May252013
Happy Birthday Cillian Murphy!Wouldn’t he be great in some new Shakespeare?http://shakespearesolved.blogspot.com

Happy Birthday Cillian Murphy!

Wouldn’t he be great in some new Shakespeare?

http://shakespearesolved.blogspot.com

shakespeare William Shakespeare cillian murphy 

12PM
Happy Birthday Sir Ian McKellen! Here he is at the excavation site of The Theatre in Shoreditch.http://shakespearesolved.blogspot.com

Happy Birthday Sir Ian McKellen!
Here he is at the excavation site of The Theatre in Shoreditch.

http://shakespearesolved.blogspot.com

shakespeare ian mckellen 

May242013
Robert Cecil died 401 years ago today, on 24 May 1612. In the war for the future of England, Shakespeare was the Earl of Essex’s greatest weapon against Cecil. please read more here: http://shakespearesolved.blogspot.com/2013/05/shakespeares-nemesis-robert-cecil.html

Robert Cecil died 401 years ago today, on 24 May 1612.
In the war for the future of England, Shakespeare was the Earl of Essex’s greatest weapon against Cecil.
please read more here:

shakespeare William Shakespeare Robert Cecil 

May222013
Happy Birthday Laurence Olivier!I hope you join me today in celebrating this remarkable man and his tremendous contribution to the history of Shakespeare!please read more here:http://shakespearesolved.blogspot.com/2013/05/happy-birthday-laurence-olivier.html

Happy Birthday Laurence Olivier!

I hope you join me today in celebrating this remarkable man and his tremendous contribution to the history of Shakespeare!

please read more here:

http://shakespearesolved.blogspot.com/2013/05/happy-birthday-laurence-olivier.html

shakespeare William Shakespeare laurence olivier hamlet 

May212013
409 years ago, on 20 May 1604, the five main Gunpowder Plot conspirators met at the Duck and Drake Inn, in London.Even if Shakespeare did not know these men, he had known men like them, and he knew that the potential for religious violence was very real.please read more here:http://shakespearesolved.blogspot.com/2013/05/shakespeare-and-birth-of-gunpowder-plot.html

409 years ago, on 20 May 1604, the five main Gunpowder Plot conspirators met at the Duck and Drake Inn, in London.

Even if Shakespeare did not know these men, he had known men like them, and he knew that the potential for religious violence was very real.

please read more here:

http://shakespearesolved.blogspot.com/2013/05/shakespeare-and-birth-of-gunpowder-plot.html

shakespeare William Shakespeare Gunpowder Plot othello hamlet Richard III 

May202013
alwaysiambic: Benedict Cumberbatch as Benvolio in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet (2002) with the New Shakespeare Company.

alwaysiambic:

Benedict Cumberbatch as Benvolio in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet (2002) with the New Shakespeare Company.
12PM
In the final days before Christopher Marlowe died, did he see Shakespeare?What would they have said to each other?please read more here:http://shakespearesolved.blogspot.com/2013/05/shakespeare-and-marlowes-last-words.html

In the final days before Christopher Marlowe died, did he see Shakespeare?

What would they have said to each other?

please read more here:

http://shakespearesolved.blogspot.com/2013/05/shakespeare-and-marlowes-last-words.html

shakespeare William Shakespeare christopher marlowe 

May172013
403 years ago, in May 1610, Ben Jonson famously renounced his Catholic faith and became a Protestant.Who was the true man of the times?Ben Jonson or William Shakespeare?please read more here:http://shakespearesolved.blogspot.com/2013/05/shakespeare-and-ben-jonsons-conversion.html

403 years ago, in May 1610, Ben Jonson famously renounced his Catholic faith and became a Protestant.

Who was the true man of the times?

Ben Jonson or William Shakespeare?

please read more here:

http://shakespearesolved.blogspot.com/2013/05/shakespeare-and-ben-jonsons-conversion.html

shakespeare William Shakespeare Ben Jonson 

May152013
I saw Coriolanus in Washington D.C. at The Shakespeare Theatre Company. It was excellent.  If you are in or near Washington, you should go see it! please read more here: http://shakespearesolved.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-shakespeare-theatre-companys.html

I saw Coriolanus in Washington D.C. at The Shakespeare Theatre Company.

It was excellent. 

If you are in or near Washington, you should go see it!

please read more here:

http://shakespearesolved.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-shakespeare-theatre-companys.html

shakespeare William Shakespeare coriolanus shakespeare theatre company 

May142013
403 years ago today, on 14 May 1610, King Henry IV of France was assassinated in the streets of Paris.He was one more victim of the French Wars of Religion, and another life lost in the Reformation.How would Shakespeare have responded to the news of the assassination?please read more here:http://shakespearesolved.blogspot.com/2013/05/shakespeare-and-assassination-of-king.html

403 years ago today, on 14 May 1610, King Henry IV of France was assassinated in the streets of Paris.

He was one more victim of the French Wars of Religion, and another life lost in the Reformation.

How would Shakespeare have responded to the news of the assassination?

please read more here:

http://shakespearesolved.blogspot.com/2013/05/shakespeare-and-assassination-of-king.html

shakespeare William Shakespeare henry IV of france 

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