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William Shakespeare
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Learn about the man behind the works with Shakespedia, from the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust
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Adelaide Neilson: star of the Victorian stage
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Discover the life of Adelaide Neilson, a talented Victorian Shakespearian actor, whose life was marked by tragedy.
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A visit from John Baldwin Buckstone and Company
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Norma Hampson is a long-standing volunteer at the Shakespeare Centre Library and Archive and has written this blog to share details from her current project, listing visitors from the early Birthplace visitor books. Meet John Buckstone, and actor, and company.
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Shakespeare in 100 Objects: Warming Pan
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A warm bed necessitated the use of a warming pan like the one discussed in this post , a seventeenth-century example in the collection of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust.
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Shakespeare in 100 Objects: Receipt Chest
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Take a closer look at this beautiful medicine chest, held in the collections at the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust
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An art nouveau poster of Ada Rehan
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Who was Ada Rehan, and what is her significance in relation to Shakespeare?
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Not Lost in Translation: A Romanian Othello with an Armenian Twist
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Jasmine Seymour shares her impressions of a cross-cultural Romanian-language production of Othello.
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The Perjured: Ching Ling Foo and Chung Ling Soo
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Maosheng Hu details the story of two purportedly Chinese magicians (Ching Ling Foo and Chung Ling Soo) from the 20th century, whose rivalry famously revolved around who was of true Chinese descent, and how their signatures in Shakespeare's Birthplace Visitors' Book hold the key to answering the mystery...
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Shakespeare in 100 Objects: Cast Bronze Jug
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This cast bronze jug was made between 1375 and 1400, so more than 150 years before Shakespeare was born.
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‘The crowds were thick’.... Arthur Conan Doyle and Henry Irving at the SBT
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New play 'Bram and the Guv'nor' explores Bram Stoker, Henry Irving and Ellen Terry's story using letters from the Bram Stoker Collection.