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"The Complete Works of William Shakespeare - Illustrated - In Six Volumes" was printed in Great Britain in what appears to be a 'pocket book edition' style. The publisher is The John C. Winston Company, but I have little else to go on. I am not sure of the date of publication but my best guess would be in the early 1900's to 1930's. They were handed down to me after a grandmother's death decades ago now.
Of course these don't include the more recently discovered six works of his either!
I thought I would use them to highlight the Macro Monday theme of 6 for this week! Happy MM, everyone!
Site of the only property William Shakespeare ever owned in London, purchased three years before his death
On the Left Bank in Paris, just across from the Notre-Dame lives a bookstore and an institution. Shakespeare and Company is an amazing place with an amazing past. You can quite literally read its history in the many nooks and cranny's filled with soul. It is well worth reading the Wiki entry and visiting the website. Then, go to Paris and experience Shakespeare and Company for yourself.
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Detail from the Shakespeare Memorial in Southwark Cathedral of a recumbent alabaster figure of Shakespeare, carved by Henry McCarthy in 1912. Today, 23 April 2016 is the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death.
"Fear not, till Birnam wood Do come to Dunsinane." -- from William Shakespeare's MACBETH.
Credit for naming the tree goes to my youngest sister.
PARIS.- Rue de la Bûcherie ...
English Book store ...
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Minolta Hi-Matic 7S
Ilford FP4+ @200
Agfa Rodinal 1+100 semi-stand development, 70min, 19°C
Agitation: 30s + gently at 30min
Helsinki, Finland, 2022.
With my three year old wanting to see Oliver Cromwell (much to my pleasure!) we had a family trip out on Saturday. It all seemed in vain but the the clouds cleared just in time for no.70013 ''Oliver Cromwell''as it roars across the rather high River Avon at Eckington with the 1Z73 1610 Worcester SH to Paddington on the 6th October 2012.
For me this scene has a nice 60s feel with the Brit starting to look work worn and the plastic boats aren't out of period for the late 60s.
“How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank!
Here will we sit and let the sounds of music
Creep in our ears: soft stillness and the night
Become the touches of sweet harmony.
Sit, Jessica. Look how the floor of heaven
Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold:..."
- Lorenzo, Acte V, Scene 1”
― William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
Audition to perform in "Othello, the Moor of Venice", by William Shakespeare. Oscar Niemeyer Popular Theatre, Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil.
MKU3A photo group outing to London South Bank yesterday. The day was bitterly cold and the soup looked inviting...but being U3A we went in search of our usual coffee and cake. U3A outings can survive on nothing less!
The Wagamama art is by Woskerski and Shakespeare is an older piece by Jimmy C.
At Bumbershoot - September 4th, 2010.
Photo by Josh Lovseth.
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A copy of Shakespeare's Tragedies (Everyman edition) that my father had owned in 1932 at school and is now owned by my younger son.
The spine fell off when my son gave it to me. I was lucky to find some book cloth at my tutor's bindery that was a good match.
Ready for use. It will be a few years before my grandson gets to read them.
Best viewed in Large.
Rood Ashton Hall powers past Blunts Green with the Shakespeare Express, on the opening day of the 2016 season. The train was deviating from it's normally route and returning by Shirley instead of Dorridge due to engineering works, which allowed for some different shots of 4965 working chimney first.
This is where the Shakespeare story began.
William Shakespeare was born in this house and lived here until he was old enough to marry and spend the first five years of family life here with his new wife, Anne Hathaway.
For millions of Shakespeare enthusiasts worldwide, this house is a shrine. Here you will discover the world that shaped the man and find out what other famous writers thought when they visited here. Follow in the footsteps of not only Shakespeare, but other well-known visitors such as Charles Dickens, John Keats, Walter Scott and Thomas Hardy.
Shakespeare's Birthplace is a fascinating house that offers a tantalising glimpse into Shakespeare's early world.
Rood Ashton Hall at Wood End farm crossing,16.9.2001.MAMIYA 645 super,80mm lens,1/500th sec,f2.8,velvia 50.
Images are my own except crown which is public domain.
Nikon D3200
Created for the Artistic Manipulation Group Mixmaster 15 challenge.
My wife and I were wandering around Stratford-upon-Avon on a wet and miserable Bank Holiday weekend. Although we are no Shakespeare fans we thought we would still be entranced by the main tourist sights. Finding our way to Harvard House, billed as the birthplace of William Shakespeare, we pushed open the old wooden door and entered. We were welcomed in by two genial gents with big grins on their faces who advised us it would cost £ 17.50 each to see the three storey house. To be frank (I'm not Frank, I'm Mike, but just to be frank ) it didn't look like there was much to see. A tour of my Grannie Eileen's house, called Tally-Ho, would have been far more interesting. So we hung onto our money and decided to get a cup of tea at a little street café opposite. From there the house looked old, but not particularly interesting compared to the many other Tudor houses in neighbouring streets. But then I noticed a bored child peering out of the window on the middle floor. I had to crop the shot severely to get this picture, but then I noticed the figures behind the child. Was that really Anne Hathaway and William Shakespeare in there as well?
I later found out that this is not the house where Shakespeare was born. It also wasn't the house that someone lived in that set up Harvard University in the USA either. But in the tradition of so many tourist sights, a little bit of myth had been over spiced and over sexed to make it sound that Harvard House was where the little bard was born where the great American Institution was founded. It's all rubbish. The following might be closer to the truth:
Once known as the Ancient House, the property was built by local businessman Thomas Rogers in 1596; the year before William Shakespeare bought New Place, just a few hundred yards along the street.
Rogers was a successful butcher as well as a corn and cattle merchant. He served as Alderman for the Stratford Corporation alongside John Shakespeare, William’s father. The elaborately carved front of the building is a clear statement of his wealth and social-standing.
In 1605, Thomas Rogers’ daughter Katherine married Robert Harvard of Southwark. Their son, John, was born two years later and would go on to marry Ann Sadler before the couple emigrated to Massachusetts, America.
John Harvard worked as a preacher and teaching elder in Newtowne, where the Massachusetts Bay Colony had set up a fund for the founding of a new college. John died of tuberculosis in 1638, bequeathing £750 to the fund – in excess of £3 million today – along with his library of 230 books.
It was agreed that Newtowne should be renamed Cambridge, after the university John attended in England, and that the new college would bear his name. Harvard College remains one of the two schools within Harvard University and is the oldest institution of higher education in America.
In 1909, the Ancient House in Stratford-upon-Avon was purchased by the American millionaire, Edward Morris of Chicago. After extensive restoration, it was given to Harvard University and became known as Harvard House.
The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust has been caring for Harvard House on behalf of Harvard University since 1990.
Shakespeare said :
“ I always feel happy ..
You know why ?!
Because I don't expect anything
from anyone ..
Expectations always hurt ..!! "
An Aussie Summer Stock Production of... Hamlet...
With soooo much rain and triple digit temps my Aussies Roxy & JJ have taken to producing some summer stock one act plays inside the house... (they are very fast scenes lol) ...anything inside to beat the triple digit, heat even if it drives mom & dad bonkers... their very favorite is Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act 5, Scene 1.... "alas, poor Monkey, we knew him well..."
This is\was a big purple monkey squeaky toy, now missing an arm and a leg... although I don't think in the original play by Shakespeare that as Hamlet inspected poor Yorick's skull it was a result of being torn apart in a game of tuggy by two hyper Aussies.... well, there are many such 'Yorick's' in this house...
I think Roxy & JJ want to do a production of 'Game of Thrones' next, they have a couple of Dragon toys that need more 'tugging'....
(Don't say break a leg... I don't need the emergency Vet bill right now)
(Sorry for the grain\noise, still raining so ambient light is low resulting in higher ISO's)
Winter by William Shakespeare
When icicles hang by the wall,
And Dick the shepherd blows his nail,
And Tom bears logs into the hall,
And milk comes frozen home in pail,
When blood is nipp'd, and ways be foul,
Then nightly sings the staring owl,
To-who! To-whit! To-who!—a merry note,
While greasy Joan doth keel the pot.
When all aloud the wind doe blow,
And coughing drowns the parson's saw,
And birds sit brooding in the snow,
And Marian's nose looks red and raw,
When roasted crabs hiss in the bowl,
Then nightly sings the staring owl,
To-who! To-whit! To-who!—a merry note,
While greasy Joan doth keel the pot.
The VIDEO with the Poem
By decree, all women's roles in Shakespeare were played by men.
King Charles II subsequently issued a reversal, a royal proclamation to make it official that women could appear on stage: “Wee doe … permit and give leave That all the woemens part to be acted in either of the said two Companies for the time to come maie be performed by woemen.”
When Othello was performed on December 8, 1660, the audience saw something startling—a woman acting the role of Desdemona, 44 years after Shakespeare's death.
Diarist Samuel Pepys wrote about the event. It being just one month after the first female actor played Desdemona when he recorded “the first time that ever [he] saw Women come upon the stage.”
Samuel Pepy's own entrance into 'society' entailed him performing a woman's role as Arethusa in 'Philaster, or Love Lies A-Bleeding', at the tender age of 10. See below, second image, for details.
Shakespeare's Richard II, Act V, scene v.
Richard is played by Pete who has a profile on PurplePort.