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23 April 2014

Happy 450th Birthday, Shakespeare!

Early Modern and Hipster Shakespeare of Shoreditch
Early Modern and Hipster Shakespeare of Shoreditch
MoEML just couldn’t resist joining in on all the celebrations of William Shakespeare this week. The Bard is believed to have been born (in 1564) on April 23rd and to have died on the same day some 52 years later in 1616. (We don’t actually know his precise birthdate, but we do know that he was baptised on April 26th and that, in the early modern period, baptisms typically took place within the first few days after birth. Also, it’s traditional to celebrate his birth on the 23rd because that happens to be St George’s Day in England!)
Shakespeare had connections to a number of neighbourhoods, streets, and playhouses in early modern London, including Southwark, Silver Street, Blackfriars’ Theatre, and the Globe Theatre. Research suggests that his Romeo & Juliet and Henry V were performed at the Curtain Theatre in the Shoreditch area of the city, for example.
MoEML will soon be publishing a new encyclopedia article on The Curtain that has been collaboratively written by our pedagogical partner, Kate McPherson, and her Shakespeare class at Utah Valley University. Assistant Project Director Kim McLean-Fiander recently had the pleasure to observe (via Skype) Kate’s class presenting their end-of-term findings, and was impressed by the excellent research the students had conducted on the neighbourhood, architecture, theatre companies, literary significance, playwrights, and archaeology of the playhouse. It was heartening to learn just how valuable MoEML’s Pedagogical Partnership has been both in teaching the students effective research skills and in instilling in them a genuine sense of enthusiasm about Shakespeare and early modern London.
We’ll let you know when their work has been posted to the site. In the meantime, you can get back to feasting on all the Shakespeareana in the news right now, including the supposed recent discovery of The Bard’s personally annotated copy of an early modern dictionary, Alvearie, or Quadruple Dictionarie, and the Folger Shakespeare Library’s measured response to this announcement.
Happy Birthday, Shakespeare!

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Jenstad, Janelle, and Kim McLean-Fiander. 23 April 2014: Happy 450th Birthday, Shakespeare! The Map of Early Modern London, Edition 6.6, edited by Janelle Jenstad, U of Victoria, 30 Jun. 2021, mapoflondon.uvic.ca/edition/6.6/news_2014-04-23.htm.

Chicago citation

Jenstad, Janelle, and Kim McLean-Fiander. 23 April 2014: Happy 450th Birthday, Shakespeare! The Map of Early Modern London, Edition 6.6. Ed. Janelle Jenstad. Victoria: University of Victoria. Accessed June 30, 2021. mapoflondon.uvic.ca/edition/6.6/news_2014-04-23.htm.

APA citation

Jenstad, J., & McLean-Fiander, K. 2021. 23 April 2014: Happy 450th Birthday, Shakespeare! In J. Jenstad (Ed), The Map of Early Modern London (Edition 6.6). Victoria: University of Victoria. Retrieved from https://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/editions/6.6/news_2014-04-23.htm.

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