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To eat or not to eat: The food that shaped Shakespeare’s plays – and how to cook it today

From banquets fit for kings to tavern feasts and lovers’ suppers, a new cookbook by Sam Bilton and Shakespeare’s Globe reveals how food shaped the Bard’s world – and shows how to bring those flavours to your own table

The Independent UK

‘Hamnet’ review: A breathtakingly real and perfect look at art, love, and grief

Art is for all, no matter its origin

The Mary Sue

Hamnet review: Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley enthral in Shakespeare tearjerker

4/5 Chloé Zhao’s clever adaptation grounds the Bard’s backstory in love, loss and the natural world

Evening Standard

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Lynne Ramsay’s passion, Jim Jarmusch’s star turn and knives come out again: Peter Bradshaw’s London film festival picks

Among this year’s must-sees Jennifer Lawrence brings gothic steam, Daniel Craig takes a new case and a constellation of luminaries get cosmic

The Guardian - UK

It’s Bouquet! Comedy star Patricia Routledge captured hearts as TV’s Hyacinth

Dame Patricia Routledge was best known for her role in Keeping Up Appearances but also had a long career on stage.

Evening Standard

Black swan nicknamed ‘Mr Terminator’ evicted from town after trying to drown local birds

The bird had become ‘more popular than William Shakespeare’ in Stratford-Upon-Avon until things took a ‘dark’ turn

The Independent UK

Chloé Zhao’s Hamnet wins top award at Toronto Film Festival

People’s Choice award puts film on enviable track to Oscars contention

The Independent UK

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In Chloé Zhao’s ‘Hamnet,’ something emotional this way comes

On the festival circuit this fall, no film has spawned more of an outpouring of emotion than Chloé Zhao's “Hamnet,” a speculative drama about William Shakespeare, his wife, Agnes, and the death of their 11-year-old son

The Independent UK

Hamnet review – Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal excel in stately Shakespeare drama with overwhelming finale

The two stars are knockouts in Chloé Zhao’s poignant adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s 2020 novel with a stirring tearjerker ending

The Guardian - US

Russell Crowe Shaken By Nazi Role In Festival Hit 'Nuremberg'

Russell Crowe's nerve-shredding portrayal of a notorious Nazi on trial and Angelina Jolie's deeply personal dive into the world of French fashion led a busy Sunday of world premieres at the Toronto film festival.

International Business Times

Chloe Zhao Tackles Shakespeare's True Tragedy In 'Hamnet'

When Oscar-winning director Chloe Zhao first studied Shakespeare at her British boarding school, the young Chinese pupil did not even speak English.

International Business Times

Newly discovered portrait may depict ‘fair youth’ of Shakespeare’s sonnets

Earl of Southampton may have given writer the miniature by Nicholas Hilliard, which has defaced heart on its reverse

The Guardian - UK

Born With Teeth review – Ncuti Gatwa simmers in Elizabethan battle of the playwrights

Gatwa’s Christopher Marlowe and Edward Bluemel’s William Shakespeare flirt, fight and write in Liz Duffy Adams’ sizzling new chamber play

The Guardian - UK

Chloé Zhao's first movie since Eternals is already getting Oscars buzz as critics call it "the most devastating movie I've seen in years"

Chloé Zhao's new movie Hamnet has premiered to rave reviews

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The Guardian view on Christopher Marlowe: it’s time to read him and honour him

Editorial: England’s second most famous playwright is the star of a new play. But his own works should be staged more, and he should be commemorated better

The Mary Sue

No the theatre kids are not okay after watching the ‘Hamnet’ trailer

I can't wait to spend the holidays crying about Shakespeare!

Benzinga

Anthony Scaramucci Quotes Romeo And Juliet In Praising Bitcoin, Reacts To Tim Draper's 'Gravitational Pull' Toward BTC Remark

Anthony Scaramucci, the founder and CEO of SkyBridge Capital, expressed his support for Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC), drawing on a famous line from William Shakespeare’s play “Romeo and Juliet.”

Fortune

BofA sees the replacement of people with process solving the 'productivity paradox,' because 'A process is almost free and it's replicable for eternity'

"I think people love this AI technology because it feels like sorcery," BofA's Savita Subramanian said. "The truth is it hasn't really changed the world that much yet, but I don't think it's something to be dismissed."

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Will at centre of legal battle over Shakespeare’s home unearthed after 150 years

Document from 1642 made by husband of Shakespeare’s granddaughter found in unlabelled box at National Archives

Evening Standard

Historian finds 17th century will which sparked Shakespeare family row

The document was drawn up by Thomas Nash on August 25 1642.

Evening Standard

First look at Ncuti Gatwa and Edward Bluemel in 'ferociously sexy' new play Born With Teeth

Liz Duffy Adams’ play imagines the relationship between Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare

International Business Times

UK 'Princes In The Tower' Murder Probe Clears Richard III

It is one of history's most intriguing "murders" -- the mysterious disappearance over five centuries ago of two young princes from the Tower of London.

The Independent UK

Ncuti Gatwa says he bonded with Matt Smith over ‘exhausting’ Doctor Who role

Sci-fi star departed the show earlier this year after only two seasons

The Guardian - UK

‘I would go-go dance in a shower then work on sonnets!’ Ncuti Gatwa’s sexy new Shakespearean drama

After surviving the whirlwind of Doctor Who, the actor returns to the stage in ‘horny Elizabethan drama’ Born With Teeth. He and co-star Edward Bluemel discuss bust lips, hot pants and queering the Bard’s story

The Independent UK

Ncuti Gatwa says Doctor Who was taking a ‘physical, emotional and mental’ toll on him

‘I’m getting old, and my body was tired’ admitted the star

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