This year, the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death has been marked by a flood of events around the world. But why did his exit cause so little public grief at the time, in and beyond the country of his birth?
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Attributing a Shakespeare work to another writer attracts plenty of critics. But an attribution specialist says his team’s decision to name Christopher Marlowe as a co-author is based on state of the art research.
For many, it is Rice’s advocacy of gender equality and diversity that define her short tenure at the Globe. So what happens next?
There is more than one hand at play behind some of Shakespeare’s work, but it’s not necessarily Marlowe’s.
To achieve independence, history says you should play a long game.
Othello is one of Shakespeare’s most famous tragedies. But in the light of 21st-century understandings of abuse, the play is recast as a textbook case of domestic terrorism.
The film’s exchange of Titty for Tatty is very much in line with Victorian censorship of profanities for children.
A new production of Edward II by the ‘bad boy of Elizabethan drama’ breathes fresh life into the play, accentuating the story’s political and psychological dimensions.
Belvoir St Theatre’s production of Twelfth Night features veteran actor Keith Robinson, who returns to the stage after recovering from Guillain-Barre Syndrome. There’s radical potential in cross-mobility casting – but Belvoir doesn’t quite get there.
Shakespeare was not the only famous dramatist to die in 1616. On the other side of the world, in China, another theatrical legend was laid to rest.
The Greer archives brim with notebooks and papers from her time as a student of the traditional humanities. And reading The Female Eunuch for evidence of the Bard reveals a new kind of book, one that is deeply informed by this scholarship.
In an attempt to speed up the planning process, the government has introduced a new law which could put Britain’s heritage at risk.
How one man’s death has somehow overshadowed the lives of many other crucial thinkers and writers of Shakespeare’s day.
At the 400th anniversary of his death, Shakespeare’s still full of surprises.
The psychological complexity of Shakespeare’s characters has rendered them timeless. Today, we see The Bard’s influence in shows like ‘Breaking Bad’ and ‘True Detective.’
Many must wish that Shakespeare’s final words to posterity consisted of something more than a curt demand to be left alone.
Hamlet begins with a ‘night of the living dead’; Banquo turns into a ghost . The Bard had a supernatural streak and it was crucial to the genesis of Gothic literature.
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.
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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
