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Nowhere man: the challenges of tracking down Shakespeare

Nowhere man: the challenges of tracking down Shakespeare

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 […]

October 15, 2015 · 0 comments · Uncategorized
Review: Macbeth, starring Michael Fassbender

Review: Macbeth, starring Michael Fassbender

By Peter Bradshaw for The Guardian, 1 October 2015 Australian film-maker Justin Kurzel, famed for his harrowing crime movie Snowtown, has tackled Shakespeare’s noir-thriller prototype Macbeth with operatic verve and an appetite for textual interpretation. As Macbeth and Lady Macbeth, Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard are a dream-team pairing, actors who radiate pure heady charisma, perhaps more than can be entirely absorbed into […]

October 15, 2015 · 0 comments · Film, Reviews
How Shakespeare’s great escape from the plague changed theatre

How Shakespeare’s great escape from the plague changed theatre

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. […]

October 1, 2015 · 0 comments · Uncategorized
Philadelphia Fringe Festival: ‘Kill Will’ at The Philadelphia Shakespeare Theatre

Philadelphia Fringe Festival: ‘Kill Will’ at The Philadelphia Shakespeare Theatre

By Rachel Beecher for DC Metro Theatre Arts, 16 September 2015 Kill Will at The Philadelphia Shakespeare Theatre has combat, drama, more combat, comedy, and a little more combat. Written by Barter Theater Associate Artistic Director Derek Davidson and directed by Philadelphia local Kevin McGuire, this show is quick compilation of Shakespeare’s fight scenes from all genres, such as Macbeth, As You Like It, […]

September 24, 2015 · 0 comments · Reviews
‘The Art of Shakespeare’ puts the Bard in the picture

‘The Art of Shakespeare’ puts the Bard in the picture

By Kylie Northover for The Sydney Morning Herald, 11 September 2015 The works of Shakespeare – poet, playwright and, arguably, philosopher – have long inspired artists of all disciplines, and across centuries; from the paintings of William Blake and Sir John Everett Millais to songwriter Nick Lowe’s 1970s hit Cruel to be Kind and even Agatha Christie’sThe Mousetrap, named after a reference from Hamlet. To celebrate the 25th […]

September 24, 2015 · 0 comments · Uncategorized