From “shall I compare thee to a summer’s day” to “one touch of nature makes the whole world kin”, some of the most famous lines in William Shakespeare’s works are about the relationship between humans and the environment.
It is this connection with the bard’s work that has inspired Shakespeare’s Globe to launch its first climate playwriting prize for 2026, which it says will harness the skills of storytellers and artists to “inspire societal shifts towards a restorative relationship with nature”.
