THE theory that Shakespeare did not write the plays attributed to him inspired the recent Hollywood film, Anonymous, and it will be the subject of a public lecture in Newcastle today.Read
SHAKESPEARE found inspiration in the work of other writers and in turn he continues to inspire, as the Theatre Royal’s creative writing competition demonstrates.Read
SHAKESPEARE’S poetic voice is unmistakable. However, open a copy of The Complete Works and a host of other voices vie for our attention: “Your good voice, sir; what say you?” (Coriolanus, Act II, Scene iii).Read
THE words of John of Gaunt in Richard II – “This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle/ This earth of majesty” – evoke romantic visions of a lost England, a demi-paradise surrounded by silver sea, ruled by mighty monarchs.Read
OUT of the mouths of babes, wise words sometimes emerge. Surrounded by feuding nobles, boy king Henry VI warns that “civil dissension is a viperous worm”.Read
IF either of you know any inward impediment why you should not be conjoined, I charge you on your souls to utter it, says Friar Francis in Much Ado About Nothing at the one point in a wedding ceremony when nobody wants to hear the words “I do”.Read
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