Category: Shakespeare’s Almanack

The Month of February

At this rather bleak time of the agricultural year many hedges, gates, walls and fences would be inspected for damage and repaired. The arable fields

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She Loves Me Knot

No doubt as we approach the “cheesy fest of Valentine’s Day” most single people will be looking at the possibility of finding the ideal partner.

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Twelfth Night

Some researchers say that Twelfth Night was written soon after “As You Like It” and “Hamlet” to be performed a year earlier on the 6th

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The Month Of January

In January public halls and domestic dwellings were traditionally decorated with boughs of Rowan  (Witchwood) to avert the powers of evil, although the ash was

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All’s Well That Ends Well

All’s Well that Ends Well is a First Folio play inspired from Giovanni Boccacio’s Decameron (1353) by way of either William Painter’s own expurgated version

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Cymbeline (1590-1)

Cymbeline is one of eighteen plays that were not published until its inclusion in the first folio play derived largely from Raphael Hollinshed’s Chronicles of

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A Winter’s Tale (1584-94)

Like eighteen other Shakespeare plays, the “Winter’s Tale” was first published in the 1623 Folio and the text, although in latter editions revised or altered

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