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For every classically-trained actor, Shakespeare is the pinnacle, the top of a mountain to claim A tragedy of a man driven by ambition to commit murder, then finds his life empty as he fights to avoid the comeuppance that is his fate, the Scottish Play is clearly a way to check something off of Tennant's[...]

The BBC has opened up its Shakespeare Archive to UK schools and universities so that students and scholars have access to an essential piece of British cultural heritage This is part of the BBC's brief to educate and inform The BBC material dates from the 1950s to now, it includes the first British televised adaptations[...]

Twelfth Grade Night and King Cheer are the first two Shakespeare-based YA graphic novels in the Arden High series by Molly Horton Booth, Stephanie Kate Strohm and Jamie Green They have been bought by Kieran Viola and Rachel Stark at Disney-Hyperion to begin publication in the autumn of 2022. Shakespeare YA Graphic Novels – Twelfth Grade[...]

And he is about to complete his third graphic novel this year adapting the works of Shakespeare into new innovative graphic novels all set in the nineteen seventies He began with the humdrum Finlay Macbeth, went back to London punk with The Prince Of Demark Street and now gives us The Midsummer Night's Dream Team,[...]

If at least one of those things doesn't bowl you over, I'm not sure A Midsummer Night's Dream is the Shakespeare play for you Personal taste aside, the production is one of the more clever I've seen, and I've seen some pretty neat stagings of this play True, there are no living trees or nipple[...]

Shakespeare fans, rejoice! Summer usually ushers in with its outdoor performances, more often Shakespeare plays abound though many have had their seasons canceled because of COVID-19 safety concerns The Public Theater in New York City has found a creative solution for this, keeping both audiences and performers safe all while keeping the show free to[...]

Set to join McAvoy is Riz Ahmed as The Corinthian, Justin Vivian Bond as Desire, Arthur Darvill as William Shakespeare, Kat Dennings as Death, Taron Egerton as John Constantine, William Hope as Doctor Destiny, Josie Lawrence as Mad Hettie, Miriam Margolyes as Despair, Samantha Morton as Urania Blackwell, Bebe Neuwirth as The Siamese Cat, Andy[...]

The Taming Of The Shrew is one of those Shakespeare plays that has the reputation of being 'difficult' As with Othello or Merchant Of Venice, four hundred years on, there are new challenges And in Shrew, that means looking at a story in which a woman with a reputation of being difficult and speaking her[...]

He became an acclaimed and in-demand theatre director of John Osbourne and Shakespeare In the 1970s, he started a 40-year career of directing productions at the English National Orchestra. He was also a prolific broadcaster from the 1970s to the 2000s at the BBC He kept up his interest in Medicine and produced the acclaimed TV[...]

Shakespeare's Prospero, the wizard from the Tempest, has turned out to be the ultimate Bond Villain, orchestrating the end of the world through a Magickal invasion. This is entropy Moore gleefully sets virtually every imaginable Science Fiction character from over 100 years of pop culture at war with each other Amazon women battle Mekons with a[...]

If you've ever wanted to play a video game adaptation of William Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, Golden Glitch Studios is releasing exactly that in late June The game is called Elsinore and puts the player in control of Danish noblewoman and Hamlet's love-interest, Ophelia Except, unlike the Shakespearean version, this Ophelia is an active[...]

All Rights Reserved. About That Goodbye The William Shakespeare quote "Parting is such sweet sorrow" – the source of the episode's title – is from Romeo and Juliet Could the source of the quote be a hint that the "parting" being discussed is the one between Burnham and Tyler (Shazad Latif)? The emotional scene between the two[...]

It's been a Stratford second since Kenneth Branagh has done Shakespeare in film form, and Sony Classics has just bought his directorial (and starring) return to the Bard, All Is True. In classic Branagh fashion, the film was directed by and will star the Brit as William Shakespeare, but this isn't a story you've seen before. Apparently, All Is True[...]

It's a comedic look at late 16th-century London and the rock-star status of The Bard, William Shakespeare (played here by Adam Pascal, who also played the original cast of Rent as Roger Davis). With all of London swooning at Will's every word, two playwrights:  Nick (played by Rob McClure) and Nigel Bottom (Josh Grisetti) are struggling[...]

William Shakespeare is a famous English playwright who produced some of the most memorable works of all time, including Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Die Hard 2, and Hamlet Nick Spencer writes Captain America and the Marvel super-mega-crossover event Secret Empire, about Captain America being a Nazi Besides the obvious similarities, such[...]