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Shakespeare and the British Renaissance
James Fox James Fox’s three-part documentary series A Very British Renaissance has just finished on BBC 4. It was first shown in 2014, and having missed it first time I’m very pleased to have caught up...
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We can be heroes [not] just for one day
David Bowie The first news I heard on Monday morning, 11 January 2016, was the death of rock star David Bowie. Like most of us, I’ve lived with his songs through my adult life. All day I’ve been...
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Royal Shakespeare Company’s plans for 2016
Gregory Doran and David Tennant on the Andrew Marr Show All the large Shakespeare organisations are celebrating the four-hundredth anniversary of Shakespeare’s death in 2016 with events to show that...
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His most potent art: the library of John Dee
Portrait of John Dee, at the Ashmolean Museum Oxford A new exhibition has just opened in London that explains more about one of the most intriguing people in Elizabethan London, John Dee. The Royal...
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Henry James and Shakespeare
Henry James by John Singer Sargent 28 February 2016 is the centenary of the death of the author Henry James. James was born in 1843 in New York but spent most of his adult life in Europe, particularly...
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Finding Shakespeare in the tropics
St Crispin I’m writing this from the tropical paradise that is Northern Queensland, Australia. We’ve been staying just north of Cairns at the hotel Paradise on the beach at Palm Cove. It certainly...
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Women taking power in Shakespeare’s plays
Glenda Jackson as King Lear 2016 seems to have been characterised by women staging a takeover of traditional male roles, at least as far as Shakespeare is concerned. While planning this post I was...
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The Tempest in production
A scene from the RSC’s Tempest, Simon Russell Beale as Prospero On Wednesday 11 January the Royal Shakespeare Company’s The Tempest is to be live streamed to cinemas around the UK. The play always...
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Tim Pigott-Smith and Shakespeare
Tim Pigott-Smith as King Lear Since the announcement of Tim Pigott-Smith’s death on Friday 7 April 2017 tributes have flooded in for this much-loved and admired actor. Many have also commented that in...
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Ovid and Shakespeare: the world’s greatest storytellers
Ovid: The Poet and the Emperor Anyone who’s interested in Shakespeare will have heard the name Ovid, but how much do we really know about him? I’ve written a couple of posts on Ovid myself, but I have...
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