The latest version of Macbeth is stunningly cinematic and vehemently Scottish.
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The latest filmmaker to try his hand at Macbeth, Justin Kurzel has delivered a cinematic masterpiece, but shies away from the wicked depths of his villains.
Brett Bailey’s Macbeth at Brisbane Festival is a powerful production that relocates Verdi’s opera (based on Shakespeare’s play) to the ongoing conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
They’re rude, crude and uncouth. So what makes farts so funny?
What makes Hamlet the career defining role it is today?
South African forensics may provide clues to the 400-year-old mystery of what was smoked in pipes found in Shakespeare’s garden.
Is there a place for Shakespeare in African schools, or is his time long past?
Shakespeare didn’t ‘lol,’ but he did ‘ha, ha, he.’
Sport for Jove’s The Merchant of Venice is a production of ourstanding clarity, making it ideal for students or perhaps even those who simply don’t often see Shakespeare in the theatre.
Obsessing about the bard’s dashing good looks won’t help us understand his works.
You’d be forgiven for thinking Double Falsehood was recently “found” and confirmed as being by Shakespeare. But that’s not what the researchers behind the computational tests actually said. So what’s up?
When literary studies degrees focus almost entirely on the work of white, male writers, we do our students and the academy a great disservice.
Centuries before the internet, Shakespeare became a global phenomenon.
This annual day of mass salivation is more than a little depressing.
Books and the ballot box have a long and winding history.
Do English texts stay the same over the decades because there are no good modern books? Or because the process of selecting new books is just too hard?
Shakespeare has largely shaped our understanding of the king – and all the while the real Richard lay entombed in a carpark.
The Merchant of Venice is a play that most thoroughly reveals the prevalent anti-Semitism of Shakespeare’s time. So should it be cut when performed today?
The Shakespeare First Folio (1623), the first collected edition of his plays and the sole source for half of them (including Macbeth, Antony & Cleopatra, All’s Well, As You Like It, and The Tempest…
A recent adaptation of Hamlet caused outrage in India, flagging up just how deep the rift between artistic culture and so called “Indian values” runs. When the trailer for Haider, Vishal Bhardwaj’s Kashmir-set…
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