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Survey showing UK’s loss of pride in its past is encouraging, says historian

Public choosing ‘Shakespeare over invasion’ and becoming more discerning about Britain’s history, says Alan Lester

The Guardian - UK

Keanu Reeves at 60: from surfer dude to action hero, his 20 best films – ranked!

Good cop, bad cop, Shakespearean villain – he’s done the lot. To mark the milestone birthday of one of the nicest men in Hollywood, we run down his finest works

The Guardian - UK

US playwright donates £1m to save home of Shakespeare’s daughter

Exclusive: Ken Ludwig gives Shakespeare Birthplace Trust largest private donation in its 177-year history

The Guardian - UK

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Readers on the plays that changed their lives: ‘It gave me access to a world that seemed elite’

Our series on theatrical discoveries continues with cherished memories from Guardian readers who felt profoundly moved by works on the stage

The Guardian - UK

Novelist Sarah Moss: ‘Hunger numbed my shame and humiliation’

As a bullied schoolgirl, the writer starved herself while greedily consuming classic novels. Looking back, she asks if their fragile heroines played a part in her increasingly dangerous attempts to lose weight

The Guardian - UK

The science of sleep with Professor Russel Foster ...Brave New World podcast

Plus, a fully automated transcript of this episode

Evening Standard

Actor Robert Lindsay on his role in Sherwood and growing up in a mining town: ‘There were terrible confrontations between fathers and sons’

The star of Citizen Smith, GBH and much more on the ‘genius’ of James Graham’s BBC drama, his unlikely way into acting, and learning to simmer down on social media

The Guardian - UK

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TV tonight: an unlikely but charming job swap between Judi Dench and Jay Blades

Jay reads Shakespeare while Judi works on a market stall in this delightful doc. Plus, Team GB’s Olympic heroes are welcomed home. Here’s what to watch this evening.

The Guardian - UK

On my radar: Zadie Smith’s cultural highlights

The writer on Netflix’s brilliant plague tragicomedy, the best British debut novel she’s read in a while, and her deep love of singer Chappell Roan

The Guardian - UK

Antony and Cleopatra review – bilingual BSL staging adds intimacy and clarity

The Egyptian queen’s court communicates in sign language in Blanche McIntyre’s production, giving physical shape and frequently extra depth to the text

The Guardian - UK

Antony & Cleopatra at Shakespeare’s Globe review: this bold sign language adaptation is thrillingly radical

Nadia Nadrajah is imperious as Cleopatra

Evening Standard

Donald Trump is desperate to land a punch on Kamala Harris. But he fails

Trump frantically attempts to find the key to a negative campaign against Harris. But, like the mad King Lear, he spins into agitation and confusion

The Guardian - US

The week in theatre: The Years; Pericles – review

Extraordinary performances from five actors all playing the writer Annie Ernaux add up to a five-star adaptation of her Nobel prize-winning book. And a fairytale take on Pericles

The Guardian - UK

Pericles review – Alfred Enoch rules the stage in a neglected Shakespeare

Tamara Harvey’s first production as the Royal Shakespeare Company’s co-artistic director highlights the play’s sharp political intelligence

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How do you read a poem? Embrace the sound, the strangeness and the ambiguity

A word is dead When it is said, Some say, I say it just Begins to live That day. – Emily Dickinson If someone asked you how you felt and you said you had “a sense sublime of something far more deeply interfused, whose dwelling was the light of setting…

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‘We need to be seen’: Nadia Nadarajah on portraying Shakespeare’s greatest heroines – as a deaf actor

When Nadia Nadarajah takes the stage at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre from tonight as Cleopatra, she will fulfil a longheld dream: to show others how far you can go as ‘a deaf brown woman who uses sign language and doesn’t speak’

The Guardian - UK

The best theatre to stream this month: comedians do Chekhov, Into the Woods and Dear Octopus

Get a taste of Edinburgh fringe, enjoy Shakespearean insights from illustrious actors and sing along with a handful of musicals in our pick of streaming shows

Evening Standard

Sigourney Weaver, Tom Hiddleston and Hayley Atwell to star in stellar new Shakespeare season in the West End

The Jamie Lloyd Company announces thrilling season of Shakespeare at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane with a roster of stars

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‘We went bankrupt and had to set up the explosives ourselves’: Ian McKellen and Richard Loncraine on making Richard III

‘The movie changed my life,’ says McKellen of the 1995 film. ‘If Bryan Singer hadn't seen it, he would never have asked me to be in X-Men’

The Guardian - UK

As You Like It review – the RSC’s garden party is altogether too ordinary

Gender games, rebirth and affection remain in this 80-minute slash of the Shakespeare romcom, which is stylish but short on invention

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Can a poem be adapted into a video game? Here’s what I learned from trying

Video game adaptations of novels and short fiction have long helped bring works of fiction to new audiences. The Witcher, for example, which now spans three games and a Netflix series, began life as a series of fantasy stories by Polish author Andrzej Sapkowski.

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Lincoln called for divided Americans to heed their ‘better angels,’ and politicians have invoked him ever since in crises − but for Abe, it was more than words

Following the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, community leaders, clergy and politicians including President Joe Biden have called on Americans to tone down white-hot political rhetoric. Some have invoked the words of one figure in particular: Abraham Lincoln.

The Guardian - UK

A New York accent in ancient Rome? So what, it’s no less accurate than RP

Denzel Washington has been accused of inauthenticity in Gladiator II. But why is upper-class, southern English considered the norm, asks historian Rebecca Rideal

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Colonials mess with Shakespeare and get a global hit

Making Shakespeare's longest play into a successful opera is no easy feat, but an adaptation by "a bunch of colonials" is premiering at the Sydney Opera House.

The Guardian - UK

Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent by Judi Dench review – a class act

Ripe language and impish humour abound as Barbara Flynn reads the actor’s entertaining recollections of seven decades on stage – and Dench herself recites excerpts from the Bard

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