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Love this, in the same vein as Carol Ann Duffy's utterly brilliant collection, 'The World's Wife' ...

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“If Adam Picked the Apple” by Danielle Coffyn
Love this. Reminds me of “If Men Could Menstruate” by Gloria Steinem
January 21, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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September 27, 2026 at 6:12 PM
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It's #ShakespeareSunday again!

This week's theme: FAVOURITE THINGS

Enough said, I think?

Let's see yours, people!

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June 1, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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#ShakespeareSunday - this week's theme: WEATHER

Now let's see yours!

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June 29, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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My hand-painted #map of #Shakespeare is a love letter to a Stratford boy from a Stratford girl... me! janetomlinson.com/collections/...

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March 27, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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Having spent most of yesterday in the garden, this week's #shakespearesunday reflects our fears for a late frost!

As I've been saying for years, you don't read #shakespeare; he reads you!

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March 23, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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Gutted to have missed last week's #ShakespeareSunday and break my 54-week streak (dusts self off, and begins again).

... this week's theme: BIG & SMALL.

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May 25, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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Nice to use a quotation from a non-exam text this week :)

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January 26, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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What is Richard III’s ‘worst’ crime?

Shakespeare asks us some -very- interesting questions about our personal morality (and how society values ‘life’), if we can look beyond the ‘Princes in the Tower’.

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September 30, 2026 at 6:11 PM
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Capulet’s party? A ‘Meat Market’?!
That’s what I called it eight years ago this week …



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August 12, 2026 at 5:12 PM
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Essential resource for ambitious #alevelenglishliterature students. Off you go and get some #shakespeare inside you, people!
December 13, 2024 at 7:39 PM
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#shakespearesunday #shakespeare
(this week's theme: emotions)
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March 9, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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King Lear …

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Sharp Dressed Man: Costume in King Lear
I’ve learned to embrace my own scruffiness, but at the same time I HATE the idea that my students live in a world where, increasingly, appearance equals personality or worth. When you put the…
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August 23, 2026 at 7:36 PM
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July 23, 2026 at 6:14 PM
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Are you an #alevelenglishliterature student? Or do you know one? (please share)

Knowing your exam texts really well is great; knowing your Assessment Objectives is VITAL.

This FREE 5-page Guide translates them to 'student-speak'.

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5 colour-coded thumbnails showing the free 5-page guide to #Alevelenglishliterature Assessment Objectives (AOs), for AQA, Eduqas, OCR, and WJEC exam boards. Bottom right is the brand icon for Upstart English Tuition.
December 14, 2024 at 5:01 PM
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Hands up - where are the other Emily Dickinson fans?

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May 15, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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This week's #shakespearesunday entry is a strong contender for my favourite single line in #Shakespeare.

I could go on forever about the beautiful 1,2,3,4-syllable structure and/or compare the line to Brutus' funeral opener!

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The image represents Marc Antony's famous speech at the funeral of Julius Caesar (in Shakespeare's play). A man at a pulpit, facing us, is addressing a small crowd. Between speaker and audience lies a large stone coffin.
November 17, 2024 at 12:07 PM
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This is VERY exciting news!

It might lack the sexy devil-worship stuff, but I think it’s a brilliant play, and I have loved teaching it, and the Jarman film.

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January 24, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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One of my teaching slides from about 8 years ago!

Still an #AFOL (Adult Fan Of #Lego)

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Lego Actor and a skull in Hamlet pose having conversation
March 19, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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Many happy returns to you if you share your birthday with Alexander Pope, who bossed the 'heroic couplet' in his poetry whilst remaining funny, sharp, and very quotable!

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May 21, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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#love is in the air for this week's #shakespearesunday, but I thought I'd go a little off-piste. After all, learning to love yourself is, apparently, the greatest love of all ... 🎶

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February 16, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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June 21, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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February 23, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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April 22, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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and tune in tomorrow evening to see if you're right — and then, to see gif you agree with what I've found in those first 100 words.

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September 24, 2026 at 3:43 PM