“Hamlet”: A Play That Speaks to Pandemics Past and Present
I went to the theatre for the first time in 15 months to see the Theatre Royal Windsor’s new...
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Tag: Shakespeare
Shakespeare’s Rulers and Generals Are All Flawed, but the Books on His Leadership Lessons Keep Coming
John Bell’s new book Some Achieve Greatness is but the latest to use Shakespeare’s works to...
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Performing Shakespeare in the Era of COVID-19
Although tragedy is not usually the preferred companion for hard times, Anglophone pop culture...
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Interview with James Shapiro on Adaptation of Shakespeare Plays on the Contemporary Stage
James Shapiro is a Shakespeare scholar and a professor of English and Comparative Literature at...
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“The Other Solos, Shakespeare:” Brexit, Shakespeare, and Foreign Voices
Today, 23rd of April 2021, is the 405 anniversary of Shakespeare’s death. In two months, on...
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Playing Richard
Though theatrical season 2020/2021 isn’t the most eventful, it has brought to the stage number of...
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Hamlet is Shakespeare’s Greatest Villain
Who is Shakespeare’s greatest villain? Richard III? Iago? Macbeth? They all have a claim to the...
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“A Midsummer Night’s Dream” Conjures Dark Fantasies
A Midsummer Night’s Dream has the makings of a fairy tale: a forest full of meddling fairies,...
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“Call From”: A Web Series with Hilarity and Heart
Zoom plays can feel a little dry. I’m sure, after months of this quarantine, we’ve all had the...
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How The Streaming Theatre Uses Digital Storytelling to Its Advantage
As many have already said, the best streamed performances seem to be those that are made for the...
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“Balcony Scene in Quarantine”: TEATRX Presents Latinx Shakespeare in a Social Distancing World
When Benito Vasquez, Marissa Castillo, and Jorge Diaz founded TEATRX in 2018, they never could...
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UK-Based Flute Theatre Takes To Instagram To Help Those In The Autistic Spectrum
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought significant shifts in routines all over the world. With more...
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The Other Is Denied a Voice: Maja Kleczewska’s “Hamlet/Гамлет”
What is the role today of one of the pivotal narratives of Western culture, William Shakespeare’s...
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Shakespeare on Zoom: How a Theatre Group in Isolation Conjured up a “Tempest”
While theatres remain closed, the way we watch Shakespeare is changing. When I picture the...
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Polish Shakespeare Online: Maja Kleczewska’s “Macbeth”
L. P. Hartley’s much-recycled observation that ‘the past is a foreign country’ seems an oddly...
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After the Plague, Shakespeare Imagined a World Saved from Poison, Slander and the Evil Eye
Shakespeare lived his life in plague-time. He was born in April 1564, a few months before...
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Shakespearean Tragedy Unfolds Wave of Populism on Tehran Stage
A Review on Iranian Adaptation of Coriolanus in Tehran A free adaptation of William Shakespeare’s...
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Girls to the Front: “Mac Beth” at Hunter Theater Project
Reading dry Shakespeare texts and going to parties at friends’ places seem like quintessential...
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Updating “Romeo and Juliet” in a Bid to Fight Prejudice in Japan
With William Shakespeare’s iconic use of English lost in translation, bold and reimagined versions...
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