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Shakespeare Resource Center @shakespearerc.bsky.social · 19m

‘This thing of darkness I acknowledge mine.’ How two murderers found grace performing #Shakespeare. | buff.ly/JC1mRSr

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Oct 12, 1537: Edward VI, the only son of Henry VIII, is born at Hampton Court Palace. #OTD
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Shakespeare Resource Center @shakespearerc.bsky.social · 3d

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

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Shakespeare Resource Center @shakespearerc.bsky.social · 4d

That would make for a very cool story in its own right.

Shakespeare Resource Center @shakespearerc.bsky.social · 5d

Folger #Shakespeare Library Announces "Contemporary Art at the Folger," an exhibition featuring Folger Artist Fellows | buff.ly/e8xyHvv

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

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.

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Shakespeare Resource Center @shakespearerc.bsky.social · 7d

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 · 9d

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 · 9d

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 · 9d

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 · 9d

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 · 9d

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 · 10d

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 · 10d

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 · 10d

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 · 13d

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 · 13d

Oct 2, 1452: King Richard III of England is born in Fotheringhay Castle. #OTD
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Shakespeare Resource Center @shakespearerc.bsky.social · 14d

Oct 1, 1553: Queen Mary I of England is crowned at Westminster Abbey. #OTD
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Shakespeare Resource Center @shakespearerc.bsky.social · 15d

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 · 16d

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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