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AI’s dynamic of distant, unseen control recalls Shakespeare’s The Tempest.
Despite the shock of the crowd and actors, protest at the theatre has a long history.
Worrying environmental issues dominated the time of William Shakespeare as they do now, from depleted fish stocks and food shortages, to overpopulation and animal exploitation.
The Sydney Theatre Company’s production is beautiful and affecting – but it presents a Shakespeare we wish we had, rather than the one we do.
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.
We can’t go to the theatre but some creative theatre groups are bringing it to us, via Zoom.
Actors and theatre scholars seek to understand how ‘The Tempest’ could have been used by both European colonialists and also by advocates of resistance.
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Interdisciplinary Doctoral Researcher in English Literature and Indigenous History, University of Hull
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Teaching Fellow at the Centre of Excellence for Data Science, Artificial Intelligence and Modelling, University of Hull
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Stipendiary Lecturer in English, University of Oxford
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Tomlinson Professor of Shakespeare Studies, McGill University
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Reader in Renaissance Drama, University of Huddersfield
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Lecturer in English, University of Newcastle
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Professor of Systematic Theology, Seminary of the Southwest
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Lecturer in Theatre and Performance, University of Reading
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