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An educational website for students, teachers and other Shakespeare enthusiasts at www.bardweb.net

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Shakespeare Resource Center @shakespearerc.bsky.social · 11h
Relax: it’s what Shakespeare would have wanted buff.ly/ovCRwiX How can we make #Shakespeare truly accessible? It’s all about how you talk to your audience, finds Kate Andrews at two productions at the Globe.
Matilda Bailes and Assa Kanouté in Much Ado About Nothing at the Globe. Photo: Marc Brenner
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Shakespeare Resource Center @shakespearerc.bsky.social · 15h
Oct 1, 1553: Queen Mary I of England is crowned at Westminster Abbey. #OTD buff.ly/TnTqMO1
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Shakespeare Resource Center @shakespearerc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Sep 30, 1399: King Richard II of England is formally deposed by Parliament, and Henry Bolingbroke becomes King Henry IV. #OTD buff.ly/xvWFj0y
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Shakespeare Resource Center @shakespearerc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Shakespeare’s Globe opens Research and Collections Centre buff.ly/JkiJdam Shakespeare’s Globe has opened its new Research and Collections Centre, which gives London its only dedicated #Shakespeare library and archive open to the public.
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Shakespeare Resource Center @shakespearerc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
'How #Shakespeare Saved My Life' Off-Broadway review — a moving testament to the Bard’s power | buff.ly/7Sj8nfB
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Shakespeare Resource Center @shakespearerc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Sep 28, 1572: Anne #Shakespeare, sister of William, is baptized at Holy Trinity Church in Stratford-upon-Avon. #OTD bit.ly/34BV904
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Shakespeare Resource Center @shakespearerc.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
But masters, remember that I am an ass, though it be not written down, yet forget not that I am an ass. Much Ado About Nothing (4.2) #ShakespeareSunday
Michael Keaton as Dogberry in Much Ado About Nothing (1993).
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Shakespeare Resource Center @shakespearerc.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Lord, what fools these mortals be! A Midsummer Night's Dream (3.2) #ShakespeareSunday
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Shakespeare Resource Center @shakespearerc.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
But be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them. Twelfth Night (2.5) #ShakespeareSunday
William Pleater Davidge as Malvolio in Twelfth Night at the Theatre Royal, Bath (c. 1846). Painting by Henry Andrews.
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Shakespeare Resource Center @shakespearerc.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
A Shakespeare fall arts preview buff.ly/aC2WxHe The Shakespeare & Beyond blog previews new #Shakespeare projects coming to audiences this fall season across a variety of media.
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Shakespeare Resource Center @shakespearerc.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Robert Eggers Is Adapting William #Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet: Everything We Know So Far | buff.ly/zQk1GxT
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Shakespeare Resource Center @shakespearerc.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Sep 22,1598: Playwright Ben Jonson kills actor Gabriel Spenser in a duel at Hogsden Fields. #OTD buff.ly/u1WxwL6
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Shakespeare Resource Center @shakespearerc.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Treating trauma through Shakespeare buff.ly/aIEghit For many veterans, the hardest battle comes home with them. One local program is using the medicinal power of theatre to help them process trauma and PTSD.
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Shakespeare Resource Center @shakespearerc.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Sep 21, 1599: Swiss tourist Thomas Platter provides the first record of a performance at the Globe Theatre after seeing a production of Julius Caesar. #OTD #Shakespeare buff.ly/d0y1ZOi
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Shakespeare Resource Center @shakespearerc.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I found him under a tree like a dropped acorn. As You Like It (3.2) #ShakespeareSunday
A red squirrel enjoys an acorn under an oak tree. (Picture credit: Daniil Kondrashin/Pexels)
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Shakespeare Resource Center @shakespearerc.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Three beauteous springs to yellow autumn turn'd In process of the seasons have I seen. Sonnet 104 #ShakespeareSunday
A Vermont forest in autumn, full of trees with yellow leaves. (Picture credit: Vermont Tourism)
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Shakespeare Resource Center @shakespearerc.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
When great leaves fall, the winter is at hand. Richard III (2.3) #ShakespeareSunday
An autumn leaf falls to the ground (Picture credit: StockCake)
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Shakespeare Resource Center @shakespearerc.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Sep 20, 1592: Greene's Groats-Worth of Wit and its derogatory reference to #Shakespeare is recorded in the Stationer's Register. #OTD bit.ly/3ro2vhu
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Shakespeare Resource Center @shakespearerc.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
It’s a Bard-busting, record-breaking year in Boulder | buff.ly/RXl4Bx6
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Shakespeare Resource Center @shakespearerc.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The House of Lancaster - The Red Rose of England Documentary buff.ly/VaZI6zT This video charts the 750-year history of the Lancastrian legacy, from its origins as a medieval earldom to its status today.
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Shakespeare Resource Center @shakespearerc.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Sep 16, 1386: King Henry V of England is born at Monmouth Castle in Wales. #OTD bit.ly/3RQ6znB
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Shakespeare Resource Center @shakespearerc.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The Real Macbeth - Uncovering the Truth Behind Shakespeare's Legend buff.ly/oAZcGBE Was Macbeth truly the ruthless villain #Shakespeare portrayed, or a misunderstood warlord shaped by political intrigue and ancient Celtic traditions? Explore the stark contrasts between fact and fiction.
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Shakespeare Resource Center @shakespearerc.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Who dares receive it other, As we shall make our griefs and clamor roar Upon his death? Macbeth (1.7) #ShakespeareSunday
Lady Macbeth by George Cattermole, watercolor, 1850 (Picture credit: Victoria and Albert Museum, London)
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Shakespeare Resource Center @shakespearerc.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
No noise, but silence and eternal sleep. Titus Andronicus (1.1) #ShakespeareSunday
Eternal Silence, the funerary monument at the gravesite of Dexter Graves in Graceland Cemetery, Chicago. (Picture credit: WTTW)
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Shakespeare Resource Center @shakespearerc.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Silence is the perfectest herald of joy. Much Ado About Nothing (2.1) #ShakespeareSunday
Young Girl in the Garden at Mezy by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, oil on canvas (1891)
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Shakespeare Resource Center @shakespearerc.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Sep 13, 1409: Isabella of Valois, Queen Consort to King Richard II of England, dies in Blois, France. #OTD
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Shakespeare Resource Center @shakespearerc.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
6 Actors, 1 Legendary Role | Hamlet in the round | National Theatre buff.ly/clzZFfs Ian McKellen, Rory Kinnear, Adrian Lester, Alex Jennings, Michelle Terry and Hiran Abeysekera share their insights and experiences playing Hamlet at the National Theatre and beyond.
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Shakespeare Resource Center @shakespearerc.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Sep 9, 1608: Mary Arden, widow of John #Shakespeare and mother of William, is buried at Holy Trinity Church in Stratford-upon-Avon. #OTD bit.ly/3roAczn
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Shakespeare Resource Center @shakespearerc.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
‘No Tyndale, No Shakespeare’: How the Bible Made Modern English | buff.ly/j4pPgqG
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Shakespeare Resource Center @shakespearerc.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Sep 8, 1601: John #Shakespeare, father of William, is buried at Holy Trinity Church in Stratford-upon-Avon. #OTD bit.ly/2WFHykb
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Shakespeare Resource Center @shakespearerc.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Responding to Measure for Measure over the centuries buff.ly/RSnRQXt Audience and scholarly responses to Measure for Measure have been mixed across the centuries, enough so that it has been described as a "problem play."
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Shakespeare Resource Center @shakespearerc.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Sep 7, 1601: John #Shakespeare, father of William, dies in Stratford-upon-Avon. #OTD
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Shakespeare Resource Center @shakespearerc.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Sep 7, 1533: Queen Elizabeth I of England is born at the Palace of Placentia in Greenwich. #OTD buff.ly/UYASsDe
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Shakespeare Resource Center @shakespearerc.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
For France, ’tis ours, and we will keep it still. Henry VI, Part 2 (1.1) #ShakespeareSunday
The Storming of the Bastille by Charles Thévenin, oil on canvas (1793)
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Shakespeare Resource Center @shakespearerc.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
No longer on Saint Dennis will we cry, But Joan la Pucelle shall be France’s saint. Henry VI, Part 1 (1.6) #ShakespeareSunday
Joan of Arc at the Coronation of Charles VII in Reims Cathedral, by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, 1854; in the Louvre, Paris.
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Shakespeare Resource Center @shakespearerc.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Sep 6, 1749: Actor David Garrick begins the first day of celebrating Shakespeare in a three-day festival held at Stratford-upon-Avon. #OTD
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Shakespeare Resource Center @shakespearerc.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
You came I think from France? All's Well That Ends Well (3.5) #ShakespeareSunday
Jean Reno in his iconic role as the professional hitman Léon in Luc Besson's 1994 action-drama film Léon: The Professional.
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Shakespeare Resource Center @shakespearerc.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Sep 6, 1586: John #Shakespeare, father of William, is removed from his position as alderman for failing to attend council meetings. #OTD bit.ly/38yYFJF
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Shakespeare Resource Center @shakespearerc.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Sep 5, 1576: Globe shareholder and actor Henry Condell is baptized at St Peter in Norfolk. #OTD #Shakespeare
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Shakespeare Resource Center @shakespearerc.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Sep 4, 1568: John #Shakespeare, father of William, is elected to the office of bailiff in Stratford-upon-Avon. #OTD bit.ly/3heZA5Z
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Shakespeare Resource Center @shakespearerc.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Shakespeare and the Stage buff.ly/r7Oo1Nb Throwback Thursday presents this 1918 work by Maurice Jonas exploring the development and nuances of English drama, focusing particularly on the theatrical landscape during #Shakespeare's time.
Cover of Shakespeare and the Stage by Maurice Jonas (1918).
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Shakespeare Resource Center @shakespearerc.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Sep 3, 1592: Playwright Robert Greene, author of Groatsworth of Wit, dies at the age of 34 in London. #OTD
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Shakespeare Resource Center @shakespearerc.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Sep 2, 31 BC: Octavian defeats the forces of Mark Antony and Cleopatra in the naval Battle of Actium. #OTD buff.ly/ZHw4XsN
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Shakespeare Resource Center @shakespearerc.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
The Downfall of Shakespeare in the Park buff.ly/KX81HyH Annie Levin argues that the Public Theater's Free #Shakespeare in the Park has decayed from Joseph Papp's original vision and calls for a return to art funded by and for the public rather than the "nonprofit industrial complex."
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Shakespeare Resource Center @shakespearerc.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Aug 31, 1422: King Henry V of England dies at the age of 36 of dysentery while on campaign in France. #OTD buff.ly/NuOYenw
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Shakespeare Resource Center @shakespearerc.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
It shows a will most incorrect to heaven, A heart unfortified, a mind impatient, An understanding simple and unschooled. Hamlet (1.2) #ShakespeareSunday
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Shakespeare Resource Center @shakespearerc.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Learn of the wise and perpend. As You Like It (3.2) #ShakespeareSunday
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Shakespeare Resource Center @shakespearerc.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth of the realm in erecting a grammar school. Henry VI, Part 2 (4.7) #ShakespeareSunday
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Hollow Crown Fans @hollowcrownfans.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Today's #ShakespeareSunday theme: EDUCATION!
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Shakespeare Resource Center @shakespearerc.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Why preserving #Shakespeare is still important today | buff.ly/vAbPIAE
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Why preserving Shakespeare is still important today – WTOP News
In the series finale at the Folger Shakespeare Library in D.C., WTOP explored why William Shakespeare’s works remain worth preserving more than 400 years later.
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