Posts by: Holger Syme
The silly season is upon us.
Shakespeare is one of the key focal points of the celebrations surrounding the Olympic Summer Games in London, with a major exhibition at the British Museum (see my thoughts on that here), an international theatre festival stretching through most of the year, and a series of related […]
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I’ll be seeing a lot of plays at the Fringe this year, so I’ve decided to blog about at least some of them — mostly for my own benefit, to sort out my reactions more or less immediately, and to keep a record of what I saw and what I thought. These won’t […]
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Why hello, inane Shakespeareana! Haven’t seen you in a while. Oh, it’s the Olympics coming up? That explains a lot.
It’s a bit unclear what exactly the point of the video — or the exhibition it’s advertising — might be, but it seems to have something to do with Shakespeare’s […]
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[This is a very lightly edited version of a paper I gave last weekend at the Renaissance Society of America conference in Washington, DC. Many thanks to Adam Hooks and András Kiséry for organizing the panel and for their excellent papers!]
Thomas Dekker should be central to discussions of early modern theatre, but he isn’t. […]
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Since it seems that all policy decisions now have to be justified on economic grounds, I suppose it made sense for the Ontario government to turn to a former banker and current economist for advice on the future direction of the province. The 600-plus-page document Don Drummond produced in response has been extensively covered in […]
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Once upon a time — more than a decade ago now — I thought I’d be a film maker. As it turned out, I preferred my life as an academic, but today I discovered that two of my short films have been up on Vimeo for a while, thanks to my old D.O.P.’s efforts. Here’s […]
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After various disruptions and diversions, here’s the fifth and final part of my series on manuscript annotations in playbooks in the Folger Shakespeare Library.
I thought it would be fitting to finish up with a couple of Shakespearean references. The discovery of a new mention of Shakespeare is, after all, one of the great archival […]
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Now that season 2 of Sherlock is over (NOOOO!), I just want to say that as far I’m concerned, the massive downer that was “A Scandal in Belgravia” was to some extent remedied by “The Hounds of Baskerville,” despite the visual wank-fest that was Sherlock’s “mind-palace” (no-one should ever be made to look like Tom […]
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Holger Syme's work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License.Images may be reused as long as their source is properly attributed in accordance with the Creative Commons License detailed above. Many of the photos here were taken at the Folger Shakespeare Library; please consult their policy on digital images as well.
