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Prattle, a Shakespearean Version of Wordle, Won't Let You Guess 'Slave'

"This anti-free speech, anti-intellectual, anti-common-sense action deserves all the scorn it can get," says Roy Thomas, former editor in chief of Marvel Comics.

Reason

35 years later, Final Fantasy's love of Shakespeare is its secret to success

The lasting effect of Final Fantasy is owed to a unique understanding of human stories that can also be found in the work of William Shakespeare.

Inverse

From Marilyn to Shakespeare: how well do you know history’s most bungled quotes?

The internet is full of wonky attributions and made-up catchphrases, from real life and pop culture. Can you tell your Attenborough from your Armstrong?

The Guardian - AU

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Broadway writer of '& Juliet' builds show with huge pop hits

Playwright David West Read and the team behind the Broadway jukebox musical “& Juliet" have mixed high and low art

The Independent UK

‘Christmas miracle’: Hard Quiz does the impossible and reunites Mad as Hell cast

Hard Quiz host Tom Gleeson pulls off a Christmas miracle and reunites Mad as Hell cast for a one-off special.

The New Daily

Review: In ‘& Juliet’ on Broadway, this empowered Juliet hath no further need of her Romeo

NEW YORK — William Shakespeare still occupies his storied place in high school English classes, but the Elizabethan dude is under attack. Instead of dreaming at their desks of their Romeos, today’s teenage girls are more likely to figure out that Juliet gets merely a single night of passion with…

Chicago Tribune

Biography of poet John Donne wins UK nonfiction book prize

A book that argues Elizabethan poet John Donne should rank alongside William Shakespeare as a literary genius has won Britain’s leading nonfiction book award

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‘Full-on robot writing’: the artificial intelligence challenge facing universities

AI is becoming more sophisticated, and some say capable of writing academic essays. But at what point does the intrusion of AI constitute cheating?

The Guardian - AU

First Thing: Republicans narrowly regain control of House after midterms flop

Slim majority means any member of party sitting in House of Representatives could block legislation. Plus, the meteorite that may solve mystery of Earth’s water

The Guardian - UK

Shakespeare: Only portrait created during playwright’s lifetime on sale for £10m

The image was reportedly made by Robert Peake, court painter to King James I, and is signed and dated 1608

The Independent UK

I can forgive The Crown for jazzing up the facts – but not for being so horribly clunky

When covering the royals, we often talk about the family ‘soap opera’. The conversations here are straight out of a poor one, says Stephen Bates, the Guardian’s former royal correspondent

The Guardian - UK

RSC to stage play about plague death of William Shakespeare’s son Hamnet

Adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s novel will premiere at Swan theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon in April

The Guardian - UK

'The Crown’ returns to blur the line between royals, fiction

“The Crown” returns Wednesday after a two-year absence from Netflix

The Independent UK

17 best HBO Max movies in May 2025

The best movies on Max to watch right now range from amazing biopics to touching dramas and mind-boggling animated features.

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Commentary: New Zealand’s sad, silly rejection of Shakespeare

“Thou art the cap of all the fools alive.” So says Apemantus to the title character in the William Shakespeare play “Timon of Athens.” He might also direct his insult at New Zealand’s arts council. After 30 years, it has chosen to end government funding for Shakespeare in Schools, a…

Los Angeles Times

Commentary: Clinging to old classics can go hand in hand with banning books

Too often, we forget that fights about what we shouldn’t read are also battles over what we should read. And that every time someone attempts to ban Toni Morrison or Ta-Nehisi Coates, they’re also trying to corral our kids back to Hawthorne and Hemingway, Dante and Dickens.

The Times of India

'Absolute farce': UK gripped by latest Boris Johnson plot twist

LONDON: British former prime minister Boris Johnson's prospective return to Downing Street reads like a Shakespearean arc of redemption after a fall -- but critics see elements of farce.

Chicago Sun-Times

The Mix: Cool things to do in Chicago Oct. 20-26

“Measure for Measure,” an Upside Down Halloween Parade, and a tribute to blues legends are among the highlights in the week ahead.

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The Independent UK

Jacinda Ardern backs school Shakespeare scheme dubbed ‘imperialist’ by New Zealand funding body

Prime minister says she took part in three decade-old programme said to involve more than half of country’s schools

Asharq Al-Awsat

New Zealand Arts Funder Rejects Shakespeare as ‘Imperialism’

Is Shakespeare still relevant to today's students? New Zealand's arts council appears to have its doubts after ending funding for a popular school Shakespeare program, arguing it relied too heavily on busy schools, failed to show relevance to “the contemporary art context” and relied on a genre “located within a…

The Independent UK

New Zealand arts funder rejects Shakespeare as 'imperialism'

Is Shakespeare still relevant to today’s students

Chicago Tribune

Review: ‘Rosaline’ is ‘Romeo and Juliet’ from another teenager’s point of view — the jilted cousin

There’s a subgenre of teen rom-coms that modernize everything from William Shakespeare to Jane Austen. On Hulu, the movie “Rosaline” flips that idea back around, giving modern rom-com tropes and dialogue to the original 16th-century setting of Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet.” I mean, why not?

The Independent UK

The Lost King review: Discovery of Richard III’s skeleton is farcically replayed in Frears and Coogan’s drama

Why does the comedy drama think it can undo one form of malevolent villainisation by creating enemies of its own?

Evening Standard

Upstart Crow at the Apollo Theatre review: David Mitchell is the draw in this hectic sitcom spin-off

A vehicle for panto acting and a machine-gun barrage of gags

Salon

Debunking 5 myths about Shakespeare

Things that you probably thought you knew about Shakespeare but are actually untrue

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