Shakespeare's plays

...over by one of our leading Shakespearean actors, 130 of us are spending a rather weird day deciding who other than Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare's plays and sonnets. Our presence here in a padded lecture theatre comes courtesy of a...

In this article: William Shakespeare, Robin Williams, Edward de Vere, Mark Rylance, Brunel University, and Mary Sidney

...with jam. Shakespeare's Globe Theatre of London, an outdoor venue on the south bank of the River Thames, strives to give its audience an imaginative approximation of the way Shakespeare's plays were performed in their own time. The...

In this article: Love's Labour's Lost, William Shakespeare, Harold Bloom, Buoyancy, and Much Ado About Nothing

...Hamlet in quarto in an interactive interface. The project, which began in April 2008, reunites all 75 pre-1642 quarto editions of Shakespeare's plays into a single online collection. The prototype interface is at present fully...

In this article: Hamlet, William Shakespeare, University of Oxford, National Endowment for the Humanities, UK, and US

...at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at Wright Auditorium. "The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)" is all 37 Shakespeare plays in an irreverent, fast-paced 97-minute romp. The production was London's longest-running comedy with...

In this article: William Shakespeare, Reduced Shakespeare Company, Daniel Singer, London, Ophelia, Hamlet, Seattle Repertory Theatre, and Gertrude

...better." He has studied Shakespeare's plays and is aware that the late plays -- such as The Tempest, A Winter's Tale and Pericles -- concern the relationship between fathers and daughters: their conflicts, their reconciliations. Some...

In this article: Lear, William Shakespeare, King Lear, Sandwich, State Theatre Company of South Australia, and Dementia

...the Stratford Shakespeare Festival instead of just the plain old Stratford Festival. In 2009, there were only three Shakespeare plays out of 14 shows. Julius Caesar played to half-empty houses, Macbeth got negative reviews, and A Midsummer...

In this article: Stratford Shakespeare Festival, Live Nation, New York, West Side Story, Stratford, Broadway, Toronto, and The Importance of Being Earnest

...booklet. Already brilliantly discussed by Samuel Johnson, Shakespeare's plays were equally perceptively analysed by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Hazlitt, respectively an archetypal poet and critic of the age. Shakespeare did...

In this article: William Blake, William Shakespeare, Copper, Henry Fuseli, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Canaletto

...Earl of Oxford. While it is generally accepted in academic circles that Shakespeare's plays were written by Shakespeare of Stratford and not another author, popular interest in the subject, particularly the Oxfordian theory, During...

In this article: William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, Macbeth, Hamlet, First Folio, John Fletcher, Lewis Theobald, and Thomas Middleton

...creating a role of great complexity, richness and paradox," McAnuff said. "The Tempest," directed by McAnuff, will be joined by three other Shakespeare plays: "As You Like It," "The Winter's Tale" and "The Two Gentlemen of Verona," as well as...

In this article: Christopher Plummer, Stratford, Des McAnuff, Prospero, The Tempest, William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Brent Carver, Kiss Me, Kate, and Evita