The book has the first bit of Shakespeare I ever read. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Not only that, but he also wanted them to return to the Shakespeare project. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

With insight and humor, Elizebeth and William had proved, once and for all, that Shakespeare’s plays contained no ciphers or codes. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

A couple of people are arguing about Shakespeare, and then someone stands on a chair and basically bellows Hamlet’s soliloquy into this other dude’s ear. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

The man who invented Bacon’s cipher was Sir Francis Bacon, an English scientist and statesman who lived in Shakespeare’s day. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

That night we were all sitting at the drafting table watching Lori put the final touches on Shakespeare’s hair when Dad came home drunk. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

She opens the file, and we both look at the tide page, “The Other in Shakespeare’s Works: A Critical Reading by Vinesh Ram.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Shakespeare needed to get more of that in. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

“Didn't Shakespeare's Ophelia,” Mum asked, turning to the real one, “come to a mad, bad end?” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Both of our hands were still on Shakespeare. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

“I can read Shakespeare,” he told her, swaggering. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

“It’s his view of some of Shakespeare’s plays.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Montgomery has a beautiful park that houses the Alabama Shakespeare Festival, which brings nationally acclaimed playwrights and actors to Alabama to perform Shakespeare and modern theatrical productions. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

But Shakespeare would never have gotten famous if he hadn’t appealed to the groundlings. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

My father, thinking that it might be good for business, urged me to show them how well I spoke English, to make a display of it, to casually recite “some Shakespeare words.” Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shakespeare, perfectly sensibly, imagined ancient Rome as just like contemporary London but with sunshine and togas. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

In the tiring-room, Mr. Heminges was putting more white in his beard for his part as Polonius, and Mr. Shakespeare, dressed all in armor, was touching up his ghostly white makeup. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

A few small comic books are hidden inside the front cover of the Shakespeare. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

"What sort of writing is that? I thought Mr. Shakespeare's hand was hard to read." The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

At the end of 1952, they bought a run-down house on Capitol Hill, chiefly because it was a short walk to the Library of Congress and the Folger Shakespeare Library. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“Wouldn’t Shakespeare have admired that happy ending?” she whispered. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Posters quoting Shakespeare and Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Oliver Twist hung on the walls. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Vocabulary first—mostly words that even William Shakespeare wouldn’t have known. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

And so did Keats, Shakespeare and Petrarch, and all the rest, and it was in The Romaunt of the Rose. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

He too was drawn to the same literary icons like a moth to a flame: Sir Walter Scott, Lord Byron, Goethe and Shakespeare. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Actually, Diary, you don't know Coach, but if you did, you'd know that sometimes he be speaking in Shakespeare. Sunny 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

I hoped we might find some time to talk about Shakespeare. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

And way more than Shakespeare’s—I mean, Franny had been with us, breathing and walking and eating and laughing, and shedding skin. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

On August 21, 1975, he notes, “Shakespeare’s text is always absurdly over-punctuated; generations of scholars have tried to turn him into a good grammarian.” Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z

“Why are Shakespeare and Dickens still here? They’re not on the list for opening night.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

“This is a volume of Shakespeare’s plays,” she said a little weakly. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Even Mr. Shakespeare, who had most cause to call for my dismissal, seemed inclined to forgive me. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

“But it will be cute. They’ll sort of wave in the breeze when you walk. I still can’t get over it—my son playing Shakespeare.” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

And that was how I got to be part of the Long Island Shakespeare Company’s Holiday Extravaganza, which was opening next month. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

And there was a flash of inspiration and ambition—which was, according to Shakespeare, what Macbeth was feeling a day or so before he murdered Duncan. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Well, if Shakespeare existed, he was then the top poet around. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then about ninety of us, our three sections of honors English students, spent a weekend with Volpe and a couple of other teachers at the American Shakespeare Festival Theater in Stratford, Connecticut. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

A friend of mine, also in honors, had managed never to read a word of Shakespeare; but she was a real expert on the Four Quartets. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Gallup would continue with the Shakespeare project, but Elizebeth and William were told to set up a separate Department of Ciphers. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Claudio and Hero—Shakespeare wasn’t all that good about his names—Claudio and Hero would have a whole lot to do just to get up to where Romeo and Juliet were. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

And today, as I stand over the remains of these beautiful, darling girls, I paraphrase the words of Shakespeare: Good night, sweet princesses. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

If Shakespeare could write about love and jealousy and hatreds, why couldn’t I? Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

A large black raven sleeps uncaged alongside the complete works of Shakespeare. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He tended to do well in math, science, and English, but even that record was spotty— he once got an F in a Shakespeare course. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The messages were from Bacon, she said, and they revealed the true author of Shakespeare’s plays. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The mention of Mr. Shakespeare brought to mind something that the day's constant activity had pushed aside—the lost script. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

“But it was also a clue. That quote was taken from Shakespeare’s final play, The Tempest.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“Lay it on me, Shakespeare,” I said with a snort. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Instead of Steinbeck and Shakespeare, her students read “watered-down news articles or biographies, bastardized novels, memos or brochures.” Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

My parents loved him for how he could pepper an otherwise folksy speech with Shakespeare quotes and for the famous, mouth-stuffing vigor with which he ate fried chicken at community events on the South Side. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Every available moment was spent rehearsing, sometimes under the eye of Mr. Shakespeare or Mr. Phillips, who pointed out my many flaws. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

He studied the sculpture, then suddenly reached over and smeared off Shakespeare’s mouth with his thumb. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I did not even know that a First Folio of Shakespeare was any nearer to me than the moon,” she later wrote. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

He had named it after my mother’s favorite character from Shakespeare to please her, but he had insisted on the Sue. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of the boys—the fat one with the sweaty face—said that Marlowe wrote all of Shakespeare’s plays. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Shakespeare is like mashed potatoes, you can never get enough of him. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“That Shakespeare should have gone on with the story. He didn’t tell what happened when that young prince took her back with him to England. I bet she gave the ladies plenty to talk about.” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

“I am haunted by the ghost of my father, I think that should allow me to quote Hamlet as much as I please. You used to be quite fond of Shakespeare, Prospero.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He’s dressed like he’s in a Shakespeare play and doesn’t seem like a real person. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

Shakespeare told us precious little of the man whom he entombed in his linguistic sarcophagus. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

We could recite passages from Shakespeare and legends about African kingdoms going back thousands of years. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I was seven, I used to go to the town square to recite monologues from the works of Shakespeare for the adults of my community. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

It would take a roomful of Shakespeares to replace them with fresh figures of speech, and before long those would become cliches too. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whenever I opened one, T. Ray said, “Who do you think you are, Julius Shakespeare?” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

In memory, distorted by a child’s sense of time, it had always seemed the length of a Shakespeare play. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

She gave us lectures on women’s suffrage, Shakespeare, Beethoven, English history, and horticulture, and always had two freezers of homemade ice cream, which was why we all went. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

That Shakespeare is that good he must have been an Irishman. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Admired by Jane Austen, Dr. Johnson, and David Hume, Blair edited the first Scottish edition of Shakespeare and a forty-four volume uniform edition of the English poets. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

"Still," said Mr. Shakespeare, "it's better than I feared. In view of his habit of dropping things, I expected that Widge had let it fall into Hell." The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Galileo Galilei was born in Pisa on 15 February 1564—the same year that William Shakespeare was born and in the same month that Michelangelo died. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Never before had a reference of his to Shakespeare’s hallowed Hamlet been ignored and trampled upon with su ch rude indifference. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

In the Bible, and in Shakespeare's vocabulary, they are in the proportion of ninety per cent. New Word-Analysis 1871-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I did a paper on foreign men in Shakespeare. That was a such a long time ago, so it must be old-fashioned.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

When Elizebeth visited, the library had one of its prize possessions on display, a First Folio—that is, a first edition of Shakespeare’s plays, printed in 1623. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

She took us from the sonnets of Browning to the sonnets of Shakespeare, which I found difficult. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

My brain fries when I try to read Shakespeare, but my English teacher would not accept “my hound hath eaten my volume” as an acceptable excuse for avoiding Hamlet. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

At school when we commenced studying Romeo and Juliet, the drama that might or might not be going on up at Grandpa’s house laid itself down on every line Shakespeare wrote about love or marriage. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Where else can you find grade A, top of the line characters roaming the streets spouting Shakespeare in the middle of a blizzard? Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve read Ulysses, for God’s sake, and half the works of Shakespeare. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

She read a page from the Bible and Shakespeare every night the same as always. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could quote Browning or Tennyson or Shakespeare at the drop of a hat, and the quote was always apt and telling, never pretentious or affected. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He told Lori he would help her write a paper that would demonstrate that Shakespeare’s plays had multiple authors, like Rembrandt’s paintings. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

But it was Shakespeare who said, “When in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes.” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think it must have been because of Mrs. Baker and her “Shakespeare is expressing something about what it means to be a human being” and the “tragic and beautiful and lovely” routine. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

I don’t think Shakespeare meant for her to be a hero. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could picture going up in flames copies of Dickens, Stevenson, Zola, Doyle, Shakespeare and many others—donations by white liberals appalled by the state of black education. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew the word “winter” from Shakespeare’s texts and I thought I should look up its meaning again. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Incidentally, why is the question never put as follows: What is the probability that Shakespeare, by randomly flexing his muscles, might accidentally have found himself swinging through the trees like a monkey? Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

However, I don’t know Shakespeare’s date of birth. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Here is the first sentence in my essay: What Shakespeare wanted to express about being a human being in Romeo and Juliet is that you better be careful who you trust. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

A refutation of this argument, in essence, can be found in Cicero, although of course without either typewriters or Shakespeare. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I hear a zipper running up, and a moment later the complete works of Shakespeare smash into the wall beside me. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Mr. Birkway said, “Heavens. Mercy. Is it—can it be—Shakespeare?” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

“Shakespeare also wrote: ‘I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.’” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

"Shakespeare," Turtle argued, "and make it ten dollars." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since I’m tackling Shakespeare soon, I need to convince them that this guy in tights who talks funny “has it going on.” The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Wait, first let's talk about that name—Shakespeare. Sunny 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

This is my situation: writing these pages, surrounded in the room I am in by volumes of Montaigne and Shakespeare and Lawrence. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

A huge banner hung between the centre columns of the theatre: The Winter’s Tale by William Shakespeare. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“You can be an actor in one of Master Shakespeare’s new plays.” Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

She read a page of the introduction to Shakespeare and a page of begats from the Bible. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

That’s why some people will tell you that the Bible and Shakespeare are full of cliches! Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He is a gentleman. Is it because he came here to sit with us? The man reads poems and Shakespeare. Correct Englishman.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The world is filled with Shakespeare, thought Joseph. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“Every boy should be so lucky as you, to play in a Shakespeare Company’s Holiday Extravaganza, and with such a part!” he said. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Well, Shakespeare’s language and the Bible’s language are one and the same. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom laughed when I told her and said Gregory knows his Shakespeare. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

A passing incident might inspire him to gallop through huge sections of Shakespeare, committed to memory, leaving the bug boys furrowing their brows. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Celia’s hands are shaking as she picks up a volume from the pile of Shakespeare and hurls it at him. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Up to now I never quite knew what Shakespeare meant when he made Hamlet say:— Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

“You know,” I said, “it’s not so easy to read Shakespeare—especially when he can’t come up with names that you can tell apart.” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

The quote book happened to be turned to a page of Shakespeare quotations. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

He was an excellent photographer, so Fabyan also ordered him to take photos of Shakespeare’s First Folio for Gallup’s team. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

You can prove that 1 + 1 = 42, and from there you can prove that J. Edgar Hoover was a space alien, that William Shakespeare came from Uzbekistan, or even that the sky is polka-dotted. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Shakespeare frequently uses violations of decorum for comic effect, as witness Bottom’s muddled attempts at eloquence, Pistol’s braggadocio, and Polonius’s foolish high-sounding waffle. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

It’s all so on target, it makes me wonder if Shakespeare was writing from experience. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

This idea caught on, even though great literature from Chaucer to Shakespeare to Milton is bristling with sentences ending in prepositions. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Speaking of books reminds me that I’m getting rich in that line, for on New Year’s Day Mr. Bhaer gave me a fine Shakespeare. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You don’t need to repeat everything I say. I presume you know the English language well enough or I wouldn’t ask you to read Shakespeare.” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Chaucer and Shakespeare did this all the time to accentuate the negative. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I fly with haste to do thy bidding,” said Mr. Peckleman, sounding all of a sudden like he was in a play by Shakespeare. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Shakespeare did not write for your ease of reading,” she said. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

"I don't know, because Shakespeare is a really good writer?" Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

At ten o’clock one winter evening in early 1935, Houseman slipped backstage at a New York production of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

She also said that each of us has at least 20 billion atoms from William Shakespeare inside our body. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“When I was a boy,” said he, “this was my punishment. Standing with Milton weighing upon one hand and Shakespeare the other. But you ... you shall be encumbered with your own past, hm?” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Even though, I think, he was quoting Shakespeare again. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

I don’t believe in Santa Claus anymore, but if I did, I’d ask him to bring me a whole set of Shakespeare books. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

Several centuries of great writers—Milton, Shakespeare, Pope, Swift, Johnson, Austen, Thurber, Faulkner, Baldwin—have voted with their pens, and the answer is yes. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

The numbers used to solve the square ended up being the combination for a lock on a hidden box that contained Shakespeare’s Secret. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Maybe Shakespeare was saying that even in a world where miracles can happen, there’s still going to be pain, and loss, and regret. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Granny didn’t sit on the porch reading Greek and Latin and Shakespeare, or get up lectures for children, or recite poetry. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

That copy-now in the library of the Middle Temple, one of the Inns of Court in London—had previously been owned by his friend and Shakespeare’s, Ben Jonson. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Joseph set down the candle and opened the Shakespeare book with great care. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Parting was not, as I had heard one of Mr. Shakespeare's characters say, a sweet sorrow. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

The first tragic plays, which are among the best there are, never equaled except by Shakespeare, were produced in the theater of Dionysus. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Grandfather was sure Shakespeare must have visited Barbados. I suspect he liked to think of himself as Prospero.” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Shannon and Carlos used to always joke about how Mr. Fisher and Mrs. Tracey were probably dating, probably having gross sex after school on Mrs. Tracey’s desk, on top of Shakespeare’s Sonnets or something. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The only famous authors he could think of were Charles Dickens, William Shakespeare, and Mark Twain. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

I knew that, were my own secret revealed, I would not have had the nerve to face Mr. Pope or Mr. Heminges or Mr. Shakespeare or Sander. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

—Now let’s see what Shakespeare is talking about here. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The imagination and the spiritual strength of Shakespeare’s evildoers stopped short at a dozen corpses. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

As late as Shakespeare’s time, scientists talked about the revolution of orbs of different proportions and discussed the heavenly music that reverberated throughout the cosmos. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

“Since when did you start reading Shakespeare?” she asks, after poking through the books on my desk. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

The lines flowed from me as though they had just occurred to my brain and not been penned by Mr. Shakespeare a year earlier. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

She had learned about magic squares when she hunted Shakespeare’s Secret in Colorado. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

If my sister Rachel and Mr. William Shakespeare put their heads together to invent an extravagant despot, they couldn’t outdo Mobutu. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He tells Alex in a low voice how his parents met—Princess Catherine, dead set on being the first princess with a doctorate, mid-twenties and wading through Shakespeare. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

She took out three—no, not books of Shakespeare, like you might think—three brand-new baseballs, their covers as white as snow, their threads tight and ready for fingers to grip into a curve. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

He found a girl who knew the alphabet at nineteen months, and another who was reading Dickens and Shakespeare by the time she was four. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

“We have. On Wednesday afternoons from now on, we will be reading Shakespeare together.” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

You can hear plays by O’Casey, Shaw, Ibsen and Shakespeare himself, the best of all, even if he is English. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“I don’t take any stock at all in such matters. ‘Rats and mice and such small deer,’ as Shakespeare has it, ‘chicken-feed of the larder’ they might be called. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

So by 1611 the revolution was well under way, and Donne, unlike Shakespeare and most educated contemporaries, was fully aware of it. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“A curious line to recite, especially since the combination never occurs in the play. Are you trying to improve on Shakespeare?” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

He had seen rooms like this in books when he was studying Shakespeare. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

“He’s so old he teaches a class on Shakespeare because he knew him per-sonally.” Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

At her desk beneath the Shakespeare bookends, Tessie wrote back faithfully, if not entirely truthfully. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The principal players, meantime, rehearsed Hamlet endlessly, employing a slightly different version each day, as Mr. Shakespeare deleted or added passages to suit the fancy of the master of revels. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

I know that he gave me a gift, a collection of Shakespeare’s Sonnets. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Shakespeare had—to return to Borges’s comment with which this book began—no sense of history. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

She went on to write a PhD dissertation on the effect of formal rhetoric on Shakespeare’s language, and remained an evangelist for the use of the trivium in education. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

As everyone got ready to leave for Temple Beth-El or Saint Adelbert’s, I figured I’d probably be diagramming sentences for the next hour and a half, since we hadn’t started another Shakespeare play yet. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Gallup believed that Shakespeare’s First Folio contained secret messages written in this cipher. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Then, just as they had done during the first heady days of their courtship at Riverbank, they both discussed what they saw in Shakespeare’s work—and what they didn’t see. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

And to be really honest, neither was I—all because of Mr. Goldman and the Long Island Shakespeare Company’s Holiday Extravaganza. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

“Didn’t Shakespeare say some-thing about ‘every fool in error can find a passage of Scripture to back him up’? Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Come on, Mon, it’s only our Comrade Uncle—” Comrade Pillai tried to kick-start Shakespeare. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shakespeare called the full stop a period in A Midsummer Night’s Dream when he described nervous players “making periods in the midst of sentences”. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z

Like the guy in the Shakespeare thing in English I, “Cut me, do I not bleed?” The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They have other books in the library. They have whole sets of Shakespeare, Dickens, Hardy. And poetry.” Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

I wanted to talk to the lieutenant about Shakespeare, but he was busy going about the gathering, shaking everyone’s hand. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

She decided to give me a month off Shakespeare to coach me, since developing the body as well as the mind, she said, was a humane and educational activity. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

But when I encountered Shakespeare one cold and overcast day, I knew instantly that my confidence had been premature. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the stage, Mr. Shakespeare gave the cue in his hollow ghost's voice: "Adieu, adieu, adieu. Remember me." The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Before they went to bed, Francie and Neeley had to read a page of the Bible and a page from Shakespeare. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The course was on Shakespeare, and I’d chosen it because I’d heard of Shakespeare and thought that was a good sign. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

What if the spout opened and closed when the steam came out, so it would become a mouth, and it could whistle pretty melodies, or do Shakespeare, or just crack up with me? Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

There was an engraving of Shakespeare himself on the title page, and on the opposite page, in faded brown ink, someone had written, This hook belongs to Mabel Hatch. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

That’s when the one with the freshman beanie said he had heard a couple of guys in the men’s room talking about how Shakespeare’s plays were really written by a lady. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Every year they do one play by Shakespeare; it’s always the play that’s on the provincewide Grade Thirteen Examinations, the ones you have to pass in order to get into university. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

She opened her lower desk drawer, put her copy of Shakespeare into it, and closed it. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

He was also an accomplished actor, who loved to declaim Shakespeare aloud. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

By the middle of the eighteenth century Shakespeare’s sense of time had been replaced by our own. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“Do they read Shakespeare?” asked the Savage as they walked, on their way to the Bio chemical Laboratories, past the School Library. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Loving Shakespeare as she did, she felt as “an archeologist would have, when he suddenly realized after years of digging that he was inside the tomb of a great pharaoh.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“Sure, anyone can name fourteen dead people. But we’re disorganized mourners, so a lot of people end up remembering Shakespeare, and no one ends up remembering the person he wrote Sonnet Fifty-five about.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Rather, he pointed out that “geniuses like Beethoven, Leonardo da Vinci, Shakespeare and Fischer come out of the head of Zeus, seem to be generally programmed, know before instructed.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s from Shakespeare’s Richard the Second, which, of course, you will never, ever read, unless you go to college and study English lit, as I hope some of you will do. ‘ Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

She went to a public library and asked the librarian how she could get a Shakespeare and a Bible for keeps. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

That’s what I think Shakespeare was trying to say about what it means to be a human being in The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

“It’s like that in Shakespeare too. ‘If thou dost break her virgin knot before all sanctimonious ceremonies may with full and holy rite . Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thorarinsson said that Fischer, locked behind bars, reminded him of Hamlet, and then he quoted a line from Shakespeare’s play: Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

They had stopped reading the Bible and Shakespeare since Neeley started high school. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Francie recited passages she knew by heart—Portia’s speech, Marc Antony’s funeral oration, “Tomorrow and tomorrow”—the obvious things that are remembered from Shakespeare. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was piled high with books and papers, along with an old brass clock, a small bust of Shakespeare, and some half-used candles in candleholders. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“Well, that must keep the bar nice and low, no problem filling those shoes, like naming your kid Shakespeare. What were they thinking, your parents?” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Compared to Bob’s simple way of speaking, Koios sounded like he was reciting Shakespeare. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

One collection of coincidences too unlikely to be dismissed in this way is provided by the case of the proverbial monkey accidentally typing out Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

A former high school principal, Gallup had been educated in Michigan and Paris, and she loved Shakespeare as much as Elizebeth did. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Then I realized that if we all had Shakespeare’s atoms inside us, we probably also had atoms from Adolf Hitler, who was probably the worst human who ever lived. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

If she hadn’t done what she did, I never would have figured out what Shakespeare was trying to express in Romeo and Juliet about what it means to be a human being. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

I rounded up some cutlery and found the table, which had been buried under a stack of dime novels and Shakespeare’s plays. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

It’s a fine poem but a deceitful one: We do indeed remember Shakespeare’s powerful rhyme, but what do we remember about the person it commemorates? The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

“Ms. Keaton, do you think Shakespeare demonized dark men by depicting Caliban in that way? A friend of mine thinks so.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

It was smart and beautiful—poetry from a midget Shakespeare. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

When Elizebeth explained that she needed a job, the librarian told her about a millionaire who needed help with a mystery about Shakespeare. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

In Shakespeare’s Othello, Iago is furious to find Michael Cassio, ‘a great arithmetician’, whose knowledge of warfare is all book-learning, has been promoted ahead of him. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

When it was finished, it looked exactly like Shakespeare. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

She was busy reciting a bit of Shakespeare, The Tempest to be exact, when he walked in. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Let me tell you, whatever it was, it wasn’t Shakespeare. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

She had learned about magic squares when she hunted Shakespeare’s Secret in Colorado. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Instead, Walter reads Shakespeare and Camel gets drunk and cranky and increasingly demanding. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

It would have been, I believe, considered sacrilegious for any of my early English teachers to mention that a Shakespeare, a Shelley, or a Keats even considered accepting money for the words. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

When they were gone, I sat staring into the looking glass as I had seen Mr. Shakespeare do, pondering my dilemma. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

He knew she read incessantly—Shakespeare, Henry James, Dickens, Thomas Hardy—but he did not think this could fill her days. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I taught you about Shakespeare and his sonnets this morning,” she continued, clearing her throat. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Shakespeare had Horatio to say some beautiful words as he stood over the dead body of Hamlet. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“That there are no boring parts in this, Shakespeare’s greatest play of all.” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

I once dreamed that Shakespeare was alive: that I really saw and spoke to him: I can never forget the impression that dream made on me. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

A touring Shakespeare company had let Loma try out after their performance in Cold Sassy’s brush arbor and then asked her to join the troupe. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“Consider: Would we even know who Shakespeare was if a whole troupe of performers and stagecraft people hadn’t helped him put on his plays?” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

"He's a modest one, is all. Mr. Shakespeare's the same, and Mr. Burbage. Don't like others pawing them, I guess." The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t know what it means and I don’t care because it’s Shakespeare and it’s like having jewels in my mouth when I say the words. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

They were arguing about whether or not Shakespeare really wrote Shakespeare’s plays. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

I thought of the line from Shakespeare: “Be absolute for death; for either death or life shall be the sweeter.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you think Shakespeare was just showing off?” Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I guess after reading all that Shakespeare I should know what to say. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Because you don’t have to be Shakespeare to know that’s not the way it happens in the real world. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Another hot debate I remember I was in had to do with the identity of Shakespeare. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Doesn’t Shakespeare use / after a preposition in The Merchant of Venice? Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Shakespeare wrote tragedies and comedies, so which do you feel like you’re in when he talks to you?” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

That Christmas, Mrs. Finley gave me paperback copies of both the comedies and tragedies of Shakespeare. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

I thought it was quite ingenious of me to suggest sitting in on the chemistry course even after I'd changed over to Shakespeare. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

People go there on the train, in buses, or in cars with picnic baskets; sometimes they stay all weekend and see three or four Shakespeare plays, one after the other. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Or as he put it in a line probably not inspired by Shakespeare’s play, “There’s so much skin around, it’s hard to pick out one.” Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

No longer did my teachers lay open for me the book of Nature and speak of botany and zoology; no longer was I given the works of Shakespeare and Pope to con. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

—That’s a wonderful observation, B. J. See, Shakespeare isn’t so bad. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

All this bunk about little Billy Shakespeare, Dad would say, the great genius despite his grammar-school education, his small Latin and less Greek, was a lot of sentimental mythology. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I tried my insight into reading Shakespeare on Mrs. Baker. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

We don’t have Shakespeare plays, just these little booklets that tell us about the plays. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

So pensive and self-absorbed was Mr. Shakespeare that he walked by without even noting our presence. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

In Shakespeare’s day, rhetoric was one third of a basic education. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

“I’m fine, Mom. Trust me. It’s like Shakespeare said: ‘Be not afraid of greatness. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

Under Gallup’s patient direction, the Shakespeare project continued exactly as it had for years. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

For the next Wednesday, I wrote an essay for Mrs. Baker about what Shakespeare wanted to express about being a human being in Romeo and Juliet. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

“I don’t see how you can write and act such splendid things, Jo. You’re a regular Shakespeare!” exclaimed Beth, who firmly believed that her sisters were gifted with wonderful genius in all things. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

And every single goat had a name out of Shakespeare! Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Where Browning was straightforward and usually clear, Shakespeare was devious, never being quite where you wanted him to be. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

The next Wednesday, as soon as everyone left for Temple Beth-El and Saint Adelbert’s, Mrs. Baker took out her copy of Shakespeare from the lower drawer in her desk. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

She says I’m always reciting the lines from Shakespeare and they make no sense either. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

You may think that of course Shakespeare must have known his own date of birth, even if we do not. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

"Right. But the worst of it is, they don't give Mr. Shakespeare a farthing for it. And it is his work, after all." The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

If I had a whole book of Shakespeare they could keep me in the hospital for a year. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

On the other wall there was a mural showing Homer, Dante, Tolstoi, Balzac, and Shakespeare engaged in conversation. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

The man sincerely thought that was Shakespeare’s first name, and if you think I should have corrected him, you are ignorant about the art of survival. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He picked it up, looked at the title-page: the book was called The Complete Works of William Shakespeare. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

She clears her throat and then recites a poem from Shakespeare. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

The instructor for her part believed that the text the students used, Adventures in English Literature, which contained selected works by Shakespeare, Edmund Spenser, and Daniel Defoe among others, was too hard for them. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Baker was reading in her Shakespeare book when I came back. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

At the bottom were Gray’s Anatomy and a collected Shakespeare, and above them, on slenderer spines, names in faded silver and gold—she saw Housman and Crabbe. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Are you going to play a part in another Shakespeare play?” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

In the excitement of meeting a man who had read Shakespeare he had momentarily forgotten everything else. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was supposed to be a three-page paper showing how something that happened in one of Shakespeare’s plays also happened in our own community. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

The librarian couldn’t help her out on the Bible but said there was a worn-out copy of Shakespeare in the files, about to be discarded, which Sissy could have. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Assume Shakespeare’s account is accurate and Julius Caesar gasped “You too, Brutus” before breathing his last. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I need to show them Shakespeare’s got a little “something something” for everyone. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Zora made me sit at the kitchen table while she brought it out like a librarian with a Shakespeare folio. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“Erasers or sentence diagramming. Maybe Shakespeare,” I said. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

"That was meant to be a jest," Mr. Shakespeare said. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I think Shakespeare said it best in act two, scene two of his play The Merry Wives of Windsor: ‘Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.’” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

That Greek jokes fell flat on Latin ears should not surprise us; Shakespeare’s jokes don’t cause most modern audiences to fall about either. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

She said that when her daughter was studying Shakespeare in high school, she took her to England. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“Naw, Miss Carrie, we didn’t see no Shakespeare. But we seen a stage play. The main actress shore was a looker.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

My plan was that I needed the time to take a course in Shakespeare, since I was, after all, an English major. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Grading, by the way, is also something that makes it hard to read Shakespeare. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Shakespeare is not aware of living in a distinctly ‘modern’ world, despite the compass, the printing press, gunpowder and the discovery of America. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The sluggers have fallen in love with Kerouac and Keats and Woolf and Shakespeare, and hope I’ll press the button to preserve our literature for other alien races to explore. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“Yes, the plays were the best. Wonderful ones by Dryden and Shakespeare and Otway.” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Somebody should have told him it’s a long way from Shakespeare! Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

But then I remember your smile, and I know that the good parts truly happened, and that one day we shall read Shakespeare together again. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Porgyand Bess suffers from much the same problem as Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice or Wagner’s Parsifal, both of which arouse discussion of perceived anti-Semitism because they are both still performed today. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

To the Athenians, these were a kind of cultural patrimony—something like the original handwritten copies and first folios of Shakespeare might be in England. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“By the way,” said Mrs. Baker from her desk, “teachers do not bring up Shakespeare to bore their students to death.” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

“Shakespeare is all about the power of goodness and honesty and faithfulness,” she said. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

The government rarely needed Riverbank anymore, so Fabyan pressured her to return to the Shakespeare project. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Let me tell you, Shakespeare himself couldn’t have answered half of these questions. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

“Well, it does help, because it gives authority to the performance, and Shakespeare doesn’t need billing, and that way I’m not stealing his material. It’s like I’m celebrating him, which I do.” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The essay was about Romeo and Juliet, our first journey into the mind of William Shakespeare. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

But instead of choosing from the likely suspects—William Shakespeare, Thomas Jefferson, Harriet Tubman—I use my computer to look up the names my grandfather’s been batting around. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

Shakespeare inspired the storm and the shipwreck and the abandoned baby, among other things. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

During these years in Stamps, I met and fell in love with William Shakespeare. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Oh, we do indeed ken it. In fact you might tell him that our Mr. Shakespeare has found his book invaluable. As you may have noticed, Hamlet is a very master of melancholy." The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

The real ones, with the real words Shakespeare wrote. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

In the prison debates I argued for the theory that King James himself was the real poet who used the nom de plume Shakespeare. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

In all likelihood he was the only waterman on the Chesapeake Bay whose boat was named for a woman lawyer out of Shakespeare. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tried writing a few poems a la Shakespeare, but quickly returned to Browning. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

But there was a reassuring stability to being with her, a certain safety in her whispering and her study room with the pencil sketches of Shakespeare on the walls. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

That night, after the page from the Bible and the page from Shakespeare had been read, Francie consulted Mama. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The project she had in mind was a book about Shakespeare and ciphers, like the one she had started during World War I. And Riverbank would be part of the story. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

He actually got a C in theater one quarter because he didn’t do his Shakespeare monologue. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Or does he think I’m Shakespeare when I talk to him? Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

“The plays of William Shakespeare,” said Mrs. Baker, “which can never be boring to the true soul. Open it to The Merchant of Venice.” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Indeed it was seeing her in Shakespeare’s play at the Paris Odeon that detonated the infatuation in the first place. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“So is that what Shakespeare wanted to express about being a human being?” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Aunt Carrie said, “Did you hear that, Mary Willis? They went to a musical! How nice! Tell me, Rucker, did you see any theatricals? Any Shakespeare plays?” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I was the only student who didn’t groan and carry on when Mrs. Henry assigned us another Shakespeare play. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Thank you. I’ll try to get at it this summer. Maybe some of it will come in handy when I teach Shakespeare again.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

“Wow, handwritten? Who does that? Look at you go, Shakespeare.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

But Shakespeare is nowhere reported connected with the Bible. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The drama of the Restoration, aside from the time-consuming reading required, was easy to manage after her home study of Shakespeare. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He rode quoting Shakespeare from memory, thinking of the picket line ahead somewhere in the dark. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Who can tell me what Shakespeare meant when he...,” she begins, finally getting a good look at our faces. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

And that reminded me of what Mrs. Turton had told us about how we were all walking around with bits of Shakespeare inside us. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Mr. Crow was a man of uncertain temper with a high, severe forehead like Shakespeare’s. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

She decided to make a clay bust of Shakespeare. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Because of his helmet, I could not see Mr. Shakespeare's face directly, only his reflection in the glass. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

He settled himself at the table with his books by Spinoza and William Shakespeare and Karl Marx. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

After hearing one of Lander’s orations, she arranged for the distribution of his autobiography; the printer had previously put out a line of Shakespeare’s tragedies. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

"A likely looking lot of lissome ladies, eh, Mr. Shakespeare?" The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Once we’re in the living room and Mama Ya-Ya is settled in her favorite chair—all soft with a blue lap shawl—I say, “I memorized some Shakespeare. Want to hear?” Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

This makes Dowland’s contribution, like Shakespeare’s, something very different from what had gone before: his work has a universal appeal that transcends its age. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

I mean, you can understand reading Treasure Island four times, but no matter how good a Shakespeare play is, no one reads it twice. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

I know that many say that Francis Bacon was Shakespeare. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

If the doleful experience of cultural conflict on Earth were the galactic standard, it seems we would already have been destroyed, perhaps with some passing admiration expressed for Shakespeare, Bach and Vermeer. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, they demanded that they be allowed to challenge Mrs. Gallup’s theory about Shakespeare. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“If it’s a tragedy,” I tell him, “remind Shakespeare that he’s got a comic side, too. Challenge him to make you laugh.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

One day, I’ll be able to read all of Shakespeare’s words and understand everything he’s saying. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

‘Yeah. It’s by Shakespeare and starts with this massive storm out at sea. It’s right up your street.’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

One night, after Forrest had been staying with Jule in London for a week, he bought the two of them tickets to see A Winter’s Tale at the Royal Shakespeare Company. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“All life is one; no man is an island,’ as Shakespeare said in olden times.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

“What can I say? Her life is a tale told by idiots,” which, Rowan believed, was a very bad Shakespeare misquote. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“It’s from Shakespeare. But I figured it was just Halliday’s way of letting us know how difficult he was going to make the Hunt.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

A few days after buying the volume of Shakespeare, Sissy woke up one morning and nudged her current lover, with whom she was spending the night in a quiet family hotel. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tweediness of our faculty, and the curriculum itself, which began, Hellenically, Byronically, with Homer, and then skipped straight to Chaucer, moving on to Shakespeare, Donne, Swift, Wordsworth, Dickens, Tennyson, and E. M. Forster. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He, too, had lost patience with the Shakespeare project. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Afterward, she and a librarian bonded over a discussion of Shakespeare. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

"He doesn't, any longer. The boy grew ill and died while Mr. Shakespeare was here in London. I doubt that he's ever forgiven himself." The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

All quotations were either from the Bible or Shakespeare. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

They sat on long wooden benches, and at the end of their discussions I would be called upon to recite Shakespeare. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Knowing how much this upset him, Elizebeth was glad to receive an offer from Cambridge University Press for their Shakespeare manuscript. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The numbers used to solve the square ended up being the combination for a lock on a hidden box that contained Shakespeare’s Secret. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

According to Gallup, those typefaces were how Bacon had slipped his messages into Shakespeare. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“At the end, he’s sorry. He’s just really, really sorry about everything, and that’s enough. Everyone forgives him. Shakespeare lets Leontes be redeemed even though he did all that evil stuff.” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Whether Shakespeare’s treatment of the female characters is misogynistic.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

At least I’m assuming it’s from Shakespeare, since we don’t start reading him until ninth grade. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Who else among royalty, in his time, would have had the giant talent to write Shakespeare’s works? The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Actually the bard also wrote love sonnets, but if Shakespeare’s reciting sonnets to him, that’s a whole other issue. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Teachers bring up Shakespeare only to bore students to death. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Everyone else was doing someone like Shakespeare, Dante, or John Milton. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Goldman really said that: “What I should really need is a boy who knows Shakespeare.” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Shakespeare used the word ‘modern’ to mean both ‘ordinary’ and ‘contemporary’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The most influential rhetorical handbook between the ages of Cicero and Shakespeare, however, Ad Herennium, gives us six parts, which is the scheme I propose to adopt. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

He had once been keen on English and Shakespeare, but after the separation he seemed to become apathetic about learning. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She studied poetry and the plays of William Shakespeare, and she wrote poems of her own. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

They had been at this reading for six years and were halfway through the Bible and up to Macbeth in Shakespeare’s Complete Works. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t recite Shakespeare, but I could hit a baseball thrown at 75 to 85 mph. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Between brass bookends, each a miniature bust of Shakespeare, are the novels she collects at yard sales. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

In fact, slow has been a perfectly acceptable adverb since the days of Shakespeare and Milton. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Englishman was John Dowland, a Londoner and exact contemporary of Shakespeare who spent some of his most fruitfully creative years as the extravagandy paid official lutenist to King Christian IV of Denmark. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

That was when Momma stood up and slammed the complete works of William Shakespeare into the side of the major’s head. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Ms. Lee alludes to Shakespeare’s frequent invocation of that negative word in her own play, titled “Lear,” which had its premiere Thursday night at Soho Rep. 2010-01-15T04:13:00Z

Photograph: Bettmann/Keystone Tolstoy's condemnation of Chekhov's plays as "worse than Shakespeare" has been thrown back into the spotlight by a new book that draws on memories of the author from his contemporaries. Tolstoy thought Chekhov 'worse than Shakespeare' 2011-07-11T14:28:32Z

Theatre Wallay's production of The Taming of the Shrew at Shakespeare's Globe theatre, performed in Urdu. The Taming of the Shrew – review 2012-05-30T10:51:48Z

And as Park spends a lot less time than Shakespeare probing psychology and motive, the characterizations come across as thin. Review: In ‘Peerless,’ Elite College Admissions Are Something Wicked 2022-10-11T04:00:00Z

Dench won an Oscar for best supporting actress for her portrayal of Queen Elizabeth I in 1998’s “Shakespeare in Love” and has been nominated for an Academy Award six other times. Dench says 'can't approve' of cutting Spacey from Hollywood film 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z

The director, Daniel Sullivan, has established himself as perhaps the most reliably fine Shakespeare interpreter in New York. Theater Review: ‘As You Like It,’ With Lily Rabe in Central Park 2012-06-22T02:00:14Z

She has also appeared in imaginative literature on Shakespeare and in Shakespeare authorship speculations, while others have suggested she is the shadowy figure of the 'dark' lady, infamous in Shakespeare's sonnets. In search of Shakespeare's ghosts 2011-07-14T07:42:46Z

It reflected a 50s trend to translate classics, including Shakespeare and the Bible, into hipster speak. Fran Landesman obituary 2011-08-10T15:37:01Z

Written and directed by Marc Palmieri, this new play at the Axis Theater concerns an innocent landscaper whose life is upended when he chances on an outdoor Shakespeare play in Manhattan. Theater Listings for Feb. 6-12 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z

Time was — when Joseph Papp was running through the full canon at the open-air Delacorte Theater in Central Park and at his downtown quarters — the Public was the only reliable producer of Shakespeare in town. All of New York Is Shakespeare?s Stage 2011-02-17T23:26:20Z

Oddly, among the many productions I've seen, I can only recall once seeing it played in the historical era William Shakespeare seems to have stipulated. Can you see the same play too many times? 2012-07-24T13:21:31Z

Shakespeare's Richard III may have been marked as evil by his twisted body, but his downfall was his inability to care about anyone other than himself in his climb to power. Tyrion Lannister is Richard III 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z

“We did a gala with a whole lot of famous actors doing Shakespeare, and I offered to run lines,” Icke recounted in a telephone interview from New York. Juliet Stevenson Returns to ‘The Doctor,’ and the New York Stage 2023-06-13T04:00:00Z

I like Shakespeare shaken up, so that moods collide and change, and sorrow is seen giving way to ecstasy. Theater Review: Peter Hall Makes a Dusky Return to Illyria 2011-01-25T12:00:03Z

The author, editor of “The Norton Shakespeare,” says that he wrote “Tyrant” as a result of his apprehensions “about the possible outcome of an upcoming election” whose result “confirmed my worst fears.” Review | What can ‘Macbeth’ teach us about President Trump’s next move? 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z

Neither was Shakespeare acting as much as usual with his theater company. ‘The Year of Lear’ review: How politics shaped Shakespeare’s masterworks 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z

The book provided a basis for her one‑woman play, Shakespeare for My Father. Lynn Redgrave ? Georgy Girl of the 60s ? dies of cancer 2010-05-03T20:30:00Z

Four hundred years ago, the English writer William Shakespeare was creating fantasy characters that are still popular today. Learn about witches and wizards in Shakespeare’s time at the Folger

I remembered the word from a summer Shakespeare production of Othello on the lawn at King's. Sweet Tooth by Ian McEwan - extract 2012-08-10T21:55:10Z

Now then, Bee, you are a stroppy adolescent/a Jesuit priest/a GP/a prep school master/a grieving mother/a Shakespeare scholar/a motherless two-year-old . Who do you think you are? 2010-05-28T23:06:00Z

In Russia, Krymov was revered by critics and audiences alike for his brazenly original and visually driven re-imaginings of classics from Pushkin, Chekhov and Shakespeare, among others. Amid Exile and Fire, a Revered Russian Theater Director Is Reborn 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z

The show, commissioned for Folger, is an exploration of the nobility’s opulent banquets during the Age of Exploration and the era of Shakespeare — and the human price of those feasts. Review | At this show, you get to eat cake. But you might feel a little guilty about it. 2019-03-11T04:00:00Z

The production kicks off a two-week festival, A Summer of Shakespeare, which will also include a staging of Salieri’s “Falstaff,” a semistaging of Verdi’s “Macbeth” and a concert, “Songs and Sonnets.” Purcell’s ‘The Fairy Queen’ Reset in New York 2014-08-10T04:00:00Z

Dench, who won a supporting Oscar as Elizabeth I in "Shakespeare in Love," will receive the Crystal Globe award for her outstanding contribution to world cinema while Turturro will get the festival's President award. 46th edition of film fest opens in Czech spa town 2011-07-01T12:58:07Z

When PG Wodehouse was interned by the Nazis at the beginning of the second world war, he took just one book: the Complete Works of Shakespeare. Will a spell in prison free Chris Huhne's inner novelist? 2013-03-18T15:00:27Z

This is not Shakespeare by the book, though. Review: The Bard as Bedtime Story in ‘Table Top Shakespeare’ 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z

“My favorite thing is when someone says, ‘I’m not a comic book person but “The Avengers” worked,’ or ‘I’m not really a Shakespeare person but I loved “Much Ado.”’ Joss Whedon: ‘Much Ado,’ a soothing switch from ‘Avengers’ 2013-06-12T23:11:19Z

They're a joy to watch as they skillfully fling Shakespeare's sophisticated repartee, in what Beatrice's uncle Leonato refers to as "a skirmish of wit between them." Review: Buoyant, zestful 'Much Ado About Nothing' 2013-02-20T00:16:04Z

Maqbool is based on Shakespeare's Macbeth Early in the new millennium, just as Bollywood seemed to become all gloss and syrup, there was another development. Amit Chaudhuri: 'How I learned to love Bollywood' 2013-07-25T19:00:01Z

If all the world’s a stage, Shakespeare seems to be rarely off it these days, to the extent that some may be less tempted to celebrate his deathiversary than to say, “Him again, still?” Shakespeare. Dead? 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z

Though fast, cheap and casual sound like words better suited to greasy food than to great literature, for Instant Shakespeare they are points of pride. Instant Shakespeare Company?s Bare-Bones Readings 2010-07-15T22:08:00Z

Ben Brantley described Sam Gold’s production of this Shakespeare tragedy as “electrifying,” “incandescent” and “drawn in lightning.” What’s New in NYC Theater 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z

Shakespeare is said to have stayed there on several occasions while travelling between Stratford-upon-Avon and London. Cash boost for Bard's tavern room 2013-06-10T13:47:46Z

Her transformations in style remind us of how richly mutable Shakespeare is in performance. | 'Women of Will': Tamed or Tragic: Tina Packer?s Tour of Shakespeare?s Women 2010-06-24T21:25:00Z

But to go back to Shakespeare: Where would he be without irony? Todd Solondz, patron saint of pessimism 2010-07-23T19:01:00Z

Besides, most of us are already primed to appreciate Shakespeare outside the confines of live theater. Is This a Livestream I See Before Me? 2020-05-13T04:00:00Z

Beneath the opprobrium lay a shared assumption: that Shakespeare’s genius inheres not in his complicated characters or carefully orchestrated scenes or subtle ideas but in the singularity of his words. Why We (Mostly) Stopped Messing With Shakespeare’s Language 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z

Howard read portions of Shakespeare with more emphasis on text than character. Dudamel adds his dramatic touch to a night of Mendelssohn at Hollywood Bowl 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z

Paltrow won a best actress Oscar in 1999 for Shakespeare in Love, but is now better known as the creator of Goop, a lifestyle website and product store that promotes healthy eating and stress-free living. Gwyneth Paltrow to give 'soul-stretching opportunities' of marriage a second shot 2018-01-08T05:00:00Z

Even smaller-scale projects such as the Royal Shakespeare Company's arts journalist bursary scheme, which aims to provide professional development for young journalists who can help the RSC reach young audiences, have been axed. Young at art: what the arts cuts mean for young people 2010-09-02T07:00:00Z

Then, in the final scenes, Mr. Bourne takes a disconcerting departure from Shakespeare that changes our sense of the story from tragedy to accident, and of the protagonists from courageous rebels to tormented victims. Review: In Matthew Bourne’s ‘Romeo and Juliet,’ a Story of Even More Woe 2019-08-11T04:00:00Z

The season now is set to start with the Chicago premiere of Missy Mazzoli’s “Proving Up” at the Chicago Shakespeare Theater. Lyric Opera of Chicago cancels fall season due to pandemic 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z

A week in Singapore followed, then five in London; between shows, he started a company leading Shakespeare workshops in schools. Tomorrow’s Marquee Names, Now in the Making 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z

Doran revealed it was the fist time the Shakespeare comedies Love's Labour's Lost and Much Ado About Nothing had been paired. RSC double bill to commemorate WWI 2014-02-04T14:02:23Z

Shakespeare is simply the best playwright we have ever produced – the most wonderful storyteller, the most exquisite poet. Shakespeare and me: Thea Sharrock 2012-06-30T23:05:28Z

I volunteer this personal history because Robert McCrum’s magnificent new book, “Shakespearean,” is about, in part, Shakespeare’s ability to speak to many kinds of people in many different ways. Review | Shakespeare still matters. A new book reminds us why. 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z

Where would Shakespeare's history plays be without the freedom to reinterpret historical figures? Tackling real-life characters in fiction is fine ? as long as you do it well 2010-06-22T13:43:00Z

Alchemy isn’t much in evidence as the performance, presented by the Los Angeles Women’s Shakespeare Company, intercuts autobiography and observations on Shakespeare with passages of dialogue from “Hamlet” and other works. Theater Listings for Aug. 5-11 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z

And before Mr. Ferguson made it to Broadway and became a perennial Shakespeare in the Park performer, he toiled at a gift shop in Times Square, tantalizingly close to the stages he dreamed of walking. Jesse Tyler Ferguson Unleashes His Inner Foodie on Broadway 2016-03-30T04:00:00Z

Stephen's, and by extension Joyce's, lodestar is William Shakespeare, who, of course, was English rather than Irish. Heeding the lessons of James Joyce's "Ulysses," a century later 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z

Khan reminisces about his childhood, and about afternoons spent performing and recording Shakespeare plays on cassettes. Much ado about Delhi: RSC's Indian Shakespeare 2012-08-01T07:01:00Z

Performing Shakespeare, With Help From Mandolin, Clarinet, and Saxophone “Under the Greenwood Tree,” a musical adaptation of “As You Like It,” is frequently too thin and clumsily staged. Theater Review: ‘Under the Greenwood Tree’: ‘As You Like It,’ Set to Music 2013-08-12T21:55:33Z

Shakespeare was a working playwright of his period, and, much like screenwriters of our own era, he brought in other writers to help him with his plays and helped out other writers with theirs. The Algorithm That Could Take Us Inside Shakespeare’s Mind 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z

Henry IV, Part 1 Intimate production of Shakespeare’s historical drama about Henry Bolingbroke, his wayward son Hal, the scoundrel Falstaff, et al., features onstage seating. The week ahead in L.A. theater, Aug. 13-20: 'Hamilton,' 'Henry IV, Part 1' and more 2017-08-13T04:00:00Z

With all due respect to Keats, it was good to see a bit of praise for Shakespeare amid the book’s incessant Dante-worship. Review | If poets could solve a crime . . . 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z

Often I’ve found myself crying for mercy when Shakespeare’s characters engage in elbow-in-the-ribs ribaldry; with Mr. Ferguson’s impeccable phrasing and timing, I would have been happy for it to last longer. Theater Review: A ‘Comedy of Errors’ Unfolds in the ’40s, With Fedoras 2013-06-19T02:00:01Z

He won Tony Awards for Cyrano and Barrymore and would even get to go back to Shakespeare, as King Lear, later in life. Christopher Plummer got a third act worth singing about 2021-02-05T05:00:00Z

As the founder and, until last year, the artistic director of the 32-year-old Shakespeare & Company, Ms. Packer has always insisted on the primacy of language. | 'Women of Will': Tamed or Tragic: Tina Packer?s Tour of Shakespeare?s Women 2010-06-24T21:25:00Z

Jonathan Pryce will play Shylock in the Shakespeare's Globe's upcoming production of The Merchant of Venice. Pryce heads Globe summer season 2015-01-06T05:00:00Z

This is a fictional story, and it’s definitely not going to earn you an academic expertise in all things Shakespeare.But the show is a welcome challenge to some of society’s notions about European nobility. Review | Shonda Rhimes plus Shakespeare? It’s a no-brainer. 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z

The resources offered to the performers are dependent on their reaffirmation of our sense of the universality and greatness of Shakespeare – our sense of cultural superiority. Shakespeare, universal? No, it's cultural imperialism 2012-05-21T13:00:03Z

Pierce has hosted a screening of Godwin’s film adaptation of “Romeo and Juliet,” a one-man show of Shakespeare villains and dinners for the Washington National Opera and other institutions. The British ambassador brings her unique style to Washington 2022-11-02T04:00:00Z

The show, produced by the Royal Shakespeare Company, was a crowd-pleaser in London partly thanks to featuring several giant, fantastical puppets — including a furry Catbus that is part motor vehicle, part feline. ‘Prima Facie’ and ‘My Neighbour Totoro’ Win Big at the Olivier Awards 2023-04-02T04:00:00Z

Whether the archaeologists beaming radar into Shakespeare’s grave were able to escape the curse printed above the grave depends on how much you believe in quantum physics. Alas, Poor William Shakespeare. Where Does His Skull Rest? 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z

“It’s an intellectual version of reality television,” said Dominic Green, a Shakespeare scholar and professor at Boston College, who attended. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Presides Over Shylock’s Appeal 2016-07-27T04:00:00Z

The double-bill of Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night” and “Richard III” became the surprise event of the Broadway season. ArtsBeat: Tony Awards 2014: ‘A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder,’ ‘Hedwig and the Angry Inch’ Lead the Nominations Field 2014-04-29T13:30:44Z

Shakespeare's play also gets a makeover in Tom Morris's production, based on an idea by Sean O'Connor, turning the lovers into institutionalised senior citizens. Juliet and Her Romeo | Theatre review 2010-03-17T22:20:00Z

I wanted to set up a company that could be like Shakespeare’s company. For Shakespeare & Company’s Tina Packer, a Last Romance 2017-08-07T04:00:00Z

As Shakespeare noted in "Othello," a reputation is everything. Anthony Bourdain and the farce of the "unauthorized" biography 2022-10-17T04:00:00Z

He has directed or acted in several fine adaptations of Shakespeare's plays, though the best one – Much Ado About Nothing – is long in the past. Kenneth Branagh: The star who forgot how to shine 2011-03-31T20:31:01Z

The ensemble is stagelike and feels a little like a Shakespeare tragedy, or a Beckett farce, primarily because of the startled expression in the main figure’s face. A Singular American Painter and His Perennially Disregarded Wife 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z

The loose-jointed production, which was commissioned by the Royal Shakespeare Company, is set up like a band rehearsal. A high-jinks-filled 'Twelfth Night' at the Wallis 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z

A new all-black production of Julius Caesar has opened at the Royal Shakespeare Company - its latest project for the World Shakespeare Festival, part of the . VIDEO: New production of Julius Caesar opens 2012-06-07T15:05:06Z

A surprise not because the production wasn’t good — it was outstanding — but because the minimalist Shakespeare created by the New York-based group wasn’t categorized as a visiting production. Laura Benanti: Actress, singer and passport courier 2015-01-27T05:00:00Z

And no stage superstition has more adherents than the one shrouding Shakespeare’s Scottish play: Anyone in a theater who speaks the name Macbeth aloud, except when rehearsing or performing the play, risks catastrophe. Break a Leg but Never Whistle: How Stage Superstitions Live On 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z

We've always known it wasn't a historically accurate depiction: Shakespeare was a dramatist, not a historian. Richard III: Shakespearean actors rake over the remains 2013-02-04T19:00:02Z

Accordingly, he has moved some scenes around and borrowed passages from a related prose work by George Wilkins, Shakespeare’s likely collaborator on the play. Trevor Nunn, British Shakespeare Master, Tries Something New: Directing Americans 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z

His signature is not to obstruct Shakespeare, and the play flows even when the production cools. Toil and trouble, and missed connections, in 'Macbeth' at Berkeley Repertory Theatre 2016-02-28T05:00:00Z

“If William Shakespeare were in the room,” Mr. Nunn said, “he would say: ‘Come on! Trevor Nunn, British Shakespeare Master, Tries Something New: Directing Americans 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z

But Shakespeare was well on his way to becoming secular scripture. Why We (Mostly) Stopped Messing With Shakespeare’s Language 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z

The adaptation, which will be shown at the BFI next week, came less than three years after the Royal Shakespeare Company had staged the play's first professional production in more than four centuries. What's TV's problem with theatre? 2013-03-20T18:31:19Z

Shakespeare, and Eustis, offer us a Caesar whose piteous share with common humanity is revealed in his death. In Defense of the Trumpian “Julius Caesar” 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z

Some of those words are repeated, which is how we get to the total number of around one million words in works attributed to Shakespeare. Five myths about Shakespeare’s contribution to the English language 2022-09-24T04:00:00Z

His work echoed the Romantics, Gerald Manley Hopkins, Ezra Pound, and particularly Shakespeare, with Langley once writing: "A Midsummer Night's Dream might still be the answer to everything." Poet and diarist RF Langley dies 2011-01-26T13:29:08Z

The association chose three Shakespeare plays — “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” “Othello” and “Macbeth” — to be performed by drama students from around 50 schools. Movie Review: ?Shakespeare High? Opens, With Kevin Spacey 2012-03-09T00:00:08Z

The play “tests every one of us,” said James Shapiro, a professor of English at Columbia University who has published several books on Shakespeare, including the recent “Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare?” A Lost Shakespeare? It?s a Mystery 2011-03-11T00:11:00Z

Bottom the Weaver, you may recall, is the overeager amateur actor in this Shakespeare comedy of crazy mixed-up love — the one who wants to play all the parts, be they heroes, lions or ladies. Review: ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ Tailored for Multitaskers 2015-09-20T04:00:00Z

As Globe to Globe proved, there is a huge appetite for Shakespeare; it would be absurd and counter-productive to deny this. Lyn Gardner on funding Shakespeare 2012-07-22T19:00:03Z

At Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey, the simple business of painting eight-foot circles on the lawn and placing them six feet apart was a comfortable approximation of a normal summer experience. Let’s See: Outdoor Theater Is Welcome, but Sightlines Are Vital 2020-09-15T04:00:00Z

The announcement, meanwhile, of a new indoor theatre reflects the original vision of the man who drove forward the creation of Shakespeare's Globe. Speak the speech ... Shakespeare's plays to be performed in 38 languages 2011-01-20T18:26:01Z

It's powerful magic, al fresco Shakespeare, and it would probably work even if the production weren't awesome. 'Measure for Measure': Pop the cork and settle in for the latest free Shakespeare in Griffith Park 2017-07-14T04:00:00Z

Ophelia is in the grand tradition of English painting, and its story goes back to Shakespeare; my work goes back to 1968 and, you could say, is the culmination of commercial America. Frieze 2012: my big art inspiration 2012-10-10T17:20:01Z

Organizers of the World Shakespeare Festival said Tuesday it will include 70 productions and exhibitions involving thousands of international artists. Major UK festival to celebrate Shakespeare 2011-09-06T18:58:08Z

Let him be destined for greatness, like Folkestone’s Shakespeare, or love as deeply as any tragic hero, like Joseph Fiennes in “Shakespeare in Love.” A new show imagines a punk rock Shakespeare — the latest of our many fantasies about the bard 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z

But in a city that loves its Shakespeare, it has had a particularly devoted audience. Folger Theatre’s Janet Griffin announces her retirement after decades of devotion to Shakespeare 2021-01-27T05:00:00Z

But the rest were the parallel versions resulting from “Play On!,” an ambitious — and controversial — three-year project that asks 36 diverse playwrights to translate Shakespeare’s often knotty language, line by line, into “contemporary modern English.” Translating Shakespeare? 36 Playwrights Taketh the Big Risk 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z

And I don’t mean just the pastry-in-the-face, drinks-down-the-shirt-front sort of antics practiced so joyously in the Broadway-bound farce “One Man, Two Guvnors” and the zippy new National Theater production of Shakespeare’s “Comedy of Errors.” | London Theater Journal: Revenge Served Sticky, and Cleanly Staged Comedy 2012-02-07T16:07:11Z

The results have raised a tricky question: Is Shakespeare still a useful guide, or do playwrights need to create a new kind of drama if they want to depict American history? American Playwrights Try to Reinvent the History Play 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z

Michael Billington of the Guardian wrote that "I've often attacked our modern mania for turning movies into plays. But, in the case of 'Shakespeare in Love,' the transformation is fully justified." 'Shakespeare in Love' opens in London to mostly raves 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z

There would seem to be “a chasm between people of color and Shakespeare,” but many of the performers find his work particularly suited to experimentations with language and the expression of diverse lineages. ‘Reopening Night’ Review: The Show Goes On 2021-12-20T05:00:00Z

The same year, he appeared on stage at the Royal Shakespeare Company in “Infanticide in the House of Fred Ginger,” a controversial work that ended with gratuitous killing of a child. John Hurt, British Actor Hailed for His Shape-Shifting Roles, Dies at 77 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z

“I don’t believe,” she wrote, “that any Elizabethans, even Shakespeare, were what might now be called ‘nice’ — liberal, unprejudiced, unselfish.” Katherine Duncan-Jones, Who Cast Shakespeare as a Boor, Dies at 81 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z

Those attributes of the 1895 classic are well-mined in Seattle Shakespeare Company’s graceful new mounting of the play, directed by Victor Pappas. Oscar Wilde’s elegant wit shines in Seattle Shakes’ ‘Earnest’ 2014-03-26T23:59:36Z

The noted Shakespeare scholar finds parallels between our political world and that of the Elizabethans — and in his catalog of the plays’ tyrannical characters, locates some very familiar contemporary types. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z

When William Shakespeare left this earth on April 23, 1616, he was definitely dead. Shakespeare. Dead? 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z

Mr. Honan wrote five major biographies in the last four decades, including books on Jane Austen and Shakespeare. Park Honan, a Biographer of Authors, Is Dead at 86 2014-10-19T04:00:00Z

Shakespeare's 450th birthday celebrations will be marked in April, with a special fireworks display. RSC double bill to commemorate WWI 2014-02-04T14:02:23Z

While the jubilee put Stratford on the tourist map, an effort 100 years later to build a permanent national monument to Shakespeare there collapsed amidst a pile of debt. Shakespeare. Dead? 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z

How did terrorist action shape the work of William Shakespeare? 2015 was a banner year for nonfiction — here are 10 books you don’t want to miss 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z

“We want it to sound not like Shakespeare, but like something you could hear in a bar in Bushwick.” Prepare to Be Provoked. Caryl Churchill Is Back. 2018-04-25T04:00:00Z

Which brings me to today's hero: a well-known theatre actor who also fancies himself as a bit of an expert on Shakespeare. The secret actor on the proper way to recite Shakespeare 2013-06-23T19:43:01Z

They lived in a book-filled home on New York's Upper West Side, where Marco, aged eight, lolled on the carpet reading Shakespeare: "I was the definition of 'precocious'." James Lasdun reviews The Scientists: A Family Romance by Marco Roth 2013-02-16T09:01:01Z

Numerous high-profile Shakespeare productions will fill New York stages next year. N.Y.U. Skirball Season Reinvigorates the Classics 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z

The “Hamlet” with Mr. Scott was my second helping of Shakespeare last Thursday. Hamlet and the Surveillance State of Denmark 2017-07-24T04:00:00Z

Photograph: Tristram Kenton A director once told me that the main purpose of rehearsals for a modern Shakespeare production was to "get rid of the unintended laughs". Timing is everything: how plays find their moments 2012-07-11T12:06:29Z

She was Cleopatra of the burnished barge; Tennessee Williams’s Maggie the cat; Catherine Holly, who confronted terror suddenly last summer; and Shakespeare’s Kate. Elizabeth Taylor, 1932-2011: A Lustrous Pinnacle of Hollywood Glamour 2011-03-26T17:35:55Z

At the other end of the social scale, the 20th-century Little Theatre movement – spearheaded by such groups as the Stockport Garrick Society – offered Shakespeare as a step on the ladder to working-class self-improvement. Shakespeare and Amateur Performance by Michael Dobson - review 2011-07-15T21:55:03Z

The $15,000 prize, which was announced on Wednesday by the directors of the award, will be presented at a ceremony at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington on May 10. ArtsBeat: Karen Joy Fowler Wins PEN/Faulkner Fiction Prize 2014-04-02T15:30:53Z

As a theater critic, I see dozens of productions of Shakespeare in a single year. ArtsBeat Blog: Theater Talkback: Who Wrote Shakespeare? Who Cares? 2011-10-27T15:42:53Z

I suddenly remembered that time back in the 1970s, when it became fashionable in the States to turn extended drinks parties into Shakespeare readings. Much Ado About Nothing – review 2013-06-15T23:06:00Z

I’ve finished my first day of rehearsal, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., for a Shakespeare in the Park production of “King Lear.” Learning 'Lear': John Lithgow's Shakespeare in the Park Diary 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z

Shakespeare and politics: Trump, 'Julius Caesar' and now 'Richard II' What would a theater critic write to the creator of 'Letters From a Nut'? Well, let's start with ... 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z

Treating Shakespeare similarly means that jokes and puns become more apparent. Shakespeare the Way It Was Meant to Be Spoken 2013-09-20T14:29:04Z

Disney holds the rights to develop “Shakespeare in Love,” which was produced by Miramax Films, at the time a part of the Walt Disney Company. ArtsBeat Blog: Stage Version of 'Shakespeare in Love' Moving Ahead 2011-10-21T17:46:52Z

Then from books: They are where Shakespeare’s characters magically shed their identities, where Hester Prynne is released from shame, where nature’s healing forces are harbored. Critic?s Notebook: Where the Lenape Trod 2011-11-03T22:02:38Z

A sad tale’s best for winter, Shakespeare tells us. ‘October in the Chair and Other Fragile Things’ 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z

Something has gone badly awry in Michael Boyd's modern-dress revival of Shakespeare's tragedy of passion, politics and performance, which is reduced to farce – a very dull one. Antony and Cleopatra ? review 2010-12-15T22:00:02Z

There’s a Shakespeare quote in the book: “...when the sea was calm, all boats alike / show’d mastership in floating...” Jay McInerney on brightness, couples and catastrophe 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z

The first casting by the Royal Shakespeare Company of a disabled actor to play Richard III has been hailed as an advance in British theater. The ‘Most Real Richard III There’s Ever Been’ 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z

A collaboration among the Public, the Royal Shakespeare Company of Britain and GableStage of Miami, everything about this “Antony and Cleopatra” is dampened by its soggy high reconception. Theater Review: An ‘Antony and Cleopatra’ Set in the Caribbean 2014-03-06T03:00:17Z

If you are a Shakespeare traditionalist, this isn’t for you: Dorsen’s conception may well infuriate you. ‘A Piece of Work’: ‘Hamlet’ for the computer age 2013-02-23T23:13:22Z

Shakespeare’s sanctity was reinforced by Biblical terms used to distinguish his legitimate creation—“the Canon”—from doubtful material—“the Apocrypha.” The Radical Argument of the New Oxford Shakespeare 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z

And finally, there are fantasies, such as the Academy Award-winning movie “Shakespeare in Love,” which imagine a Shakespearean life as full of romance and tragedy as a Shakespearean play. A new show imagines a punk rock Shakespeare — the latest of our many fantasies about the bard 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z

Most tickets for Shakespeare in the Park are handed out for free in an attempt to create "theatre for all", often sparking large queues for its star-studded productions. Bening joins King Lear in the park 2014-05-21T04:00:00Z

Romeo & Juliet Independent Shakespeare Co. stages the Bard's romantic tragedy as the first of its two productions in the annual Griffith Park Free Shakespeare Festival. L.A. theater openings, June 28-July 5: 'Romeo & Juliet' and more 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z

“There’s a very exciting generation gap in the classroom,” said Ms. Rowe, who developed the digital components of her Shakespeare course with a graduate student who now works at Google. Humanities 2.0: Giving Literature Virtual Life 2011-03-21T22:33:37Z

They taught each other to play poker, made cheese fondue and read Shakespeare and Molière aloud. Caution: Women Playing 2011-08-17T20:46:59Z

You are more likely to understand Gilbert than Mr Shakespeare. Gilbert and Sullivan make their mark on Buxton 2010-08-09T17:21:00Z

“Nothing will come of nothing,” Shakespeare’s Lear darkly warns Cordelia in the opening scene. 2010-01-15T04:13:00Z

Setting aside the fuming obsessions of Bassanes, most of the characters in “The Broken Heart” mask their passions in language that lacks the exuberant vigor and variety of Shakespeare’s. Theater Review: In ?The Broken Heart,? Tainted Love, Onstage at the Duke 2012-02-14T23:28:52Z

For his crimes, Willie lived more than half his life in prison, where he spent his time reading Dante, Shakespeare, Pound and other literary greats. 'Sutton': conscience-ridden bank robber becomes a national hero 2012-09-19T21:10:11Z

Shakespeare's language for the fairy world has so much darkness, and so much beauty. A spooky, dreamy 'Midsummer' to spread its wings 2011-10-20T20:16:08Z

The Oregon Shakespeare Festival is what draws my family and many other visitors on a pilgrimage to Ashland every year. Ashland, Ore., in autumn: Take in a show, bike a mountain, tour a vineyard 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z

Forgery and imitation in classic literature are the themes in two fascinating pieces this week – from Dostoyevsky to Shakespeare. Your weekend reading: hoaxes and imitations, and a 12ft tall Mr Darcy 2013-07-14T00:50:17Z

That sampling, with its interplay of Shakespeare, an older classic and a big musical, is reasonably representative, even if I missed the new commissions, modern works and family programs that usually round out the mix. A First-Time Visitor Inhales Stratford’s Theatrical Perfume 2017-08-14T04:00:00Z

That he groups together Sophocles, Shakespeare and Francis Ford Coppola says everything about his regard for filmmaking. Arts & Leisure: Alexander Payne?s New Film, ?The Descendants? 2011-11-09T13:00:06Z

Nor is she the sorceress and strumpet Shakespeare depicts in “Henry VI, Part 1” or the romantic lass in petticoats Mark Twain imagines in his final novel, “Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc.” Review: In Shaw’s ‘Saint Joan,’ a Sane and Sensible Martyr 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z

While I’d want copies of the Bible, Plato, Dante, Shakespeare and Proust — the biggies of western literature — I’m too much of a sybarite to restrict myself to classics. Review | You’re done with it all. You head for the hills. What books do you bring? 2022-01-11T05:00:00Z

She said that all romantic comedies were essentially mashups of Shakespeare's "The Taming of the Shrew" and Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice," but she injected the formula with a somewhat sentimental flavor. Writer, filmmaker Nora Ephron of Sleepless in Seattle' dies at 71 2012-06-27T12:48:22Z

Thank goodness for the music, for its galloping rhythms and shining strings, without which this ballet, inspired by the Shakespeare play, would be insufferable. At the Kennedy Center Opera House, music steals the show from the Pennsylvania Ballet

Throughout the piece, Stehlin brings luminous clarity and precision to some of the most intricate verse in the Shakespeare canon. A potent tragedy for the Twitter age: It's the 95-minute 'Macbeth: Revisited' 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z

Women – once you've done all the parts in Shakespeare they start running out. Ian McKellen: 'My ambition is to get better as an actor' 2011-08-24T19:59:01Z

Over in New York’s Central Park, just a short distance from our offices, the curtain came down last week on The Public Theater’s controversial production of Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar”. Of Caesar, guns and trolls: The evil that men do 2017-06-28T04:00:00Z

Sound Theatre Company performs through Sunday a matched set of two, both riffs on Shakespeare classics. Sound Theatre Company performs Stoppard short plays 2013-06-17T20:14:44Z

It sounded like people you knew, which is beautiful, but like Shakespeare, too. Seven Flames Kindled by the Focused Fire of Ntozake Shange 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z

The Theater for a New Audience production of “Pericles,” which opened on Thursday at the Polonsky Shakespeare Center in Brooklyn, also marks Mr. Nunn’s first American staging of a Shakespeare play. Review: In ‘Pericles,’ Much Ado About a Lot of Things 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z

The Dark Lady is, I think, utterly unknowable – not least because Shakespeare uses her as more of a cipher, a focal point for his self-hating-fuelled misogyny. Don Paterson on Shakespeare's sonnets 2010-10-15T23:06:00Z

Now he is mashing up Shakespeare for the final week of the London 2012 Festival. Shakespeare inspires forest drama 2012-09-05T07:31:23Z

Berlioz' "Les Troyens" -- a five-hour epic opera after Virgil's "Aeneid" with touches of Homer, Shakespeare and music like none ever written before for the lyric stage -- is the grandest French opera. S.F. Opera makes an epic effort with 'Les Troyens' 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z

As a Columbia freshman, Mr. Simmons was sure of himself enough to wangle his way into the poet and professor Mark Van Doren’s Shakespeare class. Charles Simmons, Novelist and Critic, Dies at 92 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z

I am a crass and ignorant person who considers all poetry, from Shakespeare on down, to be a complete hoax. ArtsBeat: Book Review Podcast: David Rakoff’s Farewell in Verse 2013-08-02T19:45:48Z

That was followed by a production of “Macbeth,” which he took to the Edinburgh Festival in 1985 and to Central Park in the summer of 1986 as part of Joseph Papp’s New York Shakespeare Festival. Yukio Ninagawa, 80, Who Directed Avant-Garde Productions of Classics, Dies 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z

Next, the "Shakespeare of barbecue" teaches us the proper way to slice brisket: Planning an outdoor barbecue for Labor Day? Follow these pro-tips from the masters of the craft 2019-09-01T04:00:00Z

"At the beginning, that was at the core: Surprise people by Shakespeare's power and relevance to their lives," says Eustis. Bugs, rain and magic _ Shakespeare in the Park 2012-06-15T16:28:08Z

While Shakespeare referred to addiction in”Henry V,” nobody at the time advocated treatment centres for debauched nobility. Addiction is not a disease: How AA and 12-step programs erect barriers while attempting to relieve suffering 2015-07-11T04:00:00Z

“Shakespeare in the Park represents everything that is great about culture in New York,” said Alicia Glen, a deputy mayor. A Restoration for Shakespeare’s Home in Central Park 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z

Rarely does Shakespeare present anyone as entirely evil; perhaps only Iago, who does not deny it. It’s Time to Turn the Page on the Trump-Shakespeare Comparisons 2021-01-19T05:00:00Z

Antony and Cleopatra are Shakespeare’s rock stars, swaggering international celebrities snared in a legendary bad romance. Review | ‘Antony and Cleopatra’ amps up the glamour at Folger 2017-10-17T04:00:00Z

O’Farrell’s own genius was to see a literary opportunity in the paucity of information about Shakespeare’s domestic life, and in the connection between his dead son and his great play. 16 Books to Watch For in July 2020-06-24T04:00:00Z

Mr. Sheader is artistic director of the Regent’s Park Open Air Theater in London, the rough equivalent of our Shakespeare in the Park. Amy Adams and Donna Murphy in ‘Into the Woods’ 2012-07-26T12:00:00Z

From past experience with films like Mrs Brown, The Queen and Shakespeare In Love, royals tend to find favour with Bafta voters. Baftas 2011: surprises and sure things 2011-01-18T15:15:13Z

Fish’s productions in the past decade include plays at the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Signature Theatre, the Long Wharf, and the McCarter. An “Oklahoma!” for Today 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z

“It makes it abundantly clear that while Shakespeare was obtaining the arms on behalf of his father, it was really for his own status,” she said. Shakespeare: Actor. Playwright. Social Climber. 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z

Whether they admit it or not, such souls feel that Shakespeare is great for seasoning but indigestible as a main course. ‘Shakespeare in Love: The Play,’ in London 2014-07-23T04:00:00Z

Through video, Hamnet meets and converses with Shakespeare, the father who was so absent from his childhood. The Week in Arts: Sleater-Kinney, Paul Taylor and ‘Synonyms’ 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z

But I rank this production, from the Hawaii Shakespeare Festival, as one of the truly unique, creative interpretations I have ever seen. Your Outdoor Theater Memories, Starring Hanks, Streep and Rain 2020-08-19T04:00:00Z

But it’s important to observe Shakespeare’s heroines were as flawed as they were fabulous. Though she be but little, she is fierce: Kim Kardashian West is a Shakespearean heroine for our times 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z

Theater people have long engaged in making fun of their own folkways, a penchant on display in works through the ages, including Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” and Terrence McNally’s “It’s Only a Play.” Playwrights get last word in delightful ‘Critic’ and ‘Real Inspector Hound’ 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z

Including anachronistic pop songs is a regular feature of Shakespeare per Mr. O’Brien. | 'Troilus and Cressida': The Cynical Side of Shakespeare, but With a River View 2010-08-31T21:10:00Z

Turning again to Shakespeare, Mr. Branagh said that the mystical elements of “Thor” — enchanted hammers, frost giants — were no more preposterous than the supernatural tropes in plays like “Macbeth” or “The Tempest.” Summer Movies: Creating a God, With Links to Olivier 2011-04-28T13:49:44Z

Still, there is a certain monotony to the production: Shakespeare’s wondrous variety has been leeched from the text, leaving in its wake a single, sustained tone of wrought-up emotion. Beyond Shakespeare’s Wildest Dreams 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z

And, boldly slashing and reconfiguring Shakespeare’s text while setting it to a score assured in both crashes and whispers, they tackled it to the ground. Review: ‘Hamlet’ Boldly Engulfs the Metropolitan Opera 2022-05-15T04:00:00Z

‘King Lear’ In Angus Jackson’s straightforward, storybook version of Shakespeare’s monumental tragedy, there’s not much doubt about what drives its title character around the bend. Theater Listings for Jan. 24-30 2014-01-23T23:45:21Z

So, she enrolled in acting classes and immersed herself in Shakespeare and reckons that this was a disaster; it messed her up more than ever. Daryl Hannah: ‘It’s scary being in solitary’ 2015-06-21T04:00:00Z

In 2014, she returned to New York, in a humdrum “King Lear” for Shakespeare in the Park. How Annette Bening Puts It All Onstage. But Keeps Something for Herself. 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z

If you’re a follower of Shakespeare in performance, you may by now be sighing, “Oh, not again.” ArtsBeat: London Journal: Shakespeare’s Liars and Lovers 2013-07-05T15:47:54Z

As the director, she chose the play “All’s Well That Ends Well” for the annual Shakespeare production. Review | Mona Awad’s struggles with chronic pain and the health-care system fuel her new novel 2021-08-03T04:00:00Z

That their shows makes such abrupt transitions regularly, in rhyme using a 17th-century vocabulary, helps explain why the Improvised Shakespeare Company is one of the country’s elite improv companies. The Improvised Shakespeare Company’s Couplets Off the Cuff 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z

Richard III Shakespeare's tragedy about the last Plantagenet king of England. L.A. theater openings, July 19-26: 'El Grande Circus de Coca-Cola' and more 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z

The class isn’t about performing Shakespeare’s plays; as in “Cry Havoc!,” Using Shakespeare to Ease the Trauma of War 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z

The American theater’s most prominent platform, Broadway, seems to have thrown up its hands in surrender: A play by Shakespeare hasn’t opened there since the fall of 2013. Perspective | Dumbing down Shakespeare: Are Americans too intellectually lazy to appreciate his genius? 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z

At one point The New York Times described it as “the nonplay that is a pastiche of lines from Shakespeare, Aeschylus, 1930s movies, grand opera, TV commercials and comic books, in no apparent order.” John Vaccaro, Iconoclastic Director, Dies at 86 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z

The musical, “A Chorus Line,” opened to ebullient reviews on May 21, 1975, and with its move to the Shubert Theater on Broadway, it eventually grossed almost $150 million for the New York Shakespeare Festival. Bernard Gersten, Offstage Star of Nonprofit Theater, Dies at 97 2020-04-27T04:00:00Z

I’ve been working on a long essay about the nature of wisdom in a tragedy that privileges experience over other forms of knowledge, and I badly needed Shakespeare’s long view to pull me through. Embattled and emboldened: Arts and culture in the age of Trump 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z

“All the Way” began its journey to Broadway in 2008 as part of “American Revolutions: The United States History Cycle,” a commissioning program at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland. ‘Breaking Bad’ star adds luster to Seattle writer’s Broadway play 2014-03-10T20:36:00Z

I will now be donating my treasured correspondence to the Folger Shakespeare Library, in Washington, D.C. An Unexpected Letter from John Paul Stevens, Shakespeare Skeptic 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z

Brief digression: Last fall, at Shakespeare’s Globe in London, I saw a subversive confection of a musical called “Romantics Anonymous” that just about wrecked me. Women’s Voices Festival a Potent Reminder of Who Goes Unheard Onstage 2018-02-05T05:00:00Z

Shakespeare in the Park tickets, for the most part, are free and are distributed the day of the performance in person at the Delacorte Theater, or online through a digital lottery. ‘House of Cards’ Stars Join ‘Julius Caesar’ at Shakespeare in the Park 2017-04-04T04:00:00Z

Shakespeare didn't invent Hamlet and King Lear; he plucked them from historical and literary sources. The Boy Who Lived Forever 2011-07-07T09:15:00Z

It might seem like impertinence, not to say blasphemy, to suggest that Shakespeare could ever be bettered. A New Take on Romeo and Juliet’s Ball, Balcony, Bed and Tomb 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z

The brief was to explore how Shakespeare dealt with the problems of rebellious children and of succession to the family fortune. Shakespeare's best 2010-05-28T23:06:00Z

Simonson views this as a great tragedy and wants the audience to come away with the same feeling they might when leaving Shakespeare’s “Hamlet,” ”King Lear” or “Macbeth.” Black Sox opera ‘The Fix’ premieres Saturday in Minnesota 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z

Shakespeare draws associations between the language, imagery and special effects of the play and the secret goings-on in Macbeth's mind. 'Macbeth' succeeds in avoiding its onstage curse when it's on-screen 2015-11-28T05:00:00Z

Yes, Shakespeare’s Arden is a weird place — there are lions and snakes and wandering monks. Making Shakespeare Their Own, Serious and Silly 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z

“Rather than simply stage Shakespeare’s 37 plays we wanted to look at how artists shine light on their countries and societies through the prism of Shakespeare,” Ms. Shaw said. The World Takes On Shakespeare at London Festival 2012-07-04T21:37:11Z

Maybe there are other truths that are still to come to light, truths closer to the ones Shakespeare gives us. Richard III: Shakespearean actors rake over the remains 2013-02-04T19:00:02Z

“If Shakespeare is all on the page, Albee is almost all under the page.” Rick Foucheux paints a possible stage exit with an intimate ‘King Lear’ 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z

Stephen Fry makes his stage as Malvolio in an all-male production of Twelfth Night, a transfer from Shakespeare's Globe alongside Richard III. Theatre review of 2012 2012-12-28T07:52:36Z

He produced the Academy award winner “Shakespeare in Love” and was responsible for other acclaimed films including “Pulp Fiction,” “The English Patient” and “Gangs of New York.” Harvey Weinstein free of coronavirus symptoms - spokesman 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z

Kahn, founder of the Shakespeare Theatre Company, recalled a day when Ginsburg took part in a special presentation of the “Henry VI” plays for the company’s lawyers committee. Perspective | Ruth Bader Ginsburg gave her life to the country — and her heart to the performing arts 2020-09-19T04:00:00Z

If you think of Shakespeare as stodgy, this stellar, fierce production full of power plays, murders and backstabbings should rip that idea away. Look Ahead: The hottest Seattle events for October 2018 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z

He looks to military history, Greek tragedy, Shakespeare, historical anecdotes, conspiracy theories, and dashes of William F. Buckley and Ayn Rand. “American Dharma,” Reviewed: Errol Morris Lets Steve Bannon Off the Hook 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z

Critical interpretation like this is a mug's game, of course, doomed as any misbegotten fan's attempt to corral Cervantes and Shakespeare into the same frame. The secret connection between Cervantes and Shakespeare 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z

Amid the comic romance of Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night,” he is the imperious steward who gets cruelly pranked for sport, duped by a band of smart alecks who forge a love letter seemingly addressed to him. Review: In ‘Malvolio,’ Hope (and a Title Role) for a Damaged Heart 2023-07-10T04:00:00Z

Mount is Seattle Shakespeare's director of outdoor and touring performance, overseeing Wooden O, the company's free summer Shakespeare performances in the parks, and the touring productions that perform across the state. Seattle Shakespeare Co. announces more role changes 2011-03-23T21:11:04Z

Also on the menu will be “Romantics Anonymous,” a play with music that Rice premiered in 2017, near the end of her tenure as head of Shakespeare’s Globe on London’s South Bank. Shakespeare Theatre’s new head announces his first season, from ‘Much Ado’ to a James Baldwin play 2019-02-12T05:00:00Z

A contemporary chiaroscuro fantasy of a bio-play, “Emilia” transferred from Shakespeare’s Globe to the West End last year and recently won three Olivier Awards, including best comedy. Review ‘Emilia’: An Elizabethan Poet Takes Her Rightful Place Onstage 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z

After studying theology, he went to work first for the National Theatre and then at the Royal Shakespeare Company, a place where he says "I was probably the happiest I've been as an actor". Hugh Bonneville: escape from Downton 2010-12-19T22:00:00Z

A phrase from Shakespeare echoed in my head as I watched the movie: “Lord, what fools these mortals be.” | 'The Optimists': Best of All Possible Worlds: When Life Gives You Mud, Take a Mud Bath 2011-07-27T22:21:43Z

Artworks evolve, be they the variants of Shakespeare’s plays, Kanye West’s revisions to “The Life of Pablo” or George Lucas’s edits to “Star Wars.” ‘Game of Thrones’ Has Moved Past Its Blueprint, and That’s a Good Thing 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z

"This is an old recourse in the theater when you're looking for material," he says, pointing out that Shakespeare borrowed plots for 35 of his 37 plays. Playwright David Ives finds his timing perfectly 2013-02-08T16:46:04Z

After Iowa, he studied Shakespeare at the Bristol Old Vic Theater School in England, where he was the first freshman to win the school fencing championship. Gene Wilder Dies at 83; Star of ‘Willy Wonka’ and ‘Young Frankenstein’ 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z

In Shakespeare's play, which Plummer calls the Bard's most cinematic, the cameras swoop about the stage, creating close-ups and long shots. Christopher Plummer, on screen and on stage at 82 2012-06-13T20:21:18Z

Everyone knows Shakespeare — at least a line or two — but this is “Will.” A new show imagines a punk rock Shakespeare — the latest of our many fantasies about the bard 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z

The Royal Shakespeare Company show is Hughes’s most high-profile casting to date. The ‘Most Real Richard III There’s Ever Been’ 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z

The first quote he put on a truck, befitting of a playwright, was from Shakespeare: “The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers.” ‘It’s hard, hard work’: Once a year, this D.C. business owner collects the garbage himself 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z

“We’re taught that Shakespeare is a sacred thing, with the iambic pentameter and all that stuff,” he continued. Translating Shakespeare? 36 Playwrights Taketh the Big Risk 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z

If we've omitted any obvious candidates -- or neglected major Shakespeare plays that you believe have been filmed in enough varied ways to have merited their own slide -- tell us in the comments. The Shakespeare film canon 2010-12-11T01:30:00Z

I did Shakespeare with teenagers in Harlesden, and it transformed them. Shakespeare and me: Paterson Joseph 2012-06-30T23:07:07Z

Season after season we get the same overdone classics by Ibsen, Shakespeare, Chekhov and Williams. My theatrical busman's holiday in London: what am I missing? 2010-08-16T08:35:00Z

He was the youngest-ever artistic director of the Royal Shakespeare Company and later ran London’s National Theater. Trevor Nunn, British Shakespeare Master, Tries Something New: Directing Americans 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z

But Den of Geek - a website not usually given to reviewing Shakespeare - defended the actor's fans. Critics split on complex Richard III 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z

Perloff’s production reminds us that “Hamlet” was written after Shakespeare had completed a series of successful comedies. An actor transcends age: John Douglas Thompson melts away the years to play Hamlet at A.C.T. 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z

Everyone knows Shakespeare, Dickens or the Beatles, even if they haven't seen one of the plays, read the books or played the music in years, if ever. James Bond – a ticket to distant joys 2012-09-28T21:55:09Z

Romeo and Juliet East Jerusalem serves as the setting for an updated take on Shakespeare’s tragic love story. L.A. theater openings, May 29-June 5: '42nd Street' and more 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z

Many of them were conversant with high culture – from Shakespeare to opera to classical music to what passed for fine art. Everyone's a critic now 2011-01-30T00:06:14Z

Quotes from Shakespeare are thrown in, as are names of pharmaceuticals. | East Hampton: ?I?m Just Another Guy Who Thinks He?s Smarter Than He Is? 2011-05-22T16:14:25Z

Other choices also add energy to an Instant Shakespeare production. Instant Shakespeare Company?s Bare-Bones Readings 2010-07-15T22:08:00Z

“It’s about these guys who are trying to write a hit play but can’t compete with this very successful playwright William Shakespeare,” explains 5th Avenue Theatre executive producer and artistic director David Armstrong. ‘Kinky Boots,’ ‘Carousel’ in 5th Ave’s 2014-15 lineup 2014-02-21T20:45:26Z

This summer Independent Shakespeare Co. will stage “Measure for Measure” and “The Two Gentlemen of Verona.” NEA helps Independent Shakespeare make poetry in the park 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z

Shakespeare is just one canonical author to get smacked by Bukowski in these pages. Review: ‘On Writing,’ a Charles Bukowski Collection of Rants and Musings in Letters 2015-08-09T04:00:00Z

Richard's enduring appeal lies in how Shakespeare has him play to the gallery – and makes the audience complicit in his determination to "prove a villain". Richard III – review 2013-02-21T17:43:00Z

Somehow the laughter at the absurdity enriches the depth of feeling — one of the myriad wonders of Shakespeare’s achievement. Critic’s Notebook: Stratford Shakespeare Festival, ‘Henry V’ and ‘Cymbeline’ 2012-08-19T21:11:38Z

“He is in total command of the way Shakespeare’s people think and speak,” Hytner said, “in long, perfectly weighted paragraphs that emerge as if spontaneous.” Adrian Lester Finally Arrives on Broadway, via Wall Street 2021-10-06T04:00:00Z

The play, presented at Performance Space 122 by the Nonsense Company, expounds on the different versions of Shakespeare’s text and intriguingly explores the nature of catharsis. | 'Storm Still': ?King Lear? Inspires a Riff on the Endurance of Time 2011-02-27T23:00:47Z

Consider, for instance, what happened in 1976, when Ms. Dench was performing in a Royal Shakespeare Company production of “The Comedy of Errors.” Taking Her Art Seriously, Not Herself 2011-02-14T20:07:15Z

“The Tragedy of Macbeth”: Several upcoming movies are in black and white, including Joel Coen’s new spin on Shakespeare’s “Macbeth.” ‘Spencer’ Review: Prisoner of the House of Windsor 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z

William Shakespeare “I took this wonderful Shakespeare class in college where I just started to read the tragedies and dig into them,” Mr. Obama said. President Obama’s Reading List 2017-01-18T05:00:00Z

Working at Shakespeare & Co. taught me that, in the best way such lessons are transmitted: by example. What Shakespeare & Co. taught me about being a writer 2014-08-25T04:00:00Z

This week: Quote a line or so from any Shakespeare work, and exemplify it with a contemporary quote, real or imagined, as in Duncan’s examples above. Style Invitational Week 1429: Yuk of the draw — winning cartoon captions 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z

A version of this review appears in print on January 27, 2014, on page C5 of the with the headline: Shakespeare’s Raging Monarch as a Modern-Day Dictator . Theater Review: ‘King Lear’ on an Epic Scale, Starring Simon Russell Beale 2014-01-26T22:47:10Z

The story is one of the most timeless in Western history, like the Odyssey or Shakespeare, only imbued with deeper spiritual significance, as Jews, Christians, and Muslims all claim the hero as their own. How Christian Bale's 'Exodus' Strays from the Bible 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z

And for those seeking some Shakespeare, the Classical Theater of Harlem will stage “The Tempest” at Marcus Garvey Park in Manhattan throughout July. SummerStage Expands Its Schedule, Beginning With a Concert by Tedeschi Trucks Band 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z

And I think when people cry at those moments – while watching a movie or reading a book – the same principle that operates in Shakespeare is at work. ArtsBeat: Theater Talkback: When Shakespeare's Comedies Draw Tears 2011-02-24T20:24:53Z

Mr. Pearce clearly loves the language and in true Shakespeare style, he has appropriated plenty of it. ‘Will’ on TNT: A Punk-Rock Shakespeare, Striving and Stage-Diving in the Big City 2017-06-28T04:00:00Z

Is there any Shakespeare play more perfectly suited to the outdoors than “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”? Outdoor shows: ‘The Tempest,’ ‘Midsummer’ and more 2013-07-16T20:31:29Z

The imitation Shakespeare dialogue now sounds more of Hollywood manufacture than it ever did in the movie. ‘Shakespeare in Love: The Play,’ in London 2014-07-23T04:00:00Z

But in the past three decades TV adaptations of Shakespeare have been less frequent. BBC to screen first TV adaptation of Henry V for more than 30 years 2010-09-29T19:00:00Z

The New Machiavelli: How to Wield Power in the Modern World by Jonathan Powell Machiavelli was focused on human nature and his writings capture eternal verities in the same way that Shakespeare's plays do. 'Tony Blair called back to see if I had blown myself up' 2010-10-09T23:06:00Z

According to a report by British dermatologists, Shakespeare is to blame for our obsession with clear skin. Out, damned spot! Study blames Shakespeare for zit aversion 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z

Such Tweet Sorrow is being improvised by a cast of six RSC actors from a story grid, taking in audience responses and real events, with author Tim Wright helping out Shakespeare. Romeo and Juliet get Twitter treatment 2010-04-12T12:36:00Z

There was just a great mob of people that were involved with Shakespeare In Love. Geoffrey Rush: 'I still think I'm 37' 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z

Photograph: Murdo MacLeod for the Observer I'd describe myself as a Shakespeare anorak, and there are people I share in this with. Shakespeare and me: Simon Russell Beale 2012-06-30T23:07:06Z

Still, Shakespeare and Sylvia Plath come immediately to mind, albeit for the narrower category of great literature about awful relationships; no one wants a father like those in “King Lear” or “Daddy.” Kathryn Schulz Doesn’t Count Any Reading Pleasures as Guilty 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z

“I came to Shakespeare as an actress at a young age,” Ms. Williams said. What if Shakespeare’s Dark Lady Told Their Love Story? What if It Were a Ballet? 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z

By this point it is clear that the real subject of the book is not Shakespeare plays, but us, the U.S. The 10 Best Books of 2020 2020-11-23T05:00:00Z

Trying to create astute psychological portraits from Shakespeare’s conniving cartoons is probably a lost cause, and Mr. Sexton’s cast doesn’t attempt any such folly. | 'Titus Andronicus': ?Titus Andronicus? at Public Lab - Review 2011-12-14T03:01:00Z

The Wooster Group's previous stab at Shakespeare was a meticulous recreation of the 1964 Broadway Hamlet that starred Richard Burton, with actors attempting to replicate a film of the production. Wooster Group makes rare return to London with unlikely RSC collaboration 2012-05-29T13:36:15Z

She turned to Shakespeare in the 1990s, editing a book of his sonnets that two previous editors had failed to complete. Katherine Duncan-Jones, Who Cast Shakespeare as a Boor, Dies at 81 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z

Speaking of Shakespeare: His work provided for one of the two best evenings of the trip; the other made possible by Jane Austen. Perspective | In London, the shows go on — but apathy is unmasked 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z

They do not represent Shakespeare’s “two households both alike in dignity” but rather, as the opening number puts it, “two different worlds on one island.” Review: ‘Once on This Island,’ Revived and Ravishing 2017-12-03T05:00:00Z

Sprinkled with the appropriate bits of Shakespeare, “Hamlet in Bed” follows the relationship between Michael and Anna as they grow more friendly, if sometimes prickly, during preparation for the play. Review: ‘Hamlet in Bed’ Is Michael Laurence’s Shakespearean Take 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z

All too often, though, the replies prove disappointing: “War and Peace,” “Ulysses,” the works of Shakespeare, the novels of Jane Austen. ‘Sea of Glass’: A 1955 masterpiece you’ve probably never heard of 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z

Stephen Greenblatt is the author, among other books, of “Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare” and “Hamlet in Purgatory.” ‘To Be or Not to Be’: Is It the Question or the Point? 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z

Gone is much of the comedy that's not particularly funny to modern ears, minor characters are merged, and she makes a virtue of the fact that Shakespeare gives us no character with whom to sympathise. Measure for Measure ? review 2010-11-22T21:30:00Z

Their home was funded by Junius’s blockbuster career performing Shakespeare’s tragedies, which were all the rage on both sides of the Atlantic in the antebellum era. How a museum dedicated to ‘The Mad Booths of Maryland’ deals with infamy — and fame 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z

But he was probably best known as a director for his avant-garde and often unsettling adaptations of Shakespeare, Ibsen and other generally revered writers. Charles Marowitz, Director and Playwright, Dies at 82 2014-05-12T00:20:07Z

Soon he was snagging major roles at D.C.'s The Shakespeare Theatre — Puck in "A Midsummer Night's Dream." Lauded Broadway actor Daniel Breaker joins Intiman cast of 'A Doctor in Spite of Himself' 2010-09-01T20:42:00Z

“The essential nature of art is freedom,” said the Oscar-winning actor F. Murray Abraham, whose many credits include Shylock, the Jewish moneylender of Shakespeare’s “The Merchant of Venice,” though Mr. Abraham is not Jewish. Who Can Play the King? Representation Questions Fuel Casting Debates. 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z

Alongside 45 productions involving Shakespeare in some form, comedy is once again the most dominant genre: it takes up 36% of this year's shows, with 964 performances. Edinburgh festival fringe 2012 lineup revealed – and even Glasgow's in on the act 2012-05-31T13:38:49Z

“If Shakespeare had scripted the Civil War, he couldn’t have done better than killing Lincoln in the last scene, on Good Friday, just after he had freed the slaves.” Abraham Lincoln’s assassination: Great joy, then a gunshot 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z

Last time I checked, there were not a lot of laughs in Shakespeare’s tragedy about a Moorish general beset by the green-eyed monster. Review: ‘Othello’ Goes Hip-Hop. There’s Humor, Too. 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z

This is not willfully topical, high-concept Shakespeare, the kind in which you imagine the director telling the cast in rehearsals, “Think post-traumatic stress disorder, guys.” ArtsBeat: London Journal: Shakespeare’s Liars and Lovers 2013-07-05T15:47:54Z

It's 16 years since the movie Shakespeare in Love took seven Oscars. Shakespeare in Love takes centre stage 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z

Well OK, as long as there's only a little doubt as to whether I am better than Shakespeare, legally. My sexy werewolf novel got the most awesome review ever – from a US judge 2013-06-14T14:42:41Z

Residents of the Bronx are furious that a once anonymous flight of stairs between Shakespeare Avenue and Anderson Avenue has become the hottest tourist attraction in the world. The Joker stairs – and eight other movie locations that are big tourist attractions 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z

But unlike Mr. Tennant, Ms. Tate is far from her natural perch with Shakespeare. London Theater: Divergent Takes on 'Much Ado' 2011-06-07T13:00:06Z

“There are a lot of theories about Shakespeare.” Christina Ricci, Back Onstage 2012-04-13T04:00:37Z

Past the lily pads and the magnolias and the hill of daffodils, all resting for winter, she paused at the Shakespeare Garden, which contains every botanical mentioned in Shakespeare’s plays. Karen Pittman Isn’t the New Samantha 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z

Suggesting the existence of an essentially female voice is a risky business that will be tackled by a panel at the Shakespeare Theatre Company on Oct. Women’s Voices: Getting it done, at least for now 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z

I didn't get my hands on much Shakespeare until I went to university, but thankfully Corrie had plenty of worldly truths. My Street life 2010-12-03T07:00:00Z

When he became artistic director of the newly founded Shakespeare’s Globe, Ms. van Kampen became its musical director, developing an extensive knowledge of Renaissance music. Writing Her Way From Backstage to Broadway 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z

Type “Shakespeare in Love” and get links to articles written about Harvey Weinstein, the movie’s producer, and Ben Affleck, one of the stars. Perspective | Love-struck hero or creepy harasser? Suddenly we’re seeing our favorite rom-coms in a new light. 2018-02-27T05:00:00Z

A part owner of his theater company, Shakespeare was almost certainly urged by his fellow shareholders to write a play about the Danish prince. ‘To Be or Not to Be’: Is It the Question or the Point? 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z

Shakespeare probably seems like a low-tech kind of guy. Is This a Livestream I See Before Me? 2020-05-13T04:00:00Z

“He preferred London,” Gomez said as her son took a smartphone picture of the canal boats tied along the banks of the Avon outside the Royal Shakespeare Company complex. Exploring post-Brexit Britain while the pound is at an all-time low 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z

Gary Taylor is general editor of “The New Oxford Shakespeare.” For this globe-trotting Hamlet, all the world’s a stage 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z

After all, Shakespeare wrote of fatal divisions and titanic feeling. A Shakespeare tale with honesty and heart 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z

“You’re the go-to guy for weird president things,” says the agent, adding condescendingly, “I know how much you love your Shakespeare.” Benjamin Walker, Sexypants Vampire Hunter 2012-06-17T06:13:01Z

Go off to see the Wizard via this version of the L. Frank Baum story adapted for the Royal Shakespeare Company. Arts and entertainment highlights for the week beginning Nov. 18, 2012 2012-11-16T00:17:04Z

Stage combat has been an exciting theatrical staple for centuries — not just in Shakespeare, but in ancient slapstick romps, and modern dramas and comedies. Nuns, swordplay in theater offerings | Bumbershoot 2013 2013-08-29T05:26:24Z

This former schoolteacher was developing a nearby tract he’d named Shakespeare Beach, so he christened its Red Car stop after a Greek god mentioned in Hamlet. Critic at Large David Kipen on El Segundo in literature 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z

He's the perfect person to tour London's Shakespeare sites with. What happened to Shakespeare's theatres? 2014-04-23T06:29:19Z

I do honestly think that's what Shakespeare wrote: a very complex person. Jonathan Slinger on Hamlet: 'I'm going to try to achieve the impossible' 2013-03-11T19:00:02Z

But scholars for British Shakespeare publisher, Arden, now believe the Bard wrote large parts of the play. 'Lost' Shakespeare play published 2010-03-15T18:20:00Z

Shakespeare Salon Dramatic and comedic pieces written by or inspired by the Bard. L.A. theater openings, March 29-April 5: 'The Break of Noon' and more 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z

In 2004 he enjoyed a rich season with the Royal Shakespeare Company. Corin Redgrave obituary 2010-04-06T18:58:00Z

More than 80 women have accused the producer behind hit films including “The English Patient” and “Shakespeare in Love” of sexual misconduct. Weinstein stir crazy at New York hospital days after sex crimes conviction, spokesman says 2020-02-29T05:00:00Z

Is it unusual to you that there's an appeal in looking at this character in a different way than the typical villainy that's assigned to him by Shakespeare? Steve Coogan on finding "The Lost King": "It's not a journalistic piece. It's a point of view" 2023-03-25T04:00:00Z

The actor, who won an Oscar for her performance in Shakespeare in Love, last appeared on stage in the UK 10 years ago in the Donmar Warehouse's production of Proof. Finding Neverland musical to debut in UK ? starring Gwyneth Paltrow? 2012-05-17T13:42:59Z

The new artistic director also retains his position as an associate with London’s National Theatre, and his Shakespeare Theatre Company contract allows him to direct one play a year elsewhere. Perspective | How do you sell Shakespeare in 2020? The Englishman newly heading a storied D.C. theater has a playbook. 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z

Because sometimes people can just make Shakespeare about words, but no. Danai Gurira plays "Richard III" for PBS: "This is ancient text running through a contemporary body" 2023-05-18T04:00:00Z

Police say the teens, ages 18 and 17, were charged with arson Monday for setting fire to the American Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford and to a truck. 2 teenagers charged in fire at American Shakespeare Theatre 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z

Shakespeare seems to have regarded his own perspective as being as unreliable as anyone else's, and less suppressed his own ego than "vanished" it, clearing the way for an apparently infinite capacity for human empathy. Don Paterson on Shakespeare's sonnets 2010-10-15T23:06:00Z

Shine, who directed 16 productions with the company, recently married Dan McCleary, founder and producing artistic director of the Tennessee Shakespeare Festival, and the couple are the parents of infant twins. Seattle Shakespeare Co. announces more role changes 2011-03-23T21:11:04Z

Those words might be Ms. Packer’s credo regarding Shakespeare. Theater Review: ‘Women of Will’ at the Gym at Judson Memorial Church 2013-02-03T23:10:30Z

For his valedictory production as Shakespeare Theatre Company’s artistic director, Michael Kahn has chosen to take us back to the dawn of Western drama. Review | Michael Kahn turns to a timeless play from ancient Greece to send off his career 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z

After Shakespeare’s death, his plays became a way to legitimize new technologies. Is This a Livestream I See Before Me? 2020-05-13T04:00:00Z

Shakespeare is uniquely absent from the records as a writer. I receive hate mail for questioning the authorship of Shakespeare plays 2013-04-23T07:00:02Z

But not all of Shakespeare’s contemporaries took his newly minted status at face value. Shakespeare: Actor. Playwright. Social Climber. 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z

Its very rapidity leads to some gabbled speaking, and the hurtling style which Boyd adopted for Shakespeare's histories is sometimes ill-suited to a play full of rhetorical excess. Review|Theatre|Antony and Cleopatra, RSC, Stratford-upon-Avon|Michael Billington 2010-05-10T23:18:00Z

But Shakespeare was “a talisman of Englishness…to keep themselves from ‘going native’.” All the world was his stage 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z

Will everybody in “A Comedy of Tenors” get as mixed up as the characters in Shakespeare’s “A Comedy of Errors”? Review | Can Beppo the bellhop sing? Olney’s ‘A Comedy of Tenors’ is more frenzy than finesse. 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z

The prospect of such a drastic rollback is sparking an anxious debate over the duty of government to foster the arts in the land of Shakespeare. Britain plans dramatic cuts in the arts 2010-08-06T23:35:00Z

Award-winning actor Edward Gero stars as Falstaff in the Shakespeare play. The best theater events of summer 2019 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z

So it seemed as if Louis CK had simply, deliberately cast the role race-neutral, as you might with a staging of Shakespeare. REVIEW: Louie Watch: Going All In 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z

The novel's confusions of gender were inspired by Shakespeare's As You Like It: a man, D'Albert, and his mistress, Rosette, both fall in love with a dashing cavalier named Théodore. Sam Mills' top 10 fictional sex changes 2013-03-20T13:54:52Z

Everyone, as has been frequently commented, makes a Shakespeare in his or her own image. That Man From Stratford 2019-04-21T04:00:00Z

He then took it to the Folger Shakespeare library in Washington DC to verify it; the FBI and Durham police believe he stole it from Durham University Library in 1998. Watch this 2010-07-29T07:00:00Z

After all this, I needed a play that concludes in marital joy – a Shakespeare comedy, or maybe an operetta. Unhappily ever after: theatre weddings can drive you away from the altar 2011-02-15T14:13:22Z

In April, the Public Theater suspended its Shakespeare in the Park season for the first time, a move as disheartening as it was responsible. 7 Things to Do This Weekend 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z

And once he started doing Shakespeare, you saw his passion and his commitment.” Eddie George Leaps to ‘Chicago’ From the N.F.L. 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z

Rick Dildine, the artistic director of the Alabama Shakespeare Festival, the state’s largest professional theater, announced the initiative on Wednesday. Alabama Shakespeare Festival Aims to Update Southern Canon 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z

Ed Sylvanus Iskandar, director of Shakespeare Theatre’s “The Taming of the Shrew,” is known in New York for his invite-only “salons,” during which he does such things as cook for his audience. Enda Walsh steps outside the Irish playwriting box 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z

And Shakespeare’s “quality of mercy” speech becomes an appeal to follow the golden rule. The election is on everyone's mind as SCR presents 'All the Way' and 'District Merchants' 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z

ME Well, generally today you’ll see women playing the women’s roles, but in Shakespeare’s day only men were allowed to act, and productions imported from Shakespeare’s Globe try to bring back some of that tradition. Too Much Shakespeare? Be Not Cowed 2013-09-12T18:18:17Z

The Guardian's Lyn Gardner said the production, performed at the Barbican, made it seem "as if Shakespeare is not only our contemporary but only finished writing the plays this morning". Antonioni Project: the great big movie mash-up 2011-01-09T22:00:00Z

The new staging at the Shakespeare Theatre Company features songs in a different order from when the musical debuted on Broadway, but the overhaul isn’t radical. A spirited ‘Secret Garden’ blooms at Shakespeare Theatre 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z

Is it good because it’s Shakespeare, or do we want it to be Shakespeare because it’s so good? The Radical Argument of the New Oxford Shakespeare 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z

Yet there are three pages of the Folio that we know for a fact were not written by Shakespeare: the "Dedicatorie Epistle", and the address "To the great Variety of Readers" at the beginning. Who edited Shakespeare? 2013-07-12T13:00:01Z

You watch him, and it’s hard not to envision him busting out into some lines of Shakespeare. "Rebecca" is what you get if you ask Alfred Hitchcock to manage up while crafting gothic drama 2017-09-03T04:00:00Z

His husband, Royal Shakespeare Company Artistic Director Gregory Doran, took leave from his job to care for him. Acclaimed Shakespearean actor Antony Sher dies at 72 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z

Many people have felt like that after sitting for several hours in the state of voluntary captivity that Shakespeare demands, but they usually recover. ‘King Lear’ in the Park, Starring John Lithgow 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z

The American soldiers who fought in the Ardennes were mostly conscripts — citizen soldiers if one is being polite, Shakespeare’s warriors for the working day if one is being lyrical. Review: In ‘Ardennes 1944: The Battle of the Bulge,’ Antony Beevor Is on Familiar Ground 2015-12-27T05:00:00Z

We used to do Shakespeare readings a lot at the house. ArtsBeat: In Toronto, Joss Whedon Discusses 'Much Ado About Nothing' 2012-09-12T20:05:49Z

“Shakespeare wasn’t a solitary genius, flying above everyone else,” Mr. Vickers said. Further Proof of Shakespeare’s Hand in ‘The Spanish Tragedy’ 2013-08-13T02:49:45Z

The rather dashing figure — resembling a bearded Roman god — is, according to Griffiths, surrounded by iconography and coded symbols that identify him as William Shakespeare. ‘Shakespeare’s Beehive’ review: Are these notes and scribbles the Bard’s? 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z

“But then they might not actually be listening to Shakespeare.” Saturation of Shakespeare Offers Tough Choices 2014-01-21T22:13:00Z

Ophelia’s laments on death and love, for which Brahms used a German translation of Shakespeare’s “Hamlet,” are taken from Act IV, Scene 5. Music Review | Thomas Ad?s: Thomas Ad?s Conducts Ensemble ACJW at Carnegie Hall 2010-03-25T20:35:00Z

This week, similar good news comes from Seattle Shakespeare Company. Look who else has a balanced arts budget 2011-09-27T21:46:33Z

Or as Folger’s artistic director, Janet Griffin, said to me one time, in reference to another of Shakespeare’s obscurer dramas, “Pericles”: “We are looking for what the play is saying to us today.” Perspective | Dumbing down Shakespeare: Are Americans too intellectually lazy to appreciate his genius? 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z

Rush's film credits include "Shine" and "Shakespeare in Love." Geoffrey Rush to go mad on stage again in 'Diary' 2011-01-10T21:50:30Z

Karam was recruited by Paparelli, whom he met when both were summer interns at the Utah Shakespeare Festival, and who was then working for artistic director Michael Kahn at the Shakespeare Theatre Company. How a humane playwright made it all the way to Broadway 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z

In terms of that influence he’s probably the most dominant writer since Shakespeare.” The Mark Twain of hip-hop: How Iceberg Slim’s “Pimp” changed pop culture 2015-08-08T04:00:00Z

“Finding it right now is almost crazy,” said Emma Smith, a Shakespeare expert at the University of Oxford who authenticated the Folio during a visit to the house in September. Shakespeare First Folio Discovered, in Time for an Anniversary 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z

His roles onstage at Oxford were in Shakespeare, culminating in his playing the title role in “Hamlet.” Hugh Grant contemplates the complexities of a film actor’s life 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z

Written in 1603, Othello is one of Shakespeare's tragedies based on an Italian story A Moorish Captain by the poet Cinthio. Playing the Moor 2011-06-30T07:46:27Z

By the 1970s he had joined the Royal Shakespeare Company as its in-house fight director. Battle-Honed Commander Unleashes Pirates 2011-02-25T00:04:44Z

From Richard Burton to Henry Morton Stanley, a volume or two of Shakespeare was an indispensable part of an African adventure. All the world was his stage 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z

This version, replacing a canceled staging at the Public, was directed by Saheem Ali, who also oversaw the Woolly Mammoth production, as well as the Public’s first pandemic audio play, Shakespeare’s “Richard II.” Anne Washburn Just Wants Her Trump Play to Be Irrelevant 2020-10-18T04:00:00Z

Now add to that list "scoring live Shakespeare starring Benedict Cumberbatch." Jon Hopkins to score 'Hamlet' production starring Benedict Cumberbatch 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z

Rather, the musical fabric of Sybil Williams’s new play is an anthology of Billie Holiday numbers that treats Shakespeare’s “The Tempest” as a bebopper would a standard: chord changes underpinning a new, complex melody. Bring on the ‘Stormy Weather’: In Series does Shakespeare by way of Billie Holiday 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z

The part is made for an actor of bravura inclinations; Shakespeare piled on the pressure for Hal when he created this adversary of pure passion. Review | The Folger turns one of Shakespeare’s histories into a problem play 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z

The Four Shakespeare Preludes, concert overtures in effect, are much more interesting. Raff: Symphony No 2; Four Shakespeare Preludes – review 2013-02-21T21:50:01Z

It is famously said that a monkey put in front of a typewriter for a million years will eventually write the complete works of Shakespeare. If Jack Black can make an excellent movie, surely anything is possible 2012-07-26T16:00:00Z

As in all her papers, using literature and particularly Shakespeare, Bernardine lays warm flesh on the dry bones of a difficult psychoanalytic concept such as projective identification. Letter: Bernardine Bishop's passionate commitment to psychotherapy 2013-07-24T15:43:46Z

The semi-comprehensible North Indian dialect in which the characters spoke also brilliantly approximated Shakespeare's own intricate, poetic and unfamiliar language. Amit Chaudhuri: 'How I learned to love Bollywood' 2013-07-25T19:00:01Z

To make his point, he kindly removes his pants and reads Shakespeare to me. What TV gets wrong about guns 2014-02-14T23:30:00Z

It’s like complaining about Shakespeare bending history, or protesting that a great song isn’t factual. What Is the Meaning of Sacred Texts? 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z

This weekend, 15 plays by Shakespeare and other scribes will be performed by local troupes at Volunteer Park on Capitol Hill. Theater minus the roof, in and around Seattle 2013-07-11T23:00:44Z

“What shall be next,” says Gower, the sorely taxed narrator of Shakespeare’s complicated romance “Pericles,” preparing to introduce the next knot in the yarn. Review: In ‘Pericles,’ Much Ado About a Lot of Things 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z

Intimate setting for new works and bold interpretations of Shakespeare and other classics. A theater-lover’s introduction to London’s multiplicity of stages 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z

The Independent Shakespeare Co. is reimagining “Richard III” for the Griffith Park Free Shakespeare Festival, with rock music and a title character, played by David Melville, who makes for “a gleeful, gloating, perfectly despicable Richard.” Essential Arts & Culture: Days of Rage, art and inequity in Boyle Heights, 'West Side Story' refreshed 2016-07-17T04:00:00Z

“Remembrance,” a tribute to a late colleague, offered four sonnets by Shakespeare set in tart, gangly lines, well sung by Charlotte Mundy, a soprano. Music Review: Robert Sirota’s Chamber Works at Manhattan School of Music 2012-09-16T22:15:11Z

She trounces her male peers in stick fighting and can recite Shakespeare. Movie Review: ‘Winnie Mandela,’ Starring Jennifer Hudson and Many Outfits 2013-09-05T21:38:48Z

Shakespeare died 401 years ago, but original scripts from his era live on in a new digital archive​​​​​​​ Jeff Koons on his new Gagosian show, his MOCA award and what's behind those Louis Vuitton bags 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z

When you return to the text and compare your own remembered version with Shakespeare’s original, you learn a lot about his genius. Encounters with Shakespeare 2016-04-23T04:00:00Z

With a fantastic understanding of tone and genre, “Macbitches” juggles headier themes while remaining a lively college drama, a riff on both Shakespeare and “All About Eve,” and a showcase for Dinolan’s blazing charisma. Review: Without Bloodshed, the Ingénue Takes the Lead 2022-08-22T04:00:00Z

I came across multivolume Chinese novels from the Ming Dynasty like The Golden Lotus, a sordidly realistic novel from Shakespeare's time. The novel is centuries older than we've been told 2010-07-23T13:56:00Z

It is the actor's first Shakespeare play for more than a decade. Depot gig opens Manchester festival 2013-07-05T05:52:27Z

Fashion plays a central role in "Station Eleven" thanks to The Traveling Symphony's performances of Shakespeare and their affection for vibrant objects. Survival tips from TV we didn't know we needed 2022-01-23T05:00:00Z

It’s watching a group of girls meet Shakespeare on their own electric terms — with ferocity, abandon and the occasional wild dance break. Review: Girls Just Wanna Play ‘Mac Beth’ 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z

Bieito has no qualms about chopping up Shakespeare's prose for his arboreal venture. Shakespeare inspires forest drama 2012-09-05T07:31:23Z

They are under the cosh as the premium Shakespeare producers. Coriolan/us; Troilus and Cressida – review 2012-08-11T23:06:04Z

Those riches are something that this exhibition — “Fame, Fortune & Theft: The Shakespeare First Folio” — nearly takes for granted, which it has every right to, given the Shakespearean halo that hovers over the Folger. Exhibition Review: Shakespeare Folios as Venerated Relics 2011-07-07T12:01:10Z

“What Shakespeare was trying to say here,” he starts, as if the playwright were a buddy of his who couldn’t speak for himself. Review: In ‘American Moor,’ an Insider’s Guide to ‘Othello’ 2019-09-08T04:00:00Z

The discovery of Beethoven's symphonies six years later, coming shortly after that of Shakespeare, turned his creative world upside down. Forgotten Berlioz: Rom?o et Juliette 2012-02-09T23:00:02Z

“He was another grotesque man who has this insane ambition,” Mr. Taylor said of Richard III, Shakespeare’s hunchbacked protagonist. Robin Lord Taylor on His Charismatic ‘Gotham’ Penguin 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z

Emma Rice committed Shakespeare’s Globe to gender parity in casting but quickly left her role as director of the theater in the face of criticism about her use of technology in productions. Glenda Jackson Hopes to Scale Mount Lear in Her Stage Return 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z

There's a tendency with Shakespeare to think it requires a type of bombastic presentation, in that there's a certain kind of intellectual mood that's encouraged both in the performance and the reception of it. Danai Gurira plays "Richard III" for PBS: "This is ancient text running through a contemporary body" 2023-05-18T04:00:00Z

Such abstract touches paled compared to the Wagnerian choices of the original Broadway director, Terry Hands, then the highly regarded leader of the Royal Shakespeare Company in England. Arts & Leisure: ?Carrie,? a Huge Stage Flop, Is Reinvented by MCC Theater 2012-02-02T13:00:00Z

In the English-speaking world we deploy Shakespeare whenever we’re adjusting to new technologies or just feeling weird about our world and our place in it. Is This a Livestream I See Before Me? 2020-05-13T04:00:00Z

He brought Shakespeare to the screen several times, and his “Romeo and Juliet” was nominated for Best Picture and Best Director Oscars. Crowds gather in Florence for farewell to Franco Zeffirelli 2019-06-18T04:00:00Z

Shakespeare's plays may be crammed with incomprehensible Elizabethan references and jokes which amuse nobody, and these have hardly damaged his continuing popularity. Mere fact, mere fiction 2010-04-16T23:10:00Z

I just think about Shakespeare, and I get a little bit of courage to keep going.” American Playwrights Try to Reinvent the History Play 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z

This week: Shakespeare al fresco, a woman on the verge of radicalization, and some classic Grand Guignol. L.A. theater openings, June 28-July 5: 'Romeo & Juliet' and more 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z

Hall said he kept “about 90 percent” of the movie’s lines, but added new material and chunks of Shakespeare’s own words. London critics fall for ‘Shakespeare in Love’ 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z

Alzheimer’s disease tests a brilliant mind and a marriage in Henkin’s new novel, which follows a Shakespeare professor and his wife from fledgling romance to unexpected loss. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-07-01T04:00:00Z

Director Andy Burden describes this small-scale production, with just four actors, as Shakespeare for the Twitter generation – but don't let that put you off. Henry V 2010-09-26T21:00:00Z

I favor the latter explanation, also known as a sensibly presumed truth, just as I believe William Shakespeare wrote a few plays in his day. Anonymous: So Shakespeare Was a Fraud? Really? 2011-10-26T21:44:13Z

The land of William Shakespeare, Charles Dickens and Jane Austen still loves to read, and to talk. Making Hay: British book fest conquers the world 2010-06-02T11:37:00Z

This is true not only of Shakespeare, but also of linguistically rich latter-day writers like August Wilson, Caryl Churchill, Edward Albee, Suzan-Lori Parks and David Mamet. Turn the Living Room into a Stage: Read Plays Out Loud 2020-03-27T04:00:00Z

She won an Oscar in 1998 for her role in "Shakespeare in Love." Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin finalize divorce 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z

Nevertheless this 75 minutes deserves its place in the Swan and is a reminder that, in the right hands, Shakespeare can be child's play. The Tempest ? review 2011-03-18T22:00:01Z

She won an Academy Award and Golden Globe for best actress for her role in "Shakespeare in Love." Gwyneth Paltrow is a human after all? 2019-02-02T05:00:00Z

To see Smith perform this speech at the Shakespeare Theatre is one of the highlights of the production. ‘As You Like It’ actor Derek Smith details approach to ‘Seven Ages of Man’ speech

She was a poetry scholar, a Shakespeare scholar and a schoolteacher. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: A Shakespeare Scholar Turned Nazi Hunter 2017-10-15T04:00:00Z

But Shakespeare’s use of madness – including the feigned madness of our friend Hamlet – occupies its own cosmic level in world literature. ArtsBeat: Theater Talkback: A Method to Their Madness 2011-07-07T15:40:01Z

The conversation led to a creative pact: Mr. Sellars would stage “Othello”; Ms. Morrison would find a way to talk back to Shakespeare. Toni Morrison?s ?Desdemona? and Peter Sellars?s ?Othello? 2011-10-25T21:57:27Z

Shakespeare & Company, as its name implies, goes heavy on classics — starting July 2, Christopher Lloyd plays King Lear — while Barrington Stage Company focuses on musicals and new plays. A Guide to Theater Festivals in New York and the Berkshires 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z

His frequent detours into biography, both Shakespeare’s and his own, are agreeable if more than a little glib. Theater Review: ‘In Acting Shakespeare’ at the Pearl Theater 2013-01-16T19:42:36Z

Shakespeare, Dickens and Mozart have all been brought enthusiastically back to life by Callow's dramatic storytelling. Simon Callow's critical re-appraisal 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z

And however dismaying they were for me as a Shakespeare scholar, his letters also say a lot about this extraordinary man. An Unexpected Letter from John Paul Stevens, Shakespeare Skeptic 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z

Even Shakespeare, did not own the stories in his plays. In the beginning, there was fan fiction: from the four gospels to Fifty Shades 2012-08-13T16:34:00Z

The opening and closing tableaux make that point, with the cast huddled around a leather-bound Shakespeare edition as if it were a family album. Review: An ‘As You Like It’ That Is More Prose Than Poetry 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z

In rehearsals, the cast members binge on Shakespeare films and take vocabulary quizzes, all of which contributes to their ease with words like “spake” or “poesies.” The Improvised Shakespeare Company’s Couplets Off the Cuff 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z

Readings from Shakespeare's sonnets and plays will be interspersed throughout. How Southern California is marking Shakespeare's death 400 years ago: Plays, talks, sonnet karaoke 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z

We learn not simply what Trump tells us about Shakespeare but what Shakespeare tells us about Trump. What Would Shakespeare Have Made of Donald Trump? 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z

In tents above English Bay, Vancouver B.C.’s excellent summer Shakespeare festival showcases Canada’s classical acting talent. 5 Seattle favorites: Live theater, indoors and out 2014-05-11T04:00:00Z

Back then, it was to trace Shakespeare's route from Stratford to London, a 120-mile trek that explains why the Bard may not have visited his wife very often. Clive Stafford Smith: Belarus Free Theatre risk life and death 2013-06-10T11:11:56Z

He argued with Shakespeare in taverns and quarreled with Milton in print. The Ill-Defined Plot 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z

So we’ve been doing a show, “Shakespeare Hour Live,” every week since we closed down. To see or not to see? Experiencing Shakespeare during the pandemic offers its own rewards. 2021-04-08T04:00:00Z

Vaughan Williams wrote “Three Shakespeare Songs” in 1951 as a test piece for a national choral competition, and the music is quite daring. New Amsterdam Singers Bring Shakespeare to Upper West Side 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z

"What's brilliant about Shakespeare is, I can take it in and it can be mine. In this Black female body, I can own it." Danai Gurira plays "Richard III" for PBS: "This is ancient text running through a contemporary body" 2023-05-18T04:00:00Z

The opportunity to improve Shakespeare's "ragged written copy", and further ingratiate himself with the Herberts may have come as a welcome opportunity. Who edited Shakespeare? 2013-07-12T13:00:01Z

She became an active leader in the San Diego English Speaking Union, organising the Shakespeare competition for high-school students. Rita Bronowski obituary 2010-09-22T16:51:00Z

Apart from that, what a delight to see Shakespeare’s ladies call the shots, not to mention doing shots with Shakespeare’s ladies. 6 Immersive Theater Shows to See in New York 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z

A recently discovered portrait of William Shakespeare, presented by the Shakespeare Birthplace trust. ArtsBeat Blog: Shakespeare Trust Hides Shakespeare's Name to Protest Shakespeare Film 2011-10-25T14:11:19Z

The effort to achieve “objectivity” or “detachment”—“to sound as cool as Jane Austen or as Olympian as Shakespeare”—was pointless, could only “betray our own reality.” Elizabeth and Alice 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z

Walton's score was written in 1944 for Laurence Olivier's film adaptation of Shakespeare's play. Hurt and Kinnear to appear at Proms 2014-08-04T04:00:00Z

“Sylvan was a formidable scholar of Renaissance literature, and the Signet Shakespeare was a standard reference for everyone of my generation,” Ms. Vendler said.  Sylvan Barnet, Scholar, Is Dead at 89; Edited Signet Shakespeare Paperbacks 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z

When Alexis de Tocqueville visited the U.S., in the eighteen-thirties, he found a people still in thrall to British literary culture, with volumes of Shakespeare in many a pioneer’s hut. American Playwrights Try to Reinvent the History Play 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z

But Shakespeare's propulsive dramatisation of the heart of darkness is radically different from Dante's deeply Christian vision of a structured inferno. Macbeth 2010-04-30T20:35:00Z

Payton, who is starring in her own holiday cabaret at Signature Theatre, will be making her debut at Shakespeare. No room at the inn? Theaters are extending runs of popular shows. 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z

And staging Shakespeare's "King Lear" — and the musical "Fiddler on the Roof." Busy director Sheila Daniels helms 'Dancing at Lughnasa' at Seattle Rep 2010-11-14T05:01:00Z

As Shakespeare suggests elsewhere, the course of true love never did run smooth. History Lives in Fiction: From Jennie Churchill’s Britain to Jacksonian Cincinnati 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z

Third, there are many words which appear for the first time in printed works attributed to Shakespeare which have not entered into common usage at all. Letters: Refudiating Palin's Shakespeare link 2010-07-23T23:06:00Z

But, “Hamlet” is “my favorite play of Shakespeare,” he confesses. Al Pacino was nearly fired from ‘The Godfather.’ The rest is history. 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z

Or William Shakespeare, which in this case is the same thing. ArtsBeat: Theater Talkback: When Shakespeare's Comedies Draw Tears 2011-02-24T20:24:53Z

But that’s really as far as O’Farrell goes with the Shakespeare stuff in this brilliant examination of grief and family bonds. Ten books to read in July 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z

A little after noon on a Wednesday, in costume for a photo shoot, a gaggle of them stood onstage with Mr. Bayes at the Polonsky Shakespeare Center in Brooklyn, clowning for the camera. The Professor of Pratfalls 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z

It's not exactly contemporary – it's like an Irish version of Shakespeare. Niamh Cusack: 'Widow Quinn is an outsider. There's something incredibly anarchic about her' 2011-08-27T23:06:30Z

The Fringe schedule is so packed that performances take place wherever there's a window: from Shakespeare for Breakfast to very late-night comedy. Edinburgh festival from dusk till dawn 2010-08-11T20:31:00Z

"I was worried because I was force-fed Shakespeare at school like a lot of people, so you learn that it's medicinal," he said. Russell Brand takes sobriety to new level in "Tempest" 2010-12-08T23:20:00Z

Shakespeare was married to Anne Hathaway; the couple had three children: Susanna; Hamnet, who died at 11; and Judith. Did Shakespeare have a secret son? 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z

Mr. Sullivan, whose outings at the Delacorte have established him as a sumo master in wrestling irksome Shakespeare behemoths like “The Merchant of Venice” and “All Well’s That Ends Well,” obligingly avoids tediousness. ‘King Lear’ in the Park, Starring John Lithgow 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z

George Bernard Shaw feared that the Victorian tendency to see Shakespeare as immune from criticism verged on “Bardolatry,” warning that “it is false admiration to worship him as an infallible demi-god.” Why We (Mostly) Stopped Messing With Shakespeare’s Language 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z

Among the others was Oskar Eustis, the artistic director of the Public Theater in New York, which runs the annual Shakespeare in the Park program. The Drama of Ted Cruz: A Little Bit of Shakespeare in That Speech? 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z

The play, by James Ijames, is about a family that, like the royal family in Shakespeare’s story, centers on a lonely young college student unsettled by his mother’s decision to marry her dead husband’s brother. ‘Fat Ham,’ a Pulitzer-Winning Riff on ‘Hamlet,’ Is Broadway-Bound 2022-12-05T05:00:00Z

In the mid-1960s he began working as a draftsman for Ming Cho Lee, his mentor at the New York Shakespeare Festival. David Mitchell, Broadway Set Designer, Dies at 79 2011-10-05T01:56:33Z

Like “Shakespeare’s Worst,” Iris Dauterman’s “Hatpin Panic” is being performed in a rehearsal hall at Arena that hasn’t been reimagined with any flair — portable platforms and three static backdrops, colorfully lighted — that’s it. Review | Mike Daisey scores big in an uneven ‘curated’ series at Capital Fringe Festival 2019-07-10T04:00:00Z

The uniting theme was literary, with each piece inspired by poets who were masters of both the lyric and dramatic modes: Shakespeare, Goethe and the Spanish poet and playwright Antonio Machado. Orchestra of St. Luke’s Gives a Literature-Inspired Concert 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z

Mr. Villanueva of the Royal Academy, who is also a professor of comparative literature, said Shakespeare and Cervantes should be honored as “two absolutely complementary authors.” In Spain, Catching Up With Cervantes 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z

Analysis of paint samples from the Flower portrait, owned by the Royal Shakespeare Company, revealed the presence of a yellow pigment which did not come on to the market until the early 19th century. Mistaken identity 2010-06-18T23:06:00Z

Ms. Streep researched her part carefully enough to learn even what Mrs. Thatcher carried in her handbag: 3-by-5 cards with adages by Kipling, Shakespeare, Abraham Lincoln and Disraeli. Arts & Leisure: For ?Iron Lady,? Armor Added to Streep?s Wardrobe 2011-12-23T15:01:39Z

The June 17 event includes readings from a variety of Shakespeare works on money and justice. ArtsBeat: Damon, Baranski Join Lineup for Delacorte Event on ‘Shakespeare, Money and Morals’ 2013-06-03T20:53:39Z

And I said, ‘But is there something wrong with an earth spirit speaking with a different accent? He’s still speaking Shakespeare, he just pronounces the words differently.’ Christoph Waltz: 'Try as you might, you can never break free from your past' 2015-10-10T04:00:00Z

It became the perfect hook for ninth graders in a study of Shakespeare that would conclude in 12th grade with "Macbeth." Will high school "classics" be replaced? 2022-10-08T04:00:00Z

But as in the original, which is categorized as one of Shakespeare’s comedies, the men and their standoff mostly provide context for the romances blooming among their children or associates. The election is on everyone's mind as SCR presents 'All the Way' and 'District Merchants' 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z

Mr. Miller, whose long and illustrious career includes benchmark productions of Shakespeare and classical operas, stages “Rutherford” in a smothering cocoon of darkness. ArtsBeat: London Theater Journal: Trapped 2013-07-01T15:07:20Z

Consider how the average duration of stage drama has been whittled down since Shakespeare's time. Ten-minute plays: the most fun you can have in a theatre? | Alfred Hickling 2010-03-19T14:10:00Z

Anyway, truly gifted actors have a way of making Shakespeare’s verse sound like thoughts sprung immediately from the minds of the characters to their mouths. Too Much Shakespeare? Be Not Cowed 2013-09-12T18:18:17Z

The company he set up out of university prospered, and the Royal Shakespeare Company took him on as an assistant director. Dominic Cooke: a life in theatre 2011-01-31T00:05:02Z

Shakespeare in the bath Fernando the compere asks us to do a "congo" up the stairs to add a little pizzazz. The House Cabaret home invasion 2010-08-15T20:30:00Z

Ed Goldstick, another Shakespeare fan, said this was his first time at this festival. Outdoor-theater season kicks off at Volunteer Park with 'Much Ado' 2011-07-11T00:28:05Z

In a separate auditorium, the playhouse has revived Shakespeare’s “Much Ado About Nothing.” At the National Theater, Love Redeems, in Various Ways 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z

Dramatic accomplishment: Just four days before “Threepenny” rehearsals began, he finished a run of “Richard III” at the Folger Shakespeare. Signature’s ‘Revenge of the Understudies’: Give them a spotlight and no one gets hurt

Is Shakespeare the greatest British contribution to world culture, as this exhibition claims? Is Shakespeare Britain's greatest contribution to world culture? 2012-08-28T12:54:58Z

Flash back, though, to happier times, when “Lone Star Love” was simply a bouncy Texas-set updating of Shakespeare’s “The Merry Wives of Windsor,” complete with bluegrass music. A Not-So-Merry Mix: Shakespeare, Bluegrass and Randy Quaid 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z

And the storm Tchaikovsky composed in Act IV becomes as cosmic as the one in Shakespeare’s “King Lear.” Critic?s Notebook: One Classic Ballet, Many Interpretations 2011-07-05T00:25:11Z

Shakespeare doesn’t give Isabella any lines after that, because once again to whom can she complain? Why Plays About Sexual Assault Are Too Murky for Our Own Good 2017-11-27T05:00:00Z

"We're not saying Shakespeare knew this object, we are saying the object takes you to the issue that fired Shakespeare's imagination." British Museum Shakespeare exhibition to include prized Robben Island copy 2012-07-17T17:11:20Z

An intoxicatingly expressionist Shakespeare adaptation dense in fog and shadow, Coen’s “Macbeth” is a solo debut from a filmmaker whose visual virtuosity has never been so starkly drawn in sound and fury. Joel Coen distills ‘Macbeth’ down to the bone 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z

While he follows Shakespeare in locating it in Scotland, rather than taking us back to the 11th century he places it in the early 1970s. Jo Nesbo Sculpts ‘Macbeth’ Into Shadowy Crime Noir 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z

He originally wasn't keen to take on the latest project when he was approached about a commission for the World Shakespeare Festival. Shakespeare inspires forest drama 2012-09-05T07:31:23Z

Washington, who last performed Shakespeare on screen in 1993's "Much Ado About Nothing," is superb in the title role, playing up Macbeth's fears while also making his madness credible. Denzel Washington is commanding in Joel Coen's bloody, bold and resolute "Tragedy of Macbeth" 2021-12-25T05:00:00Z

Luhrmann took some liberties with that sacred Shakespeare text and his take on the American classic is no different. Cannes Film Festival 2013 2013-05-16T20:23:54Z

Two recent productions, The Tempest and a staging of Shakespeare's epic poem Venus and Adonis, have been collaborations with London's Little Angel puppet theatre. Revenge of the Muppets 2012-02-12T20:00:19Z

Beyond that, the production of the Shakespeare classic, which premiered in Toronto in 2011 and is set to Sergei Prokofiev's epochal Russian score, offers other distinctions. Alexei Ratmansky wants to reignite Romeo and Juliet's spark 2014-07-05T04:00:00Z

In the invigorating “Being Shakespeare,” now playing at the BAM Harvey Theater, Mr. Callow testifies in support of the playwright. Theater Review: ?Being Shakespeare? With Simon Callow at BAM 2012-04-06T21:54:30Z

Paraphrasing Shakespeare, this show could be said to ask, “What’s in a line?” Cy Twombly, Redefined by His Drawings 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z

Named for Shakespeare’s son, who died at 11, it twines the child’s brief illness with his parents’ long coupledom. Best Theater of 2020 2020-12-01T05:00:00Z

Though Silbert's ability to bring new plays to life is beyond question, as a director of Shakespeare she was an unknown quantity – so it was far-sighted of the Royal Exchange to present her Shakespearean debut. The Comedy of Errors 2010-04-09T20:30:00Z

A warrior finds that politics can be the deadliest game of all in Shakespeare's powerful drama about fifth-century Rome. 16 top entertainment picks to kick off 2012 2011-12-28T21:43:08Z

He played a crucial part in the evolving histories of the Glasgow Citizens theatre, the Mermaid in London, and Stratford-upon-Avon before the advent of the Royal Shakespeare Company. David William obituary 2010-08-23T17:41:00Z

Abraham has memorized more than 50 of Shakespeare’s sonnets, which, as Imperioli observed, he recites regularly to keep his memory sharp. F. Murray Abraham Would Make ‘The White Lotus’ All Over Again 2022-12-05T05:00:00Z

From there it’s barely a step to an even more taboo question: What’s wrong with Shakespeare? Review: What’s a Woman’s Role? All of ’Em, ‘Bernhardt/Hamlet’ Argues 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z

This inexhaustibility is reason enough to cheer the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust's plan, backed by ministers, to promote the canon more widely in primary schools, even among five-year-olds. Political comparisons of Shakespeare are odorous 2013-04-19T20:00:21Z

The remains also displayed signs of scoliosis, which is a form of spinal curvature, consistent with contemporary accounts of Richard's appearance, though not with Shakespeare's description of him as a "deform'd, unfinished," hunchback. Experts find remains of England's King Richard III 2013-02-04T14:07:03Z

Making the best of this disadvantage, Bate — a distinguished Shakespeare scholar as well as provost of Worcester College in Oxford, England — proudly calls his book “unauthorized,” implying its intellectual independence. ‘Ted Hughes’: A controversial biography shows the poet’s darker side 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z

An ex-militiaman on the run, hiding in a room at his mother’s, is transformed by the handful of books he finds there, including works by Shakespeare and Engels. When the Town’s Future Is an Obsolete Factory 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z

There is nothing like her humor, or Shakespeare’s, or Dante’s, or Dickens’s or Dostoyevsky’s, in ancient tragedy or in our young Miltonic prigs who are writing intense novels just now. Review: ‘The Makioka Sisters,’ by Junichiro Tanizaki 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z

Shakespeare in the Parking Lot represents the creative spirit that fuels New York City’s innovation, energy and greatness.” ArtsBeat: Quinn Goes to Bat for Theater Troupe Over Parking Fees 2013-06-21T20:46:01Z

The Shakespeare in the Park staging that depicted President Donald Trump as Julius Caesar has produced an investigation into death threats made against the director of the play’s wife, Associated Press reported. Cops investigate death threats made against “Caesar” director’s wife 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z

They are serious, ambitious and elastic arrangements he could put everything into, high culture and low, Shakespeare as well as the blues, strong religious feeling as well as low impulses of every variety. John Berryman Is Reconsidered in 4 New Books 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z

As You Like It Shakespeare Aloud presents a community reading of the Bard’s comedy. L.A. theater openings, Sept. 20-27: 'Drunk Girl' and more 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z

He was a senior in college, studying Shakespeare abroad. When Cupid Is a Prying Journalist 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z

But Mr. Sullivan has shown a special knack of late for resolving Shakespeare’s so-called problem plays by finding cohesion within their seeming inconsistencies. | 'All?s Well That Ends Well' : Flawed Man Draws a Good Woman 2011-06-26T22:27:12Z

It seems rather austere to watch six hours of Shakespeare in a language you don't understand but it was thrilling and incredibly accessible. The best performance I've ever seen: Simon Stephens 2011-04-01T19:36:30Z

I also asked whether it was necessary, if you were to be a great actor, to perform Shakespeare? Ian McKellen’s favourite Shakespeare roles on film 2016-04-03T04:00:00Z

He bolstered the attribution with stylistic parallels to the rest of Shakespeare’s work, but the collection is dubious, the parallels are thin, and very few scholars today accept the poem as Shakespeare’s. The Radical Argument of the New Oxford Shakespeare 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z

As Mr. Jones said, “Drunk people start doing strange things when Shakespeare starts occurring right at their feet.” Watch the Screaming Shakespeareans, Please 2011-08-14T16:26:53Z

A new Shakespeare and Company bookstore is near the Seine down a small curved street and overlooks the Notre-Dame Cathedral. Bloomsday Is Ending but Joyce Left Plenty of Trail to Trace 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z

Verdi took some liberties when adapting Shakespeare’s “Macbeth” into an opera, making changes like expanding Shakespeare’s three witches into a full chorus of background singers. Performance Guide for Autumn 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z

Danielle Svonavec lends her soprano to the consort’s lute, cittern, viols and flute as they play songs from the plays of William Shakespeare. 5 don’t-miss classical-music events around Seattle, March 31-April 7 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z

In America, like starlings brought over by a Shakespeare fan. "Jurassic World: Dominion” is not a movie. It's a museum 2022-06-13T04:00:00Z

Ellington composed his suite after being commissioned by the Stratford, Ontario, Shakespeare Festival to create music linked to Shakespearean characters like Othello, Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, Lady Macbeth, Puck and Hamlet. Delfeayo Marsalis pairs jazz, The Bard in new work 2011-01-19T22:08:08Z

“We just got slammed,” the executive and artistic director of Shakespeare Dallas Raphael Parry told the Globe. Shakespeare Theaters Nationwide Are Getting Threats Amid Caesar Controversy 2017-06-19T04:00:00Z

It’s like listening to Shakespeare, it really is . . . the grammar, the syntax, all those things. After Scalia’s death, and the election, Edward Gero reflects on his role in ‘The Originalist’ 2017-07-05T04:00:00Z

The drizzle was persistent, but Shakespeare in the Park was more so. Missing Theater Under the Stars (Even the Bugs and the Rain) 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z

It’s funny that to Shakespeare, it was okay for the Moor to be a general, but it was not okay for Desdemona to marry one of the Venetians. From Hollywood bad guy to Shakespearean heavy 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z

“This will be the South African response to the Royal Shakespeare Company, if you like,” Mr. Manim said. Athol Fugard?s Next Act: Driving Out Apartheid?s Ghost 2010-03-13T00:01:00Z

The Royal Shakespeare Company mounted a production of “The Tempest” that used motion capture to create an onstage digital avatar of the spirit Ariel. ‘Hamlet’ in Virtual Reality Casts the Viewer in the Play 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z

Is there a play by Shakespeare, for instance, that he feels he would still like to conquer? For Peter Brook, the Experimental Showman, ‘Nothing Is Ever Finished’ 2019-09-18T04:00:00Z

They liked being read to, and one of them asked for Shakespeare. Once upon a life 2010-05-01T23:35:00Z

The author David Lodge makes use of this paradox in his 1984 academic farce “Small World,” whose young academic Persse McGarrigle is writing a Master’s thesis on “The Influence of T. S. Eliot on Shakespeare.” A Hundred Years of T. S. Eliot’s “Tradition and the Individual Talent” 2019-10-27T04:00:00Z

Arena presented classic plays by Shakespeare and George Bernard Shaw while also embracing contemporary works by Arthur Miller, Jean Anouilh and Samuel Beckett. Zelda Fichandler, Arena Stage co-founder and matriarch of regional-theater movement, dies at 91 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z

For each word in Shakespeare, we used computers to identify the other words they associate with, and those associations reveal the meanings of words. Five myths about Shakespeare’s contribution to the English language 2022-09-24T04:00:00Z

Van Hove has applied the prism to Shakespeare, Molière and Chekhov, and adapted works by such varied sources as film director Michelangelo Antonioni and novelist Ayn Rand. Broadway’s man of the moment: Ivo van Hove 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z

Mr. Madden’s knack for swift and intricate drama has shown itself before in films as varied as “Shakespeare in Love” and “Proof,” but those movies also show the tendency toward glibness that undermines “The Debt.” | 'The Debt': ?Debt,? With Helen Mirren - Review 2011-08-30T12:00:00Z

Ms. Cohn was for many years a professor of comparative drama at the University of California, Davis, where she taught courses on modern drama, experimental theater and the influence of Shakespeare. Ruby Cohn, Theater Scholar and Beckett Authority, Dies at 89 2011-10-30T23:41:58Z

But the troupe mainly performs Shakespeare because “people want what was best about the world.” Emily St. John Mandel Is Back, With a Ponzi Scheme Instead of a Pandemic 2020-03-22T04:00:00Z

Still, Shakespeare is readily done without English accents by Americans — in fact, it seems peculiar when Americans put on English accents. Stage Accents Trouble American and British Actors 2010-03-21T21:41:00Z

Now in her 20s, she performs Shakespeare with a makeshift family of musicians and actors. The ten best books of 2014

He is a classically trained actor who has logged starring roles in productions of Brecht and Shakespeare. The Gaudy, Glittery, Gorgeously Subversive World of Taylor Mac 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z

There are few tragedies more haunting than the death of innocents, as Shakespeare, Euripides and the daily news remind us. Royal Swedish Ballet offers an innovative ‘Juliet and Romeo’: One for today 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z

Among them are Magna Carta, a Shakespeare First Folio, and scraps of poetry by Sappho. Five Things to Do This Weekend 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z

For their second first date, in September 2014, they again went to Shakespeare. Second Chance for First Impression 2020-06-26T04:00:00Z

In Shakespeare’s immortal tragedy, composed around 1605, we see a kingdom entirely in thrall to the fitful mentality of its leader with his “unconstant starts.” Perspective | Turns out the Trump era isn’t ‘1984.’ It’s ‘King Lear.’ 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z

Taking its title from Mark Antony’s speech over the slain Caesar in “Julius Caesar,” it intercuts Mr. Wolfert’s own memories with text borrowed from Shakespeare. Using Shakespeare to Ease the Trauma of War 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z

One of the realities that Shakespeare must bear as one of the world's Classic Authors is that other artists will create variations on his creations. Review: ‘Twelfth Night,’ Anything Goes in Love and Shakespeare 2016-09-04T04:00:00Z

I suppose the thing that strikes me most is the way that — again, going back to Shakespeare — he balances high life and low life. A Monteverdi Master Returns to His Roots With a Rare Trilogy 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z

Every summer, from Shakespeare in the Park’s sumptuous Delacorte Theater to ragtag bits of lawn throughout New York City, theater companies gather to perform classical plays outdoors. Surprises at the Delacorte Theater and Other Outdoor Spaces 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z

Given the prominence of the top 1 percent in Shakespeare’s work, anyone who reads books about Shakespeare is probably also interested in the lifestyles of the early modern rich and famous. Brush with the Bard is backdrop for story of powerful early modern woman 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z

Branagh has starred in TV, stage and film and directed films ranging from Shakespeare to “Thor.” Jamie Dornan talks ‘Belfast’, TV and going behind-the-scenes 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z

The number of active theatres in early-modern London, nearly all with links to Shakespeare, was amazing considering they were supported by a city with barely 200,000 inhabitants. Love's labour's located: how I plotted Shakespeare's London with an iPhone app 2011-01-19T16:36:39Z

There’s a reason Shakespeare calls it “second childishness.” ‘The Old Man’ Brought Jeff Bridges to TV. John Lithgow Had No Advice. 2022-06-16T04:00:00Z

The production: Shakespeare is remounting its 2012 staging of “Midsummer,” as its annual Free for All performance. The many sides of Puck come out in three versions of ‘Midsummer’ 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z

The first Oxford Shakespeare included a poem beginning “Shall I die? Shall I fly?” that Taylor found in a manuscript collection bearing Shakespeare’s name. The Radical Argument of the New Oxford Shakespeare 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z

It's a grand epic, as old as ancient Rome, as beautiful and horrible as Shakespeare. The coverup continues: The Kennedys in Hollywood 2011-04-01T14:01:00Z

What do we know of Shakespeare’s life that would have led him there? The Continual Riddle of Shakespeare’s “Pericles” 2016-03-08T05:00:00Z

And this company is not the only one with Shakespeare in its name that is counting on musicals to fill its coffers. Perspective | Dumbing down Shakespeare: Are Americans too intellectually lazy to appreciate his genius? 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z

Animation bringing Shakespeare to the English suburban garden. This week's new films 2011-02-05T00:05:33Z

These semi-likable people, mostly upwardly mobile New York professionals, are at an age when “the heyday in the blood,” to quote Shakespeare, has begun its retreat. | 'A Good Old Fashioned Orgy': ?A Good Old Fashioned Orgy? - Review 2011-09-01T21:49:26Z

They would not be the films they are were the people who made them not steeped in Shakespeare. Ian McKellen’s favourite Shakespeare roles on film 2016-04-03T04:00:00Z

Nov. 13 – About 20 customers take shelter overnight in the Shakespeare and Company bookshop in Paris amid the terrorist attacks. Book news 2015: Nostalgia, blockbusters and controversy 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z

Unfortunately, “These Paper Bullets!” ultimately never moves beyond its clever conceit to become a fully absorbing reinvention of the Shakespeare play. Theater Review: ‘These Paper Bullets!’ Opens at Yale Rep 2014-03-27T21:56:49Z

A news release cheekily refers to his “collaborative adventures in recent years with dead artists like Brecht, Ionesco and Shakespeare.” Dance Review: ‘Beginning of the End of the ’ at Joyce SoHo 2012-06-07T21:56:16Z

If Shakespeare were still around churning out histories, he could do worse than to write a play about Hillary, a heroic character who wears the tragic flaw of her strident striving on her sleeve. “Political Animals”: Hillary Clinton gets her starring role 2012-07-12T17:50:00Z

Based on the Oscar-winning 1998 film, the play sees Orlando play the young Will Shakespeare, here depicted as a budding playwright with crippling writer's block. Brush up your Shakespeare (in Love) 2015-02-14T05:00:00Z

Shakespeare is a good rule of thumb in this respect. The lying art of historical fiction 2010-08-06T15:44:00Z

This is the first in a series of events hosted by the library and Theater for a New Audience commemorating the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death. Around Town for Sept. 23-29 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z

The Nigerian performance also includes significant changes from the original text, as the royalty imagined by Shakespeare become the volatile Yoruba gods Ogun and Sango. 'Winter's Tale' by Shakespeare gets African reboot 2012-05-25T10:51:11Z

In his own day, and for more than a century-and-half after his death, nobody treated Shakespeare’s works as autobiographical.” John Irving’s ‘Avenue of Mysteries’: One writer’s beginnings 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z

“We’re proud to open the festival with a film that immediately joins the ranks of the great screen Shakespeares,” said Dennis Lim, Director of Programming for the New York Film Festival. NYFF to open with Joel Coen’s ‘The Tragedy of Macbeth’ 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z

The Tudor-style theater, based on the Globe in London, has an intimate orchestra level and balcony tiers straight from “Shakespeare in Love.” 36 Hours in Washington, D.C. 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z

The play provides a fun opportunity for comparing new verses with some of Shakespeare's famous rhymes, or, if that's too rigorous, simply enjoying this strangely familiar, yet new comedy. Liar tricks friends, lovers in 'Double Falsehood' 2011-03-23T02:29:08Z

But although the current vogue, following Ben Power's A Tender Thing, is for accommodating Shakespeare's text to old age, I still feel the play demands the headstrong violence of youth. Juliet and Her Romeo | Theatre review 2010-03-17T22:20:00Z

It’s horrible to say, but my favorite was the English-language bookstore Shakespeare & Company. Ta-Nehisi Coates Asks: Who’s French? Who’s American? 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z

Or journey to Stratford-upon-Avon, where you can try to keep up with a frenetic Alex Hassell of the Royal Shakespeare Company as Henry V, exhorting his troops to go “once more unto the breach.” Google Cultural Institute Puts Us All Onstage 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z

If Sophocles, Shakespeare and Beckett don't fit a definition of literature, then surely it's the definition that's lacking. Are plays proper literature? 2010-05-27T14:13:00Z

Productions of “A Streetcar Named Desire,” Athol Fugard’s “The Island” and Noël Coward’s “Private Lives” are on the calendar, alongside Shakespeare’s “Othello” and “The Merry Wives of Windsor,” and other productions staged indoors and outside. 50 Essential Summer Festivals 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z

A double bill of Shakespeare comedies set "in the shadow of war" will form part of the Royal Shakespeare Company's World War One commemoration. RSC double bill to commemorate WWI 2014-02-04T14:02:23Z

Which is not to say that you need to brush up on your Shakespeare to engage with “Hermia & Helena,” the latest in Mr. Piñeiro’s series and the first one set in the United States. Review: Shakespeare’s (Modern-Day) ‘Hermia & Helena’ 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z

"Henry V": Shakespeare was, of course, no slouch as a mythmaker. Myth and mirth take the stage at Oregon Shakespeare fest 2012-07-19T21:29:02Z

Carruth’s exaggerated face rests like a bobblehead doll atop the various antagonists and protagonists of Shakespeare’s plays, each set on pedestals or installed in playful scenes. When Harper Lee Doodled in Shakespeare Class 2019-03-11T04:00:00Z

There are people who every year reread “The Lord of the Rings” or Jane Austen’s six novels or the complete adventures of Sherlock Holmes or all the plays of Shakespeare. Perspective | To read or reread? New books are alluring, but don’t discount the value of the familiar 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z

"The role is the size of Lear," he said, referring to Shakespeare's "King Lear" character. Actor Bryan Cranston steps into LBJ's shoes for Broadway debut 2014-01-22T22:54:08Z

Shakespeare in Love is on at the Noel Coward Theatre in London until 25 October. Shakespeare in Love takes centre stage 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z

All eyes would otherwise be on Antony Sher, who is essaying this most daunting of tragic roles in the Royal Shakespeare Company production at the Barbican directed by Gregory Doran. A tale of two Lears: Glenda Jackson and Antony Sher scale Shakespeare's mightiest tragedy 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z

My favorite bookshop in Paris is Shakespeare and Company — for the choice of books, the welcome and the kindness of Sylvia Whitman, the owner. Read Your Way Through Paris 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z

With “Julius Caesar,” Shakespeare strewed ambiguities like tacks on a highway, creating a play designed to multiply and complicate our responses. Shakespeare Conquers America! Starring Ulysses S. Grant as Desdemona 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z

Like platinum and gold, Shakespeare’s plays can be stretched and twisted into any number of unusual shapes without losing their intrinsic brilliance. Shakespeare Orange County goes all in on ethnic diversity. Will it work? 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z

“There’s a lot of true things in it, but there are also very not true things in it,” said Mr. Moscone, who is 47 and the artistic director of the California Shakespeare Theater here. Theater: A Play Inspired by Slain San Francisco Mayor Moscone 2011-12-30T22:37:15Z

McGregor said she embraced theater as a middle school student in Florida, where she first encountered Shakespeare in a theater class. New York Theater Workshop Names Patricia McGregor as Artistic Director 2022-05-25T04:00:00Z

Preparing to go onstage in a Broadway production of “As You Like It,” he tries out various deliveries of Shakespeare’s “All the world’s a stage” speech. In ‘The Humbling,’ Al Pacino Plays an Aging Performer 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z

In 2019, “Cambodian Rock Band” will be performed at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and at the Victory Gardens Theater in Chicago. Lauren Yee and Jaclyn Backhaus Win Horton Foote Prize for Plays 2018-09-04T04:00:00Z

As a young person, I was a constant, precocious reader, as he had been — binging on Dickens at 11, Shakespeare at 12; that kind of thing. James Baldwin: Pessimist, Optimist, Hero 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z

Then move on to the Shakespeare Insult Kit. Teaching Shakespearean insults helps my students decode the Bard's language 2013-04-24T14:52:17Z

Nestled on the left bank of the Seine River, Shakespeare & Company is a veritable warren of books, stacked with volumes from floor to ceiling. Founder of Paris bookstore Shakespeare & Co. dies 2011-12-14T18:58:08Z

The Royal Shakespeare Company hasn’t produced a show of such commercial potential since the musical “Matilda” over a decade ago — coming to Netflix in a film adaptation this holiday season. A Studio Ghibli Classic Comes to the London Stage 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z

Now “Shakespeare in Love” is in preview performances at the Noël Coward Theater here and opens on Wednesday. ‘Shakespeare in Love’ Makes Stage Debut in London 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z

Q: How did you get involved with Shakespeare in Love? Tom Stoppard, beneficiary of the subconscious 2012-02-02T10:54:07Z

Lenox soon wonders whether the thief stole the wrong painting, which was hung next to an invaluable one — possibly the only oil painting of William Shakespeare done in his lifetime. Review | If you crush on blue-blooded British detectives, here’s a book for you 2019-02-19T05:00:00Z

From it, a beautiful, burgundy-bound “Complete Works of Shakespeare” looked down on our passing lives. David Rabe on the Netherworld of Fiction 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z

The mantra of the historical linguist is that all language changes — and Shakespeare isn't exempt. Five myths about Shakespeare’s contribution to the English language 2022-09-24T04:00:00Z

"We have an audience and we have a potential future in many, many places, but our story is one of a whole lotta Shakespeare going on," Roth complained. David Lee Roth tells Van Halen: can we please play somewhere new? 2013-02-13T11:16:47Z

Either way, it belonged to King Richard II, the doomed 14th-century monarch whose weaknesses and tragedy were dramatised by Shakespeare. Fit for a king: was the Wilton Diptych made in Britain or France? 2012-08-16T09:36:13Z

Most sat riveted throughout, alternating between reading the Chinese subtitles on screens flanking the stage and watching the actors as they performed Shakespeare’s original words in English. A Most Rare Vision: Shakespeare in China 2014-06-22T04:00:00Z

The actress cited playing Cleopatra with the Royal Shakespeare Company as one her highlights so far. Poirot actor Actor David Suchet collects CBE 2011-06-22T15:02:36Z

These girls had seen “Bye Bye Birdie” come through their town but they had never seen Shakespeare done onstage before. ArtsBeat: 'Henry' in the Hinterlands: Five Questions About 'Still on the Road' 2011-01-03T16:01:34Z

Back in Washington, Aguirre-Sacasa worked in a law office as a filing clerk, wrote for City Paper and was even the Shakespeare Theatre’s press rep for a stretch. The killer career of Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z

Hot take: Denzel Washington is a good actor, with a special flair for Shakespeare. The New York Film Festival Is Back, and Our Critics Have Favorites 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z

He credits his ex-wife, Carol, 65, a professor of Shakespeare and performance studies at the University of Warwick, with their excellent relationship after nearly 20 years of marriage and 20 years of divorce. ‘We're very close. We couldn't not be’: the secret to a friendly divorce 2017-01-14T05:00:00Z

Marlowe bumping into Shakespeare, perhaps, or Oscar Wilde at dinner with Henry James. Wodehouse and Fitzgerald – emblems of a lost age 2013-01-07T13:53:51Z

ASHLAND, Ore. — One ancient and venerable theatrical genre, the jukebox musical, is merrily mashed up with another, the Elizabethan romance, in “Head Over Heels,” having its premiere at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival here. Review: In ‘Head Over Heels,’ Jukebox Musical Meets Elizabethan Romance 2015-08-17T04:00:00Z

"Macbeth" has always struck me as Shakespeare's most psychological tragedy. 'Macbeth' succeeds in avoiding its onstage curse when it's on-screen 2015-11-28T05:00:00Z

But he should definitely make a close study of at least one aspect of Mr. Spacey’s star turn as Shakespeare’s “poisonous bunch-backed toad.” Theater Review: Kevin Spacey?s ?Richard III,? Staged by Sam Mendes - Review 2012-01-19T03:01:14Z

Eventually, the counter claim suggests, the friendship was broken up by Hathaway's jealousy, and Shakespeare left for London. In search of Shakespeare's ghosts 2011-07-14T07:42:46Z

McKellen, in his show’s second act, asked theatergoers to yell out names of plays by Shakespeare, to cue whatever he did next. When Home Is a Big Broadway Stage 2019-11-10T05:00:00Z

This presents a lively tableau for the drama on and offstage and a healthy dose of Shakespeare, Ibsen and other masters. 'In One Person': John Irving's novel of desire, two ways 2012-05-09T21:16:04Z

Michael Kahn will exit the Shakespeare Theatre Company next season by taking on Greek tragedy’s only extant trilogy, “The Oresteia” by Aeschylus. Kahn’s final season to include a rare staging of ‘The Oresteia’ 2018-02-13T05:00:00Z

Both were among the earliest purpose-built theatres in London, and intimately connected with Shakespeare. Shakespeare's Curtain theatre unearthed in east London 2012-06-05T23:02:44Z

Shakespeare's Fool wasn't really foolish at all – he tried to make King Lear see sense. Readers recommend: songs about fools ? results 2011-08-11T14:33:14Z

In 1999, Shakespeare in Love racked up a 4 and took home seven statuettes. Firth?s Theorem: Awards Season and the Anglophile Biopic 2011-12-15T09:58:21Z

This has not, however, put an end to hopeful claims to have finally unearthed Shakespeare's "true" likeness, based on fairly dubious circumstantial evidence. Mistaken identity 2010-06-18T23:06:00Z

His similarly acclaimed version of “The Liar,” a 1634 play by Corneille, was seen at the Shakespeare Theater in Washington last season. Critic?s Notebook: Madoff, Macbeth and Other Crooks, Onstage in Washington 2011-09-28T22:45:26Z

In Week 1376 we asked the Losers to add a character to a Shakespeare work and insert a line of dialogue. Style Invitational Week 1380: Both sides now 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z

The rest, to co-opt a line from another Shakespeare play recently directed by Mr. Grandage, namely “Hamlet,” is silence. Review: In 'Billy Budd,' a Cry for Kindness Pierces a Haunting Moral Grayness 2010-06-01T11:00:00Z

There are statues of three female fictional characters: Alice in Wonderland, Mother Goose and William Shakespeare’s Juliet, who appears with Romeo. Sculptor crafting first women’s statue for Central Park 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z

Ten more European names grace the building’s sides – Shakespeare, Dante, Chaucer, and the like. Jack Kerouac, misogynist creep: Inside his ugly infatuation with Marilyn Monroe 2015-10-11T04:00:00Z

Maybe Shakespeare really did intend to say “poor man’s contumely.” The Algorithm That Could Take Us Inside Shakespeare’s Mind 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z

In spring 2014, Kahn staged both parts of Shakespeare’s sweeping “Henry IV,” a two-play repertory that ran for 11 weeks and got creative results but did not draw the audience the company had hoped for. Be serious: Can tough-minded theater survive on D.C.’s big stages? 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z

“Some people, when they act Shakespeare, they try to make it simpler, but they actually make it harder,” she told the actors. A Voice Instructor for the Leads in ‘Romeo and Juliet’ 2013-09-12T16:20:05Z

And so this Othello implodes, with an accessible completeness, in Shakespeare Theatre Company’s latest mounting of Shakespeare’s most breathtakingly well-plotted tragedy. An ‘Othello’ of psychological realism 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z

Rolin Jones’s adaptation transforms Shakespeare’s soldiers returning from battle into a swoon-inducing rock band coming off a world tour: the Quartos, they are called. Theater Review: ‘These Paper Bullets!’ Opens at Yale Rep 2014-03-27T21:56:49Z

What all this means is that Shakespeare’s thread of individual tragedy takes a back seat to political melodrama. Review | The king feels more like a pawn in updated, political ‘Macbeth’ 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z

In casual conversation, he recites passages from Auden, Shakespeare, Milton, Anglo-Saxon and South American epics, as if they were written in one book by a single author. A Road Trip With One of the 20th Century’s Greatest Writers 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z

When she started staging Shakespeare and Brecht here more than two decades ago for audiences on the margins of society, the troupe’s founder, Michelle Hensley, didn’t think she was doing anything revolutionary. Theater Troupe Gives Those on the Margins a Front-Row Seat 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z

Better to view the wrestling with Shakespeare’s language, he said, as having a payoff for writers and audiences down the road. Perspective | Dumbing down Shakespeare: Are Americans too intellectually lazy to appreciate his genius? 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z

He composed and arranged music for four productions of a BBC television cycle of Shakespeare plays, including Romeo and Juliet, and Henry VIII. James Tyler obituary 2010-12-02T18:25:00Z

Other offerings include some real Shakespeare, along with “Amadeus,” “Hair” and a production devised by the students themselves. Spare Times for Children for July 25-31 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z

Critics including Alexander Pope dismissed Theobald's claims but, more recently, others have suggested that Shakespeare had a hand in it. This week's new theatre 2011-04-08T23:08:36Z

Anthony is carefree and charming when he's doing a comedy but loses his grip on his sanity when he stars in Shakespeare's "Othello." Ronald Colman's 'Double Life' role carries echos of 'Birdman' theme 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z

"Bill will be a film for all the family to enjoy with original British talent telling a very funny story about Shakespeare," she added. Histories cast to star in Bard film 2013-05-13T16:16:57Z

Antiquarian books are radically underpriced — a Shakespeare First Folio goes for much less at auction than a small Basquiat — because they aren’t particularly good at helping rich people show off. I Can’t Afford These First Editions, but I Buy Them Anyway 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z

Richard's villainous reputation owes much to the way he was characterised by Shakespeare The bones were found in the first days of the dig and were eventually excavated under forensic conditions. Car park skeleton is Richard III 2013-02-04T15:15:54Z

Still, despite its lapses and longueurs, “Love’s Labor’s Lost” remains in this version a fascinating and feelingful taste of Shakespeare to come. Review: Young Bros and Maidens Harmonize in ‘Love’s Labor’s Lost’ 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z

But once he relaxed, he showed himself passionate about the question of Shakespeare’s identity. Roland Emmerich?s ?Anonymous? Seeks to Unmask Shakespeare 2011-10-22T03:03:02Z

Let me quickly stress, though, that Mustich doesn’t neglect the usual golden oldies, such as Plato’s dialogues, Shakespeare’s plays and Jane Austen’s novels. Review | The ultimate literary bucket list: ‘1,000 Books to Read Before You Die’ 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z

I think of the superior comedies, among them, his staging of Ben Jonson’s “The Silent Woman” and Shakespeare’s “Love’s Labor’s Lost,” as well as Keith Baxter’s direction of Sheridan’s “The Rivals.” How will the Shakespeare show go on without Kahn? 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z

The play was “Macbeth,” Shakespeare’s bloody feast of slaughtered kings and children, of witches and ghosts and “something wicked this way comes.” In London, a Bloody ?Macbeth,? for Children 2010-07-16T22:40:00Z

The play is scheduled to open Monday at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park as part of the Public Theater’s free Shakespeare in the Park festival. Et Tu, Delta? Shakespeare in the Park Sponsors Withdraw From Trump-Like ‘Julius Caesar’ 2017-06-11T04:00:00Z

He found that, relative to his contemporaries, the average frequency with which different words appear in Shakespeare's work is distinctly . . . average. Five myths about Shakespeare’s contribution to the English language 2022-09-24T04:00:00Z

Boccaccio’s nuns are carnally insatiable; Isabella’s virtue is up for grabs in Shakespeare’s “Measure for Measure”; temptation and obsession drive Rumer Godden’s “Black Narcissus.” The Nuns of Fiction: Experts in Affliction and Awe 2021-09-12T04:00:00Z

It's easy to forgive: the Franglais courtship in Act V, scene two may be inaccurate, but it is one of Shakespeare's most charming love scenes. Kenneth Branagh's Henry V: right royal entertainment 2011-07-28T08:00:00Z

I am still on the lookout for that lost portrait of Hooke, just as Stanley Wells will keep looking for something more lively than the Chandos portrait to identify as the likeness of Shakespeare. Mistaken identity 2010-06-18T23:06:00Z

He jokes himself about some of the responses he got from financiers at Cannes last year: "You say 'Shakespeare film' and see the look of panic in their eyes." Ralph Fiennes's full-metal Coriolanus 2010-05-06T21:00:00Z

The play will be directed by Matthew Penn, who in 2015 directed a production with Tina Packer in the leading role at Shakespeare & Company in the Berkshires. Glenn Close, Jake Gyllenhaal and Songs of Bob Dylan Are Coming to Public Theater 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z

The former producer, known for films including “The English Patient” and “Shakespeare in Love,” has denied any non-consensual sex. Weinstein's defense to call psychology professor as expert on memory in NY trial 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z

The next year, she took the gold for an eight-minute turn as Elizabeth I in Shakespeare in Love; that same year, Cate Blanchett narrowly lost the leading prize for playing the same queen in Elizabeth. Killer queens: how The Favourite reigns over Mary Queen of Scots 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z

Shakespeare said the day you're born is the first day you start to die. Danny DeVito: I still miss my father 2012-06-15T23:05:18Z

In the “Cymbeline” setting, Sting was, as always, a presence, but the long, high vocal lines strained his voice and dulled his diction, so important in Shakespeare. Music Review: Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio With Sting - Review 2011-09-15T22:01:22Z

Uncut, “Hamlet,” the longest of Shakespeare’s plays, would likely run more than four hours without an intermission; here it’s two hours and 45 minutes with one. Review: This ‘Hamlet’ Under the Stars Is No Walk in the Park 2023-06-28T04:00:00Z

To make up for it, the score had to be dense, providing in music the depth of portraiture Shakespeare achieved in verse. Brash, Confident and Democratic: How Leonard Bernstein Symbolized America 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z

He loved Shakespeare, of course, but the roles that excited him were Coriolanus, Macbeth, Henry V. Not the Moor. For David Oyelowo, the Time Has Come to Play Othello 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z

Of all Shakespeare’s plays, Macbeth seems to lend itself most readily to this kind of deconstruction. Macbeth, Mary and Midler: Solo Turns on Broadway 2013-04-25T09:45:35Z

Based on true events, this Shakespeare tragedy follows Caesar’s victorious return from war as jealousy emerges among his peers Cassius and Brutus, who brutally stab and kill Caesar. Sponsors Turn Their Back on Trump-Style 'Julius Caesar' Play 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z

Here Mr. Carroll’s decision-making process was informed by his own experience working for Mark Rylance at Shakespeare’s Globe Theater in London. George Bernard Shaw’s 6-Hour ‘Beast’? She’s All In 2019-08-19T04:00:00Z

The ruthless Godunov may recall Macbeth, but it may be Shakespeare's history plays that spring to mind in a tale of political machinations and revenge. This week's new theatre 2012-11-10T00:06:26Z

It’s a perfect place for contemplation, assignation, and Shakespeare reruns. On paying for it: Ten cents a dance (adjusted for inflation) 2017-07-09T04:00:00Z

Shakespeare, who died in 1616, wrote 38 plays and 154 sonnets which have been translated into over 80 languages and are performed the world over. Fair and foul: Shakespeare in many guises at Edinburgh Festival 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z

And it’s that energy, I think, that really lifts Shakespeare to the heights. To see or not to see? Experiencing Shakespeare during the pandemic offers its own rewards. 2021-04-08T04:00:00Z

So it seems appropriate that Shakespeare’s tragedy of war, politics and mass appeal in ancient Rome is being taken to the streets in this summer of a presidential election year. The Week Ahead: July 29 — Aug. 4 2012-07-30T13:57:52Z

Shakespeare is also transposed to the present – in this case a modern Arab state – in Macbeth: Ben and Leila at in Newcastle from Thursday. What to see: Lyn Gardner's theatre tips 2012-07-06T14:44:00Z

Bill, 63, knows his Shakespeare folios, but he’s no thespian or scholar. Shakespeare is his wingman

For example, Lester finds a long history of the use of “they” to describe a person who doesn’t fit into one gender or another, with examples dating to Shakespeare and Jane Austen. New & Noteworthy 2018-07-03T04:00:00Z

Literature owes Brod a debt, even if, as John Updike wrote, Kafka would come to have this in common with Shakespeare: “Their reputations rest principally on texts they never approved or proofread.” The Kafka You Never Knew 2023-01-11T05:00:00Z

A comedy billed as "Mel Brooks meets Shakespeare," starring a king, his daughter and an unwanted suitor. Your best arts and entertainment bets for the week ahead 2011-03-30T22:28:04Z

I came to London for Shakespeare and, much to my surprise, found quite a bit of his political insight in “Harry Potter.” 'Harry Potter and the Cursed Child' reminds us of the power of courage in the face of evil 2016-11-28T05:00:00Z

“These songs of mine, they’re like mystery stories, the kind that Shakespeare saw when he was growing up,” Dylan said. Bob Dylan, Extending the Line 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z

But instead of stretching out on a beach in Hawaii, he spent the time making a black-and-white version of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing on a 12-day schedule. Much Ado About Nothing – review 2013-06-15T23:06:00Z

“Lands’ End messenger bags and plastic bags full of scripts,” recalls Garland Scott, a Source associate producer in the late 1980s and now head of external relations at the Folger Shakespeare Library. ‘You want to do it? Do it’: Keith Parker’s freewheeling legacy at Source Theatre 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z

If I were William Shakespeare, my first act would be Act I. I would probably also start with Scene 1, but just to appease the traditionalists. Week 1072: The Tile Invitational — our second ScrabbleGrams contest

She’s no easier on these characters than Shakespeare was, redeeming none, so the last laugh is hers. A Novelist Recasts King Lear as a Corporate Tycoon in Contemporary India 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z

Charles, who studied at Duke University and with the Royal Shakespeare Company in London, and danced with Alvin Ailey in New York, was told many times that he could not make this happen. LaChanze on the Personal Resonance of Alice Childress’s Timeless Words 2022-01-06T05:00:00Z

The Royal Shakespeare Company was forced to delay its production of Antony and Cleopatra after an actor was seriously injured by a prop firearm. The year in entertainment 2010-12-29T05:13:22Z

“The danger of a Shakespeare festival is that it can be too cheerfully celebratory, but I think we’ve helped avoid that by reaching out to other countries,” he said. The World Takes On Shakespeare at London Festival 2012-07-04T21:37:11Z

Or the notion that McCartney might very well have gleaned the phrase "let it be" from Shakespeare's "Hamlet" — but mercifully, not from the bad quarto, it turns out. Paul McCartney’s “The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present”: A visual feast, if flawed, for Beatles fans 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z

When Lord Grosvenor raised a cup carved from Shakespeare’s mulberry tree, treating the “blest relic” as if it were a chalice filled with Communion wine, the eyebrows of the more puritan present were raised high. That Man From Stratford 2019-04-21T04:00:00Z

“It was a list song,” he said, “about all the words Shakespeare made up. We played it for Casey, and he said, ‘Well, that would be a good song in a cabaret.’ In ‘Something Rotten!,’ if Music Be the Food of Farce, Play On 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z

Loosely based on Hamlet, it brings the intra-familial intrigue of Shakespeare’s Danish royalty tale to a motorcycle gang unofficially responsible for keeping things going in the fictional city of Charming, CA. 26 Streaming Shows You Should Get Addicted to This Winter 2014-12-06T05:00:00Z

This unpretentious aesthetic is very much in vogue; it was on view at Folger in 2012 in a sleek “Hamlet” from Shakespeare’s Globe that similarly was assayed by a cast of eight. A well-played, compact ‘King Lear’ at Folger Theatre

He diddled with Ayckbourn while wanting to lunge towards Shakespeare or Beckett. Rewind TV: The Tony Blair Interview With Andrew Marr; The Hunt for Britain's Sex Traffickers; I Am Slave 2010-09-04T23:06:00Z

“Lonely” is one of several dozen words Sidney introduced into the English language that Shakespeare later used. Mary Sidney, Shakespeare and the Authorship Question 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z

If Samuel Johnson were asked today whether he preferred Nahum Tate’s version to Shakespeare’s, he would have to answer: Which one? Why We (Mostly) Stopped Messing With Shakespeare’s Language 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z

Now, these companies all carry on their traditions of producing Shakespeare and maybe, from time to time, one or another playwright from antiquity. Perspective | Dumbing down Shakespeare: Are Americans too intellectually lazy to appreciate his genius? 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z

While Dromgoole says it’s likely that a Shakespeare play will one day be staged in the new theater, for now he’s focused on how the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse can expand what the Globe offers. London’s Globe Theater Adds A Jacobean Playhouse 2014-01-21T17:38:47Z

Now a campaign in Scotland aims to rehabilitate the 11th-century ruler's tarnished image, arguing that Shakespeare fictionalised the Scot's reign and misrepresented the truth in the eponymous play. Scottish campaign aims to reveal the real Macbeth 2013-02-14T17:06:38Z

Shylock, from Shakespeare’s “Merchant of Venice,” often pleads far more eloquently for the audience’s sympathy than the text will allow, warping the deep ambivalence of Shakespeare’s original. A challenge for the arts: Stop sanitizing and show the great works as they were created

Twelfth Night Shakespeare’s gender-bending romantic comedy; for age 13 and up. L.A. theater openings, April 16-23: 'The Walking Forest' and more 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z

"The key to Shakespeare is doing the detective work beforehand," McHalffey said. Buddies and budding actor, writer hustle to land their big breaks 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z

“I was the equal of Dante and Shakespeare,” he told his psychologist. How Raymond Roussel Put the Impossible on the Page 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z

The body is that of the title character of Shakespeare’s grisliest history play. | 'Richard III': In Power Grab, the Force Is With Him 2010-08-23T22:21:00Z

Emphatic but unfussy, his Shakespeare vignettes make up for in clarity what they lack in creativity. Theater Review: ‘In Acting Shakespeare’ at the Pearl Theater 2013-01-16T19:42:36Z

O’Farrell’s new novel is about Hamnet, a son of Shakespeare’s who died at 11 years old and inspired the name of his father’s most famous tragic character. Summer Reading Suggestions, Handpicked for Your Taste 2020-05-20T04:00:00Z

And as with the wealth of blues and folk bands that surrounded the Beatles in 1960s England, other London dramatists did some things better, or more emphatically, than Shakespeare. Shakespeare died 401 years ago, but original scripts from his era live on in a new digital archive 2017-04-23T04:00:00Z

He has been in love with Shakespeare since his college days three decades ago, when a cruel acting teacher told him all the roles he shouldn’t play. Review | After ‘American Moor,’ you may not see Shakespeare — and a lot of roles played by black actors — quite the same way 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z

Some ivory-tower stuffed shirt — or whoever got to Wikipedia first — noted that The Tempest was likely the last play that Shakespeare wrote alone. Hold those “thousand telephones that don’t ring.” Bob Dylan Creates a Perfect Storm on Tempest 2012-09-12T14:45:37Z

Like Arena, the Shakespeare is being more judicious with its “inventory” — crudely put, the amount of product it peddles. Be serious: Can tough-minded theater survive on D.C.’s big stages? 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z

Back at Central Park for its second Delacorte production of the season, the Public cools things off with Shakespeare’s most popular comedy. 5 Must-See Shows if You’re in New York This Month 2017-07-01T04:00:00Z

I’ve discovered that a lot of scholars now postulate Shakespeare may have intended it as a parody, a farcical exaggeration of tropes from the ancient tragic form. “It’s OK to always be a loser”: Patrick Stickles reveals the secrets of Titus Andronicus 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z

Public monuments enrich collective memory because of their permanence: Unlike Shakespeare in the Park, they don’t get packed away after use. North America’s forgotten plague 2013-05-04T18:00:00Z

That is but one of the problems with “The Emperor,” a Theater for a New Audience production that opened on Sunday at the Polonsky Shakespeare Center in Brooklyn. Review: In ‘The Emperor,’ Apologizing for a Corrupt Regime 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z

Before it bowed on Broadway 25 years ago, "Carrie" was produced in Britain by the Royal Shakespeare Company. 'Carrie' musical refuses to die; new production L.A.-bound 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z

Although Johnson regarded Shakespeare as the greatest modern writer to depict our “general nature,” he preferred Tate’s “King Lear” for the poetic justice of its ending. Why We (Mostly) Stopped Messing With Shakespeare’s Language 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z

In a 2011 interview with The Guardian, Evans said visits to the Royal Shakespeare Company as a teenager had sparked his interest in theater. Royal Shakespeare Company Names Two Directors for Top Job 2022-09-20T04:00:00Z

These are things that Aeschylus would have written about or Shakespeare would have written about. Reactions to Academy Awards nominations 2011-01-25T16:04:15Z

The Oregon Shakespeare Festival began in the 1930s, as a strictly-Shakespeare summer event. Oregon Shakespeare Fest, 2013: the Bard, and more 2013-07-24T22:08:57Z

Mr. DeVito has performed Off Broadway, including at Shakespeare in the Park. Danny DeVito Will Make Broadway Debut in ‘The Price’ 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z

On display is a first edition of “A Room of One’s Own,” in which Judith Shakespeare appears. Exhibition Review: ?Shakespeare?s Sisters? at the Folger Shakespeare Library 2012-02-23T23:43:59Z

While Shakespeare did own land, much of the play is fiction, with the Marxist Bond making a point about art versus capitalism. This week's new theatre and dance 2012-02-11T00:05:00Z

No one claims that “Double Falsehood” is solely the work of Shakespeare; Theobald eventually acknowledged Fletcher’s part in it, to say nothing of his own alterations. A Lost Shakespeare? It?s a Mystery 2011-03-11T00:11:00Z

The gist of their argument is, as one headline boiled it down, "Beowulf and Iliad are more plausible than Shakespeare". Beowulf, Shakespeare and the plausibility of fiction 2012-07-25T17:04:25Z

“A Piece of Work” also bombards you with the sheer richness and vibrancy of Shakespeare’s language. ‘A Piece of Work’: ‘Hamlet’ for the computer age 2013-02-23T23:13:22Z

Shakespeare himself stole the plot and added songs and dances. Review: ‘Twelfth Night,’ Anything Goes in Love and Shakespeare 2016-09-04T04:00:00Z

Shakespeare himself knew of the island, making reference to it in Macbeth as "Saint Colme's Inch". Edinburgh festival: day nine at the fringe 2012-08-14T15:35:20Z

With its mix of genres and its nagging authorship questions, the play provokes as much academic head-scratching as Shakespeare’s “Pericles.” 'Iphigenia in Aulis' at Getty Villa: Chasing the ever-elusive Euripides 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z

After all, he pointed out, “Shakespeare’s actors could do everything: They played instruments, they fenced, they danced, and they said those words.” David Patrick Kelly, a Character Actor Vibrating on His Own Plane 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z

Reading Shakespeare, she says, particularly something like The Winter's Tale, gives inmates "a great sense of pleasure and power – a sense they can express themselves". Cicely Berry, voice coach to the stars 2011-07-24T21:15:01Z

According to TS Eliot, this is the only book in the western tradition that surpasses Shakespeare. Clive James – a life in writing 2013-07-05T07:45:01Z

Robbins and others felt it was the best script they’d ever read — “I mean, you know, not counting Shakespeare,” he says — but the set didn’t exactly conjure Stratford-upon-Avon. The unlikely greatness of ‘The Shawshank Redemption,’ 25 years later 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z

Shakespeare leans on a porcelain stump in Arden, the lines on his scroll available in German or English. Presence: The Art of Portrait Sculpture – review 2012-06-02T23:06:07Z

While kings and courtiers are wrestling with the fate of a country and the responsibilities of power, Shakespeare is always reminding us that the reeling comedy of daily life goes on in the background. Critic’s Notebook: Stratford Shakespeare Festival, ‘Henry V’ and ‘Cymbeline’ 2012-08-19T21:11:38Z

The Royal Shakespeare Company plans to use heart monitors to try to find the answer. Royal Shakespeare Company to Monitor Heart Rates at ‘Titus Andronicus’ 2017-07-05T04:00:00Z

The Daily Mail notes that the rumor of Shakespeare's secret son has been around for a while. Did Shakespeare have a secret son? 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z

"That idea of playing Shakespeare is actually quite a recent one – there were lots of different flavours and sounds and tones to the way Shakespeare was performed in the day." Shakespeare flashmob surprises diners with pop-up performance 2012-08-28T18:26:31Z

If you’re a Shakespeare nerd to boot, start planning a trip to Beverly Hills. More Than 60 Plays and Musicals to Take In This Fall 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z

Verdi’s Shakespeare is so important to Italian operatic culture that it was bold indeed for the Rome Opera to open with Battistelli’s “Julius Caesar.” Verdi’s Shakespeare Resonates Across Italian Opera Houses 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z

However, Boyd added, the new Royal Shakespeare Theatre stage can be reconfigured to create a shallower thrust, which he hoped would tempt Hall back to direct there. RSC shows off ?112m revamp 2010-11-23T20:04:00Z

An avid Shakespeare fan, she described "Much Ado" as a favorite and said she's delighted there are summertime performances in area parks. Outdoor-theater season kicks off at Volunteer Park with 'Much Ado' 2011-07-11T00:28:05Z

He sometimes tried to rally the hapless troops by reciting stirring passages from Shakespeare. D. Keith Mano, Christian novelist who explored extremes of sex and faith, dies at 74 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z

To celebrate the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare’s birth, London’s Globe Theater performed “Hamlet” all around the world. 100 Notable Books of 2017 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z

“Shakespeare was boring, Shakespeare was dead,” he wrote on his website two years ago. Michael Bogdanov, Shakespearean Stage Director, Dies at 78 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z

Geared to young readers 9 and older, the event will also feature Lucas Elliot Eberl performing his own original music, and the actress Barbara Barrie reading from Shakespeare, whose work helped inspire Mr. Selznick. Spare Times for Children for Nov. 20-26 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z

Its taut tale of the ravaging effects of jealousy has not been intrusively styled, as so many productions of Shakespeare are today, in a mode of searing contemporary relevance. Review: A Cool-Tempered ‘Othello’ for Warm Central Park Nights 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z

A fan of Shakespeare, Tabitha says, “I am not a great one for novels, ” even while becoming the fetching heroine of this one. Review | Old New York springs alive in Francis Spufford’s ‘Golden Hill’ 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z

The Folio contains several handwritten notes, which may illuminate how the plays were performed in Shakespeare's time. Shakespeare Folio found in France 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z

Shakespeare's greatest plays have a knack of being timeless and yet thrillingly topical, too. Richard II ? review 2011-02-22T18:20:29Z

You don’t have Shakespeare when you don’t have the text. The many sides of Puck come out in three versions of ‘Midsummer’ 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z

But Shakespeare proves that we are more than our social identity. Race, inequality, polarized politics: Why Shakespeare's 1623 First Folio matters in 2016 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z

In their hands, Shakespeare’s tale of love lost and found in an enchanted forest becomes a gleeful paean to the joys of losing and finding yourself through acting. Review: ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ Tailored for Multitaskers 2015-09-20T04:00:00Z

“TJ and Dave” begins by telling you everything that follows is made up, while Improvised Shakespeare sells that point throughout the show. The Improvised Shakespeare Company’s Couplets Off the Cuff 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z

“How we tell our stories is incredibly affected by the way Shakespeare told his,” Carey said. American Playwrights Try to Reinvent the History Play 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z

This season the company is probing the canons of Shakespeare, Miller and Beckett among others. Love Shakespeare and great scenery? Utah Shakespeare fest is just the ticket 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z

It’s true to Shakespeare for Juliet to race past Romeo in maturity, but Mr. Martins’s conception of both characters reins them in. Dance Review: Peter Martins?s ?Romeo + Juliet? at New York City Ballet 2012-02-16T23:03:47Z

The directorial skill set is pretty similar for handling musicals and Shakespeare, he suggests: both are bigger and more physically complex than most modern plays. Impossible dream: young director brings musicals to Shakespeare Co. 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z

It’s Shakespeare who keeps being adapted and revived, more and less faithfully. Making Shakespeare Their Own, Serious and Silly 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z

I think I read as many plays in high school as novels; thanks to that early exposure to Shakespeare, I read theatrical scripts as easily and voraciously as poetry. The Icelandic Saga That Keeps Rita Dove Coming Back for More 2021-08-06T04:00:00Z

Historical distance may have shielded Shakespeare and his troupe from a sterner fate. Shakespeare and the politics of our age: Trump, 'Julius Caesar' and now 'Richard II' 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z

Built from 17th-century plans, it will allow audiences to remain warm and dry as they watch plays by Shakespeare and his successors. Shakespeare's Globe building new indoor theater 2012-11-27T13:59:15Z

For the eighth edition, the Shakespeare scholar Stephen Greenblatt took over as general editor. M.H. Abrams, Who Shaped Romantic Criticism, Dies at 102 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z

The premise of the film is that the Earl of Oxford wrote Shakespeare's plays, a belief Rylance shares. Mark Rylance: 'It's all about the attitude' 2010-06-15T20:30:00Z

If you want a "three-way conversation" between Shakespeare, his work and the present day, read Stephen Greenblatt, a Shakespeare scholar unaccountably not cited here. Shakespeare's Restless World by Neil MacGregor – review 2012-09-29T23:05:08Z

Two protesters disrupted a production of Julius Caesar during New York City's "Shakespeare in the Park" Friday, with one storming the stage during the play's climactic assassination scene. Pro-Trump Protesters Interrupted 'Shakespeare in the Park' Show in New York 2017-06-17T04:00:00Z

Let’s hear it for the boys — well, the ones who play girls, anyway — in Shakespeare Theatre Company’s tediously idea-saturated “The Taming of the Shrew.” Shakespeare Theatre Company’s ‘Shrew’: An all-male muddle 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z

It fails to tell its story clearly; and if you know Shakespeare’s play well, it adds little. American Ballet Theater’s Shakespeare Program 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z

The fact that this academic re-evaluation was reported as the unearthing of a new Shakespeare play says much more about our culture's hunger for more of the same than it does about its literary heritage. David Mitchell: A 'new' play by William Shakespeare? I'd prefer a new play by somebody else 2010-03-21T00:08:00Z

For an hour before each performance, young audience members can enjoy a Shakespeare obstacle course, with stations that offer challenges. 8 Things to Do With Your Kids in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z

Though the story is from Shakespeare, its design — and its emotions — hold to no specific period. ‘Roméo et Juliette’: New look for an old story 2013-01-26T04:11:24Z

When I asked him to play Lear in 1996 he had hardly been on stage for 15 years and had not played Shakespeare for 35 years. 'This is the best moment of my life,' he said, lying in the bath: Ian Holm remembered 2020-06-22T04:00:00Z

The former film producer made his mark with critically acclaimed films such as “The English Patient” and “Shakespeare in Love.” Judge refuses to remove himself after Weinstein's lawyers claim bias 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z

It was not fanciful to think that ordinary soldiers might enjoy a Shakespeare play. Measuring America’s Shakespearean Devotion 2014-03-19T20:47:10Z

That Shakespeare used so much Latin without a university education makes his achievement in using it all the greater. Five myths about Shakespeare’s contribution to the English language 2022-09-24T04:00:00Z

King Lear is part of the Shakespeare in the Park season, which is run by the city's Public Theater. Bening joins King Lear in the park 2014-05-21T04:00:00Z

This includes the Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles, which uses its grants to hire veterans as crew. Essential Arts & Culture: Sneak peek of the new Marciano, Obama's library, Tennessee Williams in dance 2017-05-12T04:00:00Z

All these outsize appetites shine through Antony Sher’s marvelous performance of the role in the Royal Shakespeare Company production of the two parts of “Henry IV,” here at the Barbican Theater. ‘Henry IV’ Plays, With Antony Sher as Falstaff, in London 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z

Writers crib from Shakespeare because the stories are lodged in our collective recall, but so full of subplot and nuance they can be remade. A Novelist Recasts King Lear as a Corporate Tycoon in Contemporary India 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z

For wine lovers, drinking such renowned bottles would be the equivalent of a college course in Shakespeare, Beethoven or Charlie Parker. How Income Inequality Has Erased Your Chance to Drink the Great Wines 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z

We are making a new creature, which is a ‘Romeo and Juliet’ by both Prokofiev and Shakespeare.” Perfectly in tune, onstage and in the pit 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z

Independent Shakespeare Co. is livin' la dolce vita with its new staging of "The Taming of the Shrew" in Griffith Park. L.A. theater openings, July 27-Aug. 3: 'Taming of the Shrew' and more 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z

A CGI construction reveals how the Jacobean theatre will look A new indoor theatre being built next to Shakespeare's Globe in London is to be named after the Globe's founder Sam Wanamaker. Globe theatre named after founder 2012-11-27T15:16:39Z

What follows are appearances from many British cultural staples, such as Doctor Who, Sherlock Holmes, and Shakespeare. The Simpsons Inadvertently Paid Tribute to Alan Rickman and David Bowie Three Years Ago 2016-01-16T05:00:00Z

Whoever wrote it - and Shakespearean experts continue to debate the origin, even though a reputable publisher, Arden Shakespeare, recently put its seal of approval on the play - the CSC production is very entertaining. Liar tricks friends, lovers in 'Double Falsehood' 2011-03-23T02:29:08Z

After he returned to Hong Kong, he encouraged the translation of classical Western works like Shakespeare and Chekhov into Cantonese, as well as the commission of new local plays. Music: Chinese Opera Gets a Modern Edge 2011-07-18T11:30:06Z

Shakespeare had it right: “My tongue will tell the anger of my heart, or else my heart, concealing it, will break.” No Sound, No Fury, No Marriage 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z

Shakespeare is a great playwright and even 400 years ago, he was able to write things which said a lot about the nature of politics and society today. Heavy rock Coriolanus turns up volume 2013-08-21T01:27:33Z

Ever since he steamrollered the lightweight “Shakespeare in Love” all the way to an Academy Award for best picture, Mr. Weinstein has developed a reputation as one of Hollywood’s most productively pushy players. ‘Finding Neverland’ Opens at American Repertory Theater 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z

Though these categories employ different means — mockery, conspiracy, romanticization — all aim to show that “Shakespeare’s not the person he appears to be,” Joubin says. A new show imagines a punk rock Shakespeare — the latest of our many fantasies about the bard 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z

The Welsh-born actor has made many appearances in Washington over the years, most recently as Prospero in Shakespeare Theatre Company’s “The Tempest.” Famed Canadian theater filming entire Shakespeare canon 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z

Fans of The Bard should head straight to The Globe, a replica of the theater where Shakespeare’s plays were performed during his heyday. 8 Travel Itineraries for English Literature Lovers 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z

As a schoolboy, Mr. Bogdanov disliked Shakespeare, or at least the way it was being taught. Michael Bogdanov, Shakespearean Stage Director, Dies at 78 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z

The legend of Faustus has been told and retold in several literary and musical works, including the classic play "Dr. Faustus" by Christopher Marlowe, Shakespeare's contemporary. Hamlet goes back to school in 'Wittenberg' 2011-03-21T22:17:18Z

Other popular adaptations, like “Kinky Boots” and “Once,” don’t have the cinematic pedigree of “Shakespeare in Love.” ‘Shakespeare in Love’ Makes Stage Debut in London 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z

The study, published in the South African Journal of Science, examined 24 pipe fragments from the town of Stratford-Upon-Avon, where Shakespeare lived. Did Shakespeare Smoke Weed? 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z

Shakespeare, Money, And Morals,” a one-night free event at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park on Monday, June 17 at 8 pm. ArtsBeat: Damon, Baranski Join Lineup for Delacorte Event on ‘Shakespeare, Money and Morals’ 2013-06-03T20:53:39Z

Gardner, who died last year, played bus driver Ernie Prang in Harry Potter and Prisoner of Azkaban and appeared in everything from Royal Shakespeare Company productions to EastEnders and Doctor Who. New York's most risque cabaret to open in London 2011-01-28T19:52:04Z

All female casting for Shakespeare - and other period plays - is ridiculous. Stage reader review roundup: Julius Caesar 2012-12-14T17:13:34Z

Coleridge said that seeing the fiery Edmund Kean act was “like reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning”. Hallucinating history: when Stalin and Eisenstein reinvented a revolution 2017-10-24T04:00:00Z

About 25 performers act out mostly wordless scenes inspired by Shakespeare's play while dressed in 1930s outfits and giving off a film noir vibe. NYC's 'Sleep No More' shows off its musical side 2013-02-18T22:46:04Z

Café Shakespeare opens a half-hour before the amphitheater. Idaho Shakespeare Festival keeps focus on casting 2014-06-07T04:00:00Z

After sitting through multiple lackluster productions of Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar,” I had pretty much given up on it. Perspective | How London sometimes outshines the lights of Broadway 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z

Seattle Shakespeare Company's new artistic director, George Mount, stages the bard's beloved comedy about wandering and wooing in the Forest of Arden. 15 top entertainment picks for May 27-June 2, 2012 2012-05-23T21:44:04Z

I watch summer Shakespeare productions at the Delacorte Theater, where the moon and stars contribute to the lighting. Once Around the Park, Then Farewell 2010-09-02T21:08:00Z

“I’ve never seen this kind of gender switch in a Shakespeare folio,” Mr. Rasmussen said. Shakespeare Folio Discovered in France 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z

Here, the fun comes from watching a crack storyteller put his noir stamp on one of Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies. Review | Jo Nesbo puts a Nordic chill on ‘Macbeth’ 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z

But there's fat chance of that happening here, where – Shakespeare aside – everything is a one-off event. Michael Billington on playwrights' seasons 2012-11-11T18:30:01Z

My goodness, what if Shakespeare actually made the whole thing up? Shakespeare biographies: the good, the Bard and the ugly | Michael Caines 2010-04-05T11:16:00Z

Neither is their book at all easy to read, much of it consisting of Baret’s entries juxtaposed with passages from Shakespeare. ‘Shakespeare’s Beehive’ review: Are these notes and scribbles the Bard’s? 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z

For Shakespeare’s remains to be detected, electrons in the atoms of his bones would have to absorb energy and momentum from the radar waves and then kick it back out. Alas, Poor William Shakespeare. Where Does His Skull Rest? 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z

But “Hamlet” is a play of paradoxes, and perhaps the greatest of these is that the protagonist who reveals more of his mind than any other in Shakespeare remains something of an impenetrable mystery. Who is Hamlet? Three actors make their case 2017-08-19T04:00:00Z

His “Twelfth Night” and “Merchant of Venice” for Shakespeare in the Park were both superb. Theater Review: ‘As You Like It,’ With Lily Rabe in Central Park 2012-06-22T02:00:14Z

What sets “Drunk Shakespeare” apart is that alcohol isn’t the main character. Review: ‘Drunk Shakespeare,’ Where the Tipsy and the Sober Take Liberties 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z

Goethe would not be that surprised to discover a Shakespeare is German season – as is due to begin tomorrow at the Globe – taking place in London. Friends, Germans, countrymen: the long history of 'unser Shakespeare' 2010-10-06T12:01:00Z

When the artistic directors of Arena Stage and Shakespeare Theatre, Molly Smith and recently retired Michael Kahn, married their partners, it was Ginsburg who officiated. Perspective | Ruth Bader Ginsburg gave her life to the country — and her heart to the performing arts 2020-09-19T04:00:00Z

Yes, It’s Shakespeare Messing around with Shakespeare is the bedeviling vice of directors. | 'The Tempest': Dread Rattling Thunder! Yes, It?s Shakespeare 2010-12-09T23:27:00Z

I first became aware of him in the late 1970s when he rose steadily through the ranks of the Royal Shakespeare Company. Richard Griffiths obituary 2013-03-29T16:52:59Z

But as both a deft comedian and a commanding dramatic actress she carved out a varied career, playing parts in Shakespeare and Shaw and on “Fantasy Island.” Lynn Redgrave, Actress and Playwright, Dies at 67 2010-05-04T00:38:00Z

You might just as well find a sharp contrast between the sexual standards in Shakespeare and the Venerable Bede. Catherine Hakim: charm school marm 2011-08-19T22:01:41Z

Extravaganza isn't the word that first springs to mind when thinking of Shakespeare, but in the newfangled version of "The Tempest" at South Coast Repertory the goal is clearly to dazzle. Posner-Teller 'Tempest' stuns but lacks faith in Shakespeare 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z

Indian cinema has a long history of imaginative Shakespeare adaptations, and this is one of the finest. The best Shakespeare films – ranked! 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z

Jeanette Winterson will be reworking “The Winter’s Tale” and Anne Tyler will be tweaking “The Taming of the Shrew” as part of the new series, to be called the Hogarth Shakespeare. ArtsBeat: Random House Project to Rewrite Shakespeare 2013-06-27T17:24:05Z

And, at the end, she’s a whimpering, childlike presence whose former mentor comforts her with lines from Shakespeare? The Out of Towner: Cancer Survivors See the Play ?Wit? 2012-02-16T23:10:38Z

He did eventually get a five-month gig doing Shakespeare at the Old Globe in San Diego and appeared with Julie Harris in the drama "The Last of Mrs. Lincoln" on PBS. Patrick Duffy embraces flawed Bobby Ewing on 'Dallas' 2014-08-30T04:00:00Z

After a lightweight Macbeth at Shakespeare's Globe, we now get a production that gets closer to the heart of the play's mystery. Macbeth – review 2013-07-06T00:16:17Z

The doubling is a vital part of the highly theatrical game Shakespeare played. Letters: Shakespeare Roles: Well, I Have Four Parts 2010-06-19T06:38:00Z

The other sex scene was not supposed to be funny at all, and, just as in Shakespeare, there wasn’t any dialogue. Sex and the theater: An actress bares all about onstage nudity

Today is Nelson Mandela's birthday and the eve of an exhibition at the British Museum called "Shakespeare: staging the world". AUDIO: Mandela's 'prison Shakespeare' 2012-07-18T08:25:20Z

Orson Welles once said that “every single way of playing and staging Shakespeare — as long as the way is effective — is right.” ‘The King’ Review: Once More Unto the Breach (but Why?) 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z

In love with literature, Berlioz wrote music directly inspired by favorite poets and playwrights, among them Virgil, Byron, Gautier and, above all, Shakespeare. Seattle Symphony to stage Berlioz's hard-to-categorize 'Faust' 2012-06-14T20:48:09Z

“As well as being a formidable diplomat, she has a deep understanding of how culture can bring differing tribes together,” says Simon Godwin, artistic director of the Shakespeare Theatre Company in the District. The British ambassador brings her unique style to Washington 2022-11-02T04:00:00Z

“I’m trying to see it as an opportunity to get back to our roots,” he said, explaining that he is looking to history, and how William Shakespeare himself approached the practicalities of stagecraft. Shakespeare Theatre Company sheds a third of its staff 2020-07-14T04:00:00Z

But speaking of Shakespeare, where is he in all this? Anonymous: So Shakespeare Was a Fraud? Really? 2011-10-26T21:44:13Z

Boundaries are permeable at the Drilling Company’s streamlined “Hamlet,” the inaugural production of Bryant Park Shakespeare: free theater, chairs provided, no tickets, no lines. The Drilling Company Presents ‘Hamlet’ in Bryant Park 2014-05-28T04:00:00Z

But men wearing makeup is not a new idea: in the 17th century, men wore makeup and dressed as women during performances of Shakespeare’s plays. Meet the teenage 'beauty boys' coming for the cosmetics industry | Elisabeth Sherman 2020-07-20T04:00:00Z

But before audiences tally whether Mac outdoes Shakespeare on the body count, let’s look back at some of the play’s more memorable appearances in culture, pop and otherwise. Let It Bleed: The Perverse Influence of ‘Titus Andronicus’ 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z

Let’s begin with a refresher course in the provenance of the 37 Shakespeare plays we have. ‘The Millionaire and the Bard,’ by Andrea Mays 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z

Mr. Dildine arrived from Shakespeare Festival St. Louis, where he was executive director for five years. Artistic Director Departs From Shakespeare & Company 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z

Shakespeare's language is lost, but a harrowing visual poetry fills in the gap. 'Macbeth' succeeds in avoiding its onstage curse when it's on-screen 2015-11-28T05:00:00Z

At drama school we studied Shakespeare, and Dany’s not far off from that in terms of the sort of extraordinary, primal, bizarre, un-modern moments that a character can live through. Daenerys Tells All! 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z

Enter the journalist Tom Patterson, who saw a Shakespeare festival as a possible savior. Overnighter: Tracking Bieber and the Bard in Stratford 2012-06-22T15:21:25Z

Shakespeare's Globe in London has always offered Sunday performances. Why do theatres stubbornly refuse to put on their Sunday best? 2010-10-12T12:37:00Z

The idea for the film emerged from Shakespeare readings that Whedon and his architect wife, Kai Cole, hosted at home for many years. Much Ado About Joss Whedon 2013-06-14T07:15:50Z

“The Shakespeare Requirement” provides the hilarious answer to that question. Review | Irritated by tweedy academic types? Read this wonderful campus comedy. 2018-08-06T04:00:00Z

Shakespeare is an eternal rebuke to modern spoiler sensitivity. Movie Review: ‘Much Ado About Nothing,’ Directed by Joss Whedon 2013-06-06T14:57:14Z

The Public’s Mobile Unit has been solving Shakespeare’s political problem play at correctional facilities, homeless shelters and community centers throughout the five boroughs. 10 Plays and Musicals to Go to in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z

Shakespeare wrote plays that were literally about politics. Author Elaine Castillo talks about empathy, Jane Austen adaptations, and "How to Read Now" 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z

But this marks the first time he has tackled Shakespeare's most famous role. Benedict Cumberbatch's 'Hamlet' is center of his own 'six degrees' game 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z

The annual Shakespeare At The Tobacco Factory season has got off to a flying start with a superb revival of Richard III. This week's new theatre 2013-03-30T06:00:21Z

But this was not The English Patient, Pulp Fiction, Shakespeare in Love, The King’s Speech or any other of his films that earned more than 300 Oscar nominations. 'Pack of hyenas': how Harvey Weinstein's power fuelled a culture of enablers 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z

With the help of costumes from the Royal Shakespeare Company and National Theatre, the resulting exhibit features 26 writers portraying a collection of rogues, rascals, witches and wild things. Authors dress up as their favourite characters 2014-06-29T04:00:00Z

At Shakespeare Theatre Company, Godwin modeled White and Colbert’s new positions on the associate directorship he still holds at London’s National Theatre — a role, he said, devised to help keep the artistic planning vibrant. Perspective | Challenged to examine their White bias, some theater companies are taking on diversity — from the top 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z

I have always thought of this blog as a portrait of theatrical sausage-making, a backstage glimpse into the messy trial-and-error process of mounting a Shakespeare play. 'Learning' Lear: Places, Please, for Opening Night 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z

The city's four-year-old Shakespeare troupe is slated to open its first theater in April. Arts community demanding spotlight in Las Vegas 2012-02-26T17:02:08Z

And without such proof, his supporters refuse to budge an inch in their belief that Shakespeare wrote each and every word credited to him. How did Shakespeare shape the English language? 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z

“A Midsummer Night’s Dream” may be one of Shakespeare’s most performed plays — but its latest version from the Royal Shakespeare Company will be unlike any seen before. ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream,’ Sprinkled With High-Tech Fairy Dust 2021-03-12T05:00:00Z

Love in Shakespeare’s plays is rarely a simple matter, but it is almost always presented as an example of humanity’s noblest impulses, the best of what man can become. | 'The Merchant of Venice': What Price a Pound of Flesh? 2011-03-04T23:52:29Z

That same week, she also made an appearance at the Oxford Union, where she apparently wowed the assembled undergraduates with her knowledge of Shakespeare and Mozart. Courtney Love: 'Sometimes I'm a little bit weird... but never unpopular' 2010-03-25T21:30:00Z

You make a musical about two struggling playwrights who are always outshined by Shakespeare; the musical is nominated for 10 Tony Awards, and the only one it wins is for the guy who plays Shakespeare. ‘Something Rotten!’ Ad Celebrates Tony’s Best-Musical Defeat 2015-06-14T04:00:00Z

"Will theatregoers never learn?" wrote Sebastian Shakespeare in the Evening Standard last week, complaining about the "persistent chirrup of mobile phones" at a recent first night of Krapp's Last Tape. Wagner in Times Square shows silence isn't golden 2010-09-30T16:44:00Z

How Shakespeare Shuffled Off This Mortal Coil Robert Brustein lovingly kills off William Shakespeare in “The Last Will,” a speculative version of the end of Shakespeare’s life that completes Mr. Brustein’s trilogy on him. Theater Review: ‘The Last Will,’ by Robert Brustein, at Abingdon Theater 2013-04-21T20:40:34Z

Might this summer's pair of Shakespeare characters, with their potent but diminishing powers, be a test run for the granddaddy of all roles, King Lear? At 81, John Cullum relishes his two roles in Shakespeare in the Park 2011-06-19T03:42:04Z

My grandfather taught Shakespeare and owned many tempting, illustrated volumes on the subject. A Battle of the Hamlets 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z

I don't like it when Shakespeare is represented as bucolic – this image of the sweet England poet among the lovely British green fields. Shakespeare and me: Simon Russell Beale 2012-06-30T23:07:06Z

“We’re as animated about the weather discussions as we are about Shakespeare’s text, so the debates are vociferous,” he said. This Summer’s Dance MVP: The Weatherman 2021-08-04T04:00:00Z

Later, he dresses Juliet for the wedding, and when Friar Lawrence's secret conversation with Juliet is interrupted by the roar of helicopters overhead, Shakespeare gestures to the sky for them to shut up. Romeo and Juliet 2012-05-22T14:09:28Z

Ruin hath taught us thus to ruminate, as Shakespeare more or less said. All Over London, Love Hurts 2011-02-23T10:27:47Z

“The Merchant of Venice,” a Theater for a New Audience production at the Polonsky Shakespeare Center in Brooklyn, came first. The Past Pushes Back in 2 Shows With Contemporary Blackness in Mind 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z

Because so many of Shakespeare’s plays engage similar questions, the canon seems especially ripe right now for reimagining in this way. Deep Dives Into Justice From Shakespeare, Wilde and Atticus Finch 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z

This isn’t just because, as in many Shakespeare plays, it features the central figure of a woman dressed as a man. Review: ‘Twelfth Night,’ in Two Plays, Blurs Identity 2015-03-29T04:00:00Z

The play, first performed in 1973, is a fictional account of the last days of William Shakespeare. 2010-02-15T14:26:00Z

We were just kids howling Shakespeare to the Berkshire trees, and our readiness was all. Finn Wittrock: The First Time I Started a Theater Company 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z

For Wells, those who suggest scholars are refusing to engage in intellectual debate because of their interest in supporting a Shakespeare industry rests on a confusion. Shakespeare identity debate reignited with TV challenge 2013-07-04T16:26:41Z

After this wee diatribe, you'd be forgiven for thinking that I'm boycotting the World Shakespeare Festival. Shakespeare, universal? No, it's cultural imperialism 2012-05-21T13:00:03Z

What’s glorious about Shakespeare, and a source of our fascination, is his consistent inconsistency — as well as our enduring uncertainty about who he was. The Algorithm That Could Take Us Inside Shakespeare’s Mind 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z

That means our last chance to see Kidd Pivot for a while comes this week when "The Tempest Replica," Pite's adaptation of Shakespeare's "The Tempest," has a three-day run at On the Boards. Kidd Pivot's 'Tempest Replica': a temporary farewell in Seattle 2012-10-17T18:52:05Z

I might get asked to do Shakespeare, but it is usually because it is being set in a black context. Black actors make it to the main stage – but there is still some way to go 2013-06-09T09:00:05Z

The major – although not conclusive – problem with this theory is that Shakespeare was long dead before the text was edited in its Folio form. Who edited Shakespeare? 2013-07-12T13:00:01Z

In January, Shakespeare Theatre’s Michael Kahn will reprise “The Metromaniacs,” an obscure French comedy adapted by David Ives that proved popular earlier this year. ‘Man of La Mancha’ bound for Broadway again? 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z

Snodin knows Shakespeare's plays well enough to drop witty allusions as freely as Puck sprinkles love potion around the forest. 'Iago: A Novel' ? the morning after a bloody mess 2012-01-04T22:57:03Z

But she’s also been in Los Angeles for decades, has acted on Broadway and loves to perform Shakespeare. Dale Dickey takes center stage at Sundance in ‘A Love Song’ 2022-01-22T05:00:00Z

Eliot’s idea that with Shakespeare we can never be right, but can only “from time to time change our way of being wrong.” ‘The Hollow Crown,’ on PBS, Retells Shakespearean History 2013-09-12T16:18:13Z

Do I want to live in a world where Shakespeare picks up a copy of one of my books and sneers at it? Jennifer Weiner Used to Read Her Father’s Medical Textbooks for Fun 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z

Shakespeare’s airiest souffle does put one in mind of all those half-hours of zaniness that once dominated prime time: clueless hicks living in Beverly Hills and horses that talk and mischievous uncles from Mars. Review | ‘The Merry Wives of Windsor’ as a sitcom? Call it ‘The Bardy Bunch.’ 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z

The Public Works project of the Public Theater does what it will with this enchanting Shakespeare comedy. What’s New in NYC Theater 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z

Shakespeare coined this now cliched line and it appears repeatedly in his plays. Murdoch could learn from Shakespeare 2011-07-12T19:00:01Z

It’s not exactly a case of “Garbo Talks,” but the action masters at Synetic Theater — the wizards known for “silent” Shakespeare — are now cramming more than 90 minutes’ worth of speech into one actor’s mouth. ‘A Tale of Two Cities’ has a drag queen, a baby and a pace like rush-hour traffic 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z

As a 10- or 11-year-old boy, the London-born son of a businessman and an academic was introduced to theater by his school drama teacher, former Royal Shakespeare Company actor Roger Mortimer. With 'Les Miz,' a new kind of speech for Hooper 2012-12-21T15:31:17Z

For the past 400 years William Shakespeare has held a position in English-language literature roughly analogous to that of the major authors of Latin antiquity during the Renaissance. Review | Who art thou, Shakespeare? 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z

Lovers, Haters & Others Benefit show features scenes and monologues from works by Shakespeare, Tennessee Williams and others. L.A. theater openings and critics’ choices, June 11-18: 'King Richard II' and more 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z

The current revival of “The Dream” is part of a Shakespeare double bill, nicely timed both to echo the recent “Midsummer” date and to celebrate the 450th anniversary of the master’s birth. American Ballet Theater’s Shakespeare Program 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z

Soon another robbery is attempted, there’s a murder and it’s revealed that the missing painting may hold a clue to the location of a never-before-seen Shakespeare play. Review | If you crush on blue-blooded British detectives, here’s a book for you 2019-02-19T05:00:00Z

After the ambitious, four-week Here/Now Festival, highlighting City Ballet’s commitment to commissioning new work, the company is settling into something older, with George Balanchine’s 1962 take on Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” Dance in NYC This Week 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z

Some scholars believe that the play originated with Shakespeare and Fletcher, while others credit Fletcher only or attribute it to another Jacobean dramatist. A Lost Shakespeare? It?s a Mystery 2011-03-11T00:11:00Z

This festival, presented by Theater Under the Stars, asserts on its Web site that "This Ain't Your Momma's Shakespeare!" Summer Stages: Theater 2010-05-09T03:12:00Z

He draws on Shakespeare as readily as he does “Star Trek”. From one who should know 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z

One thing that Shakespeare’s play “King Lear” does not mention is what happened to his wife and queen, the mother of his daughters. Review | In ‘A Thousand Acres,’ I killed Lear’s wife. A new novel has better plans for her. 2021-12-05T05:00:00Z

While Shakespeare drew strength from literary tradition, Bate emphasizes that the playwright’s fundamental view of life was irreverent, even — to use a current vogue word — disruptive. Review | Who art thou, Shakespeare? 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z

There’s very little creeping in the Public Theater’s Mobile Shakespeare Unit production of “Macbeth.” Review: ‘Macbeth,’ Accelerated, at Public Theater 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z

The billionaire J. Paul Getty would probably have disagreed with Shakespeare’s take. Review: Christopher Plummer Dominates ‘All the Money in the World’ 2017-12-24T05:00:00Z

The Shakespeare Theatre Company has a long tradition of inviting Hollywood tough guys to star as tragic heroes. From Hollywood bad guy to Shakespearean heavy 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z

Scared: First of all, congratulations for reproducing the basic plot of many timeless stories — from Shakespeare to “You’ve Got Mail” — in your actual life. Perspective | Ask Amy: Man texts timeless plot with ex-wife 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z

He provides ample textual evidence, from Shakespeare on, that this is a perfectly respectable option — and so unconscious that even those who condemn it invoke it without noticing. English’s Pronoun Problem Is Centuries Old 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z

And "Hamlet, Prince of Grief," featuring Iranian actor Afshin Hashemi using household objects and children's toys in his retelling of Shakespeare's classic in Farsi. Theater festivals fire up a cold New York 2013-01-05T23:37:24Z

But for one man, a late-career William Shakespeare, there are graver concerns: writer’s block. Review: In ‘Jane Anger,’ Revenge Is a Thorny Uphill Climb 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z

Cultural productions are carefully scrutinized by government censors in China, and the the play, about a tyrannical king, is the first presentation of Shakespeare by a Western theater company in the Chinese capital. ArtsBeat Blog: English King to Have Brief Reign in Beijing 2011-11-15T16:00:48Z

My job is to make them work as happily and as well as possible, and let Shakespeare and Rattigan provide all the fun.” Kenneth Branagh Returns to the Stage, With More Roles 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z

I remember being so bored by Shakespeare at school when I was young, so I tried to get to the muscle of these plays. ‘Henry VI’ Is Performed Where Wars of Roses Were Fought 2013-08-02T20:27:03Z

I will be spending a month in Stratford-upon-Avon as a writer in residence, so I'll be brushing up my Shakespeare – reading plays I've never got around to, such as Timon of Athens, and rereading others. Best holiday reads 2013 2013-07-14T07:00:00Z

I wasn't quite sure about his description of Henry VI pt 1 as "Kill Bill in tights" in the first episode of Schama's Shakespeare. Simon Schama: TV dumber-down or simply the greatest? 2012-06-28T13:55:10Z

Photograph: Tristram Kenton for the Guardian The only Shakespeare at the Open Air theatre this summer is this late play, "reimagined for everyone aged six and over". The Winter's Tale – review 2013-07-08T17:12:47Z

“Shakespeare in Swahililand” is an attempt to understand whether the great playwright’s work speaks across cultural boundaries to a shared humanity. All the world was his stage 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z

Sonnet 76: Shakespeare’s sonnets have always inspired particular fascination because they’re supposedly the writings in which the elusive man most reveals himself. Shakespeare on drugs: The secret narcotic history of the world’s greatest playwright 2014-04-23T15:15:00Z

This week marks the 452nd anniversary of the birth of William Shakespeare as well as the 400th anniversary of his death. How did Shakespeare shape the English language? 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z

Professor Shapiro, author of “Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare?,” called Mr. Emmerich “a charming man and a great filmmaker” but said that his approach was reductively anti-intellectual, and dangerously so. Roland Emmerich?s ?Anonymous? Seeks to Unmask Shakespeare 2011-10-22T03:03:02Z

Ms. Shaw, who is also an associate director at the Royal Shakespeare, asked Mr. Rocha to team up on a festival project with the Roundhouse Theater, which specializes in works featuring new young actors. The World Takes On Shakespeare at London Festival 2012-07-04T21:37:11Z

In his latest book, the author of “Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare?” and “1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare” has outdone himself. The 10 Best Books of 2020 2020-11-23T05:00:00Z

And Horatio barely seems to show up in the first place, even though he’s the character Shakespeare leaves standing at the end: enjoined, as Hamlet says dying, to “tell my story.” Review: This ‘Hamlet’ Under the Stars Is No Walk in the Park 2023-06-28T04:00:00Z

I grew up with the New York Shakespeare Festival's racially blind casting at a time when that was a new idea and a breakthrough for non-white actors. Joan of Arc, Superstar? Not to the Woman Playing Her 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z

But hey, Shakespeare used the same template for his sonnets, too. There are already four-hour lines at Walt Disney World’s new ‘Avatar’-themed attraction. Does Pandora live up to the hype? 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z

“I didn’t know what it was about and I hadn’t read and I haven’t since read any of George RR Martin’s books,” he muses in an interview at the Shakespeare Theatre Company. Charles Dance: 'Thank God the BBC didn't make Game of Thrones' 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z

The biggest comes at the end, when the lyrics to Kate’s song “I Am Ashamed That Women Are So Simple,” which Porter largely lifted from Shakespeare, get a heavy reworking. Review: A Fair Fight Makes ‘Kiss Me, Kate’ Lovable Again 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z

The pleasure in making Shakespeare corporeal is the pleasure of imagining timeless wisdom emanating from a body as clumsy as our own. A new show imagines a punk rock Shakespeare — the latest of our many fantasies about the bard 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z

But while Cumming generates pathos, and even sometimes sharp laughter, from his audience, the staging - no matter how inventive - doesn't always add meaning to Shakespeare's play. Review: Alan Cumming's 1-man 'Macbeth' stunning 2013-04-22T00:16:04Z

That some Shakespeare works are more popular than others is certainly nothing new. Perspective | Dumbing down Shakespeare: Are Americans too intellectually lazy to appreciate his genius? 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z

As co-presenter of a BBC TV arts programme, I hired him in the runup to the 1979 general election, to read passages of Shakespeare that seemed appropriate to a bitter political contest. Richard Griffiths obituary 2013-03-29T16:52:59Z

In Shakespeare's plays, suicide continues to be presented as a rational response to a narrative that has gone tragically awry. To be or not to be: Playwrights on the complex issue of suicide 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z

The pilot opens and closes with the imagery of flies, recalling Shakespeare: “As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport.” Review: ‘Westworld’ Is a Provocative but Flawed Sci-Fi Shoot-’Em-Up 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z

Bitter Pill's visually gorgeous Swahili The Merry Wives of Windsor managed to inject the most brainless and boring of Shakespeare's comedies with vitality and belly laughs. Shakespeare, universal? No, it's cultural imperialism 2012-05-21T13:00:03Z

Like most theaters across the country, the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival canceled its 2020 season because of the pandemic. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival Finds First Permanent Home 2020-08-26T04:00:00Z

Paintings by Titian and Catena expand on the allure of Venice for Shakespeare, who set two plays there. Is Shakespeare Britain's greatest contribution to world culture? 2012-08-28T12:54:58Z

Ushering in a new year in Seattle theater are two bold reworkings of stage classics: one by Shakespeare, the other by Mozart. Preview: Classics 'Cymbeline,' 'Don Giovanni' undergo a little remodeling on Seattle stages 2011-01-06T22:09:04Z

Do you remember, mid-March, when everyone kept recalling that Shakespeare wrote “King Lear” while in quarantine? Amy Sillman’s Breakthrough Moment Is Here 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z

“Issues like immigration and race that couldn’t be dealt with directly could be confronted through Shakespeare,” Professor Shapiro said. Measuring America’s Shakespearean Devotion 2014-03-19T20:47:10Z

Director Robert Carsen, who has set the tale of Shakespeare's roguish knight in the 1950s, wanted to introduce a horse to reflect English society. VIDEO: Horse makes opera debut in Falstaff 2012-05-14T23:16:45Z

In a 2001 Royal Shakespeare production of "Henry VI," some questioned his casting as the monarch. Oyelowo brings 2 inspiring tales from Africa to Toronto 2016-09-10T04:00:00Z

Bill Rauch, artistic director of Oregon Shakespeare Festival and another believer in equitable representation, says Dang is the right man for this kind of work. East West Players chief Tim Dang is leaving, but he'll continue leading 'cultural navigation' 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z

Shakespeare's skill in dramatising opposing sides, we learn, made him hard to pin down, helping him avoid trouble with the authorities. TV highlights 29/06/2012 2012-06-28T19:00:01Z

“There are films you’ve seen or haven’t seen. Nobody says, ‘Have you read that old play by Shakespeare?’ or ‘Have you heard that old symphony by Mozart?’ What’s the statute of limitations on movie spoilers? 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z

But he works in a wide variety of media - putting his drawings on stage amid a polyphony of keyboards and brass curious instruments salvaged from antique shops, and text from Shakespeare to Gogol. Artist William Kentridge on stage in South Africa 2011-09-17T12:29:12Z

The Tragedy of Coriolanus uses two Chinese rock bands to back up the action If there is music in a production of Shakespeare it is usually a lute not a heavy metal band. Heavy rock Coriolanus turns up volume 2013-08-21T01:27:33Z

Shakespeare was just 18 when he married Anne in 1582; she was 26 and pregnant. In ‘Hamnet,’ Shakespeare’s Wife Takes the Spotlight, at Last 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z

They aren’t just foils or catalysts for the action, as their counterparts are in Shakespeare. ‘West Side Story’ Review: In Love and War, 1957 Might Be Tonight 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z

“Ships, Clocks & Stars: The Quest for Longitude,” an exhibition opening March 19 at the Folger Shakespeare Library, recounts the history of the knotty problem. Unraveling a knotty problem 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z

The words “musical adaptation” and “Shakespeare” don’t seem like such a happy combination; the music, after all, is already in his language. Theater Review: ‘The Tempest,’ at the Delacorte, Enlists 200 New Yorkers 2013-09-09T20:15:13Z

It's something I've longed to do my whole life, to do one of the big Shakespeares in a really serious production. A Minute With: Ethan Hawke on acting, Selena Gomez and Shakespeare 2013-08-28T12:05:18Z

The first, "The Letters in Shakespeare's Plays", she devised after agreeing to speak to a branch of the Ladies' Theatrical Guild in Glasgow in 1903. Lynne Truss: rereading Four Lectures on Shakespeare by Ellen Terry 2012-07-27T21:55:01Z

Contested Will ends with a challenge, issued as much to theory-addled academics as to deluded cultists: scepticism about Shakespeare signals an agnostic disrespect for what Shapiro bravely, bracingly calls "the mystery of literary creation". Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare? by James Shapiro | Book review 2010-04-03T23:07:00Z

‘Romeo & Juliet’ The Public Theater’s Mobile Lab production trots through Shakespeare’s “two hours traffic” in just 90 minutes. Theater Listings for April 22-28 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z

Related: The 10 best modern takes on Shakespeare – in pictures I met McKellen at the BFI last month to quiz him about his choice of the 10 best Shakespearean performances on film. Ian McKellen’s favourite Shakespeare roles on film 2016-04-03T04:00:00Z

Organised Walks and Shakespeare in the Park: check website for details, mountroyalcem.com. A literary tour of Mordecai Richler's Montreal 2011-01-11T11:27:00Z

Fiasco, a young New York company whose core members came out of the theater program at Brown University, made quite a splash with its six-actor version of Shakespeare’s “Cymbeline.” Fiasco’s ‘Into the Woods,’ at McCarter Theater 2013-05-07T21:44:11Z

The summer promises to be full of Shakespeare, too. Exits and Entrances: Notes on Spring Shakespeare 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z

But this year it is planning just one Shakespeare in the Park production. It’s Outside, but Shakespeare in the Park Still Plans Social Distancing 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z

She loved, too, that Shakespeare’s female characters were as power-hungry as the men: “It’s like I used to say to Joel, ‘Why don’t you guys write better roles for women? What Frances McDormand Would (and Wouldn’t) Give to ‘Nomadland’ 2021-02-22T05:00:00Z

At some point in 1605, Shakespeare acquired a copy of “The True Chronicle History of King Leir” and decided to use this earlier drama as the foundation for his bleakest, most searing tragedy. ‘The Year of Lear’ review: How politics shaped Shakespeare’s masterworks 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z

He's taking over the role of William Shakespeare in "Something Rotten!" "Nashville" star Will Chase going back to Broadway 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z

There’s plenty of real Shakespeare, too, as Mr. Neale’s winningly wild-eyed Tamberlaine borrows freely from the characters of Macbeth, Richard III, Titus Andronicus and, above all, one wacky Prince of Denmark. Review: Charles Ludlam in the Cosmos Where ‘Queens Collide’ 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z

Once you do Shakespeare, the rest of it is a cake walk.” Actor’s baby girl born night he stars on Broadway 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z

When Dominic Dromgoole asked me to come to the Globe to direct As You Like It I hesitated, because I thought you had to be part of a special club to direct Shakespeare. Shakespeare and me: Thea Sharrock 2012-06-30T23:05:28Z

Martín’s zinger lands with snap in director Bill Rauch’s burnished and powerfully acted production, now running at Arena Stage after originating at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Review | ‘Mother Road’ is often a slog despite burnished production at Arena Stage 2020-02-17T05:00:00Z

“They used to perform Shakespeare plays at high schools and the kids would sit in with the scripts in their hands so they could follow along,” Rob Reiner said. Carl Reiner’s Archives Will Go to the National Comedy Center 2021-03-19T04:00:00Z

It contained a copy of the 1870 U.S. census, a Bible, a dictionary, the complete works of William Shakespeare, a guide to Egypt, and a facsimile of the Declaration of Independence. 11 time capsules waiting to be opened 2022-05-28T04:00:00Z

What one production and a cast of six did was to make Shakespeare entertaining and truly accessible to all. Young arts critics competition 2010: the winning entries 2010-10-20T22:00:00Z

Shakespeare stocked the cultural arsenal for Britain’s overseas campaign as well, getting a push in the colonies from the British Empire Shakespeare Society, whose motto read, “Using no other weapon but his name.” Why We (Mostly) Stopped Messing With Shakespeare’s Language 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z

Shakespeare’s comedy of crossed signals which appeared in its nonmusical form at Shakespeare in the Park with Anne Hathaway in 2009. Public Theater Announces 'Twelfth Night’ Musical 2015-12-13T05:00:00Z

She is also the president of the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival, and a director of the Allentown Symphony Association. Judith Harris, Jack Mydlo 2018-08-19T04:00:00Z

Al Pacino's documentary Looking for Richard is almost a companion piece to the above: released a year later, it's a cut-up, forehead-kneading attempt to understand the contemporary relevance of Richard III, or indeed all Shakespeare. Richard III – a career in clips 2013-02-04T17:28:00Z

As a result “How the Classics Made Shakespeare” stands as a model of sensitively marshaled humanist learning and thoughtful appreciation. Review | Who art thou, Shakespeare? 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z

After its premiere in Fayetteville, the production will transfer to Alabama Shakespeare Festival and Dallas Theater Center. ‘Designing Women’ Play Will Debut This Year 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z

If Piñeiro’s Shakespeare citations have sometimes freighted slight stories with unearned significance, “Isabella” finds him expanding his formal ambition. ‘Isabella’ Review: Audition of a Lifetime 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z

"Before Boundary, Insects in the Backyard and Shakespeare Must Die were banned, and they both went to the administrative court, but they still haven't gotten an answer," he said. Thailand bans documentary about Thai-Cambodia boundary dispute 2013-04-24T11:45:34Z

That was a facet of something I was trying to understand with the heavy, thorny text of Shakespeare. To Play Hamlet, Alex Lawther Became an ‘Expert on Grief’ 2022-06-28T04:00:00Z

The words, drawn from his biography and some of his roles, are fine and even better when Shakespeare is the author. Movie Review: ‘Barrymore’ Stars Christopher Plummer; Érik Canuel Directs 2012-11-14T23:24:22Z

Shakespeare borrowed almost all his plots from others. Review | Twice-told tales: Jo Nesbø, Madeline Miller and others revive classic stories 2018-02-16T05:00:00Z

Though its commitment to popular, unpretentious Shakespeare is unassailable, you wonder about the compulsion to introduce a song-and-dance routine at every opportunity. Hamlet ? review 2011-03-03T22:00:04Z

The actors I value most are those who speak Shakespeare as if it is their first language. Nicholas Hytner: With Shakespeare, the play is just a starting point 2013-04-12T09:01:01Z

Juliette’s dress, worn to the party where she meets Roméo, is gold — both because “she is the precious thing in the family,” and because of the Shakespeare line that compares Juliette to the sun. ‘Roméo et Juliette’: New look for an old story 2013-01-26T04:11:24Z

When it comes to the legendary Sondheim, “we have unreasonable expectations,” suggests Gary Griffin, who directed “Road Show” at the Chicago Shakespeare Theater in 2014 and is expanding on that production at Signature. Sondheim’s ‘Road Show’ on the rebound at Signature 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z

But director Andrew Hilton changes tack with this early comedy written when Shakespeare was honing his craft. This week's new theatre 2013-03-30T06:00:21Z

Paul Edmondson, the head of research at the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, said that the story of Shakespeare’s wife was likely complex and compelling. In ‘Hamnet,’ Shakespeare’s Wife Takes the Spotlight, at Last 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z

I find myself scooping up old poetry books, reading Shakespeare and even writing down the colors of this strange, yet I imagine so universal, blend of emotions. Of conscience and creativity 2013-05-09T00:00:00Z

He’s the godfather to recent Emmy winner Sterling K Brown’s child and played Tybalt in Shakespeare in the Park in New York alongside a young Oscar Issac, who played Romeo. Atlanta star Brian Tyree Henry: if Trump gets elected 'it's going to be Mad Max' 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z

“Richard III” was a natural choice for that treatment, and whenever Mr. Lew’s update questions or complicates Shakespeare’s assumptions, even if that means departing from his template, it is riveting. Review: In a Teenage Take on ‘Richard III,’ Now Is the Prom of Our Discontent 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z

Shakespeare and Cervantes probably died or were buried almost a fortnight apart, mostly because Catholic Spain preferred the Gregorian calendar, which ran 11 days behind Protestant England's. The secret connection between Cervantes and Shakespeare 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z

Last year, Seattle Shakespeare Company and upstart crow collective delivered the fierce “Bring Down the House,” an adaptation of Shakespeare’s “Henry VI” trilogy featuring an all-female cast. 10 plays to see this fall 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z

To contrive some sort of collaboration between Shakespeare and Cervantes, literary matchmakers could have skipped all their needy, rococo chess moves. The secret connection between Cervantes and Shakespeare 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z

Kurzel’s interpretation of Shakespeare’s ambitious murderer has already received praise following its premiere at Cannes. All Hail Michael Fassbender in This Gripping Macbeth Trailer 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z

The celebration replaces The Public’s annual gala held beside the stage where it offers Shakespeare in the Park. Stars to come out to support NYC’s The Public Theater 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z

Shakespeare’s magic doesn’t fail, though the pleasure of this loose-jointed production can seem as miraculous as the far-fetched happy ending. Summer Shakespeare: A critic's take on the secret to theatrical success 2016-08-16T04:00:00Z

As for Shakespeare in the Park, she said, “I’m very excited to see theater in the park. We are eagerly working with them.” The Arts Are Coming Back This Summer. Just Step Outside. 2021-03-16T04:00:00Z

Ms. Paulus’s inspiration for moments like this is “Hair,” which she directed for Shakespeare in the Park, and later Broadway, nearly a decade ago. Has Alanis Morissette Made the Most Woke Musical Since ‘Hair’? 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z

Their Will Shakespeare is an arrogant genius and unflappable cynic, played with excellent dry wit by Lawler as a stage Scrooge with writer’s block, given to riffing on the expression “Bah, humbug!.” Shakespeare meets Dickens in ‘Holiday of Errors’ 2013-12-12T05:21:04Z

But in this trio of outdoor Shakespeare entries, all presented admission-free and touring in local parks, the play is still the thing. Triple play: 3 engaging Shakespeare shows in Puget Sound parks 2012-07-26T19:53:04Z

What a shame that Cervantes and Shakespeare never met to talk a little shop, tell a dirty joke, perhaps even collaborate. The secret connection between Cervantes and Shakespeare 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z

Balanchine he always recognized as a genius — once likening him to Shakespeare and Mozart, whom he described as “comparable geniuses in other art forms.” Robert Gottlieb Didn’t Just Shape Manuscripts. He Shaped Dance, Too. 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z

The myth that Shakespeare coined loads of words has partly fueled the myth that Shakespeare's language constitutes one-quarter, a half or even all of the words of today's English language. Five myths about Shakespeare’s contribution to the English language 2022-09-24T04:00:00Z

And he contained contradictions — enough to fuel in the decades after his death a popularity and influence the scope of which no other creative artist, with the possible exception of Shakespeare, has ever achieved. From George Eliot to Neo-Nazi Skinheads: The Chaotic Cult of Richard Wagner 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z

He delved into the literary canon revered by angry young men everywhere: Nabokov, Eliot, Shakespeare, Keats, Wilde, Fitzgerald and Hemingway. Benjamin Scheuer and a life told in heartbreaking song at the Geffen 2017-01-03T05:00:00Z

He was getting ready to film a PBS documentary on Shakespeare’s First Folio, he noted, adding: “I will be not be wearing white gloves onscreen, which will inevitably invite comment.” For Rare Book Librarians, It’s Gloves Off. Seriously. 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z

‘Macbeth’ Individual motivation doesn’t count for much in Jack O’Brien’s dark and dreary account of Shakespeare’s study in vaulting ambition, with character taking a back seat to mystical symmetry. Theater Listings for Dec. 13-19 2013-12-13T18:23:32Z

If Shakespeare was right and the eyes are the windows of the soul, maybe the windows of the stores are the eyes of the city’s spirit. Holiday Windows Aren’t Over. Neither, They Say, Is New York. 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z

The Public Theater is known for its work with Shakespeare as well as many of the titans of contemporary theater. An Unexpected Hero Will Visit Central Park: Here Comes Hercules 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z

In the works is a trilogy of original stories about contemporary California called "The Golden State," commissioned by the Magic Theatre and the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Luis Alfaro's 'Mojada' draws on Greek tragedy, Mexican American immigration 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z

“Imperium,” directed by Gregory Doran, is the Royal Shakespeare Company’s second offering in recent years to evoke the political turmoil of a distant era as a mirror of our own. Far From Home, but Not Far Enough 2018-08-07T04:00:00Z

These directors might cut Shakespeare’s words but never his intentions. Ian McKellen’s favourite Shakespeare roles on film 2016-04-03T04:00:00Z

As Mr. Shakespeare does his research, the mystery of Priscilla begins to recede, and so does her glamour. Books of The Times: In ‘Priscilla,’ Nicholas Shakespeare Looks at Family Mystery 2013-12-26T19:35:00Z

Shakespeare seems to be a special case, with the corporation commissioning adaptations of the histories and Julius Caesar alongside documentaries for last summer's World Shakespeare festival. What's TV's problem with theatre? 2013-03-20T18:31:19Z

The two-time Tony Award winner Mark Rylance, nominated twice this year, said he is heartened by the draw for his Shakespeare plays. Broadway’s box office and attendance figures up 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z

David Stubbs William Tyndale was as influential as Shakespeare in shaping our language, says Melvyn Bragg in his profile of the man who defied the establishment by translating the Bible into English. TV highlights 06/06/2013 2013-06-06T06:00:02Z

“It’s not a surprise that women exercised their agency in unusual and creative ways in this period,” Heather Wolfe, associate librarian and curator of manuscripts at the Folger Shakespeare Library, said. Decoding the Defiance of Henry VIII’s First Wife 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z

"I have always thought of the RSC as a Shakespeare 'gymnasium'." Tennant heads RSC's winter season 2013-01-23T11:32:25Z

But Shakespeare's great trick, he suggests, is to make the audience complicit in Iago's villainy. Adrian Lester and Rory Kinnear: 'Othello and Iago are a bit cracked' 2013-04-10T19:00:00Z

Also on Monday, Shakespeare announced that its 2014-2015 season will include another South African troupe. The Studio Theatre play that can’t be named — and it’s not ‘Macbeth’

This is no hardship because, as is true of most Shakespeare, I always hear something new with each encounter. ‘King Lear’ in the Park, Starring John Lithgow 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z

He was cast in a Royal Shakespeare Company production of “A Christmas Carol” when he was 8, having been scouted in a local drama class. Jonathan Bailey Is Keeping Busy 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z

The once powerful film producer is known for reshaping movie-making with low-budget, critically acclaimed films such as “The English Patient” and “Shakespeare in Love.” Jury selection in Weinstein rape trial begins in wake of new charges 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z

"But at its core, if you dig deeper it's a very human show. It's much more rooted in Shakespeare than it is Washington politics." U.S.-China Film Summit: Netflix's Sarandos takes aim at theater chains 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z

It is called “Shakespeare in Love: The Play,” and it might best be described as Shakespeare-flavored, in the way that some soft drinks are advertised as fruit-flavored. ‘Shakespeare in Love: The Play,’ in London 2014-07-23T04:00:00Z

At the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon-Avon, England, Richard was played by the actor Arthur Hughes, who has radial dysplasia, which means he has a shorter right arm and a missing thumb. Who Can Play the King? Representation Questions Fuel Casting Debates. 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z

The play was not actually attributed to Shakespeare until the Third Folio, published in 1664. The Continual Riddle of Shakespeare’s “Pericles” 2016-03-08T05:00:00Z

Almost always with Shakespeare, there is a period of adjustment as the play begins. 7 Things to Do This Weekend 2020-09-17T04:00:00Z

The chamber chorus, a subgroup of 28 singers, sang the New York premiere of three lively, engaging and lighthearted “Shakespeare Songs” by the composer Matthew Harris. Music Review: New Amsterdam Singers, Led by Clara Longstreth 2012-06-03T22:15:08Z

The challenge of blending real and invented characters wasn’t so theoretical for William Shakespeare. Perspective | Alan Dershowitz claims a fictional lawyer defamed him. The implications for novelists are very real. 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z

It’s hard not to trust a 91-year-old who can still recite Shakespeare in perfect pentameter. Former Students and ‘Wynn Place Show’ Praise Wynn Handman 2013-12-25T21:24:07Z

This year, the 400th anniversary’s of Anne death, might be the year we finally hear about this other Shakespeare. In ‘Hamnet,’ Shakespeare’s Wife Takes the Spotlight, at Last 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z

Another, even smaller endowment produces just hundreds of dollars a year, and funds a small cottage where the director of the Shakespeare program stays. Is Winedale historic center succumbing to neglect? 2014-07-20T04:00:00Z

But a few — Shakespeare, Austen, Twain — grow more amplified by each new generation. Perspective | Toni Morrison not only remade American literature, she challenged us to resist the tenacity of racism 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z

Beyond the bestsellers: Michael Dirda picks 12 books for the holidays Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” writes vividly, if not quite accurately, of “the undiscovered country, from whose bourn no traveler returns.” Michael Dirda: Ghosts and ghouls to put a chill in your Christmas reading 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z

“Just once, I want to see Shakespeare in my native language and understand it at speed, without having to work that hard,” he said. Translating Shakespeare? 36 Playwrights Taketh the Big Risk 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z

Over the past 30 years, the world has been regularly treated to new Shakespeare discoveries. ‘Shakespeare’s Beehive’ review: Are these notes and scribbles the Bard’s? 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z

He invited Ms. deBessonet to his studio two years ago, she said, after attending her production of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” at the Delacorte, part of the Public Theater’s Shakespeare in the Park season. How Do You Stage Disney’s ‘Hercules’? Invite Everyone 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z

Not so in this musical comedy, which imagines — with an assist from Anne Hathaway, Shakespeare’s wife — what happens when Juliet goes on living without her Romeo. What to See on Broadway in October 2021-07-15T04:00:00Z

The opera’s gifted librettist, Matthew Jocelyn, grasped what Shakespeare scholars have come to understand, that there is no single definitive text of the play. ‘To Be or Not to Be’: Is It the Question or the Point? 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z

“The role requires a certain presence of mind and body and spirit that is more akin to leading roles in Shakespeare,” Valdez says in a separate interview. Demian Bichir plays it cool in 'Zoot Suit' 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z

Often “Dancing Henry Five” evokes not the era of Henry V or Shakespeare but the centuries that followed. Dance Review: David Gordon?s ?Dancing Henry Five? - Review 2011-10-08T00:39:12Z

After Anthony took the poison, my father heard a thump from downstairs and found Anthony in spasms on the roof next to a volume of Shakespeare and a pack of Gauloises cigarettes. My brother’s life, unraveled 2013-03-12T11:45:00Z

They are charged in several arsons in southwest Connecticut, but the arraignment was only in connection to the Jan. 13 fire that destroyed the Shakespeare theater in Stratford. 3 teens plead not guilty to torching Connecticut theater 2019-04-23T04:00:00Z

Two acquaintances in Melbourne, where he lives, were Shakespeare skeptics, an academic choice that Kells is keen to portray as one of living-on-the-edge excitement. That Man From Stratford 2019-04-21T04:00:00Z

Post your suggestions below for the best songs about Shakespeare and we'll assemble the ones we like most in a playlist next week. Readers recommend: songs about Shakespeare 2013-02-07T22:00:02Z

Why is “Shakespeare in Love” the most-produced play in America’s regional theaters this season? Review | Oddly, ‘Shakespeare in Love’ is America’s top play 2017-10-29T04:00:00Z

But Broadway — and, earlier, Shakespeare — is a rare detour for former athletes, who, if they enter show business, usually choose television and movies. Eddie George Leaps to ‘Chicago’ From the N.F.L. 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z

Firth's movie credits include "Bridget Jones's Diary," "Shakespeare in Love," "The English Patient" and "Mama Mia!" Colin Firth unveils Hollywood sidewalk star 2011-01-13T20:46:08Z

The performances, which run April 26 to May 5, were commissioned by the Stratford-based Royal Shakespeare Company as part of its World Shakespeare Festival. New `Romeo and Juliet' has an Iraqi spin 2012-04-25T20:31:16Z

As several Paris theaters geared up to open their seasons with Shakespeare, I started wondering how differently the plays would be tackled if they had a woman’s name attached to them. Mary Sidney, Shakespeare and the Authorship Question 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z

The most reliable theater deal in town is Shakespeare’s Globe on the south side of the Thames, near the Tate Modern. How to See London Theater on the Cheap 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z

As always, Shakespeare works through contrast and comparison. The theater of Trump: What Shakespeare can teach us about the Donald 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z

With its glossy Californian location and handsome TV actors, it could have ended up looking less like a Shakespeare adaptation with echoes of classic Hollywood and more like a daytime soap. How black-and-white movies made a comeback 2013-06-29T23:05:47Z

This touring version of the 2015 Broadway hit has the leftover aroma of “The Producers,” “The Book of Mormon” and a half dozen campy escapades from the Reduced Shakespeare Company. Review | What if ‘Hamlet’ had showgirls? ‘Something Rotten!’ hits and misses. 2018-02-07T05:00:00Z

What if the mismatched young lovers in this wonderland Shakespeare comedy were students at a private parochial school? Oregon Shakespeare Fest, 2013: the Bard, and more 2013-07-24T22:08:57Z

“Walt Whitman,” he wrote, “overwhelms me, possesses me, as only a few others — Dante, Shakespeare, Milton — consistently flood my entire being.” Harold Bloom, a Prolific Giant and Perhaps the Last of a Kind 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z

The first is that, thinking he had overdone the satire of Florio, and perhaps needing to make a theatrical cut, Shakespeare erased the passage from the play. Who edited Shakespeare? 2013-07-12T13:00:01Z

As this "Cymbeline" invites us to enjoy its familiar tropes, Woronicz also emphasizes its main link to "The Tempest" and other autumnal Shakespeare works: a profound sense of forgiveness. Shakespeare's complicated 'Cymbeline' is sweetly streamlined at Seattle Shakespeare Co. 2011-01-12T21:17:04Z

All’s Well That Ends Well Shakespeare’s tale about a low-born woman trying to win the love of a nobleman. L.A. theater openings, June 15-22: 'Houdini,' 'Oedipus' and more 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z

He’s used to resistance along the lines of: “Well, we’re doing Shakespeare, and Shakespeare meant to do the show like this.” East West Players chief Tim Dang is leaving, but he'll continue leading 'cultural navigation' 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z

He attended Durham University and the University of Bristol and worked in the 1970s at the Bristol Old Vic before doing freelance theater work and then joining the Royal Shakespeare Company. Howard Davies, Theater Director in Britain and on Broadway, Dies at 71 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z

I've played everything from Shakespeare to sitcoms to period dramas to modern serial killers. Hugh Bonneville presides on 'Downton Abbey' finale 2013-02-14T14:56:41Z

Considering that Shakespeare wrote these words in an era when a person’s average life span was about 45 years, he clearly intended Lear to be as old as Methuselah. Learning 'Lear': Feeling the Pain 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z

A powerful scene from the anonymous manuscript of “Sir Thomas More,” for instance, has been matched in certain features of its handwriting to Shakespeare’s six extant signatures. The Radical Argument of the New Oxford Shakespeare 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z

The coming year promises to bring global Shakespeare mania, as the 400th anniversary of his death prompts a cavalcade of performances and exhibitions around the world. For a Shakespeare Anniversary, an Online Re-Creation of a 1796 Show 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z

The folks at Fiasco, though, understand that Shakespeare is quite complex enough to begin with, and that anachronistic glosses are more likely to muddle than illuminate. Theater Review: ‘Measure for Measure’ Full of Dual Natures and Hard Choices 2014-03-02T23:23:31Z

The subject: Mr. Kani’s new play, “Kunene and the King,” which opened at the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Swan Theater on April 3. Stage Royalty Joined, and Separated, by Apartheid 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z

Indeed, we learn, supporters of an aborted rebellion against her in 1601 paid to have Shakespeare’s “Richard II” performed. Critic?s Notebook: ?Making History? and ?Remembering Shakespeare? at Yale 2012-03-22T22:50:43Z

EK: And the accent that Shakespeare himself spoke is said to be most closely preserved in Appalachia! Are British actors the world's best? 2010-06-19T23:14:00Z

Even by the grisly standards of Elizabethan revenge tragedies, Shakespeare’s “Titus Andronicus” is an outlandish charnel house. In “Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus,” Taylor Mac Takes on Shakespeare—and Trump 2019-04-20T04:00:00Z

The project was audacious: a three-act ballet of a Shakespeare play, a difficult one that had never been adapted that way before. Bounding Across Space and Time, via DVD 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z

Shakespeare recognizes that the political immaturity of the people is the one constant. The theater of Trump: What Shakespeare can teach us about the Donald 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z

The production will run in Stratford-Upon-Avon's Royal Shakespeare Theatre in October and November, transferring to the Barbican Theatre in London in December. Tennant heads RSC's winter season 2013-01-23T11:32:25Z

It is also home to the American Shakespeare Center and Blackfriars Playhouse. In the Shenandoah Valley, Blackburn Inn gives new life to a site with a dark past 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z

Question 5: What was the name of Shakespeare's only son? Brush up your Shakespeare (in Love) 2015-02-14T05:00:00Z

And thought, Look, I’m not competing with William Shakespeare here. Toni Morrison on Her Last Novel and the Voices of Her Characters 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z

If Shakespeare lived today, would he be designing video games? Sam Lipsyte interviews himself 2013-04-06T21:00:00Z

In 1954, the translator Pierre Leyris, who was overseeing the publication of the complete works of Shakespeare into French, assigned Mr. Bonnefoy a few scenes from “Julius Caesar” as a tryout. Yves Bonnefoy, Pre-Eminent French Poet, Dies at 93 2016-07-05T04:00:00Z

A chant begins, an eerie invocation: “O, for a muse of fire” — the first words of this Shakespeare play. | 'Henry V': A Kingdom for a Stage, Princes to Act ...and Maybe a Better Hall? 2011-08-17T21:51:54Z

What does feel as if it’s gaining momentum is the sense that presenting Shakespeare as written is somehow a disservice to audiences. Perspective | Dumbing down Shakespeare: Are Americans too intellectually lazy to appreciate his genius? 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z

Richard Burbage was the company’s star, the leading living actor of Shakespeare’s time, and Shakespeare wrote “Hamlet” for Burbage to play. For this globe-trotting Hamlet, all the world’s a stage 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z

After putting herself in presidential company, she finished by pointing out that Shakespeare liked to invent words too. Sarah Palin: getting the Humpty 2010-07-20T19:00:00Z

My experience of Shakespeare in the last several years has reluctantly turned this abstainer of "Downton Abbey" into an Anglophile. A Times critic looks forward to a bright future backlit by a decade of brilliant theater 2016-01-09T05:00:00Z

She has spent so much of her life performing Shakespeare, and regrets now the paucity of parts he wrote for older women. Helen Mirren: 'I want to play Hamlet!' 2011-03-03T21:31:00Z

Recreating the role she played — to critical acclaim — in London in 2016, Ms. Jackson portrays Shakespeare’s ruler, brought low by his daughters and his own arrogance. 72 Plays and Musicals to See This Fall and Beyond 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z

I waded back into live performance last month, under a tent on a bluff overlooking the Hudson River, where the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival mounted its take on “The Tempest.” Fall Preview: The Thrill is Back. So Is the Anxiety. 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z

“A Midsummer Night’s Dream” and “The Taming of the Shrew” were performed by his company, but “Hamlet” will be danced by the Washington Ballet, the seventh troupe to perform his popular adaptation of Shakespeare’s tragedy. A balletic ‘Hamlet’ takes one giant leap from Texas to Washington 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z

He befriended Igor Stravinsky and Ezra Pound, and lived with his wife, Boski, for more than 10 years above Shakespeare and Company, Sylvia Beach’s Paris bookstore. Books of The Times: ?Hedy?s Folly,? by Richard Rhodes - Review 2011-12-13T22:23:15Z

Anyway, Shakespeare does not provide answers: he only asks questions. Power and glory: how to tackle Shakespeare's revolutions 2012-06-20T17:59:07Z

Despite the economic chill in the air, and the often cool night climate at its amphitheater, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival is heating up. Oregon Shakespeare Festival celebrates 75th year with intriguing interpretations 2010-06-25T21:24:00Z

Anyone expecting Shakespeare might see if the box office does refunds. Review: In ‘The White Devil,’ Pick Your Poison 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z

Some may wonder whether all this fuss over an old book is just another outbreak of Bardolatry, the fetishization of all things Shakespeare. Race, inequality, polarized politics: Why Shakespeare's 1623 First Folio matters in 2016 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z

But when will the BBC high-ups realise they are neglecting a cultural goldmine – and that Shakespeare is not just for Christmas? Michael Billington on Shakespeare on TV 2010-12-15T21:45:01Z

When fans learned that the iconic scene was filmed on location at the outdoor staircase connecting Shakespeare and Anderson Avenues in the Bronx, they started traveling to the site. "Joker" fans flocking to a Bronx stairway highlights tension of media tourism 2019-11-03T04:00:00Z

My time in England ended up being thrilling, and heady, full of late-night discussions about politics and Shakespeare and religion—finally, I was having the true college experience. I was a sober college student 2012-09-23T16:01:00Z

Brabbins did his best, but it all sounds maddeningly quaint now, the musical equivalent of men in tights declaiming Shakespeare in fruity tones. First Night of the Proms 2012-07-13T23:36:30Z

Records are like a Shakespeare play -- it is what it is. Billy Corgan on Smashing Pumpkins: 'We're in a vacuum' 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z

“It annoys me that people talk around the subject, that they think subtlety is the way to authenticity. Shakespeare wasn’t subtle!” In “Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus,” Taylor Mac Takes on Shakespeare—and Trump 2019-04-20T04:00:00Z

The word, which the Oxford English Dictionary defines as “honorableness,” is the longest in all of Shakespeare. Theater: Maybe ‘Orange’ Will Work 2013-07-19T18:16:37Z

Many prominent performing arts institutions have already canceled their summer schedules, including the Public Theater’s Shakespeare in the Park, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in Scotland and the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Kennedy Center Cancels Performances Through August 2020-05-04T04:00:00Z

He then began more than 40 years of directing plays by Shakespeare, Molière, Goethe, Chekhov, Gogol and Dylan Thomas, as well as musicals and operas. Michael Bogdanov, Shakespearean Stage Director, Dies at 78 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z

And what is fascinating is that, in the absence of English words, Shakespeare's wisdom stands out with such clarity. As You Like It – review 2012-05-22T09:51:51Z

In an earlier poem, Gayley had saluted Shakespeare as “Born of the Mayflower, born of Virginia.” Shakespeare Conquers America! Starring Ulysses S. Grant as Desdemona 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z

You might find Shakespeare equally dull if you read it and didn't see it. Review: ‘Harry Potter and the Cursed Child’ Raises the Bar for Broadway Magic 2018-04-22T04:00:00Z

Fry's exceedingly fine work in Gary Griffin's expansive and engrossing new production of “As You Like It” at the Chicago Shakespeare Theater is what you might call an essential performance. Shakespeare done 'As You Like It' on Navy Pier 2011-01-14T15:22:41Z

Used for productions of Shakespeare's more intimate plays, and those of his contemporaries, the Swan has been the model for the reconstructed Royal Shakespeare theatre. Royal Shakespeare Theatre: All's well ? 2010-11-23T18:43:00Z

Shakespeare’s Tamora was tricked into eating her own sons, baked in a pie, but Dorothy isn’t fussy and just chows down on everyone who calls on her. Mothers of invention: why Hollywood always returns to mum-horror 2017-09-16T04:00:00Z

Bard on the Beach, the Vancouver, B.C., classical drama outfit, continues its 22nd season of Shakespeare productions through Sept. Get thee to Vancouver, B.C., for Bard on the Beach 2011-09-07T20:33:06Z

She was lauded for her performance as Juliet in the New York Shakespeare Festival and replaced Marcia Gay Harden on Broadway as Harper Pitt in “Angels in America.” Cynthia Nixon’s “Emily Thing” 2017-04-15T04:00:00Z

The Huntington, a private institution, has more than 11 million items in its collection, from treasures like a Gutenberg Bible and Shakespeare’s First Folio to contemporary photography. Thomas Pynchon, Famously Private, Sells His Archive 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z

“Shakespeare has now fully entered the era of Big Data,” Taylor announced in a press release. The Radical Argument of the New Oxford Shakespeare 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z

For Wooden O, the outdoor branch of the Seattle Shakespeare Company, summer-park tours are a way of life, and produced with the same high caliber of talent and professionalism as the outfit’s subscription seasons. Theater minus the roof, in and around Seattle 2013-07-11T23:00:44Z

Nesbo is the latest contemporary author to be commissioned by the Hogarth Shakespeare project to rewrite the Bard's works for a 21st Century audience. Crime writer Nesbo to retell Macbeth 2014-01-14T01:26:25Z

It's not Shakespeare, but it requires in the listener a special attentiveness for full savoring; and that's a pleasure worth working for. True Grit Review: Trading the Dude for the Duke 
 2010-12-22T19:25:00Z

Skittish Met board members fearing a reprise of the Public Theater’s incendiary depiction of a President Trump-like Julius Caesar being stabbed in a 2017 Shakespeare staging need not fear. Review: The Met Opera Is Handel’s House in ‘Agrippina’ 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z

"Traffic with thyself", as Shakespeare tuttingly referred to it, is the only sex that takes place purely in the imagination – fictional characters are its livelihood. Masturbation: literature's last taboo 2010-04-21T08:36:00Z

And all those climactic battle and processional scenes can feel a little like ersatz Shakespeare. ArtsBeat: London Theater Journal: Surprised by 'Betrayal' 2011-07-13T16:31:48Z

But its excesses lend themselves to a comic shellacking, and at the Beckett Theater, the mischief makers in the Puppet Shakespeare Players have a semi-improvised field day. ‘Puppet Titus Andronicus,’ at the Beckett Theater 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z

“We’re never going to beat Amazon at Amazon’s game, but I think there is a craving for going back to the old New York,” said Dane Neller, chief executive of Shakespeare and Company. Shakespeare and Company Is Coming Back to the West Side and the Village 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z

She closed during the Occupation; Whitman first called his store the Mistral, changing the name to Shakespeare and Company in 1964. The greatest bookstore in the world 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z

Shakespeare’s Richard III arrived on a New York City stage 200 years ago this month. A Black Theater Flourished in New York. 200 Years Ago. 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z

The entry states that a marriage licence was issued to Shakespeare and Anne Whateley "to marry in the village of Temple Grafton". In search of Shakespeare's ghosts 2011-07-14T07:42:46Z

I memorized lots of poetry—I might be gone for years—but I discovered that Shakespeare was the easiest to remember and the hardest to forget. Encounters with Shakespeare 2016-04-23T04:00:00Z

Throughout the past year the theater company has been feuding with its landlord - the nonprofit organization Lansburgh Theater, Inc. - and the building's owner, the real estate developer Graham Gund, over the Shakespeare company's yearly contribution. ArtsBeat: Shakespeare Theater Company in Washington Avoids Eviction 2012-12-12T19:43:38Z

Long described as a prototype for the rom-com, Shakespeare’s infinitely spry 1599 comedy can also show us a thing or two about pain. At the National Theater, Love Redeems, in Various Ways 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z

He assumes the leadership of one of the best-known Shakespeare companies in the country, and the first production he directs is not “Othello” or “Richard II” or even “Love’s Labour’s Lost.” Review | ‘Timon of Athens’ is tricky Shakespeare. A fearless director gets it right. 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z

And where does a drama die-hard go to explore the expressive powers of language but across the pond to study Shakespeare? ‘Where We Belong’ Review: A Performer Wonders, What’s in a Name? 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z

The New Oxford Shakespeare, for which Taylor serves as lead general editor, is the first edition of the plays to credit Christopher Marlowe as a co-author of Shakespeare’s “Henry VI,” Parts 1, 2, and 3. The Radical Argument of the New Oxford Shakespeare 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z

But people do tend to soliloquize in Chekhov, if not as much as in Shakespeare. | 'The Cherry Orchard': ?Cherry Orchard? With Turturro at Classic Stage - Review 2011-12-05T03:01:07Z

In 2005 it attributed two plays with disputed authorship — “The Reign of Edward III” and “Sir Thomas More” — to Shakespeare. New Oxford Shakespeare Edition Credits Christopher Marlowe as a Co-author 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z

"All the Way" debuted in 2012 at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival with a different cast. Tony Awards 2014: 'All the Way' wins best play 2014-06-08T04:00:00Z

The O.S.F. originally planned its history cycle to feature a play for every President, on the pattern of Shakespeare’s titular kings. American Playwrights Try to Reinvent the History Play 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z

He was also noted for his theatre work with the Royal Shakespeare Company in the 1970s. Actor Malcolm Tierney dies aged 75 2014-02-20T17:06:40Z

Fun, um, fact offered by the meeting’s leader: “Shakespeare wrote most of his plays completely hammered.” Eat, Drink, Dance and Be Part of the Play 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z

The success of companies such as Propeller or the brilliant Bristol-based Shakespeare at the Tobacco Factory seasons are a reminder of that. When Hollywood stars call the shots on Broadway 2013-02-11T14:54:30Z

Herskovits and his company are seeking meaning in a text that has survived this long not on merit, but because it bears Shakespeare’s name. ‘Pericles’ Review: Shakespeare in the Blender 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z

In his video message, Pigott-Smith urged him to brush up his Shakespeare. Charles Dance: 'Thank God the BBC didn't make Game of Thrones' 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z

Nor is it just this summer that Shakespeare dominates: he is a staple in the repertoires of many subsidised theatres. Lyn Gardner on funding Shakespeare 2012-07-22T19:00:03Z

Formerly a principal associate director at the Royal Shakespeare Company, Mr. Attenborough has of late focused on new plays — the U.K. premiere of the Australian writer Andrew Bovell’s “When the Rain Stops Falling,” among them. Review: Judi Dench Brings Titania to Life Again 2010-02-23T11:35:00Z

He titled his first feature “Paris Belongs to Us”; it’s a seemingly metaphysical conjunction of a theatre’s Shakespeare production and a political conspiracy. Postscript: Jacques Rivette 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z

After a pandemic pause, the Public Theater’s annual Shakespeare in the Park series returned last summer with this rethink of the Shakespeare comedy “The Merry Wives of Windsor.” What’s on TV This Week: ‘Merry Wives’ and George Carlin 2022-05-16T04:00:00Z

Indeed, the contemporary playwright Ben Jonson famously wrote that Shakespeare had "small Latin, and less Greek." Five myths about Shakespeare’s contribution to the English language 2022-09-24T04:00:00Z

To be fair, this is a problem built into the play, which like all of Shakespeare’s tragedies begins with astonishing rhetoric and ends as an abattoir. Review: Can Trump Survive in Caesar’s Palace? 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z

That’s some great “learning while working experience” and crosses over from Shakespeare to musical theater. Answers to Your Questions About College Theater Programs 2010-08-11T22:04:00Z

This is the balance in Shakespeare’s comedies too, but opera adds the ability of music to shift the mood instantly and ineffably. Music Review: Finding High Spirits in Shakespeare 2011-05-09T21:42:29Z

Young’s still proudest of the first show he worked on with the Shakespeare Theatre Company, “Richard III.” For the Shakespeare Theatre Company’s props director, one blood is not like another 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z

Ephron also learned from Shakespeare and Jane Austen that the genre requires a little bite, the threat of emotional violence not far below the surface. Nora Ephron’s romantic-comedy revolution 2012-06-27T16:35:00Z

In place of Shakespeare’s iambic pentameter, Park writes in sharp, staccato rhythms, with short lines that drive through the scenes a few syllables at a time. Review: In ‘Peerless,’ Elite College Admissions Are Something Wicked 2022-10-11T04:00:00Z

But the result was a disappointing literalism that insisted on visualizing Shakespeare’s word-painting. Two Ways to Bring Shakespeare Into the Twenty-First Century 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z

The light emanated by Tennant in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s “Richard II,” which ended its run at the Barbican Center on Jan. 25, was of a different composition but equally isolating. 3 celebrities portray Shakespeare’s uncommon men 2014-02-03T06:51:22Z

“Kiss Me, Kate” is a lively, lusty musical comedy, and the Shakespeare Theatre Company’s big, new staging takes a very fine straight-arrow approach. Shakespeare Theatre throws a musical punch with ‘Kiss Me, Kate’ 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z

Marling recently composed the music for a production of Shakespeare's As You Like It at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon. Mercury Prize 2013: The nominees 2013-09-11T17:04:21Z

This was also the week of Queen Elizabeth’s 90th birthday, as well as the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s birth. After tackling Stage 4 cancer, he took on a new challenge — Hadrian’s Wall 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z

What emerges is suitable for all ages, and is a drama of family and dynastic clashes and unifications, similar to the goings-on in Shakespeare's plays, the Old Testament and Greek myths. 'Ramayana' at ACT: vivid dramatization of the Hindu epic 2012-10-20T01:32:07Z

It can be deduced that Shakespeare was at work on Hamlet in about 1600, but of the physical circumstances of its composition we know almost nothing. Ben Jonson's chair 2013-07-04T10:00:01Z

“This allows us to scale that mission to the world and truly democratize Shakespeare and theater.” ‘Hamlet’ in Virtual Reality Casts the Viewer in the Play 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z

Last week, an intriguing video on Shakespeare became a mini viral hit. Shakespeare the Way It Was Meant to Be Spoken 2013-09-20T14:29:04Z

I wanted to drag every man, woman and child to this and yell - this is Shakespeare as it was first conceived. Reader reviews: your take on Much Ado about Nothing and Danny Boyle's Olympic ceremony 2012-08-03T17:33:40Z

But as Shakespeare said, time brings in his revenges. Review: Chekhov and Tolstoy Reunited in ‘Love Stories’ 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z

That’s “Hamlet,” of course, but Robert Eggers’s new film isn’t another Shakespeare screen adaptation, bristling with Elizabethan eloquence, high-toned acting and complex, uncannily modern psychology. ‘The Northman’ Review: Danish Premodern 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z

Hale calls Titian's portraiture "Shakespearean", but like Shakespeare the connoisseur of human individuality remains somehow anonymous, nondescript. Best art books of 2012 – review 2012-12-01T11:00:01Z

Perhaps most gleefully, he returns to a character he played for the Washington classical company in 2005: Iago, Shakespeare’s most malicious creation. Review | For Patrick Page, it’s Shakespeare’s bad guys who steal the show 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z

For the first time ever, 37 international companies performed 37 of Shakespeare's plays in 37 different languages. Seven days on stage: from Shakespeare in Shoreditch to Zarganar in Soho 2012-06-08T16:13:51Z

It was as if Al was in complete control of the elements, summoning this gust of weather with Shakespeare’s language. Surprises at the Delacorte Theater and Other Outdoor Spaces 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z

Later, I would discover that all Shakespeare's great roles have had famous interpretations by famous actors, and this is just part of the job. Richard III: Shakespearean actors rake over the remains 2013-02-04T19:00:02Z

Before we say “I’m With Lucretia” it’s important to understand what, exactly, Livy, or Augustine, or Shakespeare, or Britten, actually thought Tarquinius did to Lucretia. A powerful opera about a horrible subject 2016-06-12T04:00:00Z

That’s Shakespeare, of course, the greatest foreign language in the English language. ArtsBeat: Theater Talkback: Speaking the Same Language 2010-12-01T21:17:00Z

Nothing and no one is out of place in the world Shakespeare brought forth from his imagination, because that world remains an illuminating mirror of the one we live in. Review: ‘Twelfth Night,’ Anything Goes in Love and Shakespeare 2016-09-04T04:00:00Z

They are creating, says Lloyd, "new music" by having female voices speak the words of some of Shakespeare's most bellicose men. Can an all-women Julius Caesar work? 2012-11-19T19:18:27Z

The Ghost Light Theatricals fringe troupe invites you to re-imagine Shakespeare’s tragedy “Othello” set in a punk band fraught with turmoil — complete with a manager named Iago. Boy in space at SCT; man-eating plant invades ACT 2014-03-06T20:17:46Z

That year, Brooke, drew up for submission to the queen a list of 23 “mean persons” who had wrongfully been granted arms by Dethick, including “Shakespeare the player,” as Brooke put it disparagingly. Shakespeare: Actor. Playwright. Social Climber. 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z

Elizabeth I, the queen whom Shakespeare had to be careful not to anger, is reported to have complained, “I am Richard II, know ye not that?” Shakespeare and the politics of our age: Trump, 'Julius Caesar' and now 'Richard II' 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z

It compresses a lot into the ball scene to get a lot accomplished, taking the approach of a party for Juliette to push together the plot of the first act and a half of Shakespeare. A New Take on Romeo and Juliet’s Ball, Balcony, Bed and Tomb 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z

Shakespeare's very unforgiving of those things, and in a way, it's the same job. 'Avengers' bad boy Hiddleston wreaks wicked fun 2012-05-01T14:07:08Z

As well as making music, Akala runs the Hip-Hop Shakespeare Company, taking Bard-inspired rap around schools; he says the opportunity to depict a nuanced range of black and ethnic minority characters is hugely important. 10by10: Britain like you've never seen it on screen 2012-08-29T09:14:00Z

The 53-year-old was arrested after a man took the volume to the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, claiming he found it in Cuba and asking for verification that it was genuine. Flashy book dealer in limo for Shakespeare trial 2010-06-16T15:00:00Z

The movie doesn’t just ask us to throw out all we thought we knew about Shakespeare. Anonymous: So Shakespeare Was a Fraud? Really? 2011-10-26T21:44:13Z

The popular British actor is currently performing in Shakespeare's tragedy through October at the Barbican Theatre in London. Benedict Cumberbatch's 'Hamlet' is center of his own 'six degrees' game 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z

There will probably be little argument over the prominent inclusion of Britain’s most enduring cultural export, Shakespeare. London 2012 Festival and Cultural Olympiad in Britain 2012-04-08T21:46:42Z

As Shakespeare knew, there's something deeply appealing about the possibility of true love being one day realised, even so greyishly late that the wedding becomes a race against the funeral. Rewind TV: Last Tango in Halifax; Homeland; The Aristocrats: Blenheim Palace; Gadget Man; Supersized Earth – review 2012-11-25T00:05:39Z

Stewart’s long career includes performances with the Royal Shakespeare Company. Stewart donates ‘X-Men’ costumes to museum 2014-05-17T04:00:00Z

Not all namesakes are French — A is for Andersen, Hans Christian, for example, and S for Shakespeare, William — but Flaubert, Hugo, Proust and Zola are among the scribes whose text is stenciled above the beds. | Check In, Check Out: A Room With a View (of Art) for the Night 2010-10-07T02:12:00Z

I was in Jerusalem at the time, and I hadn't read or seen the Shakespeare in years, so I bought a secondhand copy. Alexander Goehr on his new King Lear opera, Promised End 2010-09-23T21:30:00Z

Near the end of Shakespeare’s “The Tempest,” the duke-turned-magician Prospero renounces enchantment and declares that he will drown his book of wizardry. Review | Synetic’s ‘Tempest’ is splashy but brooding 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z

Then she clutched it to her chest, a souvenir of her first Shakespeare. In London, a Bloody ?Macbeth,? for Children 2010-07-16T22:40:00Z

When he composed his “Romeo” in 1935, Prokofiev gave that Shakespeare tragedy a happy ending. Romeo (and Juliet), How Many Art Thou? 1 Ballet Score, Many Stagings 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z

It’s one of the better musicals based on Shakespeare, and a reminder that Mills is a composer to keep an ear out for. ‘Illyria’: Taproot Theatre gives ‘Twelfth Night’ a musical spin | Theater review 2013-07-18T21:01:26Z

But his Petruchio is also uncommonly reflective, and the natural ease with which he handles Shakespeare’s verse brings him into an easy intimacy with the audience. Theater Review: ?The Taming of the Shrew,? at the Duke on 42nd Street 2012-04-03T21:16:19Z

If you know your Shakespeare you’ll have fun tracking the correspondence of names and plot points, and noticing the way the original monologues morph so effectively into sitcom-style asides. Review: In a Teenage Take on ‘Richard III,’ Now Is the Prom of Our Discontent 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z

For its return to live performance, the Drilling Company’s Shakespeare in the Parking Lot series did not rely on a familiar crowd-pleaser from a catalog of greatest hits. ‘The Two Noble Kinsmen’ Review: Shakespeare, With a Hint of Celine Dion 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z

I think Shakespeare is mostly "Much to Do about Nothing." Ibsen Wrote ‘An Enemy of the People’ in 1882. Trump Has Made It Popular Again. 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z

By comparison, Tesori recalled of a famous collaborator on the 2006 Shakespeare in the Park production of “Mother Courage,” for which she wrote music. Jeanine Tesori’s Gift: Conjuring the Storytelling Potency of Music 2021-12-29T05:00:00Z

Shakespeare remained strong in a varied portfolio of the sort which regional theatres need to maintain a general appeal, and Lenny Henry made a memorable Othello. Fond farewell to Ian Brown at the West Yorkshire Playhouse as James Brining's era begins 2012-06-27T17:00:00Z

It’s the latest volume of the Hogarth Shakespeare project, which hires well-known authors to write novels based on the Bard’s plays. Margaret Atwood rewrites Shakespeare. Who will do it next — Gillian Flynn? Yes. 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z

While still in his 20s, he was named music director of Arthur Lithgow’s “Shakespeare Under the Stars” festival at Antioch College in Ohio, responsible for providing the incidental music for its productions. John Duffy, a Composer Who Gave His Peers a Platform, Dies at 89 2015-12-28T05:00:00Z

This week: Two takes on Shakespeare's "Othello," a Trojan War tale reimagined, and a superhero who may not be so super after all. L.A. theater openings, April 10-17: 'The SuperHero and His Charming Wife' and more 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z

These belong together though: two excellent attempts to bring Shakespeare plays to the iPad by Cambridge University Press and developer Agant. 20 Best iPhone and iPad apps this week 2012-10-12T16:03:19Z

What's more, this screen adaptation of Shakespeare is impeccably acted by the entire ensemble cast, all of whom handle the iambic pentameter with noticeable aplomb. Denzel Washington is commanding in Joel Coen's bloody, bold and resolute "Tragedy of Macbeth" 2021-12-25T05:00:00Z

About 100 of us planned to attend “Richard II” and “As You Like It” this summer, before the pandemic upended Shakespeare, too. When a Corporate Picnic Plus Shakespeare Is Anything but Routine 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z

It also shows that just after Shakespeare’s death, his stature was considerable. Exhibition Review: Shakespeare Folios as Venerated Relics 2011-07-07T12:01:10Z

It appears in the fifth act of “Love’s Labour’s Lost,” the linguistically rich comedy that is being turned into a musical for Shakespeare in the Park at the Delacorte Theater. Theater: Maybe ‘Orange’ Will Work 2013-07-19T18:16:37Z

But OSF is moving beyond a boilerplate approach to Shakespeare, into more questing, stylistically unified terrain. Oregon Shakespeare Festival celebrates 75th year with intriguing interpretations 2010-06-25T21:24:00Z

Ghost Light Theatricals’ production of Nathaniel Porter’s ambitious but misguided Shakespeare adaptation flails in an attempt to simulate the chaotic energy of a punk-rock show, but ends up looking merely sloppy. Iago and spouse can’t carry punk ‘Othello’ 2014-03-18T23:08:32Z

"The Shakespeare First Folio is the most important secular book in the history of the western world," said Jonathan Bate, a Shakespeare scholar at Oxford. ArtsBeat: An Effort to Put First Edition of Shakespeare Online 2012-08-01T16:07:19Z

The Irish actor Aaron Monaghan will play and prove a villain when the Druid Theater Company brings Shakespeare’s history play to Lincoln Center’s White Light Festival. 11 Plays and Musicals to Go to in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z

The season will wrap up with the New York premiere of Fiasco Theater’s production of Shakespeare’s “The Two Gentlemen of Verona.” Coming From Theater for a New Audience: Peter Brook, Marlowe and Shakespeare 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z

Most of the reviews complained that there was too much Shakespeare and not enough swing, with Armstrong wasted in a role that did not require him to blow his horn. Shakespeare, Swing and Louis Armstrong. So What Went Wrong? 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z

Forbidden Shakespeare: The Tempest Tom Hanks, William Shatner and other famous faces take the stage in a condensed, improvised version of the Bard’s fantasy tale in this fundraiser. The week ahead in L.A. theater, Sept. 17-24: 'Fixed,' 'The Red Shoes' and more 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z

Nicholas Shakespeare does Hobart in Tasmania, which once supplied the whale oil that kept Victorian London illuminated and was described as "the cesspit of the Empire". Radio review: from Unknown Cities to Ode To Finchleystrasse 2013-04-20T05:00:11Z

In the first paragraph, Backhouse manages to drop in Shakespeare, Wilde and Verlaine. Books: Memoir (or Is It?) of Sex and Opium 2011-03-30T12:00:05Z

Shakespeare and his contemporaries lived in the shadow of the scaffold, the gallows and the plague. Shakespeare's Restless World by Neil MacGregor – review 2012-09-29T23:05:08Z

And so Beatrice, in the beguiling person of Eve Best, walks to the edge of the stage at Shakespeare’s Globe — the popular Thames-side theater — shedding self-possession with every step. Arts & Leisure: At the Theater, You Can Feel the Connection 2011-07-20T11:53:32Z

It is as if Shakespeare were driven to invent a whole new idiom to express what he had discovered in a familiar story. ‘To Be or Not to Be’: Is It the Question or the Point? 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z

And yet it is still possible to out-“Hamlet” “Hamlet,” to create a production with even more spilled blood, more graveyard dirt and more madness than what Shakespeare has already offered. ‘Hamlet’ Review: A Dirt-Eating Danish Prince, Born to Be Wild 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z

Away from Shakespeare, though, he has had mixed fortunes, typified by the drubbing he received for his unsuccessful 1994 film of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Big Thor 2011-04-26T07:24:15Z

It was Noah Brody, a member of the troupe, who said it “was maybe not Shakespeare’s greatest,” not Ben Steinfeld, another Fiasco actor. Fiasco Theater Company Rides Shakespeare to Success 2011-09-02T19:00:54Z

Of no British public figure is this more true than William Shakespeare. Mistaken identity 2010-06-18T23:06:00Z

In a way, the 33-year-old Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival has always promoted such a perspective. Review: A Nose by Any Other Name in a Hudson Valley ‘Cyrano’ 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z

As Shakespeare never lets us forget, the course of true love never does run smooth. Cirque du Soleil’s ‘Amaluna’ celebrates the power and grandeur of women 2013-02-02T00:11:02Z

“The Globe was reconstructed as a radical experiment to explore the conditions within which Shakespeare and his contemporaries worked, and we believe this should continue to be the central tenet of our work.” Emma Rice Will Bow Out as Artistic Director of Shakespeare’s Globe 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z

According to Shakespeare, “a rose by any other name would still smell as sweet.” Hillary Clinton isn’t a Rodham anymore: Women still can’t win in the fight over married and maiden names 2015-12-02T05:00:00Z

Dobbs’s title also happens to echo the title of “King Lear,” Shakespeare’s tragedy about a monarch whose need for flattery invites treachery, precipitating his own downfall. ‘King Richard’ Finds Fresh Drama in Watergate 2021-05-19T04:00:00Z

In worn-looking yoga clothes, sweats and headbands, the LARPers practice stage combat like a ragtag group rehearsing Shakespeare in the park. The heroes of "Hawkeye" dress like us 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z

Velázquez’s depiction of him is worthy of Shakespeare. 2010-01-08T06:23:00Z

Agatha Christie is third in line behind Shakespeare and the Bible. Judy Collins Is Picky About Audiobook Readers and Folk Singers 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z

In addition, the season will feature the Oregon Shakespeare Festival's recent production of "Guys and Dolls," directed by Mary Zimmerman, running Dec. 1 to 20. Ryan O'Neal, Ali MacGraw in 'Love Letters' coming to Wallis Annenberg 2015-05-06T04:00:00Z

Portia speaks eloquently in his defence, but whose flesh is Shylock preparing to take in place of his unpaid debt in Shakespeare’s A Merchant of Venice? Quiz: Debt in literature 2011-08-03T09:57:51Z

Shana Cooper's giddy take on this early Shakespeare comedy is a more consistent and coherent outing. 5 plays at Oregon Shakespeare Festival: a critic's take 2011-07-31T04:07:15Z

The characters blather away pretentiously about wine, sex and the disappearance of classical references and Shakespeare quotations in crossword puzzles. Books of The Times: Love, Loss, Change and Being English 2011-05-06T05:48:02Z

I mean, I really had missed the stage and I had missed Shakespeare. Danai Gurira plays "Richard III" for PBS: "This is ancient text running through a contemporary body" 2023-05-18T04:00:00Z

I mean, what if Shakespeare eats with his mouth open and George Eliot fails to bring a cake? How Bob Dylan Turned David Remnick on to Serious Reading 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z

Because he's not a Shakespeare scholar, but he has a great ear. Danai Gurira plays "Richard III" for PBS: "This is ancient text running through a contemporary body" 2023-05-18T04:00:00Z

Students studied Shakespeare, chemistry and French grammar as they prepared to become teachers, civil servants, musicians, clergy, military leaders, entrepreneurs and scientists. A black college closed in 1955, but its fading alumni fight to pass on a legacy 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z

She toured worldwide in a one-woman show, “The Loves of Shakespeare’s Women,” a pastiche of monologues, sonnets and recollections that was seen in Manhattan at the Blue Heron Arts Center in 2004. Susannah York, British Actress, Dies at 72 2011-01-17T04:58:05Z

It picks up the evergreen question of how opera should treat Shakespeare. ‘Hamlet,’ a New Opera, Makes Shakespeare Strange 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z

By the end of his life, her Shakespeare was bald, bloated and bitter. Katherine Duncan-Jones, Who Cast Shakespeare as a Boor, Dies at 81 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z

It's funny, what Angelique is saying; I think Shakespeare himself would have appreciated it. TV review: Jamie's Dream School 2011-03-02T22:14:01Z

He picked “Henry V” at Shakespeare in the Park. When a Corporate Picnic Plus Shakespeare Is Anything but Routine 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z

Berkeley said scholars believe that the moon’s entrance — “I, the man in the moon; this thorn-bush, my thorn-bush; and this dog, my dog” — involved a canine actor dating to Shakespeare’s time. Dogs get a sniff of the stage life with Baltimore Symphony Orchestra’s casting call

Entire chapters were added to Shakespeare's life story based on the counterfeit documents. Mistaken identity 2010-06-18T23:06:00Z

Meanwhile, one William Wayte claimed that he had been set on by four apparently murderous assailants outside the Swan Theatre, and he named one of them as William Shakespeare. Shakespeare's Restless World by Neil MacGregor - review 2012-11-23T22:55:02Z

David Bell, who directed the play in 2014 in at the Chicago Shakespeare Theatre became interested, like Nunn, in what happened to Shakespeare between “King Lear” and “Pericles.” The Continual Riddle of Shakespeare’s “Pericles” 2016-03-08T05:00:00Z

“One is a Shakespeare, and one is a new musical, and those are really the two sides of our mission at the Public,” Mr. Hamingson said. Nonprofit Theaters Take On Bold Broadway Ventures This Fall 2010-08-30T21:57:00Z

She and Mr. Tucker met in January 2009, in a monthlong acting intensive at Shakespeare & Company in Massachusetts. A Theater Company’s Secret to Success: Bedlam 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z

There have also been notable transfers from the non-subsidised Shakespeare's Globe in the shape of Mark Rylance's Richard III and Twelfth Night. West End defies gloomy predictions with rising attendances in 2012 2013-01-29T14:47:08Z

“The Tempest” was just one of three Shakespeare productions in the festival’s first series of openings this summer. Christopher Plummer in Stratford, Ontario 2010-07-09T04:28:00Z

Shakespeare’s “old and foolish” king is initially invoked in connection with Basil, an actor who has made his name abroad. Movie Review: ‘The Eye of the Storm,’ With Geoffrey Rush 2012-09-06T22:03:02Z

"I have gained my experience," declares the philosophical character Jaques in William Shakespeare's "As You Like It." Seattle Shakespeare Co.'s 'As You Like It' opens June 1 2012-05-31T20:23:10Z

Not just any books, mind you, but the works of Plato, Descartes and Kant, Shakespeare, Marx and Freud. Vashon Great Books club one of oldest in U.S. 2011-10-10T15:48:57Z

As I began to research more about Shakespeare's life, I began to see some interesting parallels between his life and time and the post-pandemic world I was writing about. Will Shakespeare survive the apocalypse? 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z

Shakespeare’s play supposes “two households, both alike in dignity”; in Act III, Mercutio famously calls down “a plague” on both of them. ‘West Side Story’ Review: In Love and War, 1957 Might Be Tonight 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z

World-class local Shakespeare may have been in short supply, but I still managed to catch several first-rate offerings less than a mile from my home in the Beverly Hills flats. Notes on a truly Shakespearean year: An enlightened boldness brings out the best in the Bard 2016-12-19T05:00:00Z

“Sometimes I thought I was playing Shakespeare,” the actor confided. Pedro Almodóvar: ‘I can no longer hide’ 2019-08-11T04:00:00Z