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A rich study of queer desire in Shakespeare, from cosplay in The Merchant of Venice to gender fluidity in Twelfth Night

Nicholas Hytner has shared details of his forthcoming production, which will give the actor his highest profile Shakespeare role to date

Letter: Derek Jacobi and Margo Anderson on how local lore and biographical specificity found in the comedy point to the 17th Earl of Oxford, Edward de Vere, as its writer

Blanche McIntyre’s Midas-touched production is set in the present day and finds delirious comedy in its class divisions

For the second time in as many years, New Zealand’s secondary school English curriculum will be rewritten, a move which has generated disquiet from teachers and academics alike.

All American season 6 episode 11 sees the Miko trial reach a conclusion. Plus, Jordan and Layla make a decision about their wedding. Here's what happened.

Company performing Shakespeare classic formed of 15 members who moved to small Uzhhorod town during war

Exclusive: Bafta-winner to join actors and young asylum seekers in 24-hour fundraising ‘Shakespeare marathon’

This short, snappy work of popular scholarship by Will Tosh, head of research at Shakespeare’s Globe, is a necessary provocation and a highly selective bid to claim our national poet as a queer icon. Fair enough. As Tosh says in his introduction, red-faced heterosexuals have spent centuries explaining away the…