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Photos: “The Taming of the Shrew” at Kenmore’s Shakespeare by Candlelight

Photos: “The Taming of the Shrew” at Kenmore’s Shakespeare by Candlelight

by gwffoundation | Aug 16, 2016 | Historic Kenmore, Lives & Legacies, Theater and Theater History

This past weekend was Shakespeare by Candlelight at Historic Kenmore!  William Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew was presented in eighteenth-century style on the Lawn at Kenmore on Friday and Saturday nights and, because of a thunderstorm, indoors on Sunday...
Shakespeare’s Comedies in Colonial America

Shakespeare’s Comedies in Colonial America

by gwffoundation | Jul 28, 2016 | Lives & Legacies, Theater and Theater History

When we look at the history of Shakespeare in America the preference for his classic tragedies is obvious. Romeo and Juliet and Richard III are two of the three most-performed plays of the 18th century (George Farquhar’s The Beaux Stratagem rounded out this top...

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