#Shakespeare Company

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This must've been incredible

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Instagram credit: danielapardor

[nipuni]

Sweet prince Hamlet 👑🗡️💀

[learnelle]

On Sunday I got a copy of the Silent Patient from Shakespeare & Co. Despite it being incredibly touristic I actually really love coming here! People rarely spend a lot of time upstairs, so it’s always so nice to use the reading spaces to go through a quick poetry book or to do some journaling :-)

[one-time-i-dreamt]

The hot new thing on Tumblr was the 2008 Royal Shakespeare Company production of King Lear with Ian McKellen, so every meme and reaction image was just screencaps from King Lear.

[catullus101]

David Tennant as Touchstone in a Royal Shakespeare Company's production of As You Like It (1996).

Photo by Reg Wilson [x]

[sneakertin]

here have some of my favorite pictures of david tennant as richard ii to make your day better :)

[billdecker]

A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM | BEHIND THE SCENES WITH MATHEW BAYNTON

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visionboard for the last months of the year because apparently i'm unable to function without one ⋆.˚꩜ .⋆✶

[a-study-in-dante]

December 12th, 2023 | Was in Paris yesterday for a monthly seminar at the BnF. How nice to arrive to a blue sky and sunny day! As you can imagine it wasn't my most productive day but I still managed to read a book chapter and work on the draft of a communication.

[without-ado]

Shakespeare and Company Paris (x)(x)

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[lifeandtimesoftrying]

THERE IS A RECORDING OF AS YOU LIKE IT (1996)

Breaking news!! Extra, extra, read all about it!!! You may have been pictures of David Tennant such as this one:

but upon trying to find a way to watch the production this is from, been told that there's no way to do so. And this is partially true: there is no copy of this floating around on the internet, and no DVDs have been released. BUT! Not all is lost! @raining-stars-somewhere-else and I have been investigating, and there is a recording of As You Like It (1996) housed in the archives of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust. According to their website, there is a VHS tape and two DVDs (though one of them stops playing halfway through). There are no digital copies of available to the public, but you can go to their reading room for free and access their archives that way. Neither my fellow detective nor I have ever been, so we're not sure exactly how it works, but we believe that you can watch the archived video recordings so long as you're in-person. Unfortunately, we cannot get there ourselves, but we're sharing what we know in hopes that someone who reads this can do some on-the-ground reconnaissance. According to the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust's website, the reading room is located "on Guild Street to the rear of the Shakespeare Centre, Stratford-upon-Avon, CV37 6QW" in England. If you find anything new, please let us know, and if you want to remain anonymous we can do that. Good luck everyone!!!

relevant links:

Shakespeare Birthplace Trust's home page

Archive page for the recording

Information about the Reading Room

RSC's page for the performance (this is where the picture is from, and has information about the cast and crew)

[shakespearenews]

The son of Bangladeshi immigrants, Zaman was first seduced by the theatre’s siren song as a teenager. “I know exactly when it happened. I was 15 or 16, and my school took a group of us to a show in Newcastle, which was an international telling of A Midsummer Night's Dream. It was an RSC production, with an entire company of actors from the Asian continent, across East and South Asia, all speaking different languages. The whole play was done in every language they spoke but English, and it was so beautiful and physical. I was blown away by it, and seeing people who looked like me on stage.”

[ingravinoveritas]

David looking adorable at the press night for Pericles at the RSC last night.