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The poet laureate, who died a quarter of a century ago today, believed his Shakespeare fixation was almost fatal; his first wife, Sylvia Plath, was certainly the Titania to his Oberon. With his almost psychic connection to nature and a charisma so powerful that even the Queen was rumoured to…

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Berlioz’s Shakespearean opera is stripped to the bone for four instruments and six singers, but the show is slick and spirited, with sopranos Lorena Paz Nieto and Monica McGhee standouts

Jewish actor has described recent circumstances as a ‘dystopian nightmare’

Actor delivered Shakespeare scene during lecture at Oxford theatre in memory of Roger Scruton

The actor on playing William Shakespeare’s wife, and making her West End debut opposite Jennifer Saunders

Shakespeare wrote his famous narrative poem Venus and Adonis in a lockdown era when, in 1593, the bubonic plague closed the theatres in London for 18 months.

Farmer who combined campaigning on antibiotics and sustainability with a deep love of animals and literature