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20 Questions About Shakespeare That Will Really Challenge Your Literature Knowledge

This is not your typical Shakespeare trivia. Get ready to struggle to remember Shakespeare’s plays that did not get as much screen (or stage) time as Romeo & Juliet, Othello, or Macbeth have gotten. You might know a lot of things about the popular plays of Shakespeare which are also…

Bored Panda · Dec 9, 2024

50 Interesting Facts And Curiosities To Take Your Mind Off The Stress Of The Holiday Season

Debbi Wood is known as the "world's most jealous woman." She makes her husband Steve undergo a lie detector test every time he returns home. Debbi's jealousy stems from previous traumatic relationships and a condition called Othello Syndrome, which is characterized by a delusional disorder and strong conviction that one's…

Bored Panda · Dec 4, 2024

The play that changed my life: Janet Suzman on staging Othello in apartheid South Africa

Putting on Shakespeare’s tragedy at Johannesburg’s Market theatre was a risky endeavour and caused an astonishing reaction

The Guardian - UK · Nov 25, 2024

‘James Earl Jones boomed this massive laugh - then hugged me’: Lenny Henry and Don Warrington remember their hero

The actors explain how Jones influenced their careers and exactly what made him such a towering presence – as well as such a magnetic afternoon tea companion

The Guardian - UK · Sep 10, 2024

James Earl Jones obituary

American actor hailed for his many classical roles whose voice became known to millions as that of Darth Vader in Star Wars

The Guardian - UK · Sep 10, 2024

‘We’re going to find the next Shakespeare’: inside DC’s $80m library renovation

The reopened Folger Shakespeare Library aims to bring a wider audience to the world’s biggest collection of the Bard’s printed works

The Guardian - US · Jun 22, 2024

Straight Acting by Will Tosh review – out on stage

A rich study of queer desire in Shakespeare, from cosplay in The Merchant of Venice to gender fluidity in Twelfth Night

The Guardian - UK · Jun 21, 2024

Tired of absurd TV soap plots? Give Ambridge a try

Brief letters: The Archers’ highlights | Checking those billionaires | Rubbish remakes | Shakespeare’s dud | Free speech

The Guardian - UK · Apr 7, 2024

Shakespeare played jealous husband in 1598 Ben Jonson drama, scholar’s analysis finds

Exclusive: lecturer finds ‘striking similarities’ between lines in Jonson’s Every Man in His Humour and later Shakespeare works

The Guardian - UK · Apr 7, 2024

Fake noses, lucky tokens and a bed of nails – Sarah Jessica Parker, Joseph Fiennes and other stars reveal their secret dressing room routines

Whoever wins next month’s Olivier awards, global stars will continue to flock to the West End of London to give the stage their all. We take a peek behind the curtain …

The Guardian - UK · Mar 9, 2024