Jonathan Bailey's coke-snorting Richard II pulses with energy
The 'Bridgerton' star is a fey and capricious monarch in Nicholas Hytner's modern-dress take on Shakespeare's challenging play
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The Peculiar Case of Ignatius Donnelly
The Minnesota politician presents a riddle for historians. He was a beloved populist but also a crackpot conspiracist. Were his politics tainted by...
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Tom Hiddleston's Much Ado About Nothing is glorious - but £275 a ticket is absurd
He and Hayley Atwell make a legendary pairing in Shakespeare's sparkiest comedy
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I have every right to play Shylock as a woman - but James Bond should always be a man
Even in 2025, women can feel nervousness around portraying male characters
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Shakespeare's birthplace trust evicts tenants from historic cottages
A storm is brewing in Stratford-upon-Avon as residents near Anne Hathaway's Cottage face eviction by the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, accused of...
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The Player’s the Thing in “Grand Theft Hamlet”
In an 1818 lecture, on the subject of “Hamlet,” Samuel Taylor Coleridge had this to say: Coleridge was talking in particular about the eccentric...
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'Benefits Britain's dossers know that they can get away with scrounging'
Britain's well-earned title as the ‘Sick Man of Europe’ needs changing to ‘The Sick/Idle man of Europe’. This week shock figures revealed...
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The Best Fake Books—Made Real
At the Grolier Club, in midtown, a collection of imaginary volumes—the play within “Hamlet,” Hemingway’s lost first novel—are bound,...
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Watch: Just Stop Oil activists disrupt Sigourney Weaver West End show
The climate activists have targeted works of art, Stonehenge, Taylor Swift's jet and Charles Darwin's grave. Now, they're interrupting a Hollywood...
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15 of the best modern Shakespeare adaptations to watch now
"Anyone but You" is based on the Shakespeare play "Much Ado About Nothing." There are many different adaptations of Shakespeare's works to...
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