Boris Johnson ‘signs £500k book deal’ to write Shakespeare biography By Daisy Wyatt for The Independent, 26 July 2015 London Mayor and recently elected MP for Uxbridge and South Ruislip Boris Johnson has signed a £500,000 book deal to write a biography about Shakespeare. Johnson, whose best-selling biography of Churchill was lauded by critics last year, will write the book in time for […]
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 […]
By Rich Rennicks for the New Antiquarian, 4 June 2015 Another controversy over Shakespeare erupted recently. By itself, this fact would not be worth reporting, as controversy swirls around the legacy of William Shakespeare like that of no other writer. However, this one revolved around something that collectors of rare books will have special interest in and knowledge of: printers marks. Botanist […]
BBC News, 19 May 2015 A 400-year-old botany book contains what could be the only known portrait of Shakespeare made in his lifetime, according to an academic expert. Botanist and historian Mark Griffiths cracked an “ingenious cipher” to identify the playwright in an engraving in the 16th-Century work. “This is what Shakespeare looked like, drawn from life and in the […]
By James Rodger for the Coventry Telegraph, 11 May 2015 School children and grown-up gamers are invited to get creative and imagine what William Shakespeare’s final home may have looked like in a brand new competition using popular online block building game, Minecraft. The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, the non-profit organisation that cares for the world’s greatest Shakespeare heritage sites in Stratford-upon-Avon, […]
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