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Picturing the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries

March 19, 2020 - Aaron T. Pratt

The Ransom Center’s Spring 2020 Stories to Tell exhibition features some of the earliest printed examples of illustrated English plays. [Read more…] about Picturing the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries

Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Exhibitions + Events, Featured1, Research + Teaching Tagged With: acquisition, Books, early books and manuscripts, Performing Arts, Shakespeare

Magic moments

November 30, 2018 - Nelson McKeown

A young Shakespeare scholar inspired by the Ransom Center wants to spark others’ sense of wonder.

[Read more…] about Magic moments

Filed Under: Research + Teaching Tagged With: intern, Shakespeare, Undergraduate

Central Texas to west Texas and beyond

November 14, 2018 - Matthew Harrison

“What do the books smell like?” asked one of my students. In my Shakespeare class at West Texas A&M University, we must use the internet as our rare book room. Our institution could never afford the kinds of specialized resources we use every week online: my students can easily flip through digitized Shakespeare quartos, see performance clips and stills, and trawl through databases of historical records. [Read more…] about Central Texas to west Texas and beyond

Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Research + Teaching Tagged With: Fellowships, Pforzheimer, Shakespeare

Scholarship, time machines, and madness

May 7, 2018 - Harry Ransom Center

by Beth Burns, Hidden Room Theatre Artistic Director

John Wilkes Booth’s promptbook for Richard III

“Ready trumpet. Boy ready with armor. Take time. More piano. Long flourish continued till discovery, next Sc. – and do not W Till Mr Booth is on stage.” [Read more…] about Scholarship, time machines, and madness

Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Exhibitions + Events, Research + Teaching Tagged With: Hidden Room Theater Company, John Wilkes Booth, promptbook, Richard III, Shakespeare

Q&A: Actor from the London stage Paul O’Mahony

September 16, 2016 - Marissa Kessenich

Paul O'Mahony

Actor, writer, producer, and Shakespeare aficionado Paul O’Mahony is one of five actors traveling across the United States with Actors From The London Stage (AFTLS). This year, the acting troupe is performing [Read more…] about Q&A: Actor from the London stage Paul O’Mahony

Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, Theatre + Performing Arts Tagged With: Actors from the London Stage, Homer, Paul O’Mahony, poetry, Poetry on the Plaza, Shakespeare, The Odyssey

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

[Read more…] about Much ado about a dress

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

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