By Eva Griffith (begun April, finished May, 2022) Today, as I am writing this, infamy is high in the news, with an MP resigning for watching bad things on his phone, and leaders of political parties accused of partying in a time of pandemic. Our screens show how another leader is at war in Europe,Continue reading ““To hold as ‘twere the mirror up to nature” (Shakespeare, Hamlet): William Bowes, the Goldsmiths Company, and the ‘Glasse of Repentance and Reformacion’”
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Mills
Here is video footage of the Woodbridge Tide Mill, once owned by Thomas Seckford of Woodbridge, Suffolk, and of Clerkenwell, Middlesex (1515-1587). (It’s not Blake’s kind of mill at all.) Enjoy.
St. George’s Day
by Eva Griffith 30/4/2022 I started this article on St. George’s Day, 23rd April, which happens to be Shakespeare’s birthday. As I started it, I sat near where the 1599 Globe playhouse (Shakespeare’s theatre) was located, opposite the new Globe reconstruction. I was about to eat Turkish food. This makes sense to me, as theContinue reading “St. George’s Day”
April/May ‘EC1 Echo’
An important announcement article about a ‘lucky find’. The Medieval Skinners Well on the Seckford Estate, Clerkenwell. It wasn’t the headline… it was on Page 9. I just rejigged it a bit. With apologies to St. John’s, the true stars of the April/May issue. ‘All’s well that begins well’. Or that’s what Lemon Shakespeare HopesContinue reading “April/May ‘EC1 Echo’”
The Red Bull Playhouse and Spain
27th October 2021, The Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, University of Granada
For My Father, Kenneth Griffith: the best.
By Eva It is October 2021, I am in Spain, and I am troubled. The weather is lovely, but I have a very important article to finish on newly discovered ancient water sources in Clerkenwell, London, and I don’t have everything I need. An external drive has lost its ability to connect with my computer,Continue reading “For My Father, Kenneth Griffith: the best.“
Key Stage 2: Shakespeare’s Clowns
What makes you laugh? Much of the time, what makes people laugh can be the same thing as what makes people cry. What do I mean by that and why should it be so? If someone slips on a slippery banana skin, they could really hurt themselves. Pick up that banana skin before someone slipsContinue reading “Key Stage 2: Shakespeare’s Clowns”
Key Stage 3: Romeo, Juliet and Anne Frank
In the story of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet the couple in the title are young people who live in the same town in Italy. Unfortunately, their families do not like one another. Romeo belongs to the ‘Montague’ family and Juliet, the ‘Capulets’. The story Shakespeare used for this play made Juliet Capulet 16 years old.Continue reading “Key Stage 3: Romeo, Juliet and Anne Frank”