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Jun 15, 1215: King John of England signs the Magna Carta at Runnymede. #OTD buff.ly/lZMh8hN
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Now I will believe That there are unicorns. The Tempest (3.3) #ShakespeareSunday
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Did ever dragon keep so fair a cave? Romeo and Juliet (3.2) #ShakespeareSunday
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Come, basilisk, And kill the innocent gazer with thy sight. Henry VI, Part 2 (3.2) #ShakespeareSunday
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To read or not to read? Idaho Falls keeps Shakespeare on shelves after challenge buff.ly/u1WkHx7 An Idaho Falls parent had filed a formal challenge with the school district, seeking to remove a book adaptation of A Midsummer Night's Dream from the fifth grade curriculum.
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Jun 11, 1509: In a private ceremony at the Palace of Placentia, Greenwich, King Henry VIII marries Catherine of Aragon, his first wife.#OTD buff.ly/rDynIGS
These contemporaneous portraits of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon can be seen next to each other in Room 1 of the National Portrait Gallery. (Photo credit:: National Portrait Gallery)

ALT These contemporaneous portraits of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon can be seen next to each other in Room 1 of the National Portrait Gallery. (Photo credit:: National Portrait Gallery)
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The elusive mind of Shakespeare buff.ly/Lq1il9f A study of England's greatest playwright questions received truths by taking an ahistorical approach. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.
An 18th-century coloured engraving depicting William Shakespeare. Credit: Pictorial Press Ltd.

ALT An 18th-century coloured engraving depicting William Shakespeare. Credit: Pictorial Press Ltd.
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Shakespeare and Reality Televison Really Aren’t That Different | buff.ly/n5BR1xO
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I never did repent for doing good, Nor shall not now. Merchant of Venice (3.4) #ShakespeareSunday
Portia, by Gabriel von Max, 1874, print on paper (Photo credit: Fine Art America)

ALT Portia, by Gabriel von Max, 1874, print on paper (Photo credit: Fine Art America)
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I wonder that you will still be talking, Signior Benedick, nobody marks you. Much Ado About Nothing (1.1) #ShakespeareSunday
Image of Beatrice, from The Graphic Gallery of Shakespeare's Heroines by Frank Dicksee, 1896 (Photo credit: Folger Shakespeare Library Digital Image Collection)

ALT Image of Beatrice, from The Graphic Gallery of Shakespeare's Heroines by Frank Dicksee, 1896 (Photo credit: Folger Shakespeare Library Digital Image Collection)
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Fie, coward woman and soft-hearted wretch! Hast thou not spirit to curse thine enemy? Henry VI, Part II (3.2) #ShakespeareSunday
Margaret of Anjou (1430–1482), Foundress of Queens' College and Wife of Henry VI by RobertDavy, 1775, oil on canvas. (Photo credit: Queens' College, University of Cambridge)

ALT Margaret of Anjou (1430–1482), Foundress of Queens' College and Wife of Henry VI by RobertDavy, 1775, oil on canvas. (Photo credit: Queens' College, University of Cambridge)
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I would cure you, if you would but call me Rosalind, and come every day to my cote and woo me. As You Like It (3.2) #ShakespeareSunday
Mrs Dorothy Jordan (1761–1816) as Rosalind in Shakespeare's ‘As You Like It’ by William Beechey, late 18th century, oil on canvas. (Photo credit: Southeby's)

ALT Mrs Dorothy Jordan (1761–1816) as Rosalind in Shakespeare's ‘As You Like It’ by William Beechey, late 18th century, oil on canvas. (Photo credit: Southeby's)
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That which hath made them drunk hath made me bold. What hath quenched them hath given me fire. Macbeth (2.2) #ShakespeareSunday
Lady Macbeth Seizing the Daggers, Henry Fuseli, 1812, oil on canvas. (Photo credit: Tate Britain)

ALT Lady Macbeth Seizing the Daggers, Henry Fuseli, 1812, oil on canvas. (Photo credit: Tate Britain)
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I have one heart, one bosom, and one truth, And that no woman has, nor never none Shall mistress be of it, save I alone. Twelfth Night (3.1) #ShakespeareSunday
Portrait of Viola by Emma Sandys, circa 1865-77, oil on canvas. (Photo credit: Walker Art Gallery)

ALT Portrait of Viola by Emma Sandys, circa 1865-77, oil on canvas. (Photo credit: Walker Art Gallery)
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Jun 5, 1607: Susanna #Shakespeare marries physician John Hall in Holy Trinity Church. #OTD bit.ly/3pjvQrx
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This weekend's #ShakespeareSunday theme has been chosen by @LazarusTheatre - Formidable & Fantastic Women!
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English Shakesperian Criticism in the Eighteenth Century buff.ly/v9iZom9 Throwback Thursday presents this 1932 edition of Herbert S. Robinson's survey of criticism from Nicholas Rowe to Richard Cumberland's essays on the characters of Macbeth, Richard III, and Falstaff.
Title page of English Shakesperian Criticism in the Eighteenth Century.

ALT Title page of English Shakesperian Criticism in the Eighteenth Century.
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Hudson Valley Shakespeare Opens New Samuel H. Scripps Theater Center in Garrison, New York buff.ly/Zu1zs8M The architecture is designed to blur the line between indoor and outdoor, reinforcing the company’s decades-long identity as an open-air Shakespeare festival.
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Jun 1, 1593: A coroner's inquest into Christopher Marlowe's death rules that Ingram Frizer stabbed Marlowe in self-defense. #OTD buff.ly/vvre76w
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I am no villain. I am the youngest son of Sir Rowland de Boys. He was my father, and he is thrice a villain that says such a father begot villains. As You Like It (1.1) #ShakespeareSunday
Orlando lays hands on Oliver as Adam looks on in As You Like It, Act 1, Scene 1 (Victorian Illustrated Shakespeare)

ALT Orlando lays hands on Oliver as Adam looks on in As You Like It, Act 1, Scene 1 (Victorian Illustrated Shakespeare)
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