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“When daffodils begin to peer,
With heigh! The doxy over the dale,
Why, then comes in the sweet o’ the year;
For the red blood reigns in the winter’s pale.”
—‘The Winter’s Tale’ by William Shakespeare
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🎨 Edith Holden

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2023-03-21

It’s so here are some paintings to celebrate…. Ophelia from Hamlet by John Everett Millais 1851-2; Romeo and Juliet by Frank Bernard Dicksee 1884; David Garrick as Richard III by William Hogarth 1745

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2022-03-24

the Bard features in a few of our collections:

A goblet by Stevens & Williams Ltd
Ceramic Jug by Charles Noke for Doulton
'A Midsummer Night's Dream' tile by Wedgwood & Sons

See more of our collections in this virtual tour: https://t.co/9K6eWlA4tF

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2021-03-18

Get ready to celebrate with your very own creation! https://t.co/1NiEWNRWuz

Discover information about and his world in https://t.co/tdTUEMTZjV

Thanks for letting us use the Shakespeare image

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2021-03-09

2⃣: introducing Caliban! Caliban is a dark, earthly monster who lives on the enchanted island where Prospero and his daughter Miranda live. He becomes Prospero's "savage and deformed Slave"

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2020-03-19

It is so I am happy to share one of the newly digitised art works from . By John Gilbert, 1891, it depicts Duncan's Horses.
"Turned wild in nature, broke their stalls, flung out, Contending 'gainst obedience, as they would
Make war with mankind"

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2020-03-16

With not long left until 2019 now is the perfect time to book your school workshop! available to primary and secondary schools across the UK! https://t.co/0k5sQmopTf

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2019-01-22

Oxford University Press Children's Books have been marking with a marvellous selection of words from the Oxford Illustrated Shakespeare Dictionary. Pop over to their Twitter to find the meanings and context.

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2018-03-17

Our Shakespearean word of the day is ‘urchin’. Warning! Don’t read in the meaning of ‘a poorly dressed boy’. To Shakespeare, ‘urchin’ meant something quite different, but what? https://t.co/2o48lqON5V

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2018-03-17

Today’s Shakespearean word of the day is ‘loggets’, a noun for a popular game during Shakespeare’s time.

Read how the gravediggers in Hamlet passed the time with a game of loggets and explore our full Shakespeare A-Z: https://t.co/thaIFKtllh

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2018-03-14

It's Celebrate with the hilarious William Shakespeare's Star Wars series from !

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2018-03-14

For we’re sharing interesting Shakespearean words and definitions every day!

Today’s word is ‘gib’. A ‘gib’ is a tom-cat with the potential for supernatural powers. Find out more here: https://t.co/zEm6bsdiNO

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2018-03-13

It's begun, that is. Schools around the country will be enjoying the storytelling and poetry of the Bard for the first time. Keep an eye on and for updates throughout the week. https://t.co/FVuvAzDgHG

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2018-03-13

It’s To celebrate we’ll be sharing some of our favourite Shakespearean language every day this week.

Today’s word is ‘basilisk’. Discover what ‘basilisk’ meant in Shakespeare’s time and explore our full Shakespeare A-Z: https://t.co/nIgR9BGBWn

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2018-03-12

It’s people! No shelf space to house your own collected works? No problem! Get thee to your

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2018-03-12

Exclamation marks all wrong. Shakespeare would have failed KS2tests https://t.co/3V199nIgyf

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2016-03-15