John Shakespeare
John was a busy man. He also found time to operate as a ‘wool brogger’ – an unlicensed, and therefore illegal, wool dealer. This occupation had been restricted to state approved merchants only, following an Act of Parliament from Initially this appears to have been very profitable, with alleged sales of up to stones of wool at a time being attributed to John in
From the s, John’s life took a turn towards trouble. His wool dealings landed him an appearance in court in on charges of illegal wool purchases. He stopped appearing at council meetings, and in was exempted from paying levies such as towards poor relief. In the same year he began to start mortgaging land with a transaction of 48 acres, heralding the start of money problems which would endure for the next decade. These culminated in when he failed to appear in church due to his growing debts—although some have interpreted this as an indication that he had dissenting Catholic views.
In John was awarded a coat of arms, now displayed on the monument above the Shakespeare grave in Holy Trinity Church. Versions of the Shakespeare coat of arms can also be seen on Shakespeare’s Birthplace, outside of the S
Applications are now open!
Interested in a career as a performer and attend school in a regional area? Audition for the John Bell Scholarship.
A life-changing opportunity for budding performers, three students will spend one incredible week training with Bell Shakespeare at our HQ in Sydney.
Winners will undertake acting masterclasses with Bell Shakespeare artists, observe rehearsals, receive specialist training, see live theatre, and more. They will also have the opportunity to perform their winning monologue for Founding Artistic Director John Bell, Artistic Director Peter Evans, and Bell Shakespeare artists, receiving feedback and mentoring.
All auditioning students will undertake a minute, one-on-one Workshop Audition where they will work directly with a Bell Shakespeare artist.
Auditions for our Scholarships are now open. Use the link below to register for an Audition.
Who is eligible?
Applicants must be 16 years of age or older by 31 December and be enrolled in a regional high school full-time in
What is the selection process?
Auditions take the form of a minute Workshop Audition with a Bell Shakespeare artist where students perform a prepared monologue fr
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Hamlet, unlike any other text of its kind, has stood the test of time because of its remarkably modern exploration of the deep concerns of humanity.
Despite this, the play is very much an object of its time and reflects a period of great change and uncertainty. Hamlet was written and performed in the final years of Queen Elizabeth I’s reign. Just as the play ends with the death of the Hamlet line, Elizabeth was the last of the Tudors and she was dying without an heir. Elizabeth’s upcoming death could throw the country into political upheaval, as it was feared that with her death, the religious war between Catholicism and Protestantism would be reignited.
The ideal of the Renaissance Prince would have been familiar to Shakespeare’s audience. They would expect him to be both a poet and a soldier, to be cultivated in manners, capable in rhetoric, and skilled in fencing. It is this ideal that Ophelia refers to when she speaks of “The courtier’s, soldier’s, scholar’s, eye, tongue, sword” (Act 3, Scene 1) that Hamlet possessed.
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Hamlet has had a long publishing and performance history which complicates the dating of the play. The origins of the story lie in the hi
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