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Shakespeare in Print and Performance

Before and After: Treatment allows Cecil Beaton’s photographs to be exhibited

April 28, 2016 - Diana Diaz Canas

The Harry Ransom Center’s collections offer amazing opportunities to find connections between diverse authors and artists.

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Filed Under: Conservation, Photography Tagged With: Before and After, Cecil Beaton, Conservation, Photography, preservation, preservation pencil, Preservation Week 2016, Production Portfolios, Shakespeare in Print and Performance

Much ado about a dress

April 22, 2016 - Kathleen Telling

Houston Rogers (British, born South Africa, 1901–1970) Rosalind Iden, ca. 1945 Gelatin silver print Donald Wolfit Papers, Harry Ransom Center Donald Wolfit was frequently criticized for gathering around him a company of sub-par actors, which, besides being “pitifully under-rehearsed,” comprised actors whose talents were no match for the majesty, power, and sensitivity of his own acting. The exception was his third wife, Rosalind Iden, an accomplished Shakespearean actress in her own right whose father, B. Iden Payne, was an English stage director known for his Elizabethan stagings of Shakespeare. In this portrait Rosalind Iden is wearing a necklace later fashioned into an embellishment for the Much Ado about Nothing gown. Links from the same necklace were used on another of Wolfit’s costumes, a black velvet hat.

Rosalind Iden’s gown and the character it plays

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Filed Under: Authors, Exhibitions + Events, Theatre + Performing Arts Tagged With: costume history, Donald Wolfit Shakespeare Company, guide by cell, Much Ado About Nothing, performance art, performance history, Rosalind Iden, Shakespeare, Shakespeare 400th anniversary, Shakespeare in Print and Performance

Showing the audience some love

April 4, 2016 - Isabel Dunn

Shakespeare at Winedale,'s Comedy of Errors, July 17, 2013.

On a sunny spring afternoon at The University of Texas at Austin, you may happen to see college students rehearsing Shakespeare in one of the courtyards on the south mall. “Shakespeare Through Performance” is a class that combines [Read more…] about Showing the audience some love

Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, Research + Teaching, Theatre + Performing Arts Tagged With: James Loehlin, Shakespeare in Print and Performance, Undergraduate, William Shakespeare

To quarto, or not to quarto?

April 1, 2016 - Isabel Dunn

Andrew Carlson, Clinical Assistant Professor and Managing Director of the Oscar G. Brockett Center for Theatre History and Criticism at The University of Texas at Austin, has worked extensively with Shakespeare’s plays through critical analysis and performance. [Read more…] about To quarto, or not to quarto?

Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, Research + Teaching Tagged With: African-American, Andrew Carlson, faculty lecture, First Folio, Othello, performance, plays, quarto, Shakespeare, Shakespeare in Print and Performance, textual variations, theater

Stage materials shine spotlight on centuries of Shakespeare

March 30, 2016 - Rebecca Johnson

“All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts.” — As You Like It (Act II, Scene VII)

For four centuries, Shakespeare’s comedies, histories, and tragedies have held up a mirror to society, showing us our facility for both greatness and weakness. [Read more…] about Stage materials shine spotlight on centuries of Shakespeare

Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, Theatre + Performing Arts Tagged With: Costumes and Personal Effects, Cranach press, Donald Wolfit, Edward Gordon Craig, Eric Colleary, Exhibitions, Hamlet, McNay Art Museum, Norman Bel Geddes, Performing Arts, Rosalind Iden, set designs, Shakespeare in Print and Performance

Bardolatry reaches a fever pitch in Nigel Cliff’s The Shakespeare Riots

March 29, 2016 - Kathleen Telling

Nigel Cliff is a full time author and historian, holding an English degree from Oxford University. His 2007 book The Shakespeare Riots was released to high acclaim, earning recognition as one of the best nonfiction books of the year by [Read more…] about Bardolatry reaches a fever pitch in Nigel Cliff’s The Shakespeare Riots

Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, Theatre + Performing Arts Tagged With: Nigel Cliff, Shakespeare, Shakespeare in Print and Performance

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