By Rebecca Rego Barry for the Guardian, 14 March 2016 An auction in Los Angeles on 22 March reveals a side of the rugged American film star Charlton Heston that his fans and detractors might have missed. Heston, who died in 2008, won an Academy Award for his part in the epic Ben-Hur (1959) and later served five terms as president of the […]
By Lucy Lynch for the Coventry Telegraph, 14 March 2016 A new figure has been uncovered in a medieval wall painting in the building housing Shakespeare’s former classroom. St John the Baptist appeared from under a layer of paint and varnish at the Guildhall in Church Street, Stratford, currently being restored as a visitor attraction. The wall painting was covered over in […]
By Stig Abell for the Independent, 17 March 2016 This is something of a confession: I have only ever seen one performance of Shakespeare in the theatre. A startling omission for somebody set, in April, to edit the Times Literary Supplement, but one that should not – I hope – confirm me as a bearded barbarian at the gates of […]
Press release, 17 March 2016 The first four Folios of William Shakespeare’s collected works — including an unrecorded First Folio — are to tour New York and London, where they will be auctioned on 25 May This spring, Christie’s is to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the death of William Shakespeare (1564-1616) with a landmark sale, offering the first four […]
The Canada Press published in the Vancouver Observer, 18 March 2016 The struggles of a gender-bending spirit servant in a Shakespearean classic offer unlikely but valuable insights into the experience of life as a modern-day trans person, argues a British Columbia scholar. Mary Ann Saunders, an English professor at the University of British Columbia, said she was struck after watching […]
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