Happy New Year to all our readers. This is a big year for Shakespeare. It’s not a very well known fact, but Shakespeare played a role in winning the Olympic Games for London. Not only is he the most famous London resident of turn of sixteenth/seventeenth century London but also, according to the results of [...]
London is the world’s top tourist destination, and so it should be. There are far more beautiful great cities, regarding their natural settings – Cape Town, Sydney, Rio – and more beautiful cities architecturally – Venice, Amsterdam – but there is no place as historically and culturally exciting as London. When I recently saw a [...]
If you’re ever going to be involved in a production of Macbeth you should be very careful, and take precautions. Remember, you’ve been warned. There’s a curse on performances of the play. The first thing you should never do is mention the play’s title in the theatre. You should always refer to it as ‘The [...]
It’s difficult to define genius. Some people will sometimes call a high-scoring football player a genius, others will regard someone who’s good at his/her job as a genius, so the word is often loosely used. It can’t be defined, but we probably all agree that the likes of Darwin, Newton, Shakespeare and Michelangelo were geniuses. [...]