The Latest Breaking News from Shakespeare

Judi Dench renders Graham Norton Show speechless with ‘spellbinding’ Shakespeare reading

The veteran actor read Shakespeare’s ‘Sonnet 29’ from memory in dramatic fashion

The Independent UK · Oct 29, 2023

What an ass! Ghosts star takes on classic Shakespeare character

The latest production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream features Mathew Baynton in what the actor calls ‘an absolute treat of a role’

The Guardian - UK · Oct 29, 2023

Ted Hughes, 25 years on: Now, more than ever, the poet is the voice for our times

The poet laureate, who died a quarter of a century ago today, believed his Shakespeare fixation was almost fatal; his first wife, Sylvia Plath, was certainly the Titania to his Oberon. With his almost psychic connection to nature and a charisma so powerful that even the Queen was rumoured to…

The Independent UK · Oct 28, 2023

Exhibits and collectors editions mark 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's First Folio

On the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s First Folio, rare originals are being displayed and publishers are offering collectors editions, including one that sells for $1,500

The Independent UK · Oct 23, 2023

The big idea: are our short attention spans really getting shorter?

It feels like we live in an era of constant distraction, but the truth is more complex

The Guardian - UK · Oct 23, 2023

Beatrice and Benedict review – Mid Wales Opera’s staging has style and fizz

Berlioz’s Shakespearean opera is stripped to the bone for four instruments and six singers, but the show is slick and spirited, with sopranos Lorena Paz Nieto and Monica McGhee standouts

The Guardian - UK · Oct 20, 2023

Tracy-Ann Oberman says Merchant of Venice production has increased security measures amid Israel-Gaza conflict

Jewish actor has described recent circumstances as a ‘dystopian nightmare’

The Independent UK · Oct 19, 2023

Kevin Spacey receives standing ovation in first stage appearance since trial

Actor delivered Shakespeare scene during lecture at Oxford theatre in memory of Roger Scruton

The Guardian - UK · Oct 17, 2023

Hamnet star Madeleine Mantock: ‘Theatre is not my comfort zone’

The actor on playing William Shakespeare’s wife, and making her West End debut opposite Jennifer Saunders

Evening Standard · Oct 14, 2023

Venus and Adonis: this 'play within a plague' about Shakespeare is wildly romantic, erotic and colourful

Shakespeare wrote his famous narrative poem Venus and Adonis in a lockdown era when, in 1593, the bubonic plague closed the theatres in London for 18 months.

The Conversation · Oct 12, 2023