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From Salt-N-Pepa to Romeo and Juliet: how rap sparked Sam White’s passion for Shakespeare

The US director draws upon a fight at her Detroit school, her love of opera and hiphop, and her time as a standup to deliver a fleet-footed version of the star-crossed lovers’ tragedy

The Guardian - UK

Archway Linked To Shakespeare Discovered In UK's Oldest Theater

Exciting discovery of a possible Shakespearean doorway at St. George's Guildhall in King's Lynn, Norfolk, unveils historical connections to the renowned pl...

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Archaeologists uncover ‘Shakespeare’ doorway in Norfolk theatre

Archway in St George’s Guildhall probably led to dressing room used by Bard and visiting players when in King’s Lynn

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Boris Johnson yet to appear on GB News 10 months after being signed up as a presenter

The former PM, working on his memoirs, has still not hosted a programme for the right-leaning channel – and his publisher awaits book slated for a 2016 release

The Guardian - UK

Something Rotten! is a riotous Shakespeare musical ripe for the West End

With catchy tunes and endless zingers, this hit comedy is finally on a London stage but only for two nights. When will it get a full run? That is the question …

The Guardian - UK

Macbeth (An Undoing): a new take that aims to reimagine Lady Macbeth’s path – but ultimately leaves you guessing

What if significant portions of William Shakespeare’s text for Macbeth had been lost, leading to a narrative in which Lady Macbeth charts a different path, free from madness?

The Conversation

‘We’re going to find the next Shakespeare’: inside DC’s $80m library renovation

The reopened Folger Shakespeare Library aims to bring a wider audience to the world’s biggest collection of the Bard’s printed works

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General Election 2024 London seats: Who is my MP in… Bermondsey and Old Southwark?

Evening Standard analysis of all the key seats in London for the July 4 General Election

Evening Standard

Disputes about Shakespeare’s authorship are much ado about nothing

Letters: Oliver Kamm, Adrian Blamires and Rik Edwards respond to Derek Jacobi and Margo Anderson’s argument that The Merry Wives of Windsor was really penned by Edward de Vere. And Peter Nockolds suggests another Shakespeare theory

The Guardian - UK

Ian McKellen shares health update after falling off stage and being taken to hospital

Sir Ian is currently playing John Falstaff in ‘Player Kings’ – a production of William Shakespeare’s ‘Henry IV’ parts one and two

The Independent UK

Ian Mckellen Expected To Fully Recover After Stage Fall

Renowned actor Ian McKellen, 85, falls off stage during performance but expected to fully recover and resume role in Shakespearean play.

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King Charles III's Old School Goes On Charm Offensive

Facilities at Gordonstoun School in northeast Scotland include a climbing wall, rifle range and a five-hole golf course, while pupils can even avail themselves of bagpipe lessons.

International Business Times

Staying in town for the long weekend? Here's a few things to do

From the Brumbies' quarter final to theatre shows and plenty of cheese.

The Canberra Times

Could The Beatles become famous today?

"The number of amazing people who could be spectacularly successful, is really, really high," Sunstein says

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32 of the most heart-warming royal childhood photos, from happy siblings to the young Princess who would be Queen

They might grow up on the world stage, but these photos prove plenty of royals have relatable, sweet childhood memories

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Much Ado About Nothing review – frothy fun to please the purists

There’s no whiff of stuffiness in a Sean Holmes production characterised by warm summer euphoria, Elizabethan-era magic and entrancing music

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Shakespeare’s Sisters by Ramie Targoff review – four women who wrote the Renaissance

This lively, accessible insight into four female writers in Elizabethan and Jacobean England explores the complex political, patriarchal and religious backdrop to their lives

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Shakespeare played jealous husband in 1598 Ben Jonson drama, scholar’s analysis finds

Exclusive: lecturer finds ‘striking similarities’ between lines in Jonson’s Every Man in His Humour and later Shakespeare works

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Dolly covers, Scottish kings and a chocolate surplus – take the Thursday quiz

Fifteen questions on general knowledge and topical trivia, plus a few jokes, every Thursday. How will you fare?

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A new Kobe Bryant statue has multiple errors. It's not the first memorial with typos

Officials say they will correct the misspellings on a recent 19-foot bronze statue of the late Kobe Bryant at Crypto.com Arena. Several other prominent monuments have had similar issues.

Evening Standard

Our guide to the best Shakespeare film adaptations of all time, from Hamlet to Macbeth

More than four centuries later and we still can’t get enough of Shakespeare’s thrilling, tortuous plots

The Guardian - UK

Unlucky in love: statue of Shakespeare’s Juliet in Verona damaged by tourists

Visitors joining in tradition of touching breast of artwork to bring them fortune in relationships have worn hole in it

The Guardian - UK

Shakespeare’s father’s fine made a mountain out of a muckhill

Letters: Nic Madge on manorial courts of the past and their propensity for issuing fines; plus June Perry on the respectable ‘dungheaps’ left by gentlemen

The Hindu

UoH former English professor S. Viswanathan passes away

Former UoH professor Subrahmanyam Viswanathan, known for his scholarship on Shakespeare, passed away at 91 in Chennai.

The Guardian - UK

Shakespeare expert overturns fly-tipper myth about playwright’s father

Exclusive: John Shakespeare’s muckhill fine in 1552 was a waste disposal toll rather than a punishment, researcher says

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