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John Adams sets Shakespeare's play about love and politics

When composer John Adams decided to base his new work on Shakespeare’s “Antony and Cleopatra,” he was aware that the project might evoke an unhappy chapter in opera history

The Independent UK · Sep 6, 2022

Four castles and a cathedral named the top historic Welsh attractions by Which?

The Welsh sites beat other iconic locations like Westminster Abbey, Stonehenge and Shakespeare's birthplace

Wales Online · Sep 6, 2022

What Boris Johnson could do next - £115k allowance, Shakespeare book and memoir

Boris Johnson won't slip away quietly as the first real celebrity politician, says one British politics specialist

Daily Mirror · Sep 6, 2022

Five myths about Shakespeare's contribution to the English language

Shakespeare’s language is widely considered to represent the pinnacle of English. But that status is underpinned by multiple myths – ideas about language that have departed from reality (or what is even plausible). Those myths send us down rabbit holes and make us lose sight of what is truly impressive…

The Conversation · Aug 31, 2022

The Comedy of Errors review – fun and funny but a touch too manic

Director Dominic Hill brings exuberance to Shakespeare’s tale of two sets of identical twins unknowingly at large in the same city

The Guardian - UK · Aug 28, 2022

All’s Well That Ends Well review – an uneven take on Shakespeare’s most puzzling play

Jamie Wilkes’s Parolles steals the show in Blanche McIntyre’s unromantic, social media-inflected production

The Guardian - UK · Aug 28, 2022

All's Well That Ends Well: Shakespeare for the Instagram generation

The Bard's dark 'problem play' is turbo-charged in a thrilling new production that takes it hurtling into the 21st century to give it new relevance

Daily Mirror · Aug 26, 2022

Nicholas Goldberg: Shakespeare, mathematics and the monkey who called 911

Have you heard about the monkey who called 911?

Los Angeles Times · Aug 26, 2022

‘I had goosebumps!’ – the finder of Richard III’s remains in a car park is celebrated in a Steve Coogan film

As the astonishing story of the king’s bones being discovered in Leicester hits the screen, we meet the sleuth whose extraordinary tenacity – despite chronic illness – located the monarch

The Guardian - UK · Aug 24, 2022

Bears CB Jaylon Johnson has embraced H.I.T.S. principle

Bears CB Jaylon Johnson believes in H.I.T.S. principle. "Thou who runneth to the ball, good things shall happen." - Shakespeare, probably

USA Today Sports Media Group · Aug 24, 2022