By James Rodger for the Coventry Telegraph, 11 May 2015 School children and grown-up gamers are invited to get creative and imagine what William Shakespeare’s final home may have looked like in a brand new competition using popular online block building game, Minecraft. The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, the non-profit organisation that cares for the world’s greatest Shakespeare heritage sites in Stratford-upon-Avon, […]
By Anya van Wagtendonk for PBS Newshour, 23 April 2015 After William Shakespeare died, on this date in 1616, his contemporary, Ben Jonson, wrote that “He was not of an age, but for all time.” Johnson [sic.] was spot on, because nearly 400 years later, the Bard lives on in the era of the smartphone. That’s where the New York […]
By Chloe Allmand for Union-Bulletin, 15 April 2015 “A sword sliced the air.” Though the line sounds like it could easily be from a work by William Shakespeare, it actually comes from the rap song “She” by Tyler, The Creator. To Ron Williams, Shakespeare Walla Walla executive director, identifying lines as the work of either Shakespeare or of rappers is […]
By Ben Pomeroy for The Week, 14 April 2015 In the works of William Shakespeare, destiny, betrayal, and murder are all but required for any successful rise to power. That treacherous triad is also on full display in Netflix’s addictive political drama House of Cards. The first two seasons made Frank Underwood’s Shakespearean influence quite plain. But the third season gives us […]
By Jim Kelly for Vanity Fair, May 2015 Betting on a new Broadway musical is like betting on a racehorse: the shrewd gambler knows nothing guarantees a winner but great bloodlines help. So, there is high expectation for Something Rotten!, a musical comedy about the very first musical comedy, set for the purposes of this showbiz fable in the 1590s, when […]
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