Worrying environmental issues dominated the time of William Shakespeare as they do now, from depleted fish stocks and food shortages, to overpopulation and animal exploitation.
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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.
Scholars have scoured the works of the great playwright for clues about his faith. A scholar of theology and Shakespeare’s works says it isn’t as simple as that.
We can’t go to the theatre but some creative theatre groups are bringing it to us, via Zoom.
Actors and theatre scholars seek to understand how ‘The Tempest’ could have been used by both European colonialists and also by advocates of resistance.
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Tomlinson Professor of Shakespeare Studies, McGill University
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PhD Candidate, McGill University
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Stipendiary Lecturer in English, University of Oxford
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Professor of Systematic Theology, Seminary of the Southwest
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Lecturer in English, University of Newcastle
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Reader in Renaissance Drama, University of Huddersfield
