We recommend getting Shakespeare’s words onto their feet, allowing them to live and breathe within you.
You can share them out loud in front of an audience or alone. For actors working with any text, deep private study away from any interlocutor is vital to developing personal growth and is the backbone of any fine actor.
Take your craft of acting seriously while enjoying it fully.
On this page you will find resources that will help you get Shakespeare on its feet both publicly and privately nurturing your curiosity.
All the resources we recommended we do so from a having a trusted working and personal relationship with.
Have fun and fare thee well!
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The Bodleian First Folio is a digital facsimile of the First Folio from the University of Oxford. Containing 36 plays by William Shakespeare, printed in folio format and published in 1623, it is the first collected edition of Shakespeares plays.
You can find out more about this book's remarkable history, the campaign, and the work that led to its digitisation by accessing the free resources of the 'Bodleian copy of the First Folio of Shakespeare's plays.' We highly recommend exploring this resource.
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The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) provides world-leading training and education with courses running throughout the year, both online and in person. RADA is inclusive and welcoming to anyone, regardless of previous experience or background.
RADA offers comprehensive, down-to-earth teaching that supports students’ individual needs and well-being alongside high-level training and a strong work ethic.
As a registered charity, RADA offers courses across multiple disciplines, including courses focused solely on Shakespeare. You will find your home-from-home at RADA, fostering your critical thinking, creative choices, and growth.
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The Stationer's Company has been at the heart of the historic book trade and printing since 1403. Formed from the misteries of Textwriters and Limners and “other good people, citizens of London, who used to bind and sell books,” the Company received an unexpected boost with William Caxton’s introduction of the printing press to England in 1476.
In 1557, The Stationers's Company was granted Royal Charter becoming a guild and by 1559 became the 47th city livery company precedence.
Shakespeare’s plays and sonnets appear in the Company Registers throughout his life.
We recommend that you find out more about membership, the charity work The Stationers' Company does today, and immerse yourself in over six hundred years of history.
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Folio 400 is dedicated in gratitude to the 400th birthday of this foundational book on the 8th November 2023.
You will find an array of resources at Folio 400 dedicated to the First Folio including a detailed step-by-step history of how it came to be published seven years after Shakespeares death, the key people and events that made it possible along with audio and video from some very well known actors and scholars keeping Shakespeares legacy at the forefront today.
Folio 400 will take you into the Renaissance world shoulder to shoulder with some of the most famous characters in literary history.
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The Birds of Shakespeare is an independent project created and maintained by interdisciplinary artist Missy Dunaway. A growing, accessible guide to the rich intersection between Shakespeare and ornithology, this evolving collection aims to catalogue every bird mentioned in Shakespeare’s plays and poems—at least 65 species.
Every other month, a new bird is introduced through a painting and an accompanying essay that explores its role in Shakespeare’s world and its broader early modern cultural significance.
Missy upholds core values on education, inclusivity, and protecting our environment through her work. With meticulous attention to detail, she encourages us to observe our natural world to find the similarities between our environment today and Shakespeare’s.
We are delighted to share her work with you all and recommend immersing yourself in Missy's work, alongside Shakespeare's texts, as a learning aid and guide.
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Drama Online is an award-winning digital library from Bloomsbury, the world's leading drama publisher. They offer many free and useful resources to develop your creative practice for every stage of your development. You can find out more by visiting their website for more information:
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The British Shakespeare Association was founded in 2002, and is committed to bringing together scholars, students, teachers, creative practitioners, community workers and other professions with a shared interest in Shakespeare. Promoting the study, practice
and enjoyment of Shakespeare for everyone.
and enjoyment of Shakespeare for everyone.
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Harvard University offers free online courses on Shakespeare and a selection of his plays by visiting their website. These courses offer a more academic approach to Shakespeare and the world in which he lived.
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Your local library can provide you with free access to many of the resources you need to further education and feed your curiosity. WorldCat will locate your local library wherever you are in the world.
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Libby is a free library reading app that allows you to access content from your local library from anywhere in the world.
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