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...
Shakespeare's early writings are peppered with the romantic tales of Hermia and Lysander, Rosalind and Orlando, Viola and Orsino. Stage productions abound; th...
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...
School education introduces Shakespeare and his contemporaries as texts to be read, analysed and teased apart, and most university English programmes do litt...
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...
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 ...