Amanda's Shakespeare Blog August 2006 Archive

These are the youths that thunder at a playhouse, and fight for bitten apples; that no audience, but the Tribulation of Tower-hill, or the Limbs of Limehouse, their dear brothers, are able to ... Read More

Love's Labours Lost contains the longest word in any work of English literature. Just how long is this word? Find out inside.

Some of Shakespeare's most violent plays were by far his most popular during his lifetime. Although modern audiences are often repulsed by its gore and brutality, Titus Andronicus was a ... Read More

What does Shakespeare have to say about growing older and being old? Here is a selection of Shakespearean quotations about old age.

Henry Bolingbroke usurps the throne of which king? Give the quiz a try! Detailed answers are provided.

Hung be the heavens with black, yield day to night! Comets, importing change of times and states, Brandish your crystal tresses in the sky, And with them scourge the bad revolting ... Read More

According to research conducted by noted scholar Tucker Brooke, The Winter's Tale is the only play by Shakespeare to have no rhyming lines. Want to see for yourself? Read the ... Read More

All furnish'd, all in arms; All plumed like estridges that with the wind Baited like eagles having lately bathed; Glittering in golden coats, like images; As full of ... Read More

We are but warriors for the working-day; Our gayness and our guilt are all besmirched With rainy marching in the painful field. Henry V (4.3.109-111) More of Shakespeare's thoughts on soldiers...

From 1599 the Globe was Shakespeare's main theatre. But there were many other theatres that Shakespeare performed in throughout his career. Click here to find out all about the ... Read More

O let my books be then the eloquence And dumb presagers of my speaking breast. "Sonnet 23" (9-10)

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