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Patrick Stewart says during year-long Macbeth run he would ‘go straight home and drink alcohol until he passed out’

Actor confesses he had ‘difficult patches’ when he was playing Shakespeare’s Scottish general

The Independent UK

Barbara Gaines exiting Chicago Shakespeare Theater post

“My mission over these many years has been to fill the world with the humanity of Shakespeare — a writer who understands the immediacy of being human,” Gaines said.

Chicago Sun-Times

The King William’s College quiz 2021 – the answers

Just after Christmas, we published the Isle of Man school’s 117th fiendish general knowledge paper. Did you dare to try it? Here are the answers

The Guardian - UK

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Conor McGregor told his latest boast is "some f****** Shakespeare s***"

Former two-weight champion McGregor said that he has the best ground and pound in the UFC and Sean O'Malley has since reacted to the bold claim

Daily Mirror

Dennis Lee obituary

Other lives: Proud Yorkshireman and constant reader on engineering, fly fishing and Shakespeare

The Guardian - UK

Kit Harington on Henry V and life after Jon Snow: ‘We need to start dealing with male anger’

As the Game of Thrones star swaps furs for modern dress to play Shakespeare’s monarch, he reflects on what the play tells us about masculinity, and how it addresses the issues that drove his struggle with addiction

The Guardian - UK

From The Merchant of Venice to Romeo and Juliet, how do we make Shakespeare less terrible in the 21st century?

Is it time to put The Merchant of Venice to bed? A new production at Shakespeare’s Globe is attempting to re-frame it instead

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Shakespeare show coming to garden theatre with picnics and prosecco

The theatre event takes place this summer

Liverpool Echo

As You Like It review – Northern Broadsides stage a dreamy quest

Laurie Sansom’s languid production of Shakespeare’s pastoral comedy is all about appearances

The Guardian - UK

Royal Shakespeare Company partners with TikTok to inspire new audiences

The theatre company has announced its plans for the year ahead, including the collaboration and three new Shakespearean productions.

The Independent UK

From ambushes to cakes and ale, Shakespeare always has the last word

The Bard understood folly and intrigue. With Boris Johnson comparing himself to Othello, he’s also the best way for us to read the present

The Guardian - UK

The get-Carrie campaign forgets that it’s Boris Johnson who’s in charge

Whenever I’m forced to watch Shakespeare I’ll always root for the woman no matter how loathsome she’s supposed to be. Lord help me, but I love an untamed shrew. So though I know this opinion to be wrong, I’m glad Carrie Johnson survived the week. It seems the Prime Minister…

Evening Standard

‘Shakespearean’ Donald Trump to be subject of play in blank verse

The 47th by Mike Bartlett stars Bertie Carvel as the ex-president making attempt to regain the White House

The Guardian - UK

RSC recruits amateurs from six regions as Shakespeare’s ‘people of England’

Theatre company’s outreach scheme casts newbies and hidden young talent for spring production of Henry VI Part 2

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Macbeth movies have been foul and fair – Joel Coen’s is a stunner

The Tragedy of Macbeth follows in the footsteps of Orson Welles’s bold 1948 film, which showed how imagination can turn Shakespeare’s text into more than just a costume epic

The Independent UK

Royal Shakespeare Company director criticises ‘disgraceful’ racist backlash to Black cast

RSC artistic director Erica Whyman said she was ‘saddened but not surprised’ by the comments received from a ‘minority’ of people

Tribune News Service

Movie review: 'Redeeming Love' doesn’t yield cinematic riches

D.J. Caruso’s historical drama/romance/morality play “Redeeming Love” opens with the Shakespeare quote “all that glitters is not gold,” and a pair of hands thrusting a pan into a river, searching for treasure. It sets the time and place in Gold Rush-era California, in the town of Pair-a-Dice circa 1850, but…

The Conversation

Decolonising Shakespeare: setting Othello in Ghana and Pericles in Glasgow

Over the last few years, the issue of decolonising the curriculum has become a growing concern for UK universities. This means recognising the legacy of western colonialism and rethinking the way we teach and research.

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Youth theatre group’s Juliet & Romeo gives Shakespeare back his slang

Mark Rylance says Intermission’s radical revamp of Romeo and Juliet will ‘change the face of classical theatre’

Los Angeles Times

What makes Joel Coen's Shakespeare unique: His 'Macbeth' is haunted by other movies

The focus of Joel Coen's "The Tragedy of Macbeth," now streaming on Apple TV+, naturally falls on Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand, who star as an older-than-usual Macbeth and Lady Macbeth.

Newslaundry

The Bard of Bollywood

A young boy from Meerut had a dream of becoming a famous cricketer. Unfortunately, (or maybe fortunately), when studying at Delhi University, his thumb broke just a day before an inter-university tournament. Soon after, he lost his father. These two developments made him give up his dream of playing cricket…

Irish Mirror

Ten things you’ll only know if you sat the Junior Cert exams in Ireland

Oh the Junior Cert days; when the sun was splitting the stones and you were cramped up in your bedroom studying

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