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From the Miller’s Tale to King Lear’s roaring sea, a history of flooding in literature

Geoffrey Chaucer’s Miller’s Tale is renowned for its salacious storyline of sexual misadventure. Set in 14th-century Oxford, it tells the tale of John the Carpenter, a husband so terrified that another “Noah’s flood” is coming to drown the world that he sleeps in a basket in the attic – freeing…

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“Are You A Master Of Ridiculous Knowledge?”: Try Scoring 30/30 In This Useless Facts Test

Lately, life feels a bit too serious, doesn’t it?Bills, work, deadlines, errands, decisions - it all piles up faster than we’d like. So here’s a little break from all that: a quiz made entirely of strange, useless, and wonderfully pointless facts. From Shakespeare’s dad’s odd job to the speed of…

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This 30-Question Useless Facts Challenge Will Reveal How Weirdly Smart You Really Are

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Get your skates on: 10 of the best pop-up ice rinks in the UK

From city rooftops to seafront winter wonderlands, these are some of the best places to slide into Christmas

The Guardian - UK

10 Times Lending Money to a Friend Turns Into a Regret Story

Shakespeare said, “Neither a borrower nor a lender be.” He was right. Lending money to a friend is a noble gesture that often ends in disaster. You want to help, but money changes dynamics.

Budget and the Bees

A Midsummer Night's Dream at Shakespeare's Globe: 'Like a sexed-up Narnia'

4/5 This winter-set spin on the play brings a fairy tale dark edge to proceedings with unnerving effect

Evening Standard

The Surprising References I Never Knew Tom Hiddleston 'Borrowed' For Loki

Oh, I get it now!

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Petty Men review – understudies plot their own version of Julius Caesar

Hanging around backstage while their chances to play Brutus and Cassius fade, two unnamed actors start to act out their own drama

The Guardian - UK

‘The world is such a nice thing!’: Matt Maltese, the songwriter for pop’s A-list … and Shakespeare

After getting dropped by a major label, the Leonard Cohen-influenced south Londoner kept going, and has now won fans in Rosalía, Sabrina Carpenter and more. But writing for the Bard is best of all, he says

The Guardian - UK

Brendan Fraser describes the shelved Superman film he came close to starring in as "Shakespeare in space"

"I did wear the big guy's suit.”

Total Film

Nothing much comes of nothing in Belvoir’s new version of King Lear

Since its first performance in 1606, King Lear has earned its place as Shakespeare’s largest and most revered powerhouse tragedy.

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Helen Mirren and Ian Mckellen celebrate launch of RSC Shakespeare curriculum app

The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) unveiled its new digital learning app on Wednesday, 12 November, at Middle Temple, the historic site of the first Twelfth Night performance in 1604.

The Independent UK

Helen Mirren: ‘I used to think Shakespeare should be banned’

Dame Helen Mirren has jokingly suggested that Shakespeare’s plays should be banned for teenagers, in order to make young people more eager to read them.

The Independent UK

Ian McKellen admits he struggles to perform Shakespeare roles

Speaking at the launch of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s new digital learning app on Wednesday (12 November), Sir Ian McKellen confessed that he still grapples with the complexities of Shakespeare’s language, even after more than 60 years on stage.

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Oscar winner expresses profound excitement for new school curriculum

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Helen Mirren and Ian McKellen launch new Shakespeare curriculum

Dame Helen Mirren has expressed her profound excitement over a new Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) curriculum, designed to revolutionise the teaching of Shakespeare in UK secondary schools.

Evening Standard

Helen Mirren ‘unbelievably excited’ to help launch RSC’s Shakespeare curriculum

The curriculum is a teaching and learning platform that is free for all state and Send schools.

The Guardian - UK

‘I really enjoyed it’: new RSC curriculum brings Shakespeare’s works to life in UK classrooms

Starting with Macbeth, online platform using rehearsal-based teaching methods aims to transform study of the Bard

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The Guardian - UK

Does Britain value culture any more? Ask the striking workers at the British Library

The dispute over pay at this great national institution gets to the heart of our misplaced priorities, says novelist Zadie Smith

The Guardian - UK

‘That was better than my wedding day!’ The 20 greatest moments from The Celebrity Traitors

Alan the assassin, Clare as Boris Johnson and of course, Celia’s fart … the dynamite scenes have come thick and fast in the inaugural series. Here are the very best bits

Evening Standard

Othello at Theatre Royal Haymarket: 'Why does this star vehicle feel so humdrum?'

3/5 David Harewood, Toby Jones and Caitlin FitzGerald are an accomplished team but this West End Shakespeare is oddly flat

The Independent UK

Othello, Theatre Royal Haymarket review – Toby Jones plays Shakespeare’s most notorious villain like a peevish middle manager

3/5 David Harewood reprises the titular role in a starry production that grants more power to the play’s women, but ultimately dulls its edge

Cinemablend

James McAvoy Recalls The Moment He Had With Patrick Stewart And Ian McKellen On X-Men: Days Of Future Past That Showed Him They’re ‘A Different Kind Of Actor’

I'd have been impressed too.

The Guardian - UK

Yvonne Brewster obituary

Theatre director and founder of Talawa, the company that champions writers and actors of African and Caribbean heritage

The Independent UK

From The Housemaid to Hamnet, these are the book to screen adaptations I’m genuinely excited for

From Maggie O’Farrell’s Hamnet to Frieda McFadden’s The Housemaid, don’t miss these movies at the cinema

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