Could seeing ourselves as good neighbours help us navigate the present-day churn of disconnection, polarisation and uncertainty? Shakespeare invites us to try.
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Born With Teeth offers a clever exploration of theatrical collaboration and queer desire.
This is Verona as filtered through a Eurovision lens.
Like an ageing rock band contracted for one last farewell tour, in Cymbeline, Shakespeare’s back playing the hits.
With a cast drawn from Bristol’s deep talent pool, the connections on stage feel secure, energetic, and richly nuanced.
William Shakespeare’s play ‘Richard III’ illustrates how a power-hungry monarch can attain the throne at the expense of civil society.
I took my young son Heathcliff to the show, and his perspective helped me see it through a kid’s eyes.
The use of music in theater goes back to ancient Greece, and its popularity has grown to the modern-day productions of ‘Hamilton.’
Worrying environmental issues dominated the time of William Shakespeare as they do now, from depleted fish stocks and food shortages, to overpopulation and animal exploitation.
In the late 16th century, new mathematical concepts were transforming perceptions of the world. Shakespeare’s plays helped audiences to process these changes.
Without the First Folio, the canon of Shakespeare’s plays would have decisively shifted.
The Globe has used both its theatres in tandem for a single production, for the first time in its history.
Shakespeare’s Conrad is now an ambitious ‘story producer’. With an eye over all the ‘Nothing Island’ action, he seeds rumours that bloom into reality TV gold.
The tragedy of Macbeth issues a warning for our times about the harm that is done when the desire for power drowns out the inner voice of conscience.
The founder of the Bell Shakespeare Company has written a book gleaning leadership wisdom from the bard. But figures such as Richard III and Julius Caesar are hardly ones to emulate.
Addressed to a ‘fair youth’ and later, ‘a dark lady’, the sonnets are less well known than Shakespeare’s plays. A journey into them is an unsettling and beguiling literary adventure.
Scholars have scoured the works of the great playwright for clues about his faith. A scholar of theology and Shakespeare’s works says it isn’t as simple as that.
It was the film that put the gangsta in Shakespeare: loud, brash, and brimming with pistols and gold chains.
Looking closer at the Spanish writer’s life work shows that social and cultural prejudices have kept us from seeing the full picture
We can’t go to the theatre but some creative theatre groups are bringing it to us, via Zoom.
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Research assistant, Empire, Migration and Belonging, University of Oxford
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Winthrop Professor of English, The University of Western Australia
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Honorary Research Associate, Evolutionary Studies Institute, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of Shakespeare Studies, University of Oxford
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Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Brunel University of London
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Professor of Drama and Theatre Studies, Royal Holloway, University of London
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Associate professor, University of the Witwatersrand
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Honorary Professorial Fellow, School of Culture and Communication, The University of Melbourne
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English Professor, George Washington University
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Lecturer in Creative and Life Writing, Goldsmiths, University of London
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Professor in English Literature and Cultural Studies, University of Southern Queensland
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Visiting Scholar, University of Stirling
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Senior Lecturer in Archaeology, University of York
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Francis Hutcheson Professor of Scottish Literature, University of Glasgow
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Lecturer in Archaeology, University of Nottingham