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Revealing Shakespeare’s hidden history
In the year of the World Shakespeare Festival a new biography of Shakespeare has hit the bookstands. It’s done so with little fanfare, perhaps appropriately since it has the title Hidden Shakespeare....
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Lives of Shakespeare
For a man about whom we are supposed to know next to nothing, an awful lot of books have been written about Shakespeare’s life. A couple of weeks ago I wrote a piece about Nicholas Fogg’s new biography...
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Shakespeare and Stratford in World War 1
Recruitment in Stratford in the early years of the war The outbreak of the First World War in late summer 1914 generated a huge recruiting campaign all round the country. In Stratford, where the summer...
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Shakespeare and Stratford-upon-Avon in World War 1
Stratford’s War Memorial In Stratford, as in towns all over the UK, events are being held marking the beginning of the First World War. At Hall’s Croft, close to the peaceful garden containing the...
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Shakespeare, politics and the history of Stratford-upon-Avon
Queen Elizabeth 1, circa 1588 The Shakespeare Club’s October meeting consisted of a lecture by historian Nicholas Fogg on Shakespeare and politics. It was perhaps no surprise that he had decided to...
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Shakespeare, suffrage, and Stratford-upon-Avon
The suffragettes’ march in Stratford 16 July 1913. Photo from Windows on Warwickshire This week, 8-13 March, International Women’s Week has been celebrated around the world with an examination of the...
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