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Shakespeare: Only portrait created during playwright’s lifetime on sale for £10m

The image was reportedly made by Robert Peake, court painter to King James I, and is signed and dated 1608

The Independent UK

I can forgive The Crown for jazzing up the facts – but not for being so horribly clunky

When covering the royals, we often talk about the family ‘soap opera’. The conversations here are straight out of a poor one, says Stephen Bates, the Guardian’s former royal correspondent

The Guardian - UK

RSC to stage play about plague death of William Shakespeare’s son Hamnet

Adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s novel will premiere at Swan theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon in April

The Guardian - UK

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'The Crown’ returns to blur the line between royals, fiction

“The Crown” returns Wednesday after a two-year absence from Netflix

The Independent UK

17 best HBO Max movies in May 2025

The best movies on Max to watch right now range from amazing biopics to touching dramas and mind-boggling animated features.

Tom’s Guide

Commentary: New Zealand’s sad, silly rejection of Shakespeare

“Thou art the cap of all the fools alive.” So says Apemantus to the title character in the William Shakespeare play “Timon of Athens.” He might also direct his insult at New Zealand’s arts council. After 30 years, it has chosen to end government funding for Shakespeare in Schools, a…

Chicago Tribune

Commentary: Clinging to old classics can go hand in hand with banning books

Too often, we forget that fights about what we shouldn’t read are also battles over what we should read. And that every time someone attempts to ban Toni Morrison or Ta-Nehisi Coates, they’re also trying to corral our kids back to Hawthorne and Hemingway, Dante and Dickens.

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'Absolute farce': UK gripped by latest Boris Johnson plot twist

LONDON: British former prime minister Boris Johnson's prospective return to Downing Street reads like a Shakespearean arc of redemption after a fall -- but critics see elements of farce.

The Times of India

The Mix: Cool things to do in Chicago Oct. 20-26

“Measure for Measure,” an Upside Down Halloween Parade, and a tribute to blues legends are among the highlights in the week ahead.

Chicago Sun-Times

Jacinda Ardern backs school Shakespeare scheme dubbed ‘imperialist’ by New Zealand funding body

Prime minister says she took part in three decade-old programme said to involve more than half of country’s schools

The Independent UK

New Zealand Arts Funder Rejects Shakespeare as ‘Imperialism’

Is Shakespeare still relevant to today's students? New Zealand's arts council appears to have its doubts after ending funding for a popular school Shakespeare program, arguing it relied too heavily on busy schools, failed to show relevance to “the contemporary art context” and relied on a genre “located within a…

Asharq Al-Awsat

New Zealand arts funder rejects Shakespeare as 'imperialism'

Is Shakespeare still relevant to today’s students

The Independent UK

Review: ‘Rosaline’ is ‘Romeo and Juliet’ from another teenager’s point of view — the jilted cousin

There’s a subgenre of teen rom-coms that modernize everything from William Shakespeare to Jane Austen. On Hulu, the movie “Rosaline” flips that idea back around, giving modern rom-com tropes and dialogue to the original 16th-century setting of Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet.” I mean, why not?

Chicago Tribune

The Lost King review: Discovery of Richard III’s skeleton is farcically replayed in Frears and Coogan’s drama

Why does the comedy drama think it can undo one form of malevolent villainisation by creating enemies of its own?

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Evening Standard

Upstart Crow at the Apollo Theatre review: David Mitchell is the draw in this hectic sitcom spin-off

A vehicle for panto acting and a machine-gun barrage of gags

Salon

Debunking 5 myths about Shakespeare

Things that you probably thought you knew about Shakespeare but are actually untrue

The Conversation

Westminster Abbey has witnessed nearly a millennium of British history – but many rituals, like those at royal funerals, aren’t so old

The royal funeral for Queen Elizabeth II at Westminster Abbey on Sept. 19, 2022, was a public ceremony on a truly global scale. In the days before, long snaking queues of mourners waited to file past her coffin as it lay in state in Westminster Hall. Hundreds of the world’s…

The Independent UK

Charles’s Shakespearean tribute to the Queen

The King said his mother had been ‘a pattern to all princes living’.

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Watch: King Charles addresses both Houses of Parliament before departing for Edinburgh

King Charles will lead a poignant procession behind the coffin of his mother in Edinburgh on Monday afternoon after he spoke of the “weight of history” as he addressed Westminster Hall in his first visit to Parliament as sovereign. The King said: “As I stand before you today, I cannot…

The Independent UK

What will era of King Charles III be known as?

Prime minister Liz Truss has referred to ‘Carolean age’

Manchester Evening News

The meaning behind King Charles' 'flights of angels' line from first public address

"May 'flights of Angels sing thee to thy rest'."

Daily Mirror

Soul-stirring meaning behind King Charles' 'flights of angels' line for Queen in speech

King Charles III made a historic televised address to the nation tonight - giving new roles to Prince William and Kate Middleton - but the final line of his speech was particularly poignant

The National (Scotland)

New exhibition to share Scotland's untold Black history

A NEW exhibition is to pay homage to Scotland’s untold Black history and a forgotten connection to William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s…

The Guardian - UK

Shakespeare inspired to write Othello after being booed off stage

The bard learned from his humiliating experiences as an actor at the Globe to hone his playwright skills, academic says

Edinburgh Live

The big name acts coming to Edinburgh Fringe this year

Ian McKellen, Josie Long, and Nish Kumar are just a few of the famous faces performing this year.

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