Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles. One news app.

The Latest Breaking News from William Shakespeare

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

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

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?

The Independent UK

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

Evening Standard

Debunking 5 myths about Shakespeare

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

Salon

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 Conversation

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Charles’s Shakespearean tribute to the Queen

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

The Independent UK

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…

Evening Standard

What will era of King Charles III be known as?

Prime minister Liz Truss has referred to ‘Carolean age’

The Independent UK

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

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

Manchester Evening News

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

Daily Mirror

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 National (Scotland)

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

The Guardian - UK

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

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.

The Guardian - UK

Rare original copy of Shakespeare’s First Folio sells for £2m

400-year-old edition of playwright’s first collected book of plays including Macbeth and Twelfth Night auctioned at Sotheby’s

The Independent UK

Rare copy of Shakespeare’s first folio from 1623 sells for £2m

Book containing 36 of the bard’s plays was compiled seven years after his death.

Reason

Read the Real Romeo and Juliet, Not the Kid-Friendly Version

Though book banners may try to convince otherwise, students don't need protection from the passion portrayed in Shakespeare's classic.

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

The Guardian - UK

Shakespeare North Playhouse review – a wooden O for the north

Against all the odds, and with backers including Judi Dench and Kim Cattrall, this 470-seat modern twist on a Shakespearean theatre is poised for action, from Bottom to Johnny Vegas

Liverpool Echo

Spectacular weekend of events planned to mark launch of £38m Shakespeare theatre

The new playhouse opens its doors to the public today

Liverpool Echo

Shakespeare links to Merseyside town even people who live there might not know

A new Shakespeare theatre is set to open

Liverpool Echo

Building Merseyside’s theatre of dreams in the big Tesco ‘ghost town’

The £38m Shakespeare North playhouse is set to put Prescot ‘on the map’ and shift the region’s cultural focus to Knowsley - but some residents question if everyone can come along for the ride

The Guardian - UK

Boris Johnson has vandalised the political architecture of Britain, Ireland and Europe

His political career has consisted of chucking rocks over the walls of the neighbours. The damage will last for years, says Irish Times columnist Fintan O’Toole

The National (Scotland)

Nicole Cooper's Medea eloquently speaks language of vengeance

EURIPIDES – author of the great play Medea – is a foundational figure in European tragic theatre. Without him, and fellow Ancient Greek…

Liverpool Echo

Shakespeare North £38m playhouse prepares to open

Project leaders say there's something for everyone at the new theatre in Prescot

1 … 6 7 8 9

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Royal Shakespeare Company

41 stories

Lancaster University

39 stories

Liverpool City Region Combined Authority

35 stories

Creative New Zealand

15 stories

Shakespeare North Playhouse

12 stories

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.