Shakespeare’s Conrad is now an ambitious ‘story producer’. With an eye over all the ‘Nothing Island’ action, he seeds rumours that bloom into reality TV gold.
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In the First Folio, 18 of Shakespeare’s plays were published for the first time. With its appeals to patronage and commerce, and praise of his wit, this iconic book preserved the playwright’s genius.
Calls to decolonise curricula overlook the many ways in which Shakespeare’s plays are constantly being reinterpreted and revitalised in performance.
Predictions of the death of romantic comedy have been repeated over time. But it has been with us since before Shakespeare and is still very much alive and in constant transformation.
Originally from Richard III, the phrase was used by a power-hungry autocrat who preferred chaos over peace.
The Sydney Theatre Company’s production is beautiful and affecting – but it presents a Shakespeare we wish we had, rather than the one we do.
Swift, like all writers, draws from her literary forebears to craft new works.
Ghosts aren’t just the domain of fiction or trick-or-treating. Hauntology is a philosophical concept that embraces ghosts.
Shakespeare often portrayed crises of legitimacy and reflected on the politics of his day but the Tories might not fare so well in a modern production.
Behind the recent row over money for a school Shakespeare festival lies the bigger problem of theatre funding in general. Establishing a genuine national theatre could be the solution.
Stephen Frears’ film is adding to the furore surrounding Richard III, England’s most controversial king. New research examines what prompts such ferocious debate.
Going out of your way to get grossed out might seem like a contradiction of human nature. But it serves a strong evolutionary purpose.
For centuries fragments of one of the most important documents about early English theatre have been scattered around the world.
An English professor takes a critical look at why today’s students are assigned the same books that were assigned decades ago – and why American school curricula are so difficult to change.
He is certainly important to English but he isn’t responsible for as much of it as you might think.
Computers can now mimic everything from literary characters to Nirvana songs.
In 26 of his 38 plays, Shakespeare includes a war. Reading them, one is tempted to ask ‘when will we ever learn?’ rather than pronounce, ‘lest we forget’.
Hamlet, the tormented prince of Denmark, embodies our own struggles: between reason and violence, courage and inaction. He is a modern character in an endlessly quotable play.
It may have had something to do with protecting female purity. No official statute clearly required men to do all the acting back then.
After two years of COVID-delay, Bell Shakespeare’s Hamlet reflects both personal and global tragedies.
Principales colaboradores
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Lecturer in English, Australian National University
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Professor of Drama and Theatre Studies, Royal Holloway University of London
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Professor of English, University of Newcastle
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Leverhulme Early Career Reseach Fellow, University of Warwick
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Research assistant, Empire, Migration and Belonging, University of Oxford
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Associate professor, University of the Witwatersrand
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Emeritus Professor of Shakespeare Studies, University of Birmingham
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Professor of Creative Arts, Griffith University
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Associate Professor of Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama, The University of Melbourne
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Honorary Associate in Creative Writing, The Open University
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Tomlinson Professor of Shakespeare Studies, McGill University
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Winthrop Professor of English, The University of Western Australia
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Lecturer in English and Writing, University of Sydney
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Honorary Research Associate, Evolutionary Studies Institute, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of Shakespeare Studies, University of Oxford
