Shakespeare in the Royal Collection

What has Shakespeare done for the royals - and what have the royals done for Shakespeare? AHRC-funded project at KCL and Birkbeck. Exhibition online now.

[Shakespeare in the Royal Collection @ShaRC_project]

📣 Our online exhibition is now live! 📣
This exhibition draws together objects from the @RCT, the @britishmuseum, the @V_and_A, the @FolgerLibrary and others, to explore the story of royal interest in Shakespeare from 1714-1945.
https://t.co/zgynHC9l49
@sally_barnden @kirstamb

[Sally Barnden @sally_barnden]

My book 'Shakespeare and the Royal Actor' is out now - you can use this code to get 30% off via OUP's website

[Sally Barnden @sally_barnden]

Proofs 👀

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[The RSC @TheRSC]

We were delighted to be at Windsor Castle on Tuesday to celebrate the 400th anniversary year of Shakespeare’s First Folio 📜

A group of RSC actors and musicians performed parts of plays from the Folio for Their Majesties The King and Queen and members of @RoyalFamily 🎭

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This Saturday being Shakespeare's birthday, we'll be running our prize draw to win £50 Globe vouchers - to be in with a chance make sure you fill out our exhibition feedback survey this week! https://t.co/zgynHC9l49

[Helen Smith @conversiontales]

I have been asked to share this podcast, created last weekend by Ukrainian scholars of Shakespeare. It had been planned as an hour on the history of Hamlet in Ukraine, but has taken a new shape for our current moment.

#UkraineCrisis
#UkraineUnderAttack

https://t.co/DPWWsVj6Eu

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We're counting down to Shakespeare's birthday on 23 April, which is also the deadline for entering our prize draw (a £50 voucher @The_Globe). If you haven't yet told us what you think of our exhibition, now's the time! https://t.co/zgynHC9l49

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This nineteenth-century print uses Hamlet's 'Look here upon this picture, and on this' to compare the young Queen Victoria with her unpopular uncle, Ernest, King of Hanover. https://t.co/BMS89TAX55

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A photograph by Robert Milne showing Queen Victoria's grandson, Alexander, and his father, Prince Henry of Battenberg, as Hubert and Arthur from King John. This 'tableau vivant' was organised for the queen's birthday in 1894. https://t.co/MQE82KwPfl

[Shakespeare Bulletin @ShaxBull]

In an innovative piece emerging from the @ShaRC_project , @sally_barnden looks at the resonances of the room in Windsor Castle in which Olivier's Henry V was screened for the royal family, framing the film within existing narratives of royal achievement /6 https://t.co/VAVVyzRhVG

[Shakespeare in the Royal Collection @ShaRC_project]

WATCH: Our short film, 'Miniatures of George IV: Playing the Prince' - Mary Robinson, portrait miniatures, and the Prince of Wales. https://t.co/PbXbCnjDUT

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A desk seal topped with a purple quartz bust of Shakespeare. Queen Mary put it in her 'Dolls' House', where it became a doll-sized bust for the library. https://t.co/NToAkXJsJA

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Prince Albert Edward learnt to draw by copying sketches provided by his teacher, Edward Henry Corbould. They often had Shakespearean themes. Here is Corbould's picture of 'Fortinbras', with his pupil's copy on the right. https://t.co/gl9xCDVs4x

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This extraordinary print, published in 1823, shows the virtually unknown 'Miss Edmistone' as Lady Macbeth, reaching her hand out of the picture frame. https://t.co/xVhdBl2l4x

[Shakespeare in the Royal Collection @ShaRC_project]

These prints were probably acquired by Queen Victoria, who was a great fan of Richard James Lane. She considered this series '*so* like [...and] *quite beautifully* done'. Find out more: https://t.co/LEz7kTkTlE

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Richard James Lane's series of lithographs published in 1840 show the actor Charles Kemble in various Shakespearean roles. Here, he plays both Macduff, and the cowering Macbeth. https://t.co/fOsTkA7DOD

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The inscriptions quote from sequential lines in the play: 'Despair thy charm ... Macduff was from his mother’s womb | Untimely ripp’d' and 'Accursed be the tongue that tells me so!'.

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Would you like to win £50 to spend at the Globe? If you've visited our exhibition, we'd love your feedback. https://t.co/zgynHC9l49

[Shakespeare in the Royal Collection @ShaRC_project]

It was presented to Elizabeth II by George HW Bush on the occasion of the Queen's state visit to the USA in 1991. In return, she gave Bush a transcript of George III's famous letter beginning 'America is lost!' https://t.co/SoqWBYoZcb

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This vase @RCT made in the 1990s by the glass works firm Steuben shows flowers mentioned in Shakespeare plays, with accompanying quotations. https://t.co/SoqWBYoZcb

[David Fisher @The_Bardolater]

Gordon McMullan, Professor of English and Director of the London Shakespeare Centre at King's College London in conversation discussing the ShaRC exhibition and the history of royal Shakespeare appropriation. @ShaRC_project @KingsCollegeLon @cogapp @RCT
https://t.co/HR1AvjXPFG