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Taken on October 26th 1986
Marylebone station on an overcast day in October 1986, with two preserved ex-LNER Gresley pacifics in the platforms.. One the left is 4468 “Mallard’’, with 4472 ‘’Flying Scotsman’’ waiting on the right. Both locos were in use on the popular ‘Shakespeare Limited’ railtours to Stratford-upon-Avon via High Wycombe and Banbury, of which two were run on the same day.. The wedge-shaped plaque on 4468’s centre lamp iron states 'Restoration Sponsored by Scarborough Borough Council' on each side..
In many ways, the period from the late-1970s to the mid-80s was a high point of preserved steam in operation in the UK, which included Victorian and Edwardian-era locos that later became permanent static exhibits.. Mallard itself only had a short life in steam, and became a static exhibit again in 1988, but 4472 is now (2025) operational again, in 1963 BR green livery as 60103.
The station has been upgraded since this photo was taken, and the platform layout here has changed, and passenger services are operated by Chiltern Railways....
Restored from a completely-purple (Agfacolor) original..
Original slide - property of Robert Gadsdon
First Shakespeare Express of 2025 started at Worcester . The Hawthorns, Tanworth in Arden, Danzey and Ladywood were the locations visited
Comedy & Tragedy
The William Shakespeare Memorial
sculptor: Alexander Stirling Calder
bronze, on black marble base (cast 1926)
architects: Gilbert McIlvaine, Paul Cret, and Jacques Gréber
dedicated: 1929, on Shakespeare’s birthday
founded by: John Sartain
relocated: 1953, originally located at the Free Library
The doomed, figure of Hamlet (right - Tragedy), is depicted in a brooding manner as he leans his head upon his hand which bears a knife.
At his feet sits Touchstone, zany jester (Left - Comedy), with his head rolled back in laughter.
Inscription: ALL THE WORLD'S A STAGE AND ALL THE MEN AND WOMEN MERELY PLAYERS
Middle City West - Logan Square
Benjamin Franklin Parkway between 19th and 20th Streets
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
For my visage to appear upon Flickr
For Toy Sunday’s group’s current theme,
Doth make my heart beat quicker
And mine twinkling eye to gleam.
The camera’s eye doth capture
My portrait in every dimension,
But cannot convey my rapture
At being this week’s attention.
Thank you, dear viewers, for gazing
At this image and this humble ode.
A writer can only be amazing
When working in poetic mode.
If this be pleasing, don’t be a knave;
Offer a Comment or click on the Fave.
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Created for the Toy Sunday theme, SHAKESPEARE.
March 22nd, 1966
Mirfield
On a typically dull and wet March day, Stockport Britannia Pacific 4-6-2 70004 William Shakespeare approaches Mirfield with a parcels train for Leeds.
Note: An improved version of image already on my Flickr site
Ref B4-139
Travelled to Mountain City, Tennessee for a kid football game. Super small, cute little down. All down their tiny main street are unique scarecrows. It looked liked the people who live there really take Halloween seriously.
This one was my ultimate favorite. It's William Shakespeare. I sweare he almost looks alive! His lips are moist making it look more like a mask.
Love love love!!!!!
Comedy & Tragedy
The William Shakespeare Memorial
sculptor: Alexander Stirling Calder
bronze, on black marble base (cast 1926)
architects: Gilbert McIlvaine, Paul Cret, and Jacques Gréber
dedicated: 1929, on Shakespeare’s birthday
founded by: John Sartain
relocated: 1953, originally located at the Free Library
The doomed, figure of Hamlet (right - Tragedy), is depicted in a brooding manner as he leans his head upon his hand which bears a knife.
At his feet sits Touchstone, zany jester (Left - Comedy), with his head rolled back in laughter.
Inscription: ALL THE WORLD'S A STAGE AND ALL THE MEN AND WOMEN MERELY PLAYERS
Middle City West - Logan Square
Benjamin Franklin Parkway between 19th and 20th Streets
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
It is his 3d Summer in our garden!! He looks very happy, expressing his pride through his sublime , wonderfully scented blooms!!! Shakespeare 2000 is really a beautiful and graceful David Austin English Rose!!!
This photo is from my trip to San Francisco last summer. Law school has eaten up all my time. I was recently flipping through some old photos and saw this one. I decided to edit it and realized how much I miss taking photos. Hopefully I can get back into snapping away more regularly once this semester is over.
... & Company... In Love ;-)
Paris - France - Instant Shot - Romantism and Discretion ;-)
Special Dedicace a Muizei ;-)
www.flickr.com/photos/muizei/2888686548/in/set-7215760021...
Soundtrack: Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue with Bernstein: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nUyA4tfpyI
More about the place: www.shakespeareandcompany.com/ and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakespeare_and_Company_(bookshop)
Better large
:-)
Shakespeare's Richard II, Act V, scene v.
Richard is played by Pete who has a profile on PurplePort.
45596 "Bahamas" speeds towards Lapworth heading Vintage trains "Shakespeare Express" from derby to Stratford upon Avon on 27 October 2024.
The Shakespeare was a purpose-built theatre. The architect was J H Havelock Sutton. It was opened on 27 August 1888, and closed on 10 March 1956.
It r-eopened on 6 August 1956 as the Pigalle Theatre Club, and closed on 13 May 1957.
It re-opened under the management of Sam Wanamaker (Zoe’s father) on 31 October 1957 as the New Shakespeare which closed on 31 January 1959. The seats were then removed.
In 1960 the theatre was placed on the list of buildings of special architectural or historic interest.
In 1961 there was a proposal to turn the building into a warehouse for Ralph Hyman, the Islington dealer, but this didn't happen, and it remained closed until it reopened in 1963 as the Shakespeare Club. This came to an abrupt end in November 1963 when fire gutted the interior.
On 28 June 1966 the Shakespeare Casino Club opened. This was separate from the main auditorium which reopened on 19 September as the Shakespeare Theatre. (The cabaret was provided by Roy Castle and Derek Dean).
By the 1970s it was called the Shakespeare Show Bar (I saw Scott Walker there).
Demolished 1976 after a disastrous fire.
The Salvation Army built the new Ann Fowler Hostel on the site.
Original research by Philip G Mayer.
Here you can see Shakespeare from The Lego Movie and the head of the statue is from the Classic Tv Series Batcave set number 76052.
Original picture by me
Shakespeare`s Globe Theatre in London, England, is a 1997 replica of the original Globe from 1599. Shakespeare`s plays are regularly performed here.
French postcard by A.N., Paris, no. 141. Image: E.D.
More than 420 feature film versions have been produced of William Shakespeare's plays, making Shakespeare the most filmed author ever, in every language. Some versions remain fairly faithful to the original story and text, while others are rather adaptations that rely more or less loosely on the original plot and dialogue. In this post, we focus on film adaptations that stayed close to the original.
In the 1900s, when the silent film industry began to develop in Europe and America, plays by Shakespeare made up a small part of the total production. The public domain status of Shakespeare's plays made them attractive to film producers, who did not have to feel bound to remain faithful to the originals.
The earliest known production is King John (1899) with Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree by the London studio of the British Mutoscope and Biograph Company. It was a scene from Shakespeare’s 'King John' which was then on the boards at Her Majesty’s Theatre, recorded on 68-mm film. Of four excerpts shot and later exhibited at London’s Palace Theatre to promote the stage production, only the death scene (Act V, scene 2), long thought lost, resurfaced in 1990 in the archive of Eye Filmmuseum in Amsterdam.
In 1900, 'Hamlet' was filmed in France, with Sarah Bernhardt somewhat unexpectedly in the title role. Bernhardt appeared on-screen at the Paris Exposition in the duel scene from 'Hamlet'. In France and Italy at that time, the film was not considered a separate art form, but a medium to present the art of traditional theatre. This movement that cast high-profile actors in adaptations of famous plays, was given the name 'Film d'Art' in 1907. Directors Svend Gade and Heinz Schall came up with a gender-bending Hamlet (1920), which starred Asta Nielsen as a cross-dressed prince. Emil Jannings played the title role in Othello (1922) to Werner Krauss’s Iago. Krauss also portrayed Shylock in a free adaptation of The Merchant of Venice, Der Kaufmann von Venedig (1923).
In the United States, the film industry was initially propelled by a few thousand cheap and widespread 'nickelodeons' (cinematographs). American filmmakers then began to strive to attract the attention of the upper class as well. Possibly, they were also influenced by the 'Film d'Art' spirit. The themes of their films shifted from stories about contemporary workers to classical works. Filmmakers also responded to demands from religious groups and authorities to reduce the amount of violence shown in historical films. Shakespeare's plays were widely respected by both the upper and lower classes of American society, and their public domain status avoided copyright issues. One of the best-known Shakespeare film studios of the time was Vitagraph in New York. Brooklyn’s Prospect Park served as one location for A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1909), and Central Park’s Bethesda Fountain doubled as a Veronese street in Romeo and Juliet (1908). Later, Mary Pickford played a saucy Kate opposite Douglas Fairbanks as Petruchio in The Taming of the Shrew (1929), the first feature-length sound film of Shakespeare. With her sly wink to Bianca during the 'submission' speech to Petruchio, she showed how the film could subvert the Shakespearean text. Warner Brothers’ A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1935), directed by émigrés Max Reinhardt and William Dieterle, revealed the influence of Weimar Expressionism, but it combined the incidental music of Felix Mendelssohn with the presence of contract actors James Cagney and Mickey Rooney, who played Bottom and Puck, respectively. Almost immediately thereafter, producer Irving Thalberg and director George Cukor offered a reverential Romeo and Juliet (1936), with Norma Shearer and Leslie Howard and a supporting cast of actors from the Hollywood expatriate British colony.
The numerous film adaptations of 'Romeo and Juliet' (1597) show how popular, flexible, and timeless Shakespeare's oeuvre is. Kevin Toma, a critic of the Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant noted that the love tragedy has been adapted for the big screen into zombie comedy (Warm Bodies, 2013), action film (Romeo Must Die, 2000), musical (West Side Story, 1961/2021) and everything in between. Toma: "As far as text-based film adaptations go, two stand out. Thanks to Romeo and Juliet (Franco Zeffirelli, 1968) and Romeo + Juliet (Baz Luhrmann, 1996), entire generations of filmgoers became addicted to Shakespeare's doomed lovers. Zeffirelli was the first film director to cast his protagonists more or less in the age of their characters. Juliet is 13, Romeo is probably a little older, around 17. Exactly the age of performer Leonard Whiting, while co-star Olivia Hussey was 16 during filming. The two still effortlessly draw you into the immaculate love that Romeo and Juliet feel for each other, and which they try to shield from the bloody feud in which their families find themselves. And how about a more intimate version of the nocturnal balcony scene? Baz Luhrmann blew the dust off the play in a different way. The location of Romeo + Juliet is no longer 15th-century Verona, but the contemporary fictional town of Verona Beach, where the Capulets and Montagues make things unsafe as rival gangs of thugs. In this sandy setting, Shakespeare's verses go hand in hand with a flashy, restless style that refers as easily to spaghetti westerns as it does to the James Dean classic Rebel without a Cause (Nicholas Ray, 1955). As far as Luhrmann was concerned, this was entirely in keeping with the Elizabethan theatre tradition of Shakespeare's time, when consistent dramatic style was frowned upon. The sombre tone of 'Romeo and Juliet' can sometimes suddenly become comic, and Luhrmann felt that a contemporary adaptation should make these changes of pace and atmosphere comprehensible to a new audience. It is the youthful heroes, unforgettably portrayed by Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes, who provide resting points with their forbidden romance: how tender, poetic and romantic it remains, the scene in which the two cast each other's distant glances on either side of an aquarium, the fish swimming between their eyes and lips."
Sources: Kevin Toma (De Volkskrant - Dutch), Kenneth S. Rothwell (Encyclopaedia Britannica), and Wikipedia (Dutch.)
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