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Shakespeare fans can book stay in Herefordshire farmhouse featured in Hamnet this spring

Stays at the Grade II-listed Jacobean farmhouse start from £1,547

The Independent UK

‘Shakespeare? I’d have a go!’ Paul Chuckle on his 50-year comedy career and his new gangster film

As he dons sunglasses to play a tough guy on screen, the actor, AKA Paul Elliott, answers your questions about moustaches, Gogglebox, Bond, Judge Jules, Liam Gallagher and missing his brother, Barry

The Guardian - UK

Top 2026 travel trends: Glowcations, literary tourism and year-round Alpine escapes

From visiting places associated with favourite books to travelling with multiple generations- these are the top trends likely to shape travel in 2026.

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Need cheering up after a terrible year? I may have just the story you’re looking for

A single act of kindness reminded me that, despite so much evidence to the contrary, the better angels of our nature are not necessarily doomed, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle

The Guardian - UK

TV tonight: horny, ludicrously fun thriller The Hunting Wives

Brittany Snow and Malin Akerman star in a tantalisingly trashy series. Plus: Judi Dench digs deep into a family mystery. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK

‘The best thing I have ever witnessed on stage’: readers’ favourite theatre of 2025

A transcendent new take on King Lear, a thrilling Evita and a show at Glasgow’s revamped Citizens that reduced one viewer to a ‘blubbering wreck’ are among your highlights

The Guardian - UK

Johnny Flynn's guide to London: shopping at Patina and dinner at Pivaz

The Goodbye June actor used to make money busking, thinks mudlarking is a great first date and loves Clapton’s Mangal restaurants

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Twelfth Night at the Barbican review: A delightful maximalist feast

4/5 Director Prasanna Puwanarajah’s Shakespeare festivities are striking if a little over-stuffed in places

Evening Standard

Paul Rudd told what lie about Sir Ben Kingsley at the start of his career?

Anaconda actor Paul Rudd lied about starring in a Shakespeare production directed by Sir Ben Kingsley at the start of his career.

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Tourists will now be charged more than £10 to visit famous Juliet balcony

Shakespeare fans will have to pay to enter the courtyard for the first time

The Independent UK

Judi Dench says she ‘can’t remember what I’m doing tomorrow’ but can still recite Shakespeare

The actor has said she is increasingly facing problems with her memory as well as failing eyesight, struggling to remember appointments or see faces

The Guardian - UK

Judi Dench reveals worrying extent of her short-term memory loss

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The Independent UK

Judi Dench reveals she can still remember Shakespeare but not ‘what I’m doing tomorrow’

Oscar winner describes her degenerative eye condition as a ‘crusher’

The Independent UK

From the Miller’s Tale to King Lear’s roaring sea, a history of flooding in literature

Geoffrey Chaucer’s Miller’s Tale is renowned for its salacious storyline of sexual misadventure. Set in 14th-century Oxford, it tells the tale of John the Carpenter, a husband so terrified that another “Noah’s flood” is coming to drown the world that he sleeps in a basket in the attic – freeing…

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“Are You A Master Of Ridiculous Knowledge?”: Try Scoring 30/30 In This Useless Facts Test

Lately, life feels a bit too serious, doesn’t it?Bills, work, deadlines, errands, decisions - it all piles up faster than we’d like. So here’s a little break from all that: a quiz made entirely of strange, useless, and wonderfully pointless facts. From Shakespeare’s dad’s odd job to the speed of…

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This 30-Question Useless Facts Challenge Will Reveal How Weirdly Smart You Really Are

The Guardian - UK

Get your skates on: 10 of the best pop-up ice rinks in the UK

From city rooftops to seafront winter wonderlands, these are some of the best places to slide into Christmas

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10 Times Lending Money to a Friend Turns Into a Regret Story

Shakespeare said, “Neither a borrower nor a lender be.” He was right. Lending money to a friend is a noble gesture that often ends in disaster. You want to help, but money changes dynamics.

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A Midsummer Night's Dream at Shakespeare's Globe: 'Like a sexed-up Narnia'

4/5 This winter-set spin on the play brings a fairy tale dark edge to proceedings with unnerving effect

Cinemablend

The Surprising References I Never Knew Tom Hiddleston 'Borrowed' For Loki

Oh, I get it now!

The Guardian - UK

Petty Men review – understudies plot their own version of Julius Caesar

Hanging around backstage while their chances to play Brutus and Cassius fade, two unnamed actors start to act out their own drama

The Guardian - UK

‘The world is such a nice thing!’: Matt Maltese, the songwriter for pop’s A-list … and Shakespeare

After getting dropped by a major label, the Leonard Cohen-influenced south Londoner kept going, and has now won fans in Rosalía, Sabrina Carpenter and more. But writing for the Bard is best of all, he says

Total Film

Brendan Fraser describes the shelved Superman film he came close to starring in as "Shakespeare in space"

"I did wear the big guy's suit.”

The Conversation

Nothing much comes of nothing in Belvoir’s new version of King Lear

Since its first performance in 1606, King Lear has earned its place as Shakespeare’s largest and most revered powerhouse tragedy.

The Independent UK

Helen Mirren and Ian Mckellen celebrate launch of RSC Shakespeare curriculum app

The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) unveiled its new digital learning app on Wednesday, 12 November, at Middle Temple, the historic site of the first Twelfth Night performance in 1604.

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