Is it worth visiting Shakespeare’s Globe - or is that just another tourist attraction?
Against all the odds, and with backers including Judi Dench and Kim Cattrall, this 470-seat modern twist on a Shakespearean theatre is poised for action, from Bottom to Johnny Vegas
“The four Inns of Court were, according to Ben Jonson, ‘the noblest nurseries of humanity’. All highly influential in terms of their members’ legal, political and artistic roles, the Middle …
Jane Sutcliffe and John Shelley tell us about their book Will’s Words, which celebrates the massive impact The Bard has on the way we talk today
7 bucket list places to see on Fleet Street: Royal Courts of Justice: The Royal Courts of Justice is a stunning Victorian Gothic-style building that serves as the High Court and Court of Appeal...
“The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers.” So urges Shakespeare’s comic character Dick the Butcher, caught up in a revolution in Henry VI, Part
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More than four hundred years after the Bard’s death, the quality of his works is still a fluid scale
When I lived in California I listened often to the KFOG radio commentator Wes (“Scoop”) Nisker who happened to be also a comedian: “If you don’t like the news … go ou…
Given that Shakespeare’s company enjoyed royal patronage, performed regularly at Court, and became known as the King’s Men upon the accession of James I in 1603, you’d be forgiven for assuming that his plays were bent on buttressing rather than subverting the status quo. That assumption certainly seems to be backed up in Troilus and Cressida by Ulysses’ apocalyptic vision of the anarchy that’s bound to ensue when "degree, priority and place" are not strictly observed: "Take but degree away, untune that string, / And hark what discord follows."
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British actor Timothy Dalton in Shakespeare's 'Antony and Cleopatra' with Carmen du Sautey.
TV historian Lucy Worsley tells us how great historical royal palace Hampton Court (where she happens to have her office) inspired her book Eliza Rose, which is set in Henry VIII’s Tudor Court
Below is an initial response by the Shakespeare Fellowship, one of the two major Oxfordian organizations in the U.S., to the publication next month of a new book, Shakespeare Beyond Doubt, by the S…
I’ve been living in England for nigh on nine years now, and for many of those years I resisted getting very interested in Shakespeare’s Globe. I had my r...
Seems like ages ago we first discussed Benedict Cumberbatch being cast as Richard III for the BBC’s Shakespeare cycle titled The Hollow Crown: The Wars of the Roses. This TV miniseries encomp…
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Never mind armorial silver, an ancestral house is one of the most meaningful of inheritances. Annunciata Walton looks at six ultimate heirloom properties.
I love a good romp in the woods. It’s still, in today’s world, an ideal we hold: escape to the wilderness to get away from it all. Shakespeare already explored this idea in A Midsummer Night’s Dream , where the lovers of Athens escape from the oppressive court to wild fairyland
OVER 10,000 ITEMS IN ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY COSTUME SALE Saturday 12 February, 10am – 5pm RSC Rehearsal Rooms, Arden Street (at the junction with Birmingham Rd) The Royal Shakespeare Compa…
