{"id":419,"date":"2008-02-24T09:31:59","date_gmt":"2008-02-24T14:31:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/419"},"modified":"2017-08-18T11:45:26","modified_gmt":"2017-08-18T16:45:26","slug":"over-23-hours-of-shakespeare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/419","title":{"rendered":"Over 23 Hours of Shakespeare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.enotes.com\/shakespeare\/2008-02\/shakespeare-247\/\" target=\"_blank\">the Shakespeare Blog<\/a>, comes news of <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.iht.com\/tribtalk\/travel\/globespotters\/?p=315\" target=\"_blank\">an upcoming theatre event<\/a> in England:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>All eight of the bard&#8217;s history plays, covering 100 years of English history, are currently being performed at the RSC&#8217;s home in Stratford upon Avon (until 16 March) and then between April 1 and May 25 in London at The Roundhouse. The plays are Richard II, Henry IV Parts I and II, Henry V, Henry VI Parts I, II and III, and Richard III<\/p>\n<p>The RSC&#8217;s Artistic Director, Michael Boyd, has formed an ensemble of 30 actors (who have been preparing for 2 and a half years) to stage this epic venture and he believes it is the first time the history cycle has been staged by one company of actors.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Wow. That&#8217;s a lot of Shakespeare. I&#8217;ve always wanted to see someone try this, too. I&#8217;ve been working my way through the same series of plays from the BBC.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ll get a chance to make it over to England to see this one by the end of May. But they&#8217;ve been preparing it for two and a half years. There&#8217;s no way these shows are ending on May 25. I feel fairly confident they will be coming to New York at some point.<\/p>\n<p>And so, we wait.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via the Shakespeare Blog, comes news of an upcoming theatre event in England: All eight of the bard&#8217;s history plays, covering 100 years of English history, are currently being performed at the RSC&#8217;s home in Stratford upon Avon (until 16 March) and then between April 1 and May 25 in London at The Roundhouse. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,4,6,92,3,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-histories","category-history","category-international","category-richard-iii","category-shakespeare","category-theatre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=419"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6325,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419\/revisions\/6325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}