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“Hamlet”: A Play That Speaks to Pandemics Past and Present

Posted by Elizabeth Schafer | 3rd Aug 2021 | Covid-19, Review, United Kingdom

I went to the theatre for the first time in 15 months to see the Theatre Royal Windsor’s new...

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Tamsin Greig’s Gender-Bending Performance in “Twelfth Night”

Posted by Elizabeth Schafer | 3rd Apr 2017 | Theatre and Gender, United Kingdom

In 1602, a law student called John Manningham saw Twelfth Night, or What You Will, and wrote what...

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