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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.

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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…

The Week

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

Predecessor to the Bard’s Globe redeveloped as tourist site

Evening Standard

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

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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

The Independent 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

The Guardian - UK

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.

Daily Record

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.

WEKU

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

The Guardian - UK

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"

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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

Salon

Steve Coogan discusses "The Lost King"

Salon talks to the comic and writer about his latest effort, a tribute to the woman who found Richard III's remains

The Guardian - UK

Ben Jonson work from 1603 may contain ‘lost’ Shakespeare sonnet, say experts

Exclusive: To the Deserving Author, found in the playbook of Jonson’s Sejanus: His Fall, is signed by ‘Cygnus’

The Independent UK

The Kurdish Romeo and Juliet, the legend of Mem and Zin throughout the ages

Mem and Zin is considered the masterpiece of the Kurdish epics, writes Şeyhmus Çakırtaş

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The Guardian - UK

Imagine a time when Shakespeare played a very second fiddle to Ben Jonson

Richard Cohen’s Making History returned me to the childhood ecstasy of leafing through my first encyclopaedia

The Guardian - UK

Surviving copies of Shakespeare’s First Folio to go on show

Events planned in UK and Ireland, including a British Library exhibition, to mark 400 years since complete works first published

Bangkok Post

The Ides of March and perils of power

This Wednesday will be the 74th day of the year, which admittedly doesn't sound like something to get too excited about. But it is not just any old day. Known in Roman times as the "Ides of March" the 15th marks the anniversary of the assassination of Julius Caesar in…

The Guardian - AU

& Juliet review – queer joy and pop delirium as Shakespeare gets a Max Martin makeover

Featuring the songs of Britney Spears, Backstreet Boys and beyond, the Australian premiere of the global hit drew multiple ovations (and a few singalongs)

The Independent UK

6 books compete for nonfiction 'winner of winners' prize

Books that explore subjects from William Shakespeare and The Beatles to the lure of Mount Everest and life inside one of the world’s most secretive states are competing to be named the best-ever winner of Britain’s leading nonfiction book prize

Zenger

The Inspiration Of William Shakespeare From Student Theatre And Shaping Of Academic Literature

Shakespeare used this to inspire some of his most famous characters such as Hamlet and Macbeth and how his work shaped literature.

Asharq Al-Awsat

In Britain, ‘Warm Hubs’ Emerge to Beat Soaring Energy Costs

On a blustery late-winter day in Shakespeare’s birthplace, the foyer of the Other Place theater is a cozy refuge.

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