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Why decolonise Shakespeare when all the world’s a stage for his ideas on injustice?

The trend for cultural reappraisal could risk upholding the very ideas it aims to dismantle

The Guardian - UK

I'm a published author and I tested Claude 3.7 Sonnet vs Grok 3 at creative writing — here's my verdict

Claude and Grok have both been winning plaudits for their creative writing ability so here's what happens when a published author critiques their work.

Tom’s Guide

The Winter’s Tale at The Tobacco Factory, Bristol – a marvellous production with much to say about the modern world

The first half rips your heart out. The second attempts, tenderly, to put it back again. This is The Winter’s Tale, currently being performed at The Tobacco Factory, Bristol.

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Shakespeare’s birthplace trust to ‘decolonise’ collection amid claims of promoting ‘white supremacy’

The trust is exploring the ‘continued impact of Empire’ on its collections and how ‘Shakespeare’s work has played a part in this’

Evening Standard

'It really truly changed my life in every possible way': Lady Dimitrescu actor says her Resident Evil Village role was just as transformative for her as it was for roughly half the internet in 2021

Many such cases.

PC Gamer

Macbeth review – a dynamic tragedy of somersaulting ambition

This brisk staging for young audiences has acrobatic witches and action-movie fights but misses some of the play’s bloodcurdling weirdness

The Guardian - UK

Husband begs internet for help with wife’s ‘deranged’ plan to name their twins Romeo & Juliet

‘Naming twins after famous lovers?? It’s not good don’t do it,’ one person argues

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Bardy Thomas obituary

Other lives: Voice coach at the Central School of Speech and Drama, Royal Shakespeare Company and Rada

The Guardian - UK

Lady Dimitrescu actor wasn't a gamer before Resident Evil Village, so she "pulled a lot of Shakespeare stuff" into her vampire mommy role

Lady D "really truly" changed her life

GamesRadar

Australia to host ‘Space-out competition’ – where people compete to do nothing

Created by a South Korean artist suffering burnout, the serious but absurd contest is just one of 65 events coming to Melbourne’s winter arts festival

The Guardian - AU

Review clearing Manchester’s Royal Exchange of censorship criticised

A modern retelling of A Midsummer Night’s Dream was pulled last September in a dispute over one of the play’s songs

The Guardian - UK

With most male actors at war, a small Ukrainian theater reinvents itself with an all-female cast

The Chernihiv Regional Youth Theater in Ukraine has adapted to the war by having women perform traditionally male roles, after many men left the troupe to fight on the front line

The Independent UK

I’m so proud of my trans daughter for coming out in this intolerant climate

Letter: Shakespeare wrote: ‘This above all, to thine own self be true.’ Having the courage to do that when transphobia is rife is worthy of love and respect, writes Rachael Stevenson

The Guardian - UK

Is Science Rigged for the Rich?

A recent study claiming inequality of opportunity in the sciences commits statistical and conceptual errors that make its findings meaningless.

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Love’s Labour’s Lost (More or Less) review – lads on tour in Ibiza swear off sex

Elizabeth Godber and Nick Lane relocate Shakespeare’s comedy of abstinence to the throbbing heart of 90s hedonism

The Guardian - AU

Is this a cheese grater I see before me? This is Shakespeare as you’ve never seen it before

Table Top Shakespeare involves six performers retelling the Bard’s plays using household objects on a table. Yes, it is immensely – if not universally – popular

The Conversation

Uncertainties, mysteries, doubts: Madeleine Watts takes an elegiac road trip through the American southwest

In December 1817, the Romantic poet John Keats sent a letter to his brothers George and Thomas, in which he celebrated a quality in Shakespeare’s work he termed “negative capability”. He defined this as “when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after…

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Roger Harcourt obituary

Other lives: Headteacher who transformed the lives of his Hertfordshire comprehensive pupils with summer Shakespeare camps

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Who is better, Dickens or Shakespeare? We asked nine prominent writers

Elif Shafak, Sarah Perry, Jeffrey Boakye and others tell us which of the two totemic literary figures they favour

The Guardian - UK

Romeo and Juliet review – rap tragedy asks the audience who to blame

There are ideas aplenty in this high-concept musical retelling of Shakespeare, but it gets off to a bumpy start

The Guardian - UK

The play that changed my life: Sing Sing’s Clarence Maclin on lessons from Sophocles in prison

Staging Shakespeare and Twelve Angry Men with fellow prisoners was a revelation but Oedipus Rex proved particularly poignant

Evening Standard

Radiohead take on Shakespeare with Hamlet Hail To The Thief

A new live experience fusing theatre, music and movement is coming this spring, in which a new version of Hamlet will be set to Thom Yorke’s reworking of Radiohead’s famous album

The Guardian - UK

The week in theatre: Hamlet; Much Ado About Nothing; Richard II – review

Luke Thallon is a compelling, all-at-sea Hamlet, Hayley Atwell and Tom Hiddleston sizzle as Beatrice and Benedick, while Bridgerton’s Jonathan Bailey is a bit too much the overreaching king

The Guardian - UK

Much Ado About Ken: Barbie style star is still making menswear shimmer

Almost two years on from film’s debut, Ryan Gosling character’s himbo look has reached the West End in London

The Independent UK

Tom Hiddleston is on winning bum-wiggling form in Much Ado About Nothing

4/5 Hiddleston and Marvel co-star Hayley Atwell quip their way through this calculatedly naff Shakespeare revamp featuring Noughties pop ballads

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