By Lucy Lynch for the Coventry Telegraph, 14 March 2016 A new figure has been uncovered in a medieval wall painting in the building housing Shakespeare’s former classroom. St John the Baptist appeared from under a layer of paint and varnish at the Guildhall in Church Street, Stratford, currently being restored as a visitor attraction. The wall painting was covered over in […]
By Abhi Subedi for The Kathmandu Post, 27 December 2015 When I visited Shakespeare’s birthplace in Stratford upon Avon for the fourth time one rainy day this November, I observed a few interesting things. The ambience of the place was relatively calm and devoid of any fanfare to commemorate his 400th anniversary in comparison to my previous visit to the place in […]
By Lucy Lynch for the Coventry Telegraph, 26 December 2015 William Shakespeare’s schoolroom will open to the public next year as one of the highlights of the 400th anniversary of his death. Shakespeare’s Schoolroom and Guildhall in Church Street, Stratford, is due to open to the public daily from April, the month of his death in 1616. He died aged 52 from an […]
By Telegraph reporters for The Telegraph, 7 September 2015 William Shakespeare and Ben Jonson, friends and rivals in life, both have 400th anniversaries next year. For Shakespeare, it is the anniversary of his death on April 23, 1616, aged 52, following a bout of hard drinking and merry-making in Jonson’s company. For Jonson it is the anniversary of the 1616 folio edition of […]
BBC News, 7 July 2015 A building where William Shakespeare went to school and saw theatre performances is to be restored thanks to a £1.4m lottery grant. The Guildhall, which dates back to 1420, at King Edward VI School in Stratford-upon-Avon, includes his schoolroom and a theatre. The project includes repairing the timber structure and conserving medieval paintings. Work is […]
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