A couple of weeks ago, I completed (and passed!) my Mid-Year Review. A Mid-Year Review (sometimes known as an ‘upgrade’) is a compulsory part of my PhD programme. It takes place halfway through the first year of doctoral study, and involves submitting a sample of written work (mine had to be 5,000 words in length, plus 2,000 words…
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Time is flying by, and I’m already two months into my placement with the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust. (Here’s a post with more details about the placement as a whole, and you can read about my first month with the SBT here.) My second month has been even more exciting than the first: I’ve been spending…
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Amadeus is a play that’s all about storytelling. The narrative begins with an elderly Antonio Salieri addressing a ‘future audience’, claiming to have been responsible for the death of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Rumours are heard passing through the streets of Vienna. Could his claims be true, the people ask? The action that follows is the story…
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Ella Hawkins 