{"id":6652,"date":"2012-06-10T19:07:09","date_gmt":"2012-06-10T19:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/?p=6652"},"modified":"2012-06-10T19:07:09","modified_gmt":"2012-06-10T19:07:09","slug":"sunday-short-takes-75","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/2012\/06\/10\/sunday-short-takes-75\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Short Takes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>* The remains of The Curtain have been found in London &#8211; here are several articles about the find:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/culture\/2012\/jun\/06\/shakespeare-curtain-theatre-shoreditch-east-lonfon?newsfeed=true\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Shakespeare&#8217;s Curtain theatre unearthed in east London<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-2155214\/Shakespeare-Wooden-O-stage-Curtain-theatre-Shakespeare-premiered-Henry-V-unearthed-near-Thames.html\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Is this a digger I see before me? &#8216;Wooden O&#8217; stage of &#8216;lost&#8217; Curtain theatre where Shakespeare premiered Henry V unearthed near Thames<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/entertainment-arts-18351007\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Shakespeare&#8217;s Curtain Theatre remains found<\/a> (with video)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/culture\/2012\/jun\/07\/rediscovery-shakespeare-curtain-theatre-matters?newsfeed=true\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Does the rediscovery of Shakespeare&#8217;s Curtain theatre matter? Absolutely<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>* <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/earth\/environment\/archaeology\/9310778\/Mary-Rose-sailors-ate-diet-of-salt-beef-and-biscuits-bone-analysis-shows.html\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mary Rose sailors ate diet of salt beef and biscuits, bone analysis shows<a><\/p>\n<p>* <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/history\/9322677\/Thomas-Cromwell-letter-to-Henry-VIII-before-Anne-of-Cleves-marriage-discovered.html\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Thomas Cromwell letter to Henry VIII before Anne of Cleves marriage discovered<\/a><\/p>\n<p>* <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-surrey-18353679\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Woking Palace attacked by arsonists for a second time<\/a> &#8211; <i>During the Tudor period, Woking Palace was an important residence. Henry VIII spent considerable sums of money on Woking during his reign.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>* <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-wales-south-west-wales-18262972\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fort on St Catherine&#8217;s Island, Tenby, could reopen as visitor attraction<\/a> &#8211; <i>Once owned by Henry VII&#8217;s uncle Jasper, Earl of Pembroke, the island was sold by Tenby Corporation to the War Office in the 1860s to house a fort.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>* Alice Simpson&#8217;s artist book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alicesimpson.com\/www.alicesimpson.com\/DC_HOME.html\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Dancing Chancellor<\/a> about Sir Christopher Hatton is complete and now for sale. I&#8217;ve been exchanging emails with the artist for years and it is wonderful to see the final product. It&#8217;s gorgeous!<\/p>\n<p>And finally, a humorous video for your enjoyment:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"480\" height=\"360\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/v6ip9t4PSwQ?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/v6ip9t4PSwQ?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* The remains of The Curtain have been found in London &#8211; here are several articles about the find: Shakespeare&#8217;s Curtain theatre unearthed in east London Is this a digger I see before me? &#8216;Wooden O&#8217; stage of &#8216;lost&#8217; Curtain theatre where Shakespeare premiered Henry V unearthed near Thames Shakespeare&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"continue-reading-button\"> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/2012\/06\/10\/sunday-short-takes-75\/\">Continue reading<i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,13,9,3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archaeology-news","category-collectibles","category-entertainment","category-shakespeare","category-tudor-history-news-and-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}