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The Bard’s plays have an unfair reputation for being hard. You’re probably reading them in the wrong way.
Memoirs of the morning after: because literature tells us the hangover is about so much more than physical symptoms.
Study uncovers what inner-city teenagers really thing about Hamlet et al.
All of Shakespeare’s major male roles were written for Richard Burbage who died in the 1619s.
Kofi Annan and John McCain’s positive eulogies could be because both men seized moments of human dignity and decency.
Kofi Annan’s tenure began after the reintroduction of two important international security lexicons – peacebuilding and human security.
How would a Jacobean servant react to a trumpet flourish?
The first recorded performance of the theatre company that Shakespeare co-founded was at a playhouse south of the Thames, but was lost to historians for centuries. Now we know where it lies.
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.
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?
For many, it is Rice’s advocacy of gender equality and diversity that define her short tenure at the Globe. So what happens next?
How one man’s death has somehow overshadowed the lives of many other crucial thinkers and writers of Shakespeare’s day.
The psychological complexity of Shakespeare’s characters has rendered them timeless. Today, we see The Bard’s influence in shows like ‘Breaking Bad’ and ‘True Detective.’
Many must wish that Shakespeare’s final words to posterity consisted of something more than a curt demand to be left alone.
Hamlet begins with a ‘night of the living dead’; Banquo turns into a ghost . The Bard had a supernatural streak and it was crucial to the genesis of Gothic literature.
Thespians of old playing the Globe Theatre would have walked past the Bankside bear-baiting ring on their way in.
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Research assistant, Empire, Migration and Belonging, University of Oxford
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Winthrop Professor of English, The University of Western Australia
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Honorary Research Associate, Evolutionary Studies Institute, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of Shakespeare Studies, University of Oxford
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Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Brunel University of London
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Professor of Drama and Theatre Studies, Royal Holloway, University of London
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Associate professor, University of the Witwatersrand
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Honorary Professorial Fellow, School of Culture and Communication, The University of Melbourne
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English Professor, George Washington University
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Lecturer in Creative and Life Writing, Goldsmiths, University of London
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Professor in English Literature and Cultural Studies, University of Southern Queensland
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Visiting Scholar, University of Stirling
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Senior Lecturer in Archaeology, University of York
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Francis Hutcheson Professor of Scottish Literature, University of Glasgow
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Lecturer in Archaeology, University of Nottingham