The Latest Breaking News from Shakespeare

Bridgerton star Jonathan Bailey star to play Richard II on London stage

Role will be actor’s most high-profile Shakespeare part to date

The Independent UK · Jun 21, 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

Bridgerton’s Jonathan Bailey to play Richard II on London stage

Nicholas Hytner has shared details of his forthcoming production, which will give the actor his highest profile Shakespeare role to date

The Guardian - UK · Jun 21, 2024

The Merry Wives of Windsor offers strong evidence that Shakespeare was not its author

Letter: Derek Jacobi and Margo Anderson on how local lore and biographical specificity found in the comedy point to the 17th Earl of Oxford, Edward de Vere, as its writer

The Guardian - UK · Jun 13, 2024

The Merry Wives of Windsor review – belting revenge comedy in modern middle England

Blanche McIntyre’s Midas-touched production is set in the present day and finds delirious comedy in its class divisions

The Guardian - UK · Jun 13, 2024

Shakespeare, Beowulf and Chaucer could be back in the NZ English curriculum – should they be?

For the second time in as many years, New Zealand’s secondary school English curriculum will be rewritten, a move which has generated disquiet from teachers and academics alike.

The Conversation · Jun 11, 2024

All American season 6 episode 11 recap: Patience's Miko nightmare is over

All American season 6 episode 11 sees the Miko trial reach a conclusion. Plus, Jordan and Layla make a decision about their wedding. Here's what happened.

WhatToWatch · Jun 11, 2024

‘The war was not going to stop me’: amateur Ukrainian actors stage King Lear in UK

Company performing Shakespeare classic formed of 15 members who moved to small Uzhhorod town during war

The Guardian - UK · Jun 11, 2024

‘We talk about boats … not people’: UK dehumanising refugees, Toby Jones says

Exclusive: Bafta-winner to join actors and young asylum seekers in 24-hour fundraising ‘Shakespeare marathon’

The Guardian - UK · Jun 10, 2024

OPINION - Straight Acting review: It’s an eye-catching claim: was William Shakespeare queer?

This short, snappy work of popular scholarship by Will Tosh, head of research at Shakespeare’s Globe, is a necessary provocation and a highly selective bid to claim our national poet as a queer icon. Fair enough. As Tosh says in his introduction, red-faced heterosexuals have spent centuries explaining away the…

Evening Standard · Jun 7, 2024