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 […]
Associated Press published at SFGate, 17 February 2015 NEW YORK — Playing the mad title role in Shakespeare’s “King Lear” was never supposed to be easy. That’s just what Colm Feore wanted. The classical actor chose to make his Lear “absolutely hateful” and “corrosive” for the Stratford Festival in Canada this past summer. He turned 56 in the role, and his Lear, recorded on […]
By Mike Hughes for the Lansing State Journal, 6 February 2015 As Valentine’s Day nears, people might debate which writer created the ultimate romance. Here are three possibilities – Shakespeare, Shakespeare or … well, Shakespeare. His passionate “Othello,” “Antony and Cleopatra” and “Romeo and Juliet” are pondered in the final shows of this season’s “Shakespeare Uncovered” series, on PBS.
Ian Shuttleworth, Financial Times June 1, 2014 Octavius Caesar had virtually gained control of the ancient world before the kick-off. On press night, Clive Wood as Antony was still recovering from a virus that had made him miss several previews, and James Hayes was laid up with an injury and unable to play Lepidus. Even Cleopatra was sporting an ankle […]
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