearerc.bsky.social · 2d

Oct 6, 1573: Henry Wriothesley, third Earl of Southampton, is born at Cowdray House in Sussex. #OTD

The ruins of Cowdray House in West Sussex

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Shakespeare Resource Center @shakespearerc.bsky.social · 3d

Why then my taxing like a wild goose flies
Unclaimed of any man.

As You LIke It (2.7) #ShakespeareSunday

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Shakespeare Resource Center @shakespearerc.bsky.social · 3d

I am tame, sir. Pronounce.

Hamlet (3.2) #ShakespeareSunday

Hamlet, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern from Act III, sc. ii

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Shakespeare Resource Center @shakespearerc.bsky.social · 3d

Well, as time shall try.
In time the savage bull doth bear the yoke.

Much Ado About Nothing (1.1) #ShakespeareSunday

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Shakespeare Resource Center @shakespearerc.bsky.social · 6d

10.1.25
An Introduction to Shakespeare
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Throwback Thursday presents this 1910 work by professors H. N. MacCracken, F. E. Pierce, and W. H. Durham of Yale University. My favorite chapter title is "Some Famous Mistakes and Delusions about #Shakespeare."

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Shakespeare Resource Center @shakespearerc.bsky.social · 6d

Oct 2, 1452: King Richard III of England is born in Fotheringhay Castle. #OTD
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Shakespeare Resource Center @shakespearerc.bsky.social · 7d

Oct 1, 1553: Queen Mary I of England is crowned at Westminster Abbey. #OTD
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Shakespeare Resource Center @shakespearerc.bsky.social · 8d

Sep 30, 1399: King Richard II of England is formally deposed by Parliament, and Henry Bolingbroke becomes King Henry IV. #OTD
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Shakespeare Resource Center @shakespearerc.bsky.social · 9d

1360-1415: How The Tyrannical Reign Of Richard II Plunged England Into Crisis
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With England in turmoil, significant internal conflicts begin to arise, including the Peasants' Revolt and the tyrannical reign of Richard II, which further destabilizes the kingdom.

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Shakespeare Resource Center @shakespearerc.bsky.social · 10d

Let me rake it from the earth.

The Two Gentlemen of Verona (4.2) #ShakespeareSunday

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Shakespeare Resource Center @shakespearerc.bsky.social · 10d

There is a willow grows askant the brook
That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream.

Hamlet (4.7) #ShakespeareSunday

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Shakespeare Resource Center @shakespearerc.bsky.social · 10d

Three beauteous springs to yellow autumn turned
In process of the seasons have I seen.

Sonnet 104 #ShakespeareSunday

White Mountains National Forest in Dummer, New Hampshire

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Shakespeare Resource Center @shakespearerc.bsky.social · 10d

Sep 28, 1572: Anne #Shakespeare, sister of William, is baptized at Holy Trinity Church in Stratford-upon-Avon. #OTD
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Parish register entry recording Anne Shakespeare's baptism

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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Shakespeare Resource Center @shakespearerc.bsky.social · 13d

Measure for Measure review – Shakespeare’s sleazy sex scandal chimes with our times
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Director Emily Burns puts a laser focus on the moral rot and hypocrisy of men in power with this streamlined and superbly performed version.

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Shakespeare Resource Center @shakespearerc.bsky.social · 16d

More than half of RSC staff urged to apply for voluntary redundancy
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Arts institution seeks to make ‘urgent’ savings as it is thought to be facing a shortfall of between £5m and £6m.

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Shakespeare Resource Center @shakespearerc.bsky.social · 16d

Sep 22,1598: Playwright Ben Jonson kills actor Gabriel Spenser in a duel at Hogsden Fields. #OTD

Ben Jonson’s Murder Charge

A guest post by LH Member Catharine Arnold. This article was previously published in London Historians Members’ Newsletter of December 2014. Playwright Ben Jonson [1572-1637], scholar of West…

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Shakespeare Resource Center @shakespearerc.bsky.social · 17d

I thank God I have as little patience as another man, and therefore I can be quiet.

Love's Labour's Lost (1.2) #ShakespeareSunday

Timothy Dalton (Costard) with Ian Richardson (Berowne) in a 1973 RSC production of Love's Labour's Lost

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Shakespeare Resource Center @shakespearerc.bsky.social · 17d

How still the evening is,
As hushed on purpose to grace harmony!

Much Ado About Nothing (2.3) #ShakespeareSunday

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Shakespeare Resource Center @shakespearerc.bsky.social · 17d

Another general shout!
I do believe that these applauses are
For some new honors that are heaped on Caesar.

Julius Caesar (1.2) #ShakespeareSunday

1892 engraving of Julius Caesar being presented a crown

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Shakespeare Resource Center @shakespearerc.bsky.social · 17d

Sep 21, 1599: Swiss tourist Thomas Platter provides the first record of a performance at the Globe Theatre after seeing a production of Julius Caesar. #OTD #Shakespeare

Thomas Platter and Gustav Binz

Here is a link to Binz&#146s article and transcription. The anecdote itself appears on p. 458.

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