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Shakespeare used music in a multitude of ways to delight, amuse, relax, confuse and frighten his audiences.
AI’s dynamic of distant, unseen control recalls Shakespeare’s The Tempest.
The enduring themes of Shakespeare’s play ring through with both pathos and ab-clenching humour in this quirky adaptation.
Both are tales set on islands where romance and mystery abound.
Marlowe’s artistic brilliance was arguably more concentrated, his imagination more original and his ideas more daring than Shakespeare’s.
Iran’s decision to levy tolls on ships passing through the crucial choke hold has an unlikely connection to the site of Shakespeare’s ‘Hamlet.’
The future of Shakespeare may well lie beyond the English language.
This new production offers glimpses of how Shakespeare’s most famous tragedy might have unfolded differently.
The Oscar-nominated film about Shakespeare’s son explores how men and women mourn differently – and how ‘Hamlet’ may have transformed a father’s private sorrow into enduring art.
The film diverges from Shakespeare’s original presenting a dramatic and unexpected climax to this tale of revenge.
I left Hamnet dry-eyed – so why did it affect others so powerfully?
‘Hamnet,’ focussed on Shakespeare’s wife Agnes as a healer, brings forward stronger readings of a character who’s been at the centre of feminist criticism and western pop culture: Ophelia in Hamlet.
Chloé Zhao knows how to make people feel, and Hamnet sees a new phrase in her artistry.
Celebrating literary anniversaries centres on many things including cultural connection, nostalgia, pride and a sense of belonging.
When film adaptations disappoint, it’s not bad filmmaking necessarily but a clash with the private images we create when we read.
Hamnet turns Anne Hathaway from a shrew to a sorceress.
Chaucer and Shakespeare lived through periods of weird weather not unlike what we are seeing today. So what can we learn from their writing?
Unfortunately, despite an impressive cast and some outstanding performances, this King Lear is as exciting as boiled cabbage.
Picture books, graphic novels and paranormal romances to appeal to young readers of all ages.
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Lecturer in English, Australian National University
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Lecturer in English and Writing, University of Sydney
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Professor of Drama and Theatre Studies, Royal Holloway, University of London
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Tomlinson Professor of Shakespeare Studies, McGill University
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Rachel Hadas is a Friend of The Conversation.
Professor of English, Rutgers University - Newark
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Leverhulme Early Career Reseach Fellow, University of Warwick
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Professor of English, University of Newcastle
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Professor in English Literature and Cultural Studies, University of Southern Queensland
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Honorary Associate in Creative Writing, The Open University
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Professor of Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama, The University of Melbourne
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Associate professor, University of the Witwatersrand
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Emeritus Professor of Shakespeare Studies, University of Birmingham
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Professor of Creative Arts, Griffith University
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Research assistant, Empire, Migration and Belonging, University of Oxford
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Lecturer in Politics and International Relations, University of Sydney