Stuart Hall was an important scholar who contributed to the movement for New Historicism which is so important in the world of Shakespeare studies. NY Times Feb 17, 2014 by William Yardley Stuart Hall, a pioneering Jamaican-born British academic who argued that culture is in fact multicultural — not high or low, good or bad, or black or white, but […]
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Derik Uya Alfred, Co-director of the play Cymbeline, performed by the South Sudan Theatre Company at the Globe to Globe Festival. London, May 3rd 2012. © Interview by Steve Rowland – First Publication – February, 2014, The Shakespeare Central Times, Excerpted Rowland: What are the specific things in the story that are easily translated and understood by people in South Sudan? Alfred: […]
From Julius Caesar, marked by Mandela in a copy of The Complete Works, held by fellow ANC prisoner on Robben Island. “Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a […]
BROOKLYN, Feb. 10 – Michael Pennington, two-time Olivier Award nominee, an artist of international stature and one of England’s greatest classical actors, will play the title role in William Shakespeare’s tragedy King Lear directed by Arin Arbus. For the second production in Theatre for a New Audience’s inaugural season at its first permanent home, the new Polonsky Shakespeare Center, 262 […]
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