Margaret Atwood recasts The Tempest inside a prison
Margaret Atwood on her contribution to the Hogarth Shakespeare project
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Shakespeare
Frye saw Antony and Cleopatra’s air ’thick with information’
Making it Shakespeare’s perfect play for the 21st century
The book that gave us Shakespeare as we know him
Emma Smith’s close reading of Shakespeare’s first folio reveals a trove of information
By the numbers: anniversaries that stand out in 2016
Shakespeare. Trench warfare. Cloning. Here are 2016’s biggest anniversaries.
Was King Richard III a hunchback?
Shakespeare’s king was an hunchback, complete with withered arm and a limp. Scientists separate truth from fiction.
Shakespeare is owed an apology
Colby Cosh on why Shakespeare’s critics will never be satisfied
Henry IV explains the prime minister
Paul Wells on the virtues of being ’seldom seen’
What I think of Gilmour’s serious-white-guys-only policy
Prof. Pettigrew on the limits of ’teach what you love’
Stratford Festival’s celebrity power
Can Stephen Lewis, Colin Mochrie and Tommy guitar school reboot the indebted festival?
Much ado about Shakespeare
A new study reveals a dark, tax-evading, profit-hungry side of the playwright