By Matt Bolton BBC Travel 20 February 2014 When he wasn’t writing, William Shakespeare was walking. In particular, he was often found trekking from his home in Stratford-Upon-Avon to the theatres of London’s South Bank, an epic 146 miles in total. Who knows which legendary characters, killer lines or key scenes the playwright might have dreamt up as he traversed […]
Shakespeare: The Question ofAuthorship By JEREMY McCARTER Published: April 29, 2010 Shakespeare is not only peculiar in himself, but the cause of peculiarity in others. The surviving traces of his life, which the Shakespearean scholar Stephen Greenblatt describes as “abundant but thin,” depict a man whose parts aren’t entirely in sync: a provincial who grew wealthy but sued for paltry […]
The Hindu By SWATI DAFTUAR NEW DELHI, January 30, 2014 The Company Theatre’s “Piya Behrupiya” recreates the magic of Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night” A brightly painted, larger than life portrait of Shakespeare hangs on the stage as a backdrop, and the playwright looks on, quite at home in his Indian avatar, his golden crown sitting easy on his head. If you […]
By Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times Theater Critic February 14, 2014 SAN DIEGO — A fascinating experiment is underway at San Diego’s flagship theater, the Old Globe. Now under the leadership of Barry Edelstein, the theater is seeking a return to the form of its Tony-winning heyday under Jack O’Brien. Can the Globe’s outdoor Summer Shakespeare Festival be reshaped into […]
RSC Invites Schools To World’s Biggest Shakespeare Lesson Children from all over the UK are invited to take part in the world’s biggest Shakespeare lesson when the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) streams Henry IV Parts I and II direct into classrooms up and down the country this summer. The RSC’s school broadcasts series began last year with a stream of […]
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