400 years on and Shakespeare remains the most famous Englishman in the world
400 years on and Shakespeare remains the most famous Englishman in the world. Here we explore his life, influences of the Elizabethan age and how his work impacted the global stage. Learn what the first open-air theatres were like, how popular his plays were with his contemporary audiences, how his plays survived and who saved them.
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THE ARTS SOCIETY ACCREDITED LECTURER
Mrs Jane Tapley
Currently Special Events Organiser, Theatre Royal Bath. Interviews visiting actors, writers, directors. Lectures regularly to theatre going societies, NT and history and fine arts groups. West Country Tourist Board Registered Blue Badge Guide and Lecturer. Author and researcher of theatre programme notes on Hamlet, Sheridan's The Rivals and Jane Austen's Emma. Theatrical landlady! Home Economist. Consultant to various TV productions of Jane Austen adaptations on food in the 18th and 19th centuries. Hosts and cooks period meals in her Regency house in Bath for the Jane Austen Festival and other literary groups.
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