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Fainting, fighting and folk-horror: Florence Pugh’s best films – ranked!

Ahead of the release of We Live in Time next month, we celebrate the filmography of a breakout British star, from Little Women to Lady Macbeth

The Guardian - UK

David Tennant forced off stage as theatregoer sparks chaos during West End Macbeth performance

The incident took place at the Harold Pinter Theatre on Tuesday after an audience member was unable to immediately return to his seat following a toilet break

Evening Standard

Asma al-Assad: from private schoolgirl in Acton to being reportedly severely ill with leukaemia

She was once fawned over for her good looks and sharp mind, but is now seen as an accomplice to her husband’s cruelty. Claudia Cockerell on the fall of Syria’s first lady

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20 Questions About Shakespeare That Will Really Challenge Your Literature Knowledge

This is not your typical Shakespeare trivia. Get ready to struggle to remember Shakespeare’s plays that did not get as much screen (or stage) time as Romeo & Juliet, Othello, or Macbeth have gotten. You might know a lot of things about the popular plays of Shakespeare which are also…

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Discord is becoming that overbearing friend that knows absolutely way too much about my life

Surely you don't need to know how long it's been since I last played Overwatch 2.

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Lend me your ears: great Shakespearean actors given hi-tech talking portraits

A radical new exhibition celebrates stars including Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart by combining subtly moving artworks with their own voices. The results are uncanny

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David Tennant-starring Macbeth cancelled for a night ‘due to cast illness’

It is unclear who has become sick.

Evening Standard

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‘You get more confident as the parts run out’: Harriet Walter on her stage career, Succession and Shakespeare’s women

In her new book the acclaimed actor imagines what the Bard’s female characters might have said if they had had the chance

The Guardian - UK

Michael Gove says personal attacks on ex-wife Sarah Vine ‘hurt him the most’

The former cabinet minister said personal attacks on his ex-wife were ‘incredibly hurtful’

The Independent UK

The problem with new claims that Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus was co-written by a forgotten dramatist

In Shakespeare’s time, about a quarter of all plays were collaboratively written by two or more dramatists. Christopher Marlowe’s classic work Doctor Faustus was first performed in the 1580s or early 1590s but only published in 1604, 11 years after his death. The dramatists Samuel Rowley and William Bird were…

The Conversation

US election: how ambitious are the two candidates?

On Monday January 20 next year the newly elected US president – the country’s 47th – will repeat this oath at the Capitol in Washington DC:

The Conversation

Netflix is removing a large selection of titles, including popular TV series with 100% Rotten Tomatoes score

A large selection of movies and shows are being removed this month

The Independent UK

Rough Magic review – zany riff on Macbeth bewitches young audience

Gleefully batty caper finds one of the weird sisters in hot cauldron water after making reckless promises of a very bright future to a passing thane

The Guardian - UK

Macbeth (An Undoing) review – Lady M takes over Shakespeare’s play … but what for?

Playwright Zinnie Harris mounts an intriguing war on the bard but doesn’t bother building her own vision

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Shakespeare goes pop: the best of the Bard’s work updated on screen

A new season of films celebrates how different directors have found a way to bring Shakespeare’s work forward, from Baz Luhrmann to Derek Jarman

The National (Scotland)

Victorian hotel near historic battle site where Scottish King died hits the market

A VICTORIAN hotel located in a famous Highlands town where Macbeth, King of Scots died in battle, has gone up for sale ...

The Conversation

Ambitious Tory hopefuls could learn from Lady Macbeth’s fate ahead of leadership battle

Grant Shapps is running. The Tory MP has held what seems like every ministerial post possible and is famous in Westminster for his command of spreadsheets and data – in other words, for tracking the views and intentions of his fellow Tory MPs. He is ready for the battle ahead.

The Guardian - AU

Australian Ballet blasts newspaper review for describing dancers as ‘unusually thin’

Company’s artistic director David Hallberg says he was ‘shocked’ by critic’s review and that critique of dancers’ bodies is ‘not acceptable’

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Readers reply: who has been treated most unfairly by history?

The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical concepts

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‘Teenagers are exhausting’: Teacher and author Carol Atherton on why her profession deserves more respect

The Head of English at a Lincolnshire secondary school discusses the crisis in education and her mission to make literature live for a new generation

The Guardian - UK

Dolly covers, Scottish kings and a chocolate surplus – take the Thursday quiz

Fifteen questions on general knowledge and topical trivia, plus a few jokes, every Thursday. How will you fare?

Evening Standard

OPINION - Vladimir Putin may be weeks away from a breakthrough in Ukraine but the West is asleep

There is a growing understanding across the Western allies that Ukraine is losing the ground war against Russia, and by summer could face defeat.

The Guardian - UK

Macbeth review – powerful Verdi staging marks the end for a great company

Arts Council of Wales’s decision to axe its funding for Mid Wales Opera means this effective and cogent production is likely their last on this scale

Evening Standard

Macbeth (An Undoing) at the Rose Theatre review: the sound and fury drowns out its flashes of inspiration

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32 Underrated Movies Worth Watching

Don't overlook these low-key classics.

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