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Picture of Patrick Stewart speaking to an audience.

Patrick Stewart Reads All 156 of Shakespeare’s Sonnets in New Audiobook | buff.ly/L1vIfin

Suffolk author Mai Black in period costume

Author to revive Shakespeare club after 300 years
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Suffolk author Mai Black is reviving the #Shakespeare Ladies Club to offer a place for women to come together, read the playwright's works and celebrate the original women.

‘Chuffed to the gills at all the pubs named after him’ … a William Shakespeare lookalike outside Shakespeare's birthplace in Stratford-upon-Avon in Warwickshire, UK. Source: The Guardian. Photograph: Simon Hadley/Alamy.

Readers reply: What if #Shakespeare was dropped in modern-day London? | buff.ly/AZgajqh

Uncut sapphire crystals

The heaven-hued sapphire and the opal blend
With objects manifold.

Lover's Complaint #ShakespeareSunday

Common blue violets growing in a woodland setting

These blue-vein'd violets whereon we lean
Never can blab, nor know not what we mean.

Venus and Adonis #ShakespeareSunday

Iachimo leers over Imogen in her bedchamber (Victorian Illustrated Shakespeare)

To see the enclosed lights, now canopied
Under these windows, white and azure laced
With blue of heaven's own tinct.

Cymbeline (2.2) #ShakespeareSunday

Portrait of Francis Beaumont

Mar 6, 1616: English playwright Francis Beaumont dies in London. #OTD
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Cover of William Shakespeare: A Critical Study by Georg Brandes

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William Shakespeare: A Critical Study
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Throwback Thursday presents this 1905 work by the renowned Danish critic Georg Brandes. It's a dense volume of historical background in relation to the plays and poetry. He also appears to have loathed King James.

Portrait of King Edward IV

Mar 4, 1461: Yorkist Edward IV takes the throne of England from his Lancaster cousin, Henry VI. #OTD
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Mar 3, 1592: Philip Henslowe notes the first recorded production of Henry VI Part I at the Rose Theatre. #OTD #Shakespeare
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The new Globe Theatre in Southwark, London.

Shakespeare’s Globe launches environmental playwright prize
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Theatre says it will harness art ‘to inspire societal shifts towards restorative relationship with nature.’

Portrait of Sir Thomas Bodley.

Mar 2, 1545: Scholar and diplomat Sir Thomas Bodley, founder of the Bodleian Library, is born in Exeter, Devon. #OTD

An arch of pink spring roses

Cesario, by the roses of the spring,
By maidhood, honor, truth, and everything,
I love thee so.

Twelfth Night (3.1) #ShakespeareSunday

Woman dressed as Mother Nature walking into a forest

See where she comes, appareled like the spring.

Pericles (1.1) #ShakespeareSunday

April Love by Arthur Hughes, oil on canvas (1855-56)

The April’s in her eyes. It is love’s spring,
And these the showers to bring it on.

Antony and Cleopatra (3.2) #ShakespeareSunday

The New Orleans Shakespeare Festival at Tulane welcomed thousands of schoolchildren to Tulane's campus this year to watch comical, fantastical stagings of "A Midsummer Night's Dream."

Shakespeare for the Schools brings literature to life for kids
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Shakespeare for the Schools, an initiative spearheaded by the New Orleans #Shakespeare Festival at Tulane, has been performing for students for nearly 30 years.

Plaque at St. George's tower commemorating the baptism of Christopher Marlowe

Feb 26, 1564: Playwright Christopher Marlowe is baptized at St George's Church, Canterbury in Kent. #OTD

Engraving depicting the execution of Essex at the Tower of London

Feb 25, 1601: After being tried and convicted of treason following his failed rebellion, Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, is beheaded at the Tower of London. #OTD
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Stationers' Register entry for Henry IV Part 1 Shakespeare Documented features all primary sources that document the life and career of William Shakespeare. It has images, descriptions, and transcriptions of 500 manuscripts and printed works.

Feb 25, 1598: Henry IV Part 1 is entered into the Stationer's Register in London. #OTD #Shakespeare
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George RR Martin holdings a sword.

‘Game of Thrones’ Prequel Play Sets World Premiere From Royal Shakespeare Company buff.ly/Mub6dBm

‘Shakespeare in Tongues’ explores how the Bard’s works are being used to reframe migration and colonialism
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Kathryn Vomero Santos examines how #Shakespeare is still used as a spotlight to bring attention to lesser-known histories of linguistic oppression and colonial resistance.

Minerva bridles Pegasus with the help of Mercury by Jan Boeckhorst (c. 1650)

O, for a horse with wings!

Cymbeline (3.2) #ShakespeareSunday

Illustration from the 1916 edition of Black Beauty (1877) by Anna Sewell.

How like a god: the beauty of the world, the paragon of animals.

Hamlet (2.2) #ShakespeareSunday

Jockey Ron Turcotte guides Secretariat toward the finish line to win the 1973 Kentucky Derby. (File photo by Rich Nugent, Louisville Courier Journal)

When I bestride him, I soar; I am a hawk; he trots the air. The earth sings when he touches it.

Henry V (3.7) #ShakespeareSunday

Feb 21, 1608: Elizabeth Hall, granddaughter of William #Shakespeare, is baptized at Holy Trinity Church in Stratford-upon-Avon. #OTD
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18th-century engraving of The Globe theatre.

Feb 21, 1599: Land for the Globe theatre is leased to the Lord Chamberlain's Men; #Shakespeare is listed as a leading shareholder. #OTD
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1902 illustration depicting the coronation procession of King Edward VI through the streets of London

Feb 20, 1547: Henry VIII's only son is crowned King Edward VI of England. #OTD
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Rory Alexander (right) and Kemi-Bo Jacobs portray William and Agnes Shakespeare in the Chicago Shakespeare Theater’s “Hamnet.” (WBEZ) Photo by Kyle Flubacker

From passion to birth to grief, ‘Hamnet’ play hits Chicago Shakespeare Theater stage
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In a moving, compelling production, the stage adaptation of Hamnet by Lolita Chakrabarti premiered at Chicago #Shakespeare Theater and runs until March 8, 2026.

19th-century illustration of Clarence's execution by drowning

Feb 18, 1478: George, Duke of Clarence and brother of Richard III, is "privately executed" in the Tower of London, allegedly drowned in a butt of Malmsey wine. #OTD

Portrait of an unknown lady, previously believed to be Elizabeth Barnard

Feb 17, 1670: Elizabeth Hall Barnard, granddaughter and last surviving descendant of William #Shakespeare, dies in Abington, Northamptonshire at the age of 61. #OTD
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