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Bardwatching: Summer Term 1 2022-23

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When it comes to the Bard, she's an inveterate twitcher. Freya Parr shares what she's spotted through her beady bardy binoculars.
 A rare sighting of the Bard is found in Rebecca Manville's ceiling light
A rare sighting of the Bard is found in Rebecca Manville's ceiling light - Robert Day

In a surprising turn of events, it seems that the Bard has been hiding out in a house in Eastbourne. Rebecca Manville spotted a strange shadow in her ceiling light but couldn't quite put her finger on the likeness. After sharing the photo on Facebook, she was quickly inundated with responses. It was William Shakespeare himself.

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A rare sighting of the Bard is found in Rebecca Manville's ceiling light

Shakespeare was making radical statements about ecopolitics and environmental issues in his work, a new book argues. Dr Todd Borlik's Shakespeare Beyond the Green World: Drama and Ecopolitics in Jacobean Britain suggests that environmental concerns were at the forefront of Shakespeare's later plays.

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