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From #Shakespeare to Dutta: The Sonnet’s Journey Through Time & Culture
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The sonnet is a form that, in its strictness, offers a remarkable degree of freedom—a paradoxical flexibility that has allowed it to thrive across languages and time periods.
‘This thing of darkness I acknowledge mine.’ How two murderers found grace performing #Shakespeare. | buff.ly/JC1mRSr
A Brief History Of Henry Bolingbroke - Henry IV Of England
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Brief History presents a look at the dramatic life of King Henry IV of England, a life of constant struggle and rebellion.
Oct 13, 1399: King Henry IV of England is crowned at Westminster Abbey. #OTD
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16th-century imaginary painting of Henry IV, National Portrait Gallery, London
Oct 12, 1639: Globe shareholder and actor John Heminges is buried at St. Mary Aldermanbury in London. #OTD #Shakespeare
Sketch of St. Mary Aldermanbury as it would have appeared
How shall I be revenged on him? For revenged I will be, as sure as his guts are made of puddings.

Merry Wives of Windsor (2.1) #ShakespeareSunday
Victorian engraving of Mistress Page from Merry Wives of Windsor
Reach thy hand;
Farewell. I have told my last hour. I was false,
Yet never treacherous. Forgive me, cousin.

The Two Noble Kinsmen (5.4) #ShakespeareSunday
Palamon and Arcite by Francesco Bartolozzi
Oct 12, 1537: Edward VI, the only son of Henry VIII, is born at Hampton Court Palace. #OTD
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A plague of all cowards, I say, and a vengeance too! Marry and amen!

Henry IV, Part 1 (2.4) #ShakespeareSunday
FalstafF with wineglass, painting by Eduard von Grützner
That would make for a very cool story in its own right.
Folger #Shakespeare Library Announces "Contemporary Art at the Folger," an exhibition featuring Folger Artist Fellows | buff.ly/e8xyHvv
RSC: What's on in October
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The Royal #Shakespeare Company is running ten shows in October in Stratford, London, New York, and across the UK.
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
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
Why then my taxing like a wild goose flies
Unclaimed of any man.

As You LIke It (2.7) #ShakespeareSunday
A wild goose in flight
I am tame, sir. Pronounce.

Hamlet (3.2) #ShakespeareSunday
Hamlet, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern from Act III, sc. ii
Well, as time shall try.
In time the savage bull doth bear the yoke.

Much Ado About Nothing (1.1) #ShakespeareSunday
A wild bull on a grassland prairie
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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."
Cover of An Introduction to Shakespeare
Oct 2, 1452: King Richard III of England is born in Fotheringhay Castle. #OTD
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Portrait of Richard III
Oct 1, 1553: Queen Mary I of England is crowned at Westminster Abbey. #OTD
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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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