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Shakespeare Resource Center @shakespearerc.bsky.social · 1h

Oct 13, 1399: King Henry IV of England is crowned at Westminster Abbey. #OTD buff.ly/XKTPZiG

Shakespeare Resource Center @shakespearerc.bsky.social · 21h

‘My fellows’: John Heminges and Henry Condell buff.ly/jzFSzH5 Paul Edmondson of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust writes about the friends and colleagues #Shakespeare refers to as "my fellows" in his will.

(SR - OS - 80 Jonson) The workes of Benjamin Ionson, principal actors in Sejanus (Image credit: Shakespeare Birthplace Trust)

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Shakespeare Resource Center @shakespearerc.bsky.social · 23h

Oct 12, 1639: Globe shareholder and actor John Heminges is buried at St. Mary Aldermanbury in London. #OTD #Shakespeare

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Shakespeare Resource Center @shakespearerc.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Oct 12, 1537: Edward VI, the only son of Henry VIII, is born at Hampton Court Palace. #OTD buff.ly/XeA4ynx

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Shakespeare Resource Center @shakespearerc.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Come, sir, you peevishly threw it to her, and her will is it should be so returned. Twelfth Night (2.2) #ShakespeareSunday

Eric Porter as Malvolio and Dorothy Tutin as Viola from 'Twelfth Night' 1960 (Tom Holte Theatre Photographic Collection © SBT)

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Shakespeare Resource Center @shakespearerc.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Ask for me tomorrow, and you shall find me a grave man. Romeo and Juliet (3.1) #ShakespeareSunday

The Death of Mercutio, by Edwin Austin Abbey, Gouache on composition board, 1902. (Image credit:Yale Art Gallery)

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Shakespeare Resource Center @shakespearerc.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Here’s a knocking indeed! If a man were porter of hell gate, he should have old turning the key. (Knock.) Knock, knock, knock! Who’s there, i’ th’ name of Beelzebub? Macbeth (2.3) #ShakespeareSunday

The porter unlocking the door in Macbeth. (Image credit: Victorian Illustrated Shakspeare)

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Shakespeare Resource Center @shakespearerc.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Shakespeare's Holinshed: The Chronicle and the Historical Plays Compared buff.ly/3NPPj3q Throwback Thursday presents this 1907 volume by W.G. Boswell-Stone, which analyzes how specific passages taken from the Chronicles were integrated into Shakespeare's plays.

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Shakespeare Resource Center @shakespearerc.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Oct 8, 1600: A Misummer Night's Dream is entered into the Stationer's Register in London. #OTD #Shakespeare bit.ly/3aFv1Fh

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Shakespeare Resource Center @shakespearerc.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Oct 6, 1621: Othello is entered into the Stationer's Register in London. #OTD #Shakespeare bit.ly/34DvsfA

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Shakespeare Resource Center @shakespearerc.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Oct 6, 1600: William #Shakespeare is named in tax records as owing 13s. 4d. in tax in Sussex. #OTD bit.ly/38z0Z3l

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Shakespeare Resource Center @shakespearerc.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Oct 6, 1599: William #Shakespeare is named in tax records for owing taxes in St. Helen's Parish, Bishopsgate. #OTD bit.ly/37KsLen

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Shakespeare Resource Center @shakespearerc.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I grew up in Shakespeare's home town - here's what I know that tourists don't buff.ly/vFrlLP8 Matt Brace takes Canberra Times readers on a virtual summer stroll through historic Stratford-Upon-Avon.

A statue of William Shakespeare in Bancroft Gardens. (Picture credit: Getty Images)

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Shakespeare Resource Center @shakespearerc.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Psalmayene 24 on what #Shakespeare is doing in America’s Jim Crow South | buff.ly/EqXYg1i

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Shakespeare Resource Center @shakespearerc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Dream on, dream on, of bloody deeds and death. Fainting, despair; despairing, yield thy breath. Richard III (5.3) #ShakespeareSunday

Richard III is Tormented by the Ghosts of His Victims by Alexandre Bida, watercolors (1893). (Image credit: Folger Shakespeare Library)

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Shakespeare Resource Center @shakespearerc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

O Pomfret, Pomfret! O thou bloody prison, Fatal and ominous to noble peers! Richard III (3.3) #ShakespeareSunday

$Entrance to the sally port at the ruins of Pontefract (Pomfret) Castle in Wakefield, West Yorkshire. (Image credit: ExperienceWakefield.com)$

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Shakespeare Resource Center @shakespearerc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Was ever woman in this humor wooed? Was ever woman in this humor won? Richard III (1.2) #ShakespeareSunday

Richard and Anne on the street in London, Act 1, Scene 2. (Image credit: Victorian Illustrated Shakespeare)

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Shakespeare Resource Center @shakespearerc.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

UD English, education major studies relevance of classic literature in the classroom | buff.ly/95wWxYn

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Shakespeare Resource Center @shakespearerc.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Oct 2, 1452: King Richard III of England is born in Fotheringhay Castle. #OTD buff.ly/EXJczsm

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Shakespeare Resource Center @shakespearerc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

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 · 01/10/2026

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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