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Tomorrow we welcome visitors from Waseda University, Tokyo @ShakesInstitute. This is from the Daily Telegraph 27 Aug 1928 about Dr. Shoyo Tsubouchi's translation of Shakespeare into Japanese. His archive is now at Waseda.

On 7 March 1932 Wendy Beavis was born. In the mid-1950s she toured India as an actor in the Shakespeareana company. She is on the right in this photo with Jennifer Bragg and Nancy Neel. Find out more about her archive: tinyurl.com/Wendy-Beavis #WomensHistoryMonth

There are still a few books left from our Blind Date With a Book event yesterday so if you didn't get a free novel come along to the Library today.

On Thursday 5th March we will be celebrating World Book Day with our Blind Date With a Book. Come and take a FREE book from the wrapped selection.📚🎁

Don’t daffodilly dally, snowdrop into the library this Saturday. We’re open 9am to 5pm.

100 years ago in March, the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre was completely destroyed by fire. Come and see our new exhibition on display in the library, featuring newscuttings from our archive collection. @ShakesInstitute @TheRSC

New books for a new year: Shakespeare and religion, translating Shakespeare and Shakespeare in Ukraine and Pakistan. Also Shakespearean pregnancy by Patricia Lennox who lectured here last year.

It’s Twelfth Night, any excuse to post a photo from our Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre archive! This image is from the 1979 production with Victoria Plucknett as Olivia and Anthony Sharp as Malvolio @OpenAirTheatre @ShakesInstitute

We are grateful to receive this from our Director: Power, Sovereignty and Directing by Javor Gardev. It's in English and Bulgarian with the 2 versions bound together 'tête-bêche', our new favourite expression. (It means top-to-tail).

We are closed for the Christmas break from Tuesday 23 December and re-open on Friday 2 January. Merry Christmas from all the Shakespeare Institute Library team.🎄

These photographs from our Wendy Beavis archive are full of mid-century Christmas #EYASparkle. In the 1950s Wendy toured India as an actor in the Shakespeareana company. Find out more about her archive via this link: #ExploreYourArchive" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">tinyurl.com/Wendy-Beavis#E…

A star studded 70th anniversary gala of the Regent’s Park @OpenAirTheatre was hosted by Dame Judi Dench and Ian Talbot OBE in 2002, it featured songs and sketches from musicals performed by a cast of familiar faces from past productions. @ShakesInstitute @explorearchives

‘Pericles re-imagined for everyone aged 6 and over’ (2011) one of a series of Shakespeare’s plays adapted for children at the Regent’s Park @OpenAirTheatre. The only programme in our archive designed to be made into a pirate hat! #EYAInclusion @ShakesInstitute @explorearchives

For the #EYAinclusion theme we had to include this braille cast list from the 2017 @OpenAirTheatre production of ‘On the Town’ @ShakesInstitute @explorearchives

More than a pet, an actor no less! ‘The Two Gentlemen of Verona’ is the only Shakespeare play to feature a dog. Here’s an article from our newscuttings archive on Mossup the lurcher who played Crab in the RSC’s production in 2014 #EYAPets @ShakesInstitute @explorearchives

‘The rest is silence’ Hamlet’s last words in Shakespeare’s play. Sam West played Hamlet at the RST in 2001, his notes and annotated scripts give a fascinating insight into the decisions he made about how to portray complex characters. #EYASilence @ShakesInstitute @explorearchives

Welcome home to this pamphlet, it arrived in the post last week and has been missing since the mid 1980’s, it won’t break any records for the most overdue book, but we are a reference library!

Here’s a photograph and a poster from our Polish collection, they are from a production of Richard III by Shakespeare at the Ateneum Theatre, Warsaw, Poland (1960). Jacek Woszczerowicz was lead actor and director in this #EYAMedieval play. @ShakesInstitute @explorearchives

Marie Corelli was a best-selling writer and conservation campaigner. She opposed demolition of Tudor buildings in Stratford. In 1903 she published ‘The Avon Star’ including a piece entitled ‘The Spoliation of Henley Street’. #EYAConservation @ShakesInstitute @explorearchives

Maternity, botany, contagion, disability and water all feature in our new books this week. And Queen Henrietta's Men.