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Shakespeare’s “kitchen” discovered during archaeological dig

Shakespeare’s “kitchen” discovered during archaeological dig

Shakespeare Birthplace Trust website, 27 November 2015 The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust has today announced that significant new findings have been unearthed during an archaeological dig, led by Staffordshire University’s Centre of Archaeology, at its ambitious New Place project.  New Place was Shakespeare’s family home at the height of his career for almost two decades.  The dig has enhanced and extended […]

December 5, 2015 · 0 comments · Uncategorized
Why Is Othello Black?

Why Is Othello Black?

By Isaac Butler for Slate, 11 November 2015 Is Othello black? With the news that David Oyelowo will play Othello opposite Daniel Craig’s Iago and that the Metropolitan Opera is finally discontinuingthe practice of blackface in productions of Otello, we may see a revival of thisoft-asked question. What people mean when they ask if Othello is black is: What did Shakespeare mean when he called Othello black? Would we […]

November 15, 2015 · 0 comments · Uncategorized
But is it Shakespeare’s?

But is it Shakespeare’s?

Could Shakespeare’s skull have been found? Why Church ruling means we may never know By Emily Gosden for The Telegraph, 1 November 2015 Legend has it, it could be the skull of William Shakespeare – robbed from the playwright’s grave to win a £300 bet. But clergymen attempting to solve a centuries-old mystery over the identity of a lone skull found in a […]

November 15, 2015 · 0 comments · Uncategorized

#ShakespeareLives in 2016: How Shakespeare’s Plays Reflect Current Affairs

By Paul Smith for The Huffington Post, 30 October 2015 As Macbeth would have it, our Autumnal times “have fallen into the sere, the yellow leaf,” our Winter’s Tale approaches and before too long it will be Twelfth Night and the start of the quatercentenary commemoration year of the death of Shakespeare (or the start of his legacy as the less […]

November 1, 2015 · 0 comments · Uncategorized
Children to learn about HIV through Romeo and Juliet

Children to learn about HIV through Romeo and Juliet

By Victoria Ward for The Telegraph, 29 October 2015 Romeo and Juliet is to be used to teach children about sexual health as part of a series of worldwide events to mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death. The British Council has joined forces with UK-based charity Voluntary Services Overseas (VSO) in a bid to use the Bard’s famous prose to inspire […]

November 1, 2015 · 0 comments · Uncategorized