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December 9 2010
It’s interesting to reflect on why societies make laws and how the laws they make reflect the values of the time. The English have always loved making laws and... more »
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Shakespeare the Time Traveler
| May 28 2010What would Shakespeare make of our modern world? If he were suddenly to appear in London as a time traveler to the future he would find himself in the... more »
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Shakespeare The Travelling Marathon Man
| May 14 2010It’s quite common for Londoners to attend the theatre in Stratford upon Avon and also, most Americans visiting London make the journey to the Royal Shakespeare Theatre. It’s a... more »
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Shakespeare The Teenage Lover
| April 22 2010Writers often use their own lives as a resource for their creative work. Some take events in their lives to build their fictional scenes: others relive the emotions of... more »
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Do you know more than Shakespeare?
| November 27 2009What would Shakespeare have thought about the things that we take for granted and which he never dreamt of? We all jump in a car at least once a... more »
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Shakespeare Rescues St Crispin and St Crispinian from Obscurity
| November 14 2009Sunday 25th October was St Crispin’s Day. Henry V is structured around that day because October 25th was the day on which Henry defeated the French at Agincourt. It’s... more »
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Shakespeare is THE MAN
| October 7 2009People like to reflect on greatness and to make lists of the ten or hundred greatest men and women in history. Or in Britain, or in America, or in... more »
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Judi Dench to Rival Shakespeare’s Globe with Film Set
| September 25 2009It seems to be catching. But after all, this is the second Elizabethan age so harking back to the golden age of English theatre shouldn’t be surprising. Sam Wannermaker’s... more »
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Sam Wannemaker: A Shakespearean Hero
| September 7 2009It’s a wise child that knows its own father. (That’s a reversal of ‘It’s a wise father that knows his own child’ from ‘The Merchant of Venice’!) There is... more »
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Shakespeare Text Speak (or shkspr txt spk!)
| August 30 2009NoSweatShakespeare aims to present Shakespeare to our own generation as exciting and relevant...However, as children and young people all around the world are obliged to encounter his plays as... more »