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Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream to be translated into Welsh to commemorate 400th anniversary

Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream to be translated into Welsh to commemorate 400th anniversary

By Richard Garner for the Independent, 29 December 2015 Shakespeare isn’t best known for his links to Wales, despite basing one of his plays there, creating several Welsh characters and even bearing Celtic blood himself, thanks to his maternal grandmother. The Bard may now find renewed popularity in the principality, however, as one of his most loved scripts is to be […]

January 9, 2016 · 0 comments · Uncategorized
Look: William Shakespeare’s schoolroom in Stratford to open to the public

Look: William Shakespeare’s schoolroom in Stratford to open to the public

By Lucy Lynch for the Coventry Telegraph, 26 December 2015 William Shakespeare’s schoolroom will open to the public next year as one of the highlights of the 400th anniversary of his death. Shakespeare’s Schoolroom and Guildhall in Church Street, Stratford, is due to open to the public daily from April, the month of his death in 1616. He died aged 52 from an […]

January 9, 2016 · 0 comments · Uncategorized

Kenneth Branagh To Be The Patron Of Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus Remake

By Aashna Narang for desimartini.com, 26 December 2015 To mark the 400th anniversary of playwright Shakespeare’s death, Film London and Cinestaan Film Company have collaborated for an India-UK project, The Hungry. The production houses will be co-producing the film together, through Microwave International: Shakespeare India, forming a part of William Shakespeare on screen. Film London has chosen actor, director and writer Sir Kenneth […]

January 9, 2016 · 0 comments · Uncategorized
William Shakespeare vs Robert Burns: Writers go head to head for first time

William Shakespeare vs Robert Burns: Writers go head to head for first time

By  Chris Green for the Independent, 25 December 2015 They have long been acknowledged as the national bards of England and Scotland, their mastery of language ensuring that their legacies are still celebrated centuries after their deaths. Now William Shakespeare and Robert Burns are going head to head at last in what is believed to be the first-ever academic conference to […]

January 9, 2016 · 0 comments · Uncategorized
William Shakespeare’s tryst with a female fan

William Shakespeare’s tryst with a female fan

By Lexi Finnigan for The Telegraph, 3 December 2015 A diary entry showing a rare and bawdy glimpse into Shakespeare’s character as a womaniser will be on display to the public for the first time ever in a major British Library exhibition next year. The anecdote, discovered by scholars inside the journal of law student John Manningham, recounts an amusing story about Shakespeare, […]

December 5, 2015 · 0 comments · Uncategorized