The Play’s the Thing: Shakespeare for young people
If Shakespeare has always been considered an integral part of young people’s learning, then the past few years have seen an even greater push towards a creative...
Jude Evans
The Play’s the Thing: Enduring love – Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet
Shakespeare's early writings are peppered with the romantic tales of Hermia and Lysander, Rosalind and Orlando, Viola and Orsino. Stage productions abound; th...
The Play’s the Thing: Shakespeare – from stage to screen
Coriolanus. Asked to name one of Shakespeare’s plays, it’s probably not the first one that springs to mind. One of Shakespeare’s final tragedies, and perhaps on...
The Play’s the Thing: Advice for new players
School education introduces Shakespeare and his contemporaries as texts to be read, analysed and teased apart, and most university English programmes do litt...
The Play’s the Thing: Rupert Goold – Shakespeare for the younger generation
Speaking to an old school friend about how young people are introduced to Shakespeare showed just how difficult and uninteresting she had found him during her...
The Play’s the Thing: Should Shakespeare be in the spotlight?
Following the announcements about 2012’s World Shakespeare Festival, the Bard takes centre stage yet again. Beginning on the great man's birthday, the festival ...
