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Who is better, Dickens or Shakespeare? We asked nine prominent writers

Elif Shafak, Sarah Perry, Jeffrey Boakye and others tell us which of the two totemic literary figures they favour

The Guardian - UK

Romeo and Juliet review – rap tragedy asks the audience who to blame

There are ideas aplenty in this high-concept musical retelling of Shakespeare, but it gets off to a bumpy start

The Guardian - UK

The play that changed my life: Sing Sing’s Clarence Maclin on lessons from Sophocles in prison

Staging Shakespeare and Twelve Angry Men with fellow prisoners was a revelation but Oedipus Rex proved particularly poignant

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Radiohead take on Shakespeare with Hamlet Hail To The Thief

A new live experience fusing theatre, music and movement is coming this spring, in which a new version of Hamlet will be set to Thom Yorke’s reworking of Radiohead’s famous album

Evening Standard

The week in theatre: Hamlet; Much Ado About Nothing; Richard II – review

Luke Thallon is a compelling, all-at-sea Hamlet, Hayley Atwell and Tom Hiddleston sizzle as Beatrice and Benedick, while Bridgerton’s Jonathan Bailey is a bit too much the overreaching king

The Guardian - UK

Much Ado About Ken: Barbie style star is still making menswear shimmer

Almost two years on from film’s debut, Ryan Gosling character’s himbo look has reached the West End in London

The Guardian - UK

Tom Hiddleston is on winning bum-wiggling form in Much Ado About Nothing

4/5 Hiddleston and Marvel co-star Hayley Atwell quip their way through this calculatedly naff Shakespeare revamp featuring Noughties pop ballads

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Tom Hiddleston and Hayley Atwell have potent chemistry in this rave-tastic Shakespeare production

5/5 Jamie Lloyd’s Much Ado About Nothing proves stunt casting works when the stars have this much rizz

Evening Standard

Much Ado About Nothing review – Tom Hiddleston and Hayley Atwell crackle in a party of pink

With a chemistry that is as bright as the modern-day costumes in this weird and wonderful show, the actors turn Shakespeare into a giddy house party cum modern romcom

The Guardian - UK

Hamlet review – RSC’s bold seaborne concept really pushes the boat out

The court of Elsinore becomes a ship of state – or a ship of fools – in Rupert Goold’s production

The Guardian - UK

‘The snake fell out of my wig’: why Judi Dench lost her voice when playing Cleopatra

The actor recalls a terrifying moment when playing the doomed Egyptian queen during a 1987 production of the Shakespeare classic

The Guardian - UK

‘I’m an actor, not a mouthpiece’: Bridgerton’s Jonathan Bailey on fame and the pressure to speak out

Bridgerton, then Wicked, gave Jonathan Bailey a huge fanbase, but the responsibility on the actor to use his platform is intense

The Guardian - UK

NYT Connections today hints and answers — Thursday, February 13 (#613)

Get today's NYT Connections clues and answers for today's puzzle #613 on February 13.

Tom’s Guide

How the pollution of today will become the ‘technofossils’ of the far future

How might you make your mark on the world forever? Write a play more timeless than Shakespeare, or compose music to out-do Mozart, or score the winning goal in the next World Cup final, perhaps?

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Do goblin dice math, slap your D&D players with severed troll limbs, and take revenge on Shakespeare in this year's wonderfully weird ZineQuest RPG kickstarters

Small projects, big ideas.

The National (Scotland)

Scottish museum marks first year with exhibition on origins of Macbeth

One year after opening, Perth Museum is to host an exhibition exploring the origins, myths and legacy of Shakespeare’s King Macbeth.

The Guardian - UK

ChatGPT, can you write my new novel for me? Och aye, ye preenin’ Sassenach

Let’s see if AI can take the faff – the actual writing bit – out of penning a Shakespearean thriller with a Scottish villain

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“Never Spoke That Word Again”: 58 Parents Who Really Went Out Of The Box With Their Punishments

Someone asked “What is the strangest punishment your parents ever gave you?” and now-adults shared their best examples. The post “Never Spoke That Word Again”: 58 Parents Who Really Went Out Of The Box With Their Punishments first appeared on Bored Panda.

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The Independent UK

Groundbreaking exhibition blends Shakespeare and AI in ‘collaboration between the living and dead’

The innovative installation promises to be a ‘collaboration between creative entities: living, dead, organic and computational’

Evening Standard

Toxic male Trojans? Troilus and Cressida leads Shakespeare's Globe summer season

Director Owen Horsley talks to us about his production of Troilus and Cressida as the Globe unveils its summer line-up

The Conversation

Why Trump’s rage defies historical and literary comparisons, according to a classics expert

The Greek divinity Nemesis, rarely depicted in art, has no place in the Olympian pantheon of a dozen gods and goddesses. But she’s an omnipresent force of retribution, an implacable force of punishment that arrives, if not sooner, then later.

The Guardian - UK

This ain’t America’s trash, it’s Shakespeare’s

Letters: Mark Lewinski-Grende and Austen Lynch on the American English that started off over here, not over there

The Guardian - UK

The week in theatre: Inside No 9: Stage/Fright; Cymbeline – review

Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith turn into their own live tribute act; plus, a bold attempt to make sense of Shakespeare’s wayward late tragicomedy

Evening Standard

Play On! at the Lyric Hammersmith review: Twelfth Night relocated to Harlem's Cotton Club

4/5 This sassy musical sets Shakespeare to the music of Duke Ellington

The Guardian - UK

Hayley Atwell on theatre, Tom Cruise and the tabloids: ‘I’ve reached the point where I’m OK if I’m not liked’

From shooting guns in Mission: Impossible films to appearing in a new West End production of Shakespeare, the actor has proved there’s nothing she can’t do. But, she says, there are now a few things she won’t

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