Monday, December 11, 2017
The first edition of Shakespeare’s plays established the playwright for all time in a trove of some 36 plays with an assembled cast of immortal charactersIn 1612, a contemporary of Shakesp…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:33AMSunday, October 8, 2017
Fiction and drama hold a mirror to the virtues and vices of an age. Here’s our pick of the bestRead the rest of the Observer’s 100 political books series hereRichard Wright wrote to his …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:42AMFriday, June 9, 2017
Calling all budding critics: enter our annual competition for ground-breaking reviews of new works in the artsAnthony Burgess died in 1993. Today, in the centenary year of his birth, the aut…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54AMSunday, December 18, 2016
The beloved writer’s work will be the centrepiece of BBC2’s Christmas Eve. Now 82, he talks about trying not to be an old git and waging war on squirrels‘I’m afraid I really haven’…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:24AMMonday, August 15, 2016
A bleakly hilarious, enigmatic watershed that changed the language of theatre and still sparks debate six decades onWaiting for Godot was not just a two-act play in which, as one wit put it,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:27AMSaturday, April 9, 2016
From Abraham Lincoln’s White House readings to Hollywood westerns and West Side Story, Shakespeare’s plays are an integral part of the American dream. So how did this icon of Englishness…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:04AMTuesday, January 26, 2016
There is a persistent language myth that you can find Elizabethan English alive and well and living in the Ozarks, USA. Actually, if you want to hear Shakespearean English today, all you hav…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:39PMSunday, February 22, 2015
Sylvie Guillem is the car mechanic’s daughter who went on to dance with Nureyev. Now, as she calls time on her glittering career, she talks about her tantrums, her dance partners, and why …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00AMSaturday, December 27, 2014
Benedict Cumberbatch’s Hamlet, smartwatches, the return of the Large Hadron Collider, the rugby World Cup in Britain, a flood of classic drama on TV and a critical climate summit – some …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:59PMSunday, December 8, 2013
Heavyweight studies of Margaret Thatcher and Laurence Olivier were standouts but the real gem was a life of an Italian poet, showman and fantasist• See Viv Groskop's fiction books of the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AMSaturday, July 20, 2013
Menier Chocolate Factory, LondonThe Color Purple, a bestselling African-American classic about a southern girl's redemptive journey from family enslavement to self-realisation, has become t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:04PMSaturday, May 25, 2013
Bush theatre; Print Room; Regent's Park Open Air theatre, all LondonTo the west of the West End come three new American shows from a world turned upside down. A decade after 9/11, the trauma…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06PMWednesday, May 8, 2013
An internet production of Shakespeare's classic comedy is not so much the RSC dumbing down as Google flaunting its cultural credentials – and that can only be a good thingIn last week's bl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:54AMMonday, April 22, 2013
Instead of silly disputes over his identity, we should be spending Tuesday's anniversary considering his workTuesday is Shakespeare's birthday, and there's no shortage of Bard news in the UK…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:53AMSaturday, September 15, 2012
The discovery of a skeleton under a Leicester car park has reignited interest in the maligned monarchTo the headline writers, he's become "the king in the car park". To Shakespeare, he was t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:56AMSaturday, September 1, 2012
Tom Stoppard says his original approach to writing the screenplay for Joe Wright's new film adaptation of Anna Karenina was for a fast, modern movie about being in lust. Then wiser counsels …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:04PMSaturday, April 28, 2012
Shakespeare's Globe, LondonThe pre-curtain buzz at the bar of the Globe said that this version of Shakespeare's crowd-pleasing Falstaff comedy of failed seduction, produced by Bitter Pill & …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06PMSaturday, March 24, 2012
The Cultural Olympiad is preparing to stage all his playsRobert McCrum
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:01PMSaturday, October 22, 2011
The elusive playwright's genius is examined again in Roland Emmerich's new film. But while the debate about who wrote the plays rages, only one thing remains sure: by his works shall we know…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:08PMSaturday, April 23, 2011
The Bard's enduring impact is all down to neural excitementYesterday was Shakespeare's 447th anniversary. As with almost everything else about our national poet, this is disputed. All we can…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:04PMFriday, January 9, 2009
Can I forget the drama that's surrounded David Tennant's Hamlet and engage only with the one that's on stage in front of me? Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:45AM 
