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Article: SHAKESPEARE AT THE MIDDLE TEMPLE.
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- Contemporary Review
- Article date:
- February 1, 2001
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WHEN the Shakespeare Guild made its annual Golden Quill award to Kenneth Branagh this year, they chose well in staging the award ceremony at the Middle Temple. There are genuine Shakespearean associations, and the Great Hall held some 500 celebrants. 'All that was most sonorous of name and title', as Evelyn Waugh wrote of another occasion, 'was there for the beano'. Place is authenticity, the experience we all yearn for. The Great Hall of the Middle Temple -- not open to the general public -- is a secular temple to Shakespeareans. There's more outside, for Shakespeare makes the pivotal scene in Part One of Henry VI take place in the Temple Garden (2.4). He imagines the ...