Dan Falk, Slate April 23, 2014 Adapted from The Science of Shakespeare: A New Look at the Playwright’s Universeby Dan Falk, out now from Thomas Dunne Books. Just as “science,” in the sense we use the word today, didn’t quite exist in Shakespeare’s day, atheism, too, was absent in its modern, Dawkins-like form. The word “atheism” begins to crop up in […]
Andrew Dickson, BBC April 22, 2014 Shakespeare was fascinated by the word ‘world’. He used it at least 650 times in his published writings, from poems written in his twenties to troubling late plays such as The Winter’s Tale and The Tempest. The lovelorn aristocrat Orsino talks in Twelfth Night of how his love is “more noble than the world”, […]
Michael Witmore and Heather Wolfe, Folger Shakespeare Library April 21, 2014 Shakespeare’s birthday week begins with a bang: two New York booksellers, George Koppelman and Daniel Wechsler, announced that they have found Shakespeare’s dictionary. In their new book, Shakespeare’s Beehive, Koppelman and Wechsler present their reasons for believing that William Shakespeare is the annotator of their copy of John Baret’s Alvearie, a 1580 […]
Telegraph reporters, The Telegraph April 22, 2014 There is so little known about the real William Shakespeare. It is hardly surprising therefore that plenty of theories about our most famous bard and his work have arisen. It was, after all, Mark Twain who said: “So far as anybody actually knows and can prove, Shakespeare of Stratford-on-Avon never wrote a play in […]
Gregory Doran, The Telegraph April 22, 2014 How did the Bard cause a plane crash? Why did his theatre stink? To celebrate the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare’s birth, the RSC’s Gregory Doran presents 10 startling facts. 1. Shakespeare caused an air crash On October 4th 1960 a Lockheed Electra aeroplane setting off from Boston Airport stirred up a flock of […]
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