Reuters, 27 November 2015 A live broadcast of Judi Dench and Kenneth Branagh starring in Shakespeare’s “The Winter’s Tale” was the biggest cinema box office draw in Britain on the night of the screening, the show’s publicists said on Friday. The three-hour-long play, broadcast from London to 520 cinemas across Britain on Thursday night, took in 1.1 million pounds ($1.65 […]
By David Ng for the Los Angeles Times, 27 November 2015 When it comes to writing music for the plays of William Shakespeare, few living composers can claim as much experience as Patrick Doyle, the two-time Academy Award nominee who has collaborated with Kenneth Branagh on screen adaptations including “Henry V,” “Much Ado About Nothing” and “Hamlet.” Doyle has written music for more than […]
By Daniel Pollack-Peizner for The New Yorker, 9 November 2015 In October, the publisher Hogarth rolled out the first in its ambitious new line of Shakespeare plays retold by contemporary novelists. The pairings are promising: Margaret Atwood, a master of ecological dystopias, will reimagine “The Tempest,” for instance, while Gillian Flynn, who knows her way around marriage and murder, will take on […]
By Kounteya Sinha for The Times of India, 1 November 2015 ilmmakers from India have a new challenge – interpret Shakespeare and his masterpieces into modern-day films. Britain has floated major plans to celebrate Shakespeare’s 400th death anniversary next year. Shakespeare India forms part of Shakespeare 400 on Screen, a major film and television programme led by Film London to mark 400 […]
Tasha Robinson for NPR, 17 October 2015 Pop Sonnets author Erik Didriksen has been writing poetry most of his life. “I grew up with a knack for rhyming,” he says. “When I was little, I used to write my grandparents poems. There’s a poem [the family] dug up recently — I wrote an ode to pickles. Which is ridiculous, but this […]
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