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Aged 16-25? Open auditions announced for Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors in #Teddington

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Artwork by Den Stubbs for Folio400.com, used with kind permission.
January 17, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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All parts of the yew are poisonous. And the yew is used to make archery bows. I.e., it is “double-fatal”.
YEW — The Nature of Shakespeare
Shakespeare Species Quote of the Day, YEW: Thy very beadsmen learn to bend their bows of double-fatal yew against thy state. #shakespearespecies #folio400 #nationaltreeweek
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January 16, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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“To be or not to be...”
Which Shakespeare plays are most quoted?
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December 23, 2023 at 6:14 AM
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TAMING OF THE SHREW
II.i

Good morrow, Kate- for that's your name, I hear.

Well have you heard, but something hard of hearing:
They call me Katherine that do talk of me.

You lie, in faith, for you are call'd plain Kate,
And bonny Kate, and sometimes Kate the curst…

#ShakespeareSunday
Image from taming of the shrew Hortensio. Why, no; for she hath broke the lute to me. Image from https://folio400.com/plays/the-taming-of-the-shrew/
October 5, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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This November marks #Folio400. It's 400 years since the publication of William Shakespeare's #FirstFolio, the anthology with which his friends established his legacy.

For Prospect, I had a ball writing this long feature on how it shaped theatre history www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/6372...
November 8, 2023 at 11:29 AM
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This Wednesday is the 400th anniversary of the printing of Shakespeare's first folio, one of the sources for #Author Paul Griffiths' 'let me tell you' and 'let me go on', in which First Folio Ophelia meets Second Quarto Ophelia!

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let me go on | Paul Griffiths
I was amazed by how moving and true Ophelia’s voice is when up against and, surely thanks to, the constraint. I went to check her lines in the play: yes, all this new life from so little material. S
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November 6, 2023 at 6:26 PM
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It's #ShakespeareDay as we celebrate the printing of #Shakespeare's #FirstFolio 400 years ago!

481 words from that Folio (spoken by Ophelia) take on a life of their own in Paul Griffiths' famous novel Let Me Tell You & sequel Let Me Go On!

📚💙 Mark #Folio400 with Shakespeare's latest work here:
let me tell you | Paperback Bundle
Paul Griffiths is one of a handful of fine writers to find the secret passage leading from restriction to richness.— Adam Mars-Jones Let me go on is a dazzling, virtuosic short novel th
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November 8, 2023 at 3:21 PM
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Appropriately enough on the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s First Folio saw surely one of the greatest paintings ever 😍 #Folio400
Millais’ Ophelia floating down the brook
November 8, 2023 at 6:03 PM
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Here's a bonus picture of us printing gold foil on the covers in our studio.

These beautiful editions commemorate both #Folio400 and 15 years of Griffiths' landmark Ophelian project that has inspired hundreds of readers and authors alike
Green sheet of printed paper in a lever operated foil debossing press, which prints gold lettering. Messy studio surrounds the solid steel press, about size of a child's bicycle
November 8, 2023 at 3:28 PM