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Grounds for doubts over Henry’s coffee

Brief letters: Nero: caffeine fiend? | French roast for Henry | Bogus Bob? | San Serriffe

The Guardian - UK

Henry V review – once more unto the breach at the RSC, as Alfred Enoch leads the charge

Co-artistic director Tamara Harvey stages a well-acted production that never hits as hard as it should

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Jane Lapotaire obituary

Stage and screen actor hailed for her work with the Royal Shakespeare Company and for her TV role as Marie Curie

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A new Henry V is a barometer of our times – what can Shakespeare’s war play tell us amid global chaos?

Revivals of this history play usually reflect the politics of the moment. Now a fresh RSC retelling arrives in a world of instability and fractured alliances

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English Kings Killing Foreigners review – astonishingly timely savaging of Shakespeare’s flag-waving xenophobia

Nina Bowers and Philip Arditti claw passionately at Henry V’s colonialism and imperialism in their frequently funny and at times deliberately uncomfortable play

The Guardian - UK

Kenneth Branagh returns to the RSC for The Tempest and The Cherry Orchard

Next summer, the star will appear in Stratford-upon-Avon first as Prospero and then alongside Helen Hunt in Chekhov’s classic

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The towering Paris chateau offering a more laidback experience than Versailles

The fortress of Vincennes once held a future King of France and the Marquis de Sade

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Adrian Lester and Alfred Enoch lead Royal Shakespeare Company’s ‘global’ new season

Joint artistic directors Daniel Evans and Tamara Harvey say 2025/26 programme is celebration of ‘a 21st-century RSC’

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Could you watch 8 plays in 12 hours? How The Player Kings creates binge-worthy Shakespeare

Some say Shakespeare invented the “history play” – but he had a lot of help.

The Conversation

Bell Shakespeare brings vitality and cracking pace to Henry 5

Shakespeare’s Henry V (stylised by Bell Shakespeare as Henry 5) is famous for many things. Henry’s rousing speeches. Its chorus directly addressing the audience. Its critical treatment of war. Its comic characters like Fluellen. And the comic exchanges between the French Princess and her maid Alice, trying to speak English.

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Phyllis Dalton obituary

Costume designer who won Oscars for her work on the film epic Doctor Zhivago and for Kenneth Branagh’s 1989 Henry V

The Guardian - UK

Patrick Doyle’s five best film scores – including his pick of an undiscovered gem

Scottish musician Patrick Doyle is an acclaimed composer of over 60 feature film scores with many attendant accolades, honours and awards. I first met him in 2001 while making a now long-vanished series on movie music called Silverscreen Beats for BBC Radio.

The Conversation

The real medieval 12 Days of Christmas

After a long fast, Medieval Christendom typically celebrated the holiday with many days of raucous festivities

Salon

Jude Law is 'very happy ageing'

Jude Law has embraced ageing because he's convinced his changing looks have helped him expand the roles he can play onscreen.

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Jude Law plans to end his acting career on the stage

Jude Law still has many more theatre roles he would like to take on before he bows out.

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Post your questions for Jude Law

Ahead of his transformation into an ageing, smelly Henry VIII in new film Firebrand, the twice Oscar-nominated actor is answering your questions

The Guardian - UK

In brief: Henry V; Midnight in Vienna; Clairmont – review

A lively new study of the warrior king by Dan Jones; a wartime espionage thriller from Jane Thynne; and an engaging novel about Byron’s spurned mistress

LiveScience

32 stunning centuries-old hoards unearthed by metal detectorists

Archaeologists and amateurs armed with metal detectors have discovered previous hoards from centuries past.

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Shakespeare combines with sport for special shows

It's England v France in Henry V at Viking Park.

Cinemablend

32 Most Inspiring Speeches In Film History

Whether it's to hype up a sports team, or inspire themselves, a good speech can make a decent movie great and a bad movie good.

The Guardian - UK

The best theatre to stream this month: The Old Man and the Pool, Bedbound and more

Watch Mike Birbiglia’s hit comedy about mortality, Colm and Brenda Meaney in Enda Walsh’s two-hander or choose from a flock of Swan Lakes

Evening Standard

Our pick of the best films based on true stories, from Zero Dark Thirty to The Wolf of Wall Street

Looking for a movie adaptation of a shocking real event? Look no further

The Conversation

A Haunting in Venice is Kenneth Branagh's 20th film – what do we make of his prodigious output?

In an essay on Kenneth Branagh, screenwriter Scott Frank recalls meeting the future star and director of his screenplay Dead Again (1991) and wondering “why the guy would want to direct a loopy, film noir thriller like mine?”

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Return of the king: what can the movies teach us about the coronation?

Icy rejection in Welles’s Chimes at Midnight, Chalamet stripped to the waist, a swaggering Chris Hemsworth – which will Charles channel on Saturday?

Evening Standard

Charles oldest ever to become King: The 20 oldest and youngest monarchs to take the throne

Ahead of King Charles III’s Coronation, here’s a look back at some ofthe oldest and youngest monarchs to ever take the throne.

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