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As You Like It: Ralph Fiennes directs Shakespeare comedy with 'depth'
The Week Recommends Harriet Walter is 'splendidly wistful and sardonic' as the melancholy Jacques
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The Merry Wives of Windsor: a 'pathologically silly' spin-off
The Week Recommends Beloved character from Henry IV plays gets his own comedic adventure at London's Globe Theatre
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Shakespeare not an absent spouse, study proposes
speed read A letter fragment suggests that the Shakespeares lived together all along, says scholar Matthew Steggle
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Much Ado About Nothing: Tom Hiddleston and Hayley Atwell deliver 'full-on fiery and fleshy' performance
The Week Recommends Jamie Lloyd's adaptation of Shakespeare classic leans on '1990s pop favourites'
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The Merchant of Venice: 'nothing short of gripping'
The Week Recommends John Douglas Thompson is 'magisterial' as Shylock
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New-look books from Penguin's Vintage division
The Blend A bibliophile shares his early fascination with Penguin paperback design and hails a new chapter in the imprint’s cover story
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Romeo & Juliet: 'all very clever, but to what end?'
The Week Recommends Jamie Lloyd's 'turbo-stylised' production is met with mixed reviews
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Love's Labour's Lost: a 'laugh-a-minute-delight' starring Bridgerton's Luke Thompson
The Week Recommends A bold, modern twist on one of Shakespeare's earlier comedies
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The London Library and Elizabeth Winkler's female Shakespeare claims
In the Spotlight Critics say an event suggesting Shakespeare may have been a woman is 'wildly inappropriate'
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Best of the Bard in 2024: the Shakespeare plays everyone's talking about
The Week Recommends A handful of Shakespeare productions are making headlines in the theatre world and they haven't even opened yet
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Love poems: 20 classics
In Depth Take inspiration from the greats on writing romantic verses
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Shakespeare's First Folio: 400 years in print
The Explainer First published in 1623, seven years after his death, the weighty tome includes Macbeth, Antony and Cleopatra, Julius Caesar
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King Lear review: 'less King Lear and more King Ken'
Feature Kenneth Branagh's new West End production feels like an accomplished rhetorical exercise
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As You Like It: a ‘good-natured comedic romp’
The Week Recommends Actors in their 60s, 70s and 80s unite in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre’s ‘poignant’ production
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