23 April 2014: Happy 450th Birthday,
Shakespeare!Janelle JenstadAuthorKim McLean-FianderAuthorTye LandelsEncoderProgrammerMartin HolmesProject DirectorJanelle JenstadThe Map of Early Modern Londonhttp://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/includes.xmlVictoria, BC, CanadaDepartment of EnglishP.O.Box 3070 STNC CSCUniversity of VictoriaVictoria, BCCanadaV8W 3W12016University of Victoria978-1-55058-519-3Janelle Jenstadlondon@uvic.ca
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23 April 2014Happy 450th Birthday,
Shakespeare!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.