Sir Ian McKellen: Don’t bother reading Shakespeare By Patrick Forster for The Telegraph, 27 October 2015 Reading Shakespeare is a waste of time, and people should instead celebrate our greatest playwright by watching his plays at the theatre, according to Sir Ian McKellen. In an intervention that is likely to win him fans among GCSE students across the country, but is […]
How Shakespeare rewrote the past with Henry V By Jonathan Sumption for The Telegraph, 22 October 2015 October 25, 2015 marks 600 years since Agincourt – but there was more to Henry V’s triumph than the Bard to chose to tell in his epic and inspirational play. Henry V was the last of the eight plays Shakespeare wrote about the English kings of […]
By Maddie Crum for The Huffington Post, 21 October 2015 A goth-looking, tall-haired fairy in a blood-red dress might not be how you visualized “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” when you read it in high school. In its original form, Shakespeare’s play about the sway of magic over a pair of lovers and the stormy spell-casters who control them takes place in, […]
A frustrating fusion of Shakespeare, Prokofiev from the BSO By Tim Smith for The Baltimore Sun, 17 October 2015 The Montagues and the Capulets aren’t the only opposing forces in the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra’s concert version of “Romeo and Juliet” this weekend. Shakespeare fights throughout with Prokofiev, whose music accompanies this frustrating event; both get gravely wounded. What must have seemed […]
By Margaret Drabble for the NewStatesman, 18 October 2015 It is hard to characterise Andrew Dickson’s Worlds Elsewhere – it is a discursive, rambling, global volume. This is an extraordinarily exhilarating book. It is like no other Shakespeare criticism you have ever read, and it takes you into unimagined realms of speculation. Andrew Dickson, like Puck, has put a girdle round about the earth, and […]
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