CAMPAIGNERS and councillors have opposed a fresh bid to build homes on an ancient meadow. Halstead Town Council voted against the application to build nine homes on Sloe Cottage Meadow, to the east of Sloe Hill in Halstead on Monday. The Hands Off Chapel Hill and Sloe Hill campaign group has said they are also stepping up opposition to the plans. Sloe Cottage Meadow was once farmland belonging to the 1st Earl of Oxford and Norman knight Edward DeVere, in the 12th century. It was originally farmed by serfs and slaves, and campaigners claim there is still a prospect of finding archaeological remains.
10 creative ways to learn about Shakespeare
Updated / Wednesday, 10 Feb 2021
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Reflecting about the contemporary relevance and timelessness of the works of William Shakespeare, comedian, musician and writer, Tim Minchin had this to say. it doesn t matter if it’s 400 years ago or last week, the stuff that we care about doesn’t change/Shakespeare wrote about what matters to us, in words that once you get inside them feel like music, or monuments, or hugs .
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Learn the full story behind these age-old rumours.
SHAKESPEARE DIDN’T WRITE HIS OWN PLAYS No individual has had a more pronounced effect upon English language and culture than William Shakespeare. This isn’t an opinion; it’s an objective fact: the guy single-handedly invented around 1700 words, from ‘arouse’ to ‘bedroom’, ‘dawn’, ‘jaded’, ‘skim milk’ and ‘scuffle’. Yet, for all of that, surprisingly little is known about his life. He was born in Stratford-upon-Avon in 1564, married a woman named Anne Hathaway and died in 1616, having penned some 38 plays in the interim. To certain Shakespearean scholars, this dearth of biographical information is fishy – it’s made them question whether Shakespeare actually wrote the plays now credited to him. Instead, they argue, he was a convenient cover for either Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford, or the playwright Christopher Marlowe, about whose life rather more is known. Confusingly, Marlowe was killed
Shakespeare, Cervantes and the Mysteries of Authorship
As attractive as speculation about Shakespeare and Cervantesâ authorship may be, looking closer at their lives shows just how irrelevant class, education and conspiracy theories are in terms of explaining their genius.
First Folio of William Shakespeare s plays at the Victoria & Albert Museum. Photo: Steve Evans/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0
Culture13/Jan/2021
William Shakespeare and Miguel de Cervantes, two of the most important writers of literature, are surrounded by a halo of mystery related to authorship.
In the case of Shakespeare, the question of whether he is the true author of his plays has circulated for some time. In the case of Cervantes, mysteries about authorship tend to concern who wrote the sequel to the first part of