By Carly Maga for The Star (Toronto), 28 November 2015 Written by William Shakespeare. Directed by Rod Carley. Until December 6 at Theatre Passe Muraille, 16 Ryerson Avenue. KingLearProject.com or 416-504-7529. King Lear is such a landmark play, it can sell out the country’s largest theatres and attract actors at the peak of storied careers — exactly like it did with […]
By Germaine Greer for NewStatesman, 6 October 2015 Having had a great success in 2005 with 1599: a Year in the Life of William Shakespeare, James Shapiro has provided his many admirers with an account of another year, 1606: William Shakespeare and the Year of Lear. Literary biography is a tricky genre, and not made more straightforward by slicing it into year-long […]
By Anita Singh for The Telegraph, 6 October 2015 The Barbican is to stage a Shakespeare season next year to mark the 400th anniversary of the Bard’s death. New productions include King Lear set in the Australian outback and a radical adaptation melding Henry V, Henry VI and Richard III into one modern-day play, Kings of War. But the quirkiest offering is Table […]
By Michael Sommers for The New York Times, 24 September 2015 Shakespeare in love? How about Shakespeare in a jam? That is the scenario in “Equivocation,” a dark, thoughtful comedy by Bill Cain that is currently enjoying its Garden State premiere at the Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey in Madison. It is 1606, and Shakespeare — here called Shag; short for Shagspeare […]
By James Shapiro for The Guardian, 24 September 2015 In late July 1606, in the midst of a theatrical season that included what may well be the finest group of new plays ever staged – Shakespeare’s King Lear and Macbeth, Ben Jonson’s Volpone, and Thomas Middleton’s The Revenger’s Tragedy– Shakespeare’s company, the King’s Men, lowered their flag at the Globe theatre and locked their playhouse doors. Plague had returned. […]
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