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Shakespeare First Folio copy estimated to fetch $2.5m in New York auction

Book printed 400 years ago is one of fewer than 20 copies in private hands

The Guardian - UK

Copy of Shakespeare’s First Folio worth up to £2 million to go up for auction

The book, which was printed almost 400 years ago, is one of under 20 left in private hands, according to auction house Sotheby’s.

The Independent UK

Boris the Third: new play tells story of clown who became king

Adam Meggido’s comedy considers the PM’s blustering school performance as Richard III, drawing potent parallels to his current political position

The Guardian - UK

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All the rest were men

A memoir of drinkies with 1960s literary men

Newsroom.co.nz

Meyne Wyatt doesn’t hold back: ‘I was always a bit of a ratbag’

The actor, playwright and painter may be a polymath – but there’s one role he won’t be taking: politics. ‘You have to kiss arse. Yeah, it’s not my bag’

The Guardian - AU

Oscar winner Mark Rylance plays the worst golfer in British Open history in ‘The Phantom of the Open’

At one time, Mark Rylance hadn’t been aware of the real-life story of the worst golfer in the history of the British Open.

The Orange County Register

The big idea: could the greatest works of literature be undiscovered?

Only a fraction of the world’s stories have survived. What might we be missing?

The Guardian - UK

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Henry VIII review – even gold phalluses can’t bring little-seen Shakespeare to life

The sexy makeover with dildos and inflatable testicles doesn’t work and the text additions only highlight the disjointedness

The Guardian - UK

George RR Martin: ‘I don’t understand how people can come to hate so much something that they once loved’

The ‘Game of Thrones’ creator sits down with Kevin E G Perry at the Santa Fe Literary Festival to discuss toxic fans, the enduring influence of Marvel’s Stan Lee, and the new HBO series ‘House of the Dragon’

The Independent UK

Hamlet Within: why are we so obsessed with Shakespeare’s dithering prince?

A provocative new film at Cannes featuring Ian McKellen attempts to de-romanticise the Dane but lags behind what theatre productions have been telling us for decades

The Guardian - UK

Q&A: Baz Luhrmann on his tragic, razzle-dazzle 'Elvis'

Baz Luhrmann was first in Cannes exactly 30 years ago with his debut “Strictly Ballroom,” which he recalls barely making a sound at the festival

The Independent UK

All the world’s a stage at Delhi University

It was the mid-1960s. Kabir Bedi had joined St Stephen’s College as a student of history and became a member of its famed Shakespeare Society. He was soon busy with acting, directing and producing numerous plays — but one particular performance stands out in his memory. “My production of Julius…

The Times of India

Why we should all love wasps

Wasps have always had a bad press. But Professor Seirian Sumner, who has spent her life studying them, argues they are sophisticated, socially complex and essential to the environment

The Guardian - UK

Revenge is sweet: the music, TV and theatre about getting your own back

From Shakespeare’s dithering Dane to Desperate Housewives’ steely-eyed Bree, our critics serve up the coldest revenge dishes

The Guardian - UK

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The Conversation

Hook-ups, pansexuals and holy connection: love in the time of millennials and Generation Z

“That Love is all there is,” wrote Emily Dickinson,

The Guardian - UK

Why do people, like, say, ‘like’ so much?

Saying the word ‘like’ has long been seen as a sign of laziness and stupidity. But its use is actually richly nuanced, goes back to Shakespearean times, and is an indicator of, like, intelligence

The Guardian - UK

Julius Caesar review – the revolution is rerouted in scattered Shakespeare

Shakespeare’s Globe, LondonLess a tense examination of a failing republic, or even of women in power, there is little electricity or danger here

The Guardian - UK

Nothello review – clever and joyful, Shakespeare upended

Desdemona’s twins step forward to speak out against the racist tropes that led to their parents’ tragedy in this inclusive, urgent production

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The Independent UK

Met's new 'Hamlet': To be or not to be true to the text

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead, all right, but not as Shakespeare imagined

Tribune News Service

Ahead of NYC debut, ‘Fat Ham’ – a queer, Black twist on Shakespeare’s ‘Hamlet’ – wins Pulitzer Prize for drama

NEW YORK — Days before James Ijames’ “Fat Ham” makes its off-Broadway debut at the Public Theater, the play is the recipient of the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

Liverpool Echo

The Chase player shut down by Bradley Walsh after cheeky comments

One hopeful contestant was told to stop being a 'wind up'

The Guardian - AU

‘My experience was not #MeToo, it was #HerToo’: Eryn Jean Norvill on her life-changing return to the stage

Three years after being an unwilling protagonist in a media circus, the actor reflects on her career-defining turn in Dorian Gray – and what comes next

WEKU

CNN's Zain Asher is grateful for her mom's tough love — even if it meant no TV

Asher's dad died in a car crash in Nigeria when she was 5. Her grief-stricken mother used strict and innovative methods to raise 4 kids. Asher honors her mom in the memoir Where the Children Take Us.

The Times of India

First memorial of Shakespeare’s twins Hamnet and Judith secured by author Maggie O’Farrell

Author Maggie O’Farrell won the Women's Prize for Fiction in 2020 for her novel 'Hamnet' which is inspired by the lesser-known story of Shakespeare’s son Hamnet, who died at a young age. Few people knew about Hamnet, who died aged 11 in 1596, and his twin sister, Judith, who died…

Evening Standard

Much Ado About Nothing review: A smart, stylish staging

Director Lucy Bailey’s production offers a purely pleasurable evening at the Globe

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