How Shakespeare rewrote the past with Henry V By Jonathan Sumption for The Telegraph, 22 October 2015 October 25, 2015 marks 600 years since Agincourt – but there was more to Henry V’s triumph than the Bard to chose to tell in his epic and inspirational play. Henry V was the last of the eight plays Shakespeare wrote about the English kings of […]
By James Shapiro for The Guardian, 24 September 2015 In late July 1606, in the midst of a theatrical season that included what may well be the finest group of new plays ever staged – Shakespeare’s King Lear and Macbeth, Ben Jonson’s Volpone, and Thomas Middleton’s The Revenger’s Tragedy– Shakespeare’s company, the King’s Men, lowered their flag at the Globe theatre and locked their playhouse doors. Plague had returned. […]
A £5.25m project to excavate Shakespeare’s living quarters for the first time has started. Work began on Wednesday to remove the top soil at the back of Shakespeare’s last home in New Place, Stratford-upon-Avon – an area that has never previously been examined.
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