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To Read or Not to Read: Sir Ian McKellen on Shakespeare

To Read or Not to Read: Sir Ian McKellen on Shakespeare

Sir Ian McKellen: Don’t bother reading Shakespeare By Patrick Forster for The Telegraph, 27 October 2015 Reading Shakespeare is a waste of time, and people should instead celebrate our greatest playwright by watching his plays at the theatre, according to Sir Ian McKellen. In an intervention that is likely to win him fans among GCSE students across the country, but is […]

November 1, 2015 · 0 comments · Uncategorized

<3 and h8: Emoji-speak versions of Shakespeare published

By Christopher Hooton for the Independent, 12 June Shakespeare can be a little challenging as a teenager but that’s part of the joy of-NEVER MIND there’s a TL;DR version now! Penguin has launched an OMG Shakespeare series that reimagines his most famous plays in the digital age, with titles including Macbeth #killingit A Midsummer Night #NoFilter and YOLO Juliet. The plays, retold by Courtney Carbone and Brett Wright, […]

June 23, 2015 · 0 comments · Popular Culture