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Tony Blair, Shakespeare’s Hamlet and the Emperor Nero
Michael Sheen as Hamlet What have Hamlet, Tony Blair, H.G. Wells, David Frost, the Emperor Nero, Brian Clough, the White Rabbit and Kenneth Williams got in common? This is an easy one: they’ve all...
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Shakespeare vs. Dr Seuss
We recently stumbled across the rather amusing “Epic Rap Battles of History”. In at number 12 was the Shakespeare vs Dr Seuss battle. For those who aren’t acquanted with battle rapping, it’s a...
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Justin and Selena – A Modern Day Romeo and Juliet
Shakespeare enthusiasts who follow the doings of celebrities – their courtships, marriages, divorces, births and deaths – might be struck by the Justin Bieber and Selina Gomez pictures and stories that...
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The 2014 Oscars & Shakespeare
With the 2014 Academy Awards just around the corner we’ve taken a look at the Shakespeare connection to this year’s Oscar nominees. And as with most years, the connections between Hollywood’s top...
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Oscar Pistorius: A Shakespearean Hero?
The latest image of the great athlete Oscar Pistorius is the one presented to South African Pretoria High Court of the hero drenched in blood after the killing of his girlfriend. There is no concept in...
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Exit, Pursued By A Bear
‘Exit, Pursued By A Bear’ is generally considered to be the most famous of Shakespeare’s stage directions – leading up to the off stage death of Antigonus in The Winter’s Tale. And so Dr Who and...
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Boris Johnson & Shakespeare – The Biography
Boris Johnson Publishers Hodden and Stoughton have just announced that they will be paying London mayor, Boris Johnson, a half a million pounds (about 750,000 US dollars) to write a biography of...
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Who Shares A Birthday With Shakespeare?
In tribute to Shakespeare’s birthday (23rd April 1564) we’ve pulled together a list of other famous people who shared a birthday with the Bard: Giants of Western Culture J.M.W. Turner, 1775, was an...
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Boris, Barack & A Shakespearean Character Set
Martin Rowson on Barack Obama, David Cameron and Boris Johnson – cartoon by Martin Rowson This brilliant cartoon by Matin Rowson at The Guardian got me thinking of how Boris Johnson can bring to mind...
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Elizabethan Actors
Elizabethan actors existed in a contradictory world in which they were regarded as the lowest of the low, but if they achieved success and, most important, a following, they would be regarded as almost...
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