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The Shakespeare Resource Center is an educational website for students, teachers and other Shakespeare enthusiasts.

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What John Berryman’s Lectures Revealed About Young #Shakespeare—and Himself | buff.ly/3cwTrZr
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Oct 20, 1597: Richard III is entered into the Stationer's Register in London. #OTD bit.ly/3nLsyNt
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Oct 20, 1596: John #Shakespeare and his family are formally approved to use a coat of arms. Their motto, "Non sanz droict," means "not without right." #OTD bit.ly/3rr0cu0
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Scholars conclude ‘beyond doubt’ that Shakespeare was main author of Edward III buff.ly/H4Gs3sX Play anonymously published in 1596 was collaboration between #Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe, according to computer analysis.
A Royal Shakespeare Company production of Edward III. It has been long thought Shakespeare wrote at least a few scenes. Photograph: Geraint Lewis/ArenaPAL

ALT A Royal Shakespeare Company production of Edward III. It has been long thought Shakespeare wrote at least a few scenes. Photograph: Geraint Lewis/ArenaPAL

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Oct 19, 1216: King John of England dies at the age of 49 in Newark Castle. #OTD buff.ly/dWx7BsW
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Unmannered dog, stand thou when I command! Advance thy halberd higher than my breast, Or by Saint Paul I’ll strike thee to my foot And spurn upon thee, beggar, for thy boldness. Richard III (1.2) #ShakespeareSunday
Richard stops the funeral procession in Act 1, Scene 2 (image credit: Victorian Illustrated Shakespeare)

ALT Richard stops the funeral procession in Act 1, Scene 2 (image credit: Victorian Illustrated Shakespeare)

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’Tis true, ’tis true. Thus was Adonis slain: He ran upon the boar with his sharp spear... Venus and Adonis #ShakespeareSunday
Adonis and the Boar by John Carew (image credit: Jacqueline Banerjee/The National Trust)

ALT Adonis and the Boar by John Carew (image credit: Jacqueline Banerjee/The National Trust)

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I swear to thee, by Cupid's strongest bow, By his best arrow with the golden head. A Midsummer Night's Dream (1.1) #ShakespeareSunday
Cupid's Arrows by Leon Bazile Perrault, oil on canvas, 1882 (image credit: Wikimedia Commons)

ALT Cupid's Arrows by Leon Bazile Perrault, oil on canvas, 1882 (image credit: Wikimedia Commons)

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This is his sword. I robbed his wound of it. Behold it stained With his most noble blood. Antony & Cleopatra (5.1) #ShakespeareSunday
Caesar and the Sword of Antony from Act 5, Scene 1. (image credit: Victorian Illustrated Shakespeare)

ALT Caesar and the Sword of Antony from Act 5, Scene 1. (image credit: Victorian Illustrated Shakespeare)

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Something Autumnal This Way Comes: The varied use of the season in #Shakespeare's plays | buff.ly/4gfjdfy
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“Call back yesterday”: Time-traveling Shakespeare buff.ly/omNwzze Only in the theater can people so persuasively journey from the present to another time and place. It’s an act of collective imagination, shared between audience and performer.
Richard Willis (Chorus), Henry V, Folger Theatre, 2014. Photo by Scott Suchman.

ALT Richard Willis (Chorus), Henry V, Folger Theatre, 2014. Photo by Scott Suchman.

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Oct 13, 1399: King Henry IV of England is crowned at Westminster Abbey. #OTD buff.ly/XKTPZiG
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‘My fellows’: John Heminges and Henry Condell buff.ly/jzFSzH5 Paul Edmondson of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust writes about the friends and colleagues #Shakespeare refers to as "my fellows" in his will.
(SR - OS - 80 Jonson) The workes of Benjamin Ionson, principal actors in Sejanus (Image credit: Shakespeare Birthplace Trust)

ALT (SR - OS - 80 Jonson) The workes of Benjamin Ionson, principal actors in Sejanus (Image credit: Shakespeare Birthplace Trust)

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Oct 12, 1639: Globe shareholder and actor John Heminges is buried at St. Mary Aldermanbury in London. #OTD #Shakespeare
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Oct 12, 1537: Edward VI, the only son of Henry VIII, is born at Hampton Court Palace. #OTD buff.ly/XeA4ynx
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Come, sir, you peevishly threw it to her, and her will is it should be so returned. Twelfth Night (2.2) #ShakespeareSunday
Eric Porter as Malvolio and Dorothy Tutin as Viola from 'Twelfth Night' 1960 (Tom Holte Theatre Photographic Collection © SBT)

ALT Eric Porter as Malvolio and Dorothy Tutin as Viola from 'Twelfth Night' 1960 (Tom Holte Theatre Photographic Collection © SBT)

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Ask for me tomorrow, and you shall find me a grave man. Romeo and Juliet (3.1) #ShakespeareSunday
The Death of Mercutio, by Edwin Austin Abbey, Gouache on composition board, 1902. (Image credit:Yale Art Gallery)

ALT The Death of Mercutio, by Edwin Austin Abbey, Gouache on composition board, 1902. (Image credit:Yale Art Gallery)

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Here’s a knocking indeed! If a man were porter of hell gate, he should have old turning the key. (Knock.) Knock, knock, knock! Who’s there, i’ th’ name of Beelzebub? Macbeth (2.3) #ShakespeareSunday
The porter unlocking the door in Macbeth. (Image credit: Victorian Illustrated Shakspeare)

ALT The porter unlocking the door in Macbeth. (Image credit: Victorian Illustrated Shakspeare)

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Shakespeare's Holinshed: The Chronicle and the Historical Plays Compared buff.ly/3NPPj3q Throwback Thursday presents this 1907 volume by W.G. Boswell-Stone, which analyzes how specific passages taken from the Chronicles were integrated into Shakespeare's plays.
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Oct 8, 1600: A Misummer Night's Dream is entered into the Stationer's Register in London. #OTD #Shakespeare bit.ly/3aFv1Fh
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