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David Tennant will play Macbeth in Donmar Warehouse production in December

Scots star David Tennant has previously performed lead roles in Hamlet, Richard II and Romeo And Juliet.

Daily Record

Richard II by William Shakespeare: why 'the divine right of kings' (still) matters

What do you do with a bad king? And what do you do when that bad king is (allegedly) appointed by God?

The Conversation

Peaky Blinders star Cillian Murphy caught short in street after boozy night out

Cillian Murphy and Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight had plenty to discuss as they sunk Guinness and champagne but the Thomas Shelby actor was caught short

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James Shapiro wins Baillie Gifford anniversary prize with ‘extraordinary’ Shakespeare biography 1599

The English professor’s analysis of a pivotal year in the playwright’s life triumphed over a shortlist that included Craig Brown, Barbara Demick and Wade Davis

The Guardian - UK

Australia's oldest library starts daily opening of Shakespeare Room for 1st time

As the oldest library in Australia, the State Library of New South Wales (NSW) on April 24 started opening Shakespeare Room seven days a week to the public for the first time in its history.

The Times of India

Neon noir thriller is Macbeth retold for the 21st Century

Shakespeare's tale of political ambition, murder and madness gets a modern makeover

Liverpool Echo

How Sachin Tendulkar became 'God of Cricket'

NEW DELHI: Batting maestro Sachin Tendulkar, the evergreen poster boy of Indian cricket, turned 50 on April 24.

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‘Shakespeare can help us survive war’: Ukrainian academic toasts bard in UK visit

Nataliya Torkut likens Zelenskiy to Henry V at Agincourt as she visits Stratford-upon-Avon to mark playwright’s birthday

The Guardian - UK

Follow the money: the story of slavery and Shakespeare’s First Folio

As we reckon with the UK’s colonial past, we need to examine the history behind valuable books – even our beloved Shakespeare

The Guardian - UK

Shakespeare's environmentalism: how his plays explore the same ecological issues we face today

Climate change, urban sprawl, air pollution, deforestation, depleted fish stocks, biodiversity and species loss: these are not exclusively modern problems that only sprang up in the last few hundred years. In fact, the common but misleading phrase “industrial revolution” masks the long history of resource extraction and ecological degradation in…

The Conversation

Shakespeare by numbers: how mathematical breakthroughs influenced the Bard’s plays

Mathematical motifs feature in many of Shakespeare’s most memorable scenes. He lived and wrote in the late 16th century, when new mathematical concepts were transforming perceptions of the world. Part of the role of the theatre was to process the cultural implications of all these changes.

The Conversation

Shakespeare's First Folio turns 400: what would be lost without the collection? An expert speculates

It has been 400 years since the publication of the first collected edition of Shakespeare’s plays, a volume now known as the First Folio. Prepared by his fellow actors after his death, the book presented 36 plays divided into the genres of comedy, history and tragedy.

The Conversation

For Patrick Stewart, Jean-Luc Picard is 'the biggest thing that's ever happened to me'

LOS ANGELES — As the august space voyager Jean-Luc Picard, Patrick Stewart commanded the Starship Enterprise on and off across seven seasons of "Star Trek: The Next Generation," four feature films, and, after a two-decade pause, three seasons of "Picard." It's a role he took only because he was assured…

Los Angeles Times

Hamnet review: ‘beautifully acted’ but doesn’t ‘pierce the heart’

The RSC has reopened its refurbished Swan Theatre with an eagerly anticipated adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s bestselling novel Hamnet, said Sam Marlowe in The Stage. As “snug and supple” a fit for the Stratford stage as one of the bespoke gloves made by William Shakespeare’s bullying father, it imagines the…

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Curtain’s nearly up on London’s new museum of Shakespeare

Predecessor to the Bard’s Globe redeveloped as tourist site

The Independent UK

First printed edition of Shakespeare’s plays to go on display

The First Folio will go on display at London’s Guildhall Library for its 400th anniversary.

The Independent UK

Taylor Swift is a real poet, Shakespeare expert says as he compares her to the Bard

US superstar is more than just high-class showbiz, says scholar who became a ‘Swiftie’

The Independent UK

With 'Camelot,' a legendary fight director exits the fray

A complex and thrilling fight scene with broad swords in a spring Broadway revival of “Camelot” will be the swan song for a legendary fight director

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The Guardian - UK

Hamnet review – slick adaptation captures Shakespeare’s horrified unravelling

Lolita Chakrabarti’s staging of Maggie O’Farrell’s moving novel about the death of the playwright’s son – and his resurrection in Hamlet – is powerfully played, with the occasional cheesy line

Daily Record

The Scottish island abbey where the real-life Macbeth was laid to rest

The tiny island of Iona, just off the Isle of Mull on the West Coast of Scotland, is home to what is widely considered one of Scotland's most historic and sacred sites.

WEKU

5 new YA books that explore the magic of the arts and the art of magic

Art and magic so often go hand in hand. These new YA releases all explore both art and magic as the means to heal trauma, communities — and even worlds.

The Times of India

Maggie O’Farrell’s award-winning novel 'Hamnet' to be adapted for screen

Irish writer Maggie O’Farrell won the Women's Prize for Fiction 2020 and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction 2021 for her novel 'Hamnet'. And now, 'Hamnet' will be adapted for into a film by Oscar-winner Chloe Zhao.

The Guardian - UK

Hamnet on stage: Maggie O’Farrell and Lolita Chakrabarti on adapting the hit novel for the RSC

O’Farrell’s novel about Shakespeare losing his young son to the plague struck a powerful chord in lockdown. She and Chakrabarti discuss class, place and loss in their theatre adaptation

Louder

The story of The Stranglers' controversial No More Heroes album: "We got away with murder"

Hugh Cornwell tells the story of the Stranglers' summer-of-punk-classic second album No More Heroes: "We definitely couldn’t get away with that now"

The Guardian - UK

Did William Shakespeare invent the word ‘playwright’?

Letters: Charles Nicholl on the tantalising possibility that the dramatist wrote a poem that features the earliest known use of the word

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