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It has been a very busy week in Doctor Who. The biggest news surrounds the casting for Mark Gatiss's film, An Adventure In Space And Time. It is a project that has generated heavy interest since it was announced last year. The production team is getting ready for the upcoming anniversary and both the BBC and BBC America are ramping up their PR … [Read more...]
British Museum Director Neil MacGregor presents Shakespeare's Restless World, a new series for Radio 4, (broadcast from 16 April at 1.45pm and repeated at 7.45pm) and part of a wider BBC Shakespeare Season. The 20-part series looks at the world through the eyes of Shakespeare's audience by exploring objects from that turbulent … [Read more...]
Fiennes – most recently seen on screen as Lord Voldemeort in the tumultuous final two movies of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – goes all Shakespearean for his directorial debut, taking on one of the bard’s lesser-performed works. Screenwriter John Logan (Gladiator, The Aviator, The Last Samurai) adapted Shakespeare’s base-on-truth … [Read more...]
The Royal Shakespeare Company has released their highlights of 2012 - check them out below. January to March THE TAMING OF THE SHREW Following her acclaimed production of Julius Caesar in 2009/10, Lucy Bailey directs Shakespeare's romantic comedy exploring love, sexual politics and the art of illusion. The cast includes Lisa Dillon and … [Read more...]
Victor L. Cahn really had a unique idea when he wrote Bard Games, a fun quiz book about Shakespeare. I honestly am not a huge Shakespeare fan, so when I saw this come into the Anglotopia office I was hesitant on how to review it. I desperately wish I were a bigger fan of Shakespeare, and this book has helped me really find some … [Read more...]
A young musician who had to memorize Hamlet's Soliloquy put it to song to help her remember it. The result is rather good! Check it out below: … [Read more...]
Britain is rather annoyed at the American movie opening today around the world that posits that William Shakespeare didn't write his plays. We're firmly in the 'wrote his plays' camp - the theory that he didn't has been debunked again and again. But it still could make an interesting movie. Here are some British TV news reports about this … [Read more...]
On Shakespeare's birthday, 23 April, the Globe Theatre in London will begin an unprecedented programme of multilingual Shakespeare productions – every one of his plays, each performed in a different language. The six-week programme, entitled Globe to Globe, includes all 37 Shakespearean dramas, performed by 37 international companies, plus … [Read more...]
David Tennant made an appearance last night in the final episode of Stephen Fry's Planet Word talking about language and Shakespeare. In the video Stephen Fry talks to David Tennant about Hamlet, for 'Planet Word.' … [Read more...]
This is making the rounds on the various social networks this morning so I thought it was worth sharing. Combine any of the three columns below to build your own Shakespearean insult and preface each one with Thou. Source. … [Read more...]
New work by artists Tom Hunter and George Chakravarthi are to go on display at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford upon Avon this November. The exhibitions are part of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 50th Birthday Season. Tom Hunter is best known for his photographic reworkings of old-master paintings and for being the first artist to … [Read more...]
Coriolanus is a 2011 film adaptation of Shakespeare's tragedy Coriolanus directed by and starring Ralph Fiennes. It marks Fiennes's directorial debut Shooting began 17 March 2010 in Belgrade, Serbia. Looks... interesting. … [Read more...]
The life of William Shakespeare revolved around two main destinations: Stratford-Upon-Avon, where he lived and died; and London, where he made a name for himself as the most famous playwright of all time. Be sure to spend some time in both places to discover more about the man behind the well-loved tragedies and comedies. STRATFORD-UPON-AVON This … [Read more...]
A four-part series of classical Shakespeare titles is coming to movie theaters nationwide this summer and fall. Captured in 2010 from the prestigious and internationally renowned Globe Theatre in London, the series will begin this month and will consist of four in-theater events: Monday, June 27th – The Merry Wives of Windsor Monday, August … [Read more...]
Archaeologists will be delving into layers of Tudor soil untouched for four hundred years as they resume the Dig for Shakespeare on the site of the playwright’s last home at New Place, Stratford-upon-Avon. For the next seven months, visitors to Nash’s House and New Place will be able to watch the team of archaeologists and volunteers as they … [Read more...]
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