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Now I want
Spirits to enforce, art to enchant,
And my ending is despair,
Unless I be relieved by prayer,
The Tempest (5.Epilogue) #ShakespeareSunday #RIP
ALT Patrick Stewart as Prospero in The Tempest.
O limèd soul, that, struggling to be free,
Art more engaged! Help, angels! Make assay.
Hamlet (3.3) #ShakespeareSunday #RIP
ALT Patrick Stewart as Claudius in Hamlet.
Nov 1, 1611: The first recorded performance of The Tempest occurs for King James I on "Hallowmas nyght" at Whitehall Palace in London. #OTD #Shakespeare
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So foul and fair a day I have not seen.
Macbeth (1.3) #ShakespeareSunday #RIP
ALT Patrick Stewart as Macbeth
Nov 1, 1604: The first recorded performance of Othello occurs at Whitehall Palace in London. The Revels account describes it as "A Play in the Banketinge house at Whit Hall Called The Moor of Venis," attributed to "Shaxberd."#OTD #Shakespeare
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Oct 31, 1396: Isabella of Valois marries the widower King Richard II of England nine days before her seventh birthday. #OTD
Sir Ian McKellen leads tributes to 'beloved actor' Sir Patrick Stewart after his death at 86 | buff.ly/tFPh0wk
Michelle Terry to step down as artistic director of Shakespeare's Globe in 2027
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Michelle Terry is to step down as artistic director of #Shakespeare's Globe at the end of 2027, closing a decade in charge of the Bankside theatre.
Oct 29, 1618: Sir Walter Raleigh is beheaded in the Old Palace Yard at the Palace of Westminster. #OTD
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Shakespeare before he was famous
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Rory Loughnane imagines what might have happened if #Shakespeare had died during the plague of 1592–93, still a young writer.
Exhibition explores connection between Black women and the works of #Shakespeare | buff.ly/x1tWk2d
The tyranny of the open night ’s too rough
For nature to endure.
King Lear (3.4) #ShakespeareSunday
ALT On Hampstead Heath by James Hamilton, oil on canvas, 1856 (image credit: WikiArt)
I dreamt last night of the three Weïrd Sisters.
Macbeth (2.1) #ShakespeareSunday
ALT The Three Witches, or the Weird Sisters by Henry Fuseli, oil on canvas, 1783 (picture credit: Wikimedia Commons)
It now draws toward night.
Beyond the river we’ll encamp ourselves,
Henry V (3.6) #ShakespeareSunday
ALT A River at Dusk by Hippolyte-Camille Delpy, oil on panel, 1893 (Image credit: Lancashire County Museum Service)
Oct 25, 1415: King Henry V of England defeats the French at Agincourt on Saint Crispin's Day. #OTD
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Lessons From a 19-Year-Old Richard III
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In this excerpt from a seasoned #Shakespeare teacher’s new book, he recounts his initial youthful stab at one the Bard’s great villains, and what he’s since learned about the role.
ALT "Twelfth Night" at Oregon Shakespeare Festival, 2023, in the Allen Elizabethan Theatre. (Photo by Joe Sofranko)
What John Berryman’s Lectures Revealed About Young #Shakespeare—and Himself | buff.ly/3cwTrZr
Oct 20, 1597: Richard III is entered into the Stationer's Register in London. #OTD
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Oct 20, 1596: John #Shakespeare and his family are formally approved to use a coat of arms. Their motto, "Non sanz droict," means "not without right." #OTD
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