400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death celebrations to start with street party By Sophie Heaviside for the Stratford Observer, 31 December 2015 PEOPLE in Stratford are being invited to party with Shakespeare to kick off the 400th anniversary of his death. The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust will host a street party in Henley Street on Saturday (January 2) to celebrate what is set […]
By Robert Faires for The Austin Chronicle, 1 January 2016 With the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s death mere months away (April 23, 2016 – mark those calendars!), arts institutions worldwide are devoting even more attention to the dramatist now than usual. The University of Texas’ Harry Ransom Center is among them, using the occasion to spotlight some of the lesser […]
By Jerry Brotton for the Financial Times, 30 December 2015 Worlds Elsewhere: Journeys Around Shakespeare’s Globe, by Andrew Dickson, Bodley Head, RRP£20, 512 pages Shakespeare’s First Folio: Four Centuries of an Iconic Book, by Emma Smith, OUP, RRP£19.99, 328 pages The Shakespeare Circle: An Alternative Biography, edited by Paul Edmondson and Stanley Wells, Cambridge University Press, RRP£18.99/RRP$29.99, 386 pages 1606: William Shakespeare and […]
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 […]
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