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English Shakesperian Criticism in the Eighteenth Century
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Throwback Thursday presents this 1932 edition of Herbert S. Robinson's survey of criticism from Nicholas Rowe to Richard Cumberland's essays on the characters of Macbeth, Richard III, and Falstaff.

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Hudson Valley Shakespeare Opens New Samuel H. Scripps Theater Center in Garrison, New York
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The architecture is designed to blur the line between indoor and outdoor, reinforcing the company’s decades-long identity as an open-air Shakespeare festival.

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Jun 1, 1593: A coroner's inquest into Christopher Marlowe's death rules that Ingram Frizer stabbed Marlowe in self-defense. #OTD
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I am no villain. I am the youngest son of Sir Rowland de Boys. He was my father, and he is thrice a villain that says such a father begot villains.

As You Like It (1.1) #ShakespeareSunday

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Go tread the path that thou shalt ne’er return.
Simple, plain Clarence, I do love thee so
That I will shortly send thy soul to heaven.

Richard III (1.1) #ShakespeareSunday

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O, you are well tuned now,
But I’ll set down the pegs that make this music,
As honest as I am.

Othello (2.1) #ShakespeareSunday

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May 30, 1593: Playwright Christopher Marlowe is killed in Deptford during a quarrel over a bill. #Shakespeare may allude to this incident with the line "it strikes a man more dead than a great reckoning in a little room" from As You Like It. #OTD

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Poet, playwright, spy: Stephen Greenblatt conjures the brilliant life of Christopher Marlowe
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Renowned Shakespearean author Stephen Greenblatt explores the brief, turbulent career of Christopher Marlowe in his new book, Dark Renaissance.

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May 27, 1199: King John of England is crowned at Westminster Abbey. #OTD
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May 26, 1583: William and Anne's first child, Susanna, is baptized at Holy Trinity Church in Stratford-upon-Avon. #OTD #Shakespeare
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Eating the Past: Shakespeare's women and herbs
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This episode concludes a discussion with Shakespearean scholar Phebe Jensen by focusing on herbal medicines related to women's health.

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Cold snow melts with the sun’s hot beams.

Henry VI, Part 2 (3.1) #ShakespeareSunday

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What freezings have I felt, what dark days seen,
What old December’s bareness everywhere!

Sonnet 97 #ShakespeareSunday

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I'll sigh celestial breath, whose gentle wind
Shall cool the heat of this descending sun.

Venus and Adonis #ShakespeareSunday

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Today's #ShakespeareSunday theme has been chosen by @Jenkins100Rose - HOT & COLD

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May 24, 1337: King Philip VI of France confiscates the Aquitaine, beginning the Hundred Years' War between England and France. #OTD
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May 23, 1533: Thomas Cranmer declares the marriage of Henry VIII and Katherine of Aragon invalid, granting an annulment. #OTD
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May 22, 1455: An army led by Richard, Duke of York along with the Earls of Salisbury and Warwick, defeats the army of King Henry VI and captures him at St. Albans. #OTD
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Patrick Stewart, AI and I encountered the Bard. Resistance was futile.
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The “Star Trek” star and Claude school Jeremy Olshan on #Shakespeare, poetry and the meaning of life.

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May 21, 1471: King Henry VI of England dies, allegedly of "melancholy," in the Tower of London. #OTD
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