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Thespians of old playing the Globe Theatre would have walked past the Bankside bear-baiting ring on their way in.
Margaret of Anjou can still speak to modern women in power today.
A copy of Shakespeare’s First Folio of plays has been found in Scotland. While this is good news, a staggering 744 plays from Shakespearian London - at least two of them written by the Bard - remain lost.
Shakespeare’s use of dialect is a key argument used by those who stand by the traditional author. But these so-called “Warwickshire dialect” words are nothing of the sort.
Robots can explore where humans fear to tread.
Stratford-upon-Avon is beginning to resemble Disneyland.
While London and Stratford-upon-Avon go into meltdown over the upcoming anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, a new production – shown recently in Western Australia – is worth looking at closely.
A 400-year-old poem offers yet more evidence to suggest that William Shakespeare may have found at least some of his inspiration in cannabis.
Lear’s mordant images and sonorous cadences throb with dire warning and a sense of imminent catastrophe. So what’s the play’s key message, for current times, with Geoffrey Rush in the title role?
Hamlet is a play that haunts itself. Its saturation into cultural consciousness means that watching a performance is inevitably a process of past ghosts and past echoes framing the current performance.
For whatever reason, objections don’t seem to crop up when directors tinker with the setting, costumes and conceptualizations of Shakespeare’s plays.
Is there value in reviving Western classics in post-colonial (South) Africa? Is this not perpetuating Western cultural imperialism?
Shakespeare’s plays have kept “this glorious and well-foughten field” alive, championing its power as a myth of national unity and heroism.
The Melbourne Festival production of Desdemona, written by Toni Morrison and with music by Malian songstress Rokia Traore, puts the women of Shakespeare’s Othello centre stage.
Shakespeare cast the Scottish king as the ultimate villain, but you shouldn’t believe everything you see on stage or screen
The latest version of Macbeth is stunningly cinematic and vehemently Scottish.
The latest filmmaker to try his hand at Macbeth, Justin Kurzel has delivered a cinematic masterpiece, but shies away from the wicked depths of his villains.
Brett Bailey’s Macbeth at Brisbane Festival is a powerful production that relocates Verdi’s opera (based on Shakespeare’s play) to the ongoing conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
They’re rude, crude and uncouth. So what makes farts so funny?
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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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Associate professor, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama, The University of Melbourne
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Research assistant, Empire, Migration and Belonging, University of Oxford
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Professor of Creative Arts, Griffith University
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Honorary Associate in Creative Writing, The Open University
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Emeritus Professor of Shakespeare Studies, University of Birmingham
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Tomlinson Professor of Shakespeare Studies, McGill University
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Lecturer in English and Writing, University of Sydney
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Winthrop Professor of English, The University of Western Australia
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Professor of Shakespeare Studies, University of Oxford
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Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Brunel University London
