Bill Shakespeare...Alive and Well!

Shakespeare and the American Revolution

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Matthew Darly. “Poor Old England Endeavoring to Reclaim His Wicked American Children.” Etching [London]: M. Darly 39 Strand, 1777 Apr. Library of Congress.


“Be taxt, or not be taxt, that is the question.” By the time the first battles of the American Revolution took place on April 19, 1775 in Massachusetts, Shakespeare had been imported from England on stage and page to the New World. His plays were performed on the east coast from Massachusetts to Virginia, where the first documented theater building opened in 1718. Though not yet taught in school, Shakespeare was widely read, most often in editions printed in England."

"As patriots and loyalists took sides, Shakespeare provided a common language through which they could express their differences. It was a war fought with ink and paper as well as with bullets and guns. “Be taxt, or not be taxt, that is the question,” wrote a patriot in 1770; while a loyalist Tory expressed uncertainty about whether to sign on to a boycott of British goods in 1774: “To sign, or not to sign? That is the question”—both sides channeled Hamlet."
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See what caught Prince Charles’s attention when he visited the Folger Shakespeare Library
November 6, 2016

"The Prince Charles day was fun. We had chosen a group of books, and we had them all lined up along tables in the Old Reading Room....We had the First Folio, and a copy of the arrival and entertainments for Marie de Médicis [the French queen mother, and Charles I’s mother-in-law], when she came to visit Charles I and Henrietta Maria. That belonged to Cardinal Mazarin. We also had an herbal and some other things."

"They came in. and I remember that they wore red poppies, because it was November, and, of course, in England, they still commemorate the soldiers who died in wars by wearing poppies."

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(l-r) Gail Kern Paster, Prince Charles, Camilla, Georgianna Ziegler. 2005.

"And then we got to the herbal. It is a copy of Fuchs’s herbal from 1542, which was owned and marked up by Henry Dingley in England during Shakespeare’s time. I knew that Charles would like this, because he’s very much into gardening and has created an organic garden at Highgrove. He just stood there and started looking through it, saying things like, “Oh, we have those planted in So-and-So!” He was recognizing plants that he knew."

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"They were very nice and gracious, and looking back, it was sort of low-key. It was a big splash, but at the time, people were not tweeting or taking as many photos. It was a very pleasant visit."


This story is from an interview with Georgianna Ziegler, Louis B. Thalheimer Associate Librarian and Head of Reference Emerita, some of which appears in the Summer/Fall 2016 issue of Folger Magazine. The magazine is complimentary for members of the Folger.
 
W. Heath Robinson: Shakespeare Illustrated by “Britain’s Rube Goldberg”

"Although beloved in his native country of England, William Heath Robinson is little known in the world beyond. Not for much longer: “Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks!”—the winds of change are blustery! In October 2016 the Heath Robinson Museum opened in Pinner, in northwest London, and in March, Wonder and Whimsy: the Illustrations of W. Heath Robinson opened at the Delaware Art Museum, bringing the work of this artist to American audiences for the first time."

"The Delaware exhibition includes a selection of original drawings from two editions of Shakespeare’s plays, Twelfth Night1 and A Midsummer Night’s Dream." (Read More)

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“Emptying our bosoms of their counsel sweet…” From “A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Folger Shakespeare Library

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Stability and history as King Charles turns to Shakespeare in first address to Parliament
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The order of events. Getty Images

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Britain's King Charles III and Queen Consort Camilla sit at Westminster Hall, where both Houses of Parliament are meeting to offer their condolences after the death of Queen Elizabeth II, in London. AP

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In tribute to his mother, he said: “As Shakespeare said of the earlier Queen Elizabeth — 'she was a pattern to all princes living'.”
 
Take, Oh Take Those Lips Away

TAKE, O take those lips away
That so sweetly were forsworn,
And those eyes, the break of day,
Lights that do mislead the morn:
But my kisses bring again,
Bring again—
Seals of love, but seal’d in vain,
Seal’d in vain!

– William Shakespeare
 
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This is portrait of John Shakespeare and Mary Arden, William Shakespeare's parents.
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There is no portrait of Mary Arden and John Shakespeare.

What you are showing is a Sutori collaborative instructional and presentation tool for the classroom. It is a web-based tool for creating and sharing interactive timelines and presentations. It was done to show school children what these two historical figures might have looked like.
 
A rare recording from the musical Catch My Soul (a musical version of Shakespeare's Othello) in which the Killer played Iago.

Lust Of The Blood - Jerry Lee Lewis
 
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William Hutt on pronouncing Shakespeare's words

William Hutt on actors' breathing technique
 
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