Mulvany’s performance reminds us that Shakespeare still has the power to reveal the true monsters of our culture.
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Most other African countries have a less fractious or problematic relationship to Shakespeare than South Africa does.
The really remarkable thing about Greig’s Malvolia is not that she is a woman. It is that Greig has completely re-conceived Shakespeare’s character.
In the face of planetary problems such as climate change, does national citizenship lose its meaning?
There is an era that lends itself rather closer than the tired Nazi comparisons of Donald Trump. And it may have a far more useful message for us today.
One of English poetry’s most recognisable voices has been memorialised in Westminster Abbey.
Due to recent restoration, the paintings are clearer than they have ever been over the last 600 years.
For over four centuries, Shakespeare’s plays have been picked apart and reimagined.
This year, the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death has been marked by a flood of events around the world. But why did his exit cause so little public grief at the time, in and beyond the country of his birth?
Attributing a Shakespeare work to another writer attracts plenty of critics. But an attribution specialist says his team’s decision to name Christopher Marlowe as a co-author is based on state of the art research.
For many, it is Rice’s advocacy of gender equality and diversity that define her short tenure at the Globe. So what happens next?
There is more than one hand at play behind some of Shakespeare’s work, but it’s not necessarily Marlowe’s.
To achieve independence, history says you should play a long game.
Othello is one of Shakespeare’s most famous tragedies. But in the light of 21st-century understandings of abuse, the play is recast as a textbook case of domestic terrorism.
The film’s exchange of Titty for Tatty is very much in line with Victorian censorship of profanities for children.
A new production of Edward II by the ‘bad boy of Elizabethan drama’ breathes fresh life into the play, accentuating the story’s political and psychological dimensions.
Belvoir St Theatre’s production of Twelfth Night features veteran actor Keith Robinson, who returns to the stage after recovering from Guillain-Barre Syndrome. There’s radical potential in cross-mobility casting – but Belvoir doesn’t quite get there.
Shakespeare was not the only famous dramatist to die in 1616. On the other side of the world, in China, another theatrical legend was laid to rest.
The Greer archives brim with notebooks and papers from her time as a student of the traditional humanities. And reading The Female Eunuch for evidence of the Bard reveals a new kind of book, one that is deeply informed by this scholarship.
In an attempt to speed up the planning process, the government has introduced a new law which could put Britain’s heritage at risk.
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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