By Richard Garner for the Independent, 29 December 2015 Shakespeare isn’t best known for his links to Wales, despite basing one of his plays there, creating several Welsh characters and even bearing Celtic blood himself, thanks to his maternal grandmother. The Bard may now find renewed popularity in the principality, however, as one of his most loved scripts is to be […]
By Martin Chilton for the Telegraph, 30 December 2015 William Shakespeare, once banned and denounced under Chairman Mao’s Cultural Revolution, will gain a new Chinese audience in 2016 when the Royal Shakespeare Company embarks on its first major tour of China. Shakespeare’s works were banned in China from 1964 to 1977 and the playwright was denounced as “revisionist, feudalist and capitalist” and […]
By Chris Thurman for The Conversation, part of the Guardian Africa network, 7 August 2015 Should Shakespeare’s plays be taught in Africa’s schools and universities? It’s a question that emerges, sometimes flippantly and sometimes in earnest, when conversations about post-colonialism and decolonisation turn to literature and culture. It’s a useful and necessary question that I am often asked – and one that […]
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