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Shakespeare’s shipwrecks
Last week on Twitter, someone drily pointed out in response to the RSC’s new season, that Shakespeare never wrote a shipwreck trilogy. The What country friends is this? season is certainly unusual, and...
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Shakespeare: staging the world
This summer one of the most important events for anyone wanting to know more about why Shakespeare matters will be a visit to the British Museum’s exhibition Shakespeare: staging the world. Booking is...
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Shakespeare unbounded: the digital domain
On 7 April I was part of a panel on the subject of performance archives at the Shakespeare Association of America’s annual meeting in Boston. The panel was chaired by Michael Warren and the speakers...
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Shakespeare Unlocked with the BBC
In case it had escaped your notice, the World Shakespeare Festival’s about to kick off in theatres around the country. But even if you don’t intend to go anywhere near a theatre, the BBC is providing...
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Global Shakespeares
The World Shakespeare Festival, which has just begun, is already opening our eyes to performances of Shakespeare from some of the most remote corners of the world. Nothing does more to prove that...
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The Comedy of Errors
Stephen Hagan as Antipholus of Ephesus and Felix Hayes as Dromio of Ephesus The RSC’s Shipwreck trilogy is subtitled “What country friends is this?” and in the production of The Comedy of Errors...
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Shakespeare and The Space
Coriolan/Us The Globe to Globe’s seven week Shakespeare festival has just come to an end, and for anyone who hasn’t been able to keep up with it (which must include most of us), but would like a way of...
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Round the globe with Much Ado About Nothing
Meera Syal and Paul Bhattacharjee in the 2012 RSC productions What are we learning from the World Shakespeare Festival? A few weeks ago Sonia Massai headed a panel entitled Global Shakespeares. In her...
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Was 2012 Shakespeare’s year?
2012 was the year of the World Shakespeare Festival, the biggest celebration of Shakespeare ever, when this early-modern writer was to be proclaimed a global superstar, as if he wasn’t already one of...
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Chinese Shakespeares
Celebrating the Chinese New Year in London Thursday, 19th February is the Chinese New Year, the Year of the Goat, Sheep or Ram. The biggest celebrations outside China are held in London, which...
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