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Literary Subfields, Ecocriticism, and the Eclipse of the Humanities

Len Gutkin in Liberties on the decline of the humanities.

Reason

York International Shakespeare festival review – the bard without borders

Footsbarn’s Twelfth Night and a Turkish Macbeth rubbed shoulders with manga, memoir and a Ukrainian scratch show at this boundary-defying festival

The Guardian - UK

The week in theatre: The Buddha of Suburbia; Love’s Labour’s Lost – review

A new era at the RSC opens with a potent staging by Emma Rice and Hanif Kureishi of his classic everyman tale and a clever take on Shakespeare’s comedy that cuts through the verbiage – with help from a Bridgerton stalwart

The Guardian - UK

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Much Ado About Nothing at Shakespeare’s Globe review: this sunkissed production is joyful and intelligent

Amalia Vitale and Ekow Quartey are arch and spirited as the central, wittily unwilling lovers

Evening Standard

Tiny North Yorkshire museum shortlisted for national prize

Craven museum in Skipton is up against cultural titans such as National Portrait Gallery and Young V&A

The Guardian - UK

Best books about gardens to read in 2024

Windows into extraordinary gardens and those who tend to them

Evening Standard

Studio Ghibli’s work ‘like Shakespeare’, says My Neighbour Totoro stage show’s director

Hayao Miyazaki’s animations praised by Phelim McDermott as new production in West End announced

The Guardian - UK

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David Tennant and Cush Jumbo's acclaimed Macbeth heads to the West End

Max Webster’s haunting, sell-out production returns this autumn

Evening Standard

‘I was only able to go on stage hammered’: David Harewood on acting, racism and his new role at Rada

He had barely started his career when abuse left him mentally ill. But he went on to phenomenal success – and has just been made president of the UK’s leading drama school

The Guardian - UK

The Last Caravaggio review – a gripping and murderously dark finale

Rage, slaughter, death, regret … The Martyrdom of Saint Ursula, believed to be Caravaggio’s last work, is so astonishing, it deserves to be a one-painting blockbuster

The Guardian - UK

Kit Connor and Rachel Zegler to lead ‘brutal’ Romeo + Juliet on Broadway

Acclaimed director Sam Gold will adapt the Shakespeare tragedy with new music from hitmaker and Taylor Swift collaborator Jack Antonoff

The Guardian - US

Post your questions for Bryce Dallas Howard

The dinosaur-chasing actor will take your questions on her extraordinary range of stage, film and TV roles from Shakespeare to Black Mirror to Rocketman

The Guardian - UK

Did you solve it? Art thou smarter than Shakespeare?

The answers to today’s problems

The Guardian - US

OPINION - Tom Holland's silence over the racist abuse of his co-star Francesca Amewudah-Rivers is a very bad look

Rarely is there a silver lining when it comes to racism. This is true in the case of the despicable barrage of abuse against actress Francesca Amewudah-Rivers, cast as Juliet alongside Tom Holland’s Romeo in an upcoming West End production of Shakespeare’s most famous play. But if there is one…

Evening Standard

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The Guardian - US

Can you solve it? Art thou smarter than Shakespeare?

Don’t make this a comedy of errors

Louder

"I don't know if what I'm about to do has significance or whether I'm about to make an idiot of myself": William Shatner, progressive rock icon

Everyone's favourite nonagenarian starship captain continues to boldly go where no man has gone before

The Guardian - UK

‘Too much to bear’: Black actors condemn racial abuse of Romeo & Juliet star

More than 800 performers signed a letter after Francesca Amewudah-Rivers was targeted with online abuse

The Canberra Times

Meet the Canberran stealing the show as 'rock star' Romeo

Wherefore art thou Romeo? On stage, in & Juliet.

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Evening Standard

OPINION - The racist hounding of Francesca Amewudah-Rivers for her Romeo & Juliet role is painfully stupid

The best revenge is success. So news that Jamie Lloyd’s staging of Romeo & Juliet with Tom Holland has apparently secured a Broadway transfer before it’s even opened in London feels like a victory. Last week the show’s producers were compelled to issue a statement deploring the “barrage of deplorable…

The Guardian - UK

Actor Luke Thompson: ‘It turned out the coughing was someone vomiting in the dress circle – over other people’

The Bridgerton star on making his RSC debut, extreme audience reactions to A Little Life, and why people love romance

The Guardian - UK

The rising star of stage and screen talks bullies, ballet and what playing a 17th-century duchess taught her about life today

The Guardian - UK

Romeo & Juliet theatre star suffers ‘barrage’ of online racial abuse

Jamie Lloyd Company says abuse came after cast list made public for show with Tom Holland and Francesca Amewudah-Rivers

Evening Standard

Why I live in Shepherd's Bush: artist Henry Hudson on warming to his west London 'marriage of convenience'

Artist Henry Hudson swapped east for west last year. Here are his Shepherd’s Bush hits, from that dystopian roundabout to ‘middle-aged’ Shakespeare in the park

Evening Standard

25 of the best poetry books to read in 2025

Delve into the hypnotic world of lyrical literature

The Guardian - UK

‘Don’t come if you are worried’: former RSC boss says he hates trigger warnings for plays

Gregory Doran asks how content warnings could be issued for Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus

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