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The meaning behind King Charles' 'flights of angels' line from first public address

"May 'flights of Angels sing thee to thy rest'."

Manchester Evening News

Soul-stirring meaning behind King Charles' 'flights of angels' line for Queen in speech

King Charles III made a historic televised address to the nation tonight - giving new roles to Prince William and Kate Middleton - but the final line of his speech was particularly poignant

Daily Mirror

New exhibition to share Scotland's untold Black history

A NEW exhibition is to pay homage to Scotland’s untold Black history and a forgotten connection to William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s…

The National (Scotland)

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Shakespeare inspired to write Othello after being booed off stage

The bard learned from his humiliating experiences as an actor at the Globe to hone his playwright skills, academic says

The Guardian - UK

The big name acts coming to Edinburgh Fringe this year

Ian McKellen, Josie Long, and Nish Kumar are just a few of the famous faces performing this year.

Edinburgh Live

Rare original copy of Shakespeare’s First Folio sells for £2m

400-year-old edition of playwright’s first collected book of plays including Macbeth and Twelfth Night auctioned at Sotheby’s

The Guardian - UK

Rare copy of Shakespeare’s first folio from 1623 sells for £2m

Book containing 36 of the bard’s plays was compiled seven years after his death.

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Read the Real Romeo and Juliet, Not the Kid-Friendly Version

Though book banners may try to convince otherwise, students don't need protection from the passion portrayed in Shakespeare's classic.

Reason

Shakespeare North Playhouse review – a wooden O for the north

Against all the odds, and with backers including Judi Dench and Kim Cattrall, this 470-seat modern twist on a Shakespearean theatre is poised for action, from Bottom to Johnny Vegas

The Guardian - UK

Spectacular weekend of events planned to mark launch of £38m Shakespeare theatre

The new playhouse opens its doors to the public today

Liverpool Echo

Shakespeare links to Merseyside town even people who live there might not know

A new Shakespeare theatre is set to open

Liverpool Echo

Building Merseyside’s theatre of dreams in the big Tesco ‘ghost town’

The £38m Shakespeare North playhouse is set to put Prescot ‘on the map’ and shift the region’s cultural focus to Knowsley - but some residents question if everyone can come along for the ride

Liverpool Echo

Boris Johnson has vandalised the political architecture of Britain, Ireland and Europe

His political career has consisted of chucking rocks over the walls of the neighbours. The damage will last for years, says Irish Times columnist Fintan O’Toole

The Guardian - UK

Nicole Cooper's Medea eloquently speaks language of vengeance

EURIPIDES – author of the great play Medea – is a foundational figure in European tragic theatre. Without him, and fellow Ancient Greek…

The National (Scotland)

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Liverpool Echo

Shakespeare North £38m playhouse prepares to open

Project leaders say there's something for everyone at the new theatre in Prescot

Benzinga

Elon Musk Quotes The Tempest On Twitter, But Another Shakespeare Play Is His Favorite

The world’s richest person used lines from a William Shakespeare play in a post on the social media platform Twitter Inc (NYSE: TWTR). Here’s which play the lines were from, and which Shakespeare play is actually Musk’s favorite.

Tech&Learning

Best Father’s Day Activities and Lessons

These Father's Day activities and lessons can help your students express their appreciation for their fathers as caregivers, mentors, and role models.

Radio France Internationale

Shakespeare comes out on top at France's Molières theatre awards

The 33rd Molières French theatre awards, back after a two-year disruption due to Covid, awarded four trophies to Shakespeare's popular comedy "As You Like it".

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Winnie the Pooh horror film sees Pooh and Piglet kill and eat Eeyore as characters enter Public Domain

Thanks to A.A. Milne's copyright ending at the start of this year, Pooh and Piglet are now on a murderous rampage

The Guardian - UK

UK’s ‘strictest headmistress’ fears schools will stop teaching Shakespeare

Katharine Birbalsingh says move to decolonise English curriculum could mean Shakespeare replaced with black and female authors

The Guardian - UK

Glowworms bred in captivity to be released in southern England

More than 500 larvae already set free in Hampshire and Cornwall as part of project to revive declining species

The National (Scotland)

The Scottish playwright reassessing the Bard and mental health

HOW would you diagnose Shakespeare’s characters today? Is Ophelia being “divided from herself and her fair judgement” really PTSD from her…

The Independent UK

Upstart Crow is back at the Apollo theatre for 2022 – how to get tickets

The Peep Show star will appear as William Shakespeare once again

The Guardian - UK

Shakespeare’s tragic twins memorialised in the Bard’s resting place

Maggie O’Farrell will place rosemary at Stratford grave to honour the lost boy who inspired her novel Hamnet

The Guardian - UK

New evidence suggests Shakespeare may have stolen the plot of Cymbeline

Notes from a 1533 book put Sir Thomas North in the frame for one of the bard’s later plays

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