Cauldron
“Double, double toil and trouble”: The Gundestrup Cauldron, National Museum of Denmark
read moreBeerbohm Tree’s Silent Macbeth (1916)
In 1916, Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree made a silent film of “Macbeth,” now lost…
read moreEdwin Forrest as Macbeth
In 1849 in New York, the rivalry between Edwin Forrest and William Charles Macready, both starring as Macbeth, sparked one of the worst riots in U.S. history…
read moreOphelia at the moment of death, by Millais
Ophelia, weirdly alive at the moment of death, by Sir John Everett Millais (1851), Tate Britain
read moreBurning Man: Hilliard’s Man Against Flames
“The flames seemed to flicker and hiss”: Man against Flames, by Nicholas Hilliard (c. 1588), V&A, London
read moreInterred With Their Bones / The Shakespeare Secret: “Glorious fun” (trailer)
Interred With Their Bones / The Shakespeare Secret: “glorious fun” in more than 25 languages… (video trailer)
read moreJennifer on The Reduced Shakespeare Company Podcast
Listen to Jennifer talk with Austin Tichenor about researching and writing “Interred With Their Bones.” (By permission of the Reduced Shakespeare Company)
read moreThe Shakespeare Secret in The Independent
After Da Vinci, Readers Rush to Unravel the Secrets of Shakespeare…
read moreElizabeth I, the Folger’s “Sieve” Portrait
“A face capable of both greatness and cruelty”: Queen Elizabeth I, the Plimpton “Sieve” Portrait at the Folger Shakespeare Library
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