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Amanda Seyfried nails bits of the 1700s Manchester accent in The Testament of Ann Lee – a linguist explains how we know

Imagine time-travelling to Manchester, England in the late 1700s. What do you think people would sound like?

The Conversation · Mar 2

Dame Harriet Walter to star in all-female production of Julius Caesar for RSC

The play will be part of a new season of shows, which includes an all-male production of As You Like It starring Jonathan Groff.

Evening Standard · Feb 26

Judi Dench affectionately described as a ‘mischief maker’ by former co-star

‘If you ever just want to just hear something short, listen to Judi Dench read a Shakespeare sonnet, just find one on YouTube, and it will move you to tears’

The Independent UK · Feb 24

‘Summer is coming!’: Royal Shakespeare Company to stage epic Game of Thrones prequel

Novelist George RR Martin says RSC is ‘obvious choice’ to put on new play The Mad King, which will open after spring

The Guardian - UK · Feb 18

Deep Azure review – musical marvels in Chadwick Boseman’s hip-hop tragedy

The Black Panther actor’s melding of social commentary and Shakespearean themes is sometimes opaque yet undeniably poetic

The Guardian - UK · Feb 18

O’Romeo review – Bollywood Shakespeare takes dive into grisly mafia queens territory

After hit takes on Macbeth, Othello and Hamlet, Vishal Bhardwaj’s Romeo and Juliet adaptation sees dead-eyed lovers drag one another to gutter and grave

The Guardian - UK · Feb 16

Renowned Shakespearean actor voices doubts over Oscar frontrunner Hamnet

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The Independent UK · Feb 15

Shakespeare expert Ian McKellen brands Hamnet ‘improbable’ fiction: ‘I don’t quite get it’

‘I’m not very interested in trying to work out where Shakespeare’s imagination came from, but it certainly didn’t just come from family life,’ the British thespian said

The Independent UK · Feb 15

‘Hamlet’ Review: A Smart Adaptation That Sparks but Doesn’t Catch

South Asians love adding a bit of subcontinental flavor to everything. It’s mostly food and drink we do this to, like mixing baked beans with diced onions and cumin seeds, or spicing tea with cinnamon and fennel and cardamom. But now Academy Award winner Riz Ahmed has injected some spice…

The Mary Sue · Feb 13

Is this love? Don’t be Heathcliff and Cathy – what you should watch, read and play this week

Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights is a loose (very loose) adaptation of Emily Brontë’s novel. The film is, as the director has attested, the intense, “unhinged”, gothic story she remembers reading as a 14-year-old. As such, it is full of imagined passages and heightened romance and violence. It’s truly Fennellian in…

The Conversation · Feb 13