A mural to Shakespeare in London. Facundo Arrizabalaga/EPA 20 avril 2023 Shakespeare by numbers: how mathematical breakthroughs influenced the Bard’s plays Madeleine S. Killacky, Bangor University In the late 16th century, new mathematical concepts were transforming perceptions of the world. Shakespeare’s plays helped audiences to process these changes.
Shakespeare’s First Folio was the first published work to include Macbeth. Matt Riches/Unsplash 20 avril 2023 Shakespeare’s First Folio turns 400: what would be lost without the collection? An expert speculates Emma Smith, University of Oxford Without the First Folio, the canon of Shakespeare’s plays would have decisively shifted.
Alexander Nasmyth’s Robert Burns, 1828. Wikimedia 22 septembre 2016 The songs of Robert Burns: how we recreated what they originally sounded like Kirsteen McCue, University of Glasgow After the Scottish bard mixed with Edinburgh high society, he started dabbling with Beethoven.