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For the (Literary) Detective in you!
So it’s Monday again and everyone needs a little lift! So we thought we would offer you a light-hearted challenge to kick start your week… who famously praised Shakespeare’s work in the passage below? Extra brownie points for those who … Continue reading
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Tagged #greatwriters, Challenging the Canon, competition, Globe Theatre, Henry VI, Oxford Playhouse, Shakespeare
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Get Wilde
Bored on your commute home? You’re in fine company. In The Importance of Being Earnest, Oscar Wilde wrote, “I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read on the train.” You can actually read Wilde’s Life and Confessions as a … Continue reading
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Tagged #greatwriters, Challenging the Canon, commute, Dickens, Great Writers, Oscar Wilde, oxford, podcast, Shakespeare
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Writers with an image problem: William Shakespeare and Emily Dickinson
In the contemporary world, we are bombarded with images from our laptops and televisions, on billboards and in magazines. These images may be advertising something, but often they seem only to advertise a way of life, a celebrity, unobtainable to … Continue reading
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Tagged chandos, cobbe, dickinson, emily dickinson, images, portraits, Shakespeare, william shakespeare
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English Renaissance Timeline: Some Historical and Cultural Dates
1558 – Queen Elizabeth I is crowned, and Thomas Kyd is born 1563 – Martin Luther’s Thirty-Nine Articles are published 1564 – William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe are born 1569 – Northern England rebels on behalf of Mary Queen of … Continue reading
Questioning Genre
Below is a sneak preview of the kind of material that will be going up in our Approaches to Literature section of the website over the next month, which are designed to offer alternative points of access to the Writers Inspire … Continue reading
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Tagged a-level, Approaches, Austen, Dekker, Eliot, genre, Middleton, Shakespeare, Swift, teaching, Webster
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Feminist Approaches to Literature
Below is a sneak preview of the kind of material that will be going up in our Approaches to Literature section of the website over the next month, which are designed to offer alternative points of access to the Writers Inspire … Continue reading
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Tagged a-level, Approaches, Austen, Behn, Brontë, Dekker, Feminism, Shakespeare, teaching, Woolf
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Timon of Athens exhibit at the National Theatre
If you’re in London this August and want to learn a little more about the process of adapting Shakespeare for the stage, the National Theatre on London’s Southbank have a free exhibition about the making of their current production of William … Continue reading
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Tagged event, London theatre, Marlowe, Middleton, Shakespeare, Shakespeare news, Webster
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Join the Campaign: Digitising the Bodleian’s copy of Shakespeare’s First Folio
Get involved with the Bodleian Library’s Sprint for Shakespeare Campaign, dedicated to generating the support and funds necessary for the Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford to safely digitise their copy of the 1623 Shakespeare First Folio. While you … Continue reading
Free But Not CC: Online Education Resources
While we only include public domain and creative commons resources on our website writersinspire.org, in our trawling for internet treasures, we came across a lot of resources that can be accessed free online, but cannot be reused under any free … Continue reading
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Tagged Austen, Blake, Dickens, Jonson, joyce, Milton, playwright, Renaissance Theatre, Romanticism, Shakespeare, Swift, Victorian Gothic, Whitman, women writers
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Why Shakespeare was Shakespeare
Since the release of the film Anonymous in 2011, the odds have increased dramatically of being cornered in a pub and informed that the works of Shakespeare were actually written by the Earl of Oxford (or Sir Francis Bacon, or … Continue reading
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Tagged authorship, literary mystery, Marlowe, playwright, Renaissance Theatre, Shakespeare, Shakespeare news
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