Shakespeare News
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Not that I'm a fan of Trigger Warnings, but if any Shakespeare play really needs to be preceded by one, it's “Titus Andronicus”. Murder, rape, mutilation, cannibalism, racism — this early Bard tragedy is a grim celebration of meaningless atrocity.
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Canadian Stage's annual Shakespeare in High Park has become a respected Toronto summer tradition, and this year, the Bard's pastoral comedy “As You Like It” is a fine match for the High Park Amphitheatre's outdoor setting and young audiences.
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Scottish DJ/producer Howie B. is perhaps best-known for his work with U2, Bjork, Tricky, and Ry Cooder. But he's also a gifted artist in his own right. His latest album offers a wide range of sounds, and references deeply personal experiences.
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Seoul -
Human rights groups have questioned the wisdom of Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London taking a production of Hamlet to North Korea, but stopped short of calling for the plan to be scrapped.The Globe will perform the play in the secretive state in Sep...
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Orlando Bloom has begun his first role on Broadway, playing Romeo in a production of William Shakespeare's 'Romeo and Juliet'.
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Toronto -
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) has returned to Toronto's Casa Loma by popular demand for a limited run July 18, 24 and 25.
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Toronto -
“The Taming of the Shrew” remains one of Shakespeare's most problematic and debated comedies, in its endorsement of male-dominated gender politics from four centuries ago. Is it possible to adapt the text in a way that's acceptable in 2013?
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Toronto -
Nothing undermines a Shakespeare play like a tragic hero who can't arouse your sympathy. And “Macbeth”, in which the title role is a murderous usurper, particularly requires a lead who can charm empathy from an audience, in order for it to work.
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Multi-Tony award winning actor Frank Langella is to play King Lear in the U.K. The play will part of the Chichester Festival Theatre.
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‘Much Ado About Nothing’ is a modern retelling of Shakespeare's classic comedy of comic and tragic events involving two pairs of lovers with different takes on romance and a way with words.
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Dubrovnik -
Shakespeare is coming to Dubrovnik, Croatia this spring with two new plays produced by the Dubrovnik Shakespeare Festival.
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Toronto -
“Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead” is a play in danger of becoming overly familiar, another “modern classic” ruined by time and too many revivals. It takes an energetic cast and vision to make Tom Stoppard's great tragicomedy seem new again.
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Shoreditch -
During a London archaeological dig in 2008 the site of a theatre, once used by William Shakespeare, was discovered. Now planning permission has been granted which will result in a theatre being built on the site.
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Toronto -
Shakespeare in High Park marks its 30th season this year with the comedy that launched this annual Toronto tradition in 1983, “A Midsummer Night's Dream”, but the new production takes many unusual risks – many of which pay off.
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Chicago -
Fans of Quentin Tarantino and Shakespeare rejoice: a new play being put on in Chicago is a mashup of "Pulp Fiction" and Shakespearean verse.
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London -
Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, located on London’s South Bank, has received a gift from an anonymous private donor of £1.5 million to help with structural development.
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One half of 'Anonymous' takes aim at the authenticity of William Shakespeare; the other half is a period drama set in volatile Elizabethan England. Available on Blu-ray and DVD February 7, 2012.
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Language expert, David Crystal, and Shakespearean actor Ben Crystal, report their internet site, Shakespeare's Words, now has users from every country in the world. “The site has become an entity in its own right,” says Ben Crystal.
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Internationally famous linguist, Professor David Crystal, together with world-renowned Shakespearean actor and author, Ben Crystal, who built the website Shakespeare's Words, have now moved into App support for Apple’s iPhone, iPad, and iPod.
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Everybody knows William Shakespeare, the great Bard of tragedies, comedies, sonnets, romances and poetry. But was The Tempest a musical?
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Stratford-upon-avon -
If you're looking for an Egyptian head dress, clerical outfit or chain mail the Royal Shakespeare Company's costume sale could be the ideal event.
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Australian singer William Shakespeare, who had hit songs during the 1970s, died this week at the age of 61, following years filled with depression, alcohol and poverty.
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Dressed in a Highland tartan and riding in a horse-drawn carriage, the man accused of stealing a priceless Shakespeare work arrived at court drinking Drambuie.
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Justice Stevens Renders an opinion on who wrote Shakespeare's plays. He says it wasn't the Bard of Avon and the evidence is beyond a reasonable doubt.
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Anderson's biography of the 17th Earl of Oxford, proposed as the real author of the Shakespeare canon, is a detailed, absorbing study of this fascinating figure, and a great leap forward for the Oxford movement.
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More than 300 years after the fact, questions are forever being raised as to the authorship of William Shakespeare's mind-blowing body of work. The latest theory says they were all written by a collection of other writers of the period.
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The culturally bored in Canada have no excuses. Summer time means it's Shakespeare Time. Canadian parks get their yearly does of the Master's work.
This year High Park in Toronto will feature Toronto’s Dream for it's 25th anniversary.
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Would 100 Monkeys with typewriters eventually produce the works of William Shakespeare? Well sorry to disappoint the monkey fans, but new studies says probably not. Yes, they're actually testing this stuff.
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LONDON (dpa) - English playwright William Shakespeare was co-owner of the original Globe Theatre in London and wrote most of his great literary works in the 16th and 17th centuries for its stage, located on the south bank of the Thames.Contemporaries o...
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by Hana Goodhart
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VERONA, Italy — The World Academy of Poetry, a new institution dedicated to the promotion of poetry around the globe, opens Friday in the Italian city best known for its star-crossed lovers, Romeo and Juliet.
Among those expected to take part in th..
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Benjamin as the Duke of Venice
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Photo of book "The Boy Who Would Be Shakespeare," by Doug Stewart
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From left, Benjamin, Ken Hua and , the assistant monitor of the class, Yu Ming
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World famous Shakespearian actor and author, Ben Crystal, playing Hamlet.
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Ben Crystal - Shakespeare's Hamlet
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Ben and David Crystal
Ben and David Crystal working on Shakespeare's Words.
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A scene from 'Much Ado About Nothing'
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Royal Shakespeare Company theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon
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Petruchio (Kevin MacDonald) and Katherina (Sophie Goulet) go at it in Shakespeare in High Park's "The Taming of the Shrew", in Toronto.
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Portia asking Antonio to be ready to give the pound of flesh to Shylock
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Kar Min as Shylock and Yu Ming as Portia
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Portia reading from the bond that not even one drop of blood should be shed when Shylock cuts his pound of flesh from Antonio.
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The Classical Theatre of Harlem
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