This new production offers glimpses of how Shakespeare’s most famous tragedy might have unfolded differently.
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Shannon and Arran’s romance, for all its visual electricity, is paper-thin.
Charles Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette is given a significant new production from State Opera South Australia, West Australian Opera and the Irish National Opera.
This is Verona as filtered through a Eurovision lens.
Scholars have scoured the works of the great playwright for clues about his faith. A scholar of theology and Shakespeare’s works says it isn’t as simple as that.
It was the film that put the gangsta in Shakespeare: loud, brash, and brimming with pistols and gold chains.
Plague ravaged England repeatedly during Shakespeare’s lifetime. The playwright translated the experience of sickness and restoration in many ways on the stage.
Stories like ‘Romeo and Juliet,’ ‘Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland’ and ‘Jane Eyre’ are still relevant today.
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Professor of English, University of Richmond
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Tomlinson Professor of Shakespeare Studies, McGill University
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Professor of Systematic Theology, Seminary of the Southwest
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Senior Lecturer, Media Studies and Production, University of Southern Queensland
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Lecturer in English, Queen Mary University of London; King's College London
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Lecturer in Performing Arts, Adelaide University
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Senior Lecturer in Television and Media Studies, University of Salford
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Vice-Dean of Education and Senior Lecturer, School of Performing and Digital Arts, Royal Holloway, University of London