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Photo of English channel (c) NASA, licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0 and adapted from the original.

Date: 08 July 2016 - 15:37

What did Europe mean to Shakespeare?

Professor Michael Dobson argues that Shakespeare was a champion of free movement, and averse to insular nationalism.

Tags: Shakespeare, Arts, Theatre, Literature

'I want to challenge the isolation of Woolf’s female Shakespeare'.

Date: 09 June 2016 - 05:30

What if Shakespeare had been a woman?

Drawing on the histories of female writers and performers in England, Dr Emma Whipday of King's College London asks what might have become of Shakespeare if he had been a woman.

Tags: Shakespeare, Arts

'Poetry is, in some essential way, an acoustic form – it's a breath form.'

Date: 21 December 2015 - 16:56

Sir Andrew Motion on Shakespeare's legacy (podcast)

Sir Andrew Motion, former British Poet Laureate, talks to journalist Georgina Godwin about his native UK as a 'country of Shakespeare', and explains how the Bard has influenced his work.

Tags: Arts, Literature, Shakespeare

Sakha theater (Russia) perform Macbeth in Moscow in 2009. Photo by Sergey Petrov

Date: 16 September 2015 - 04:47

What makes Shakespeare endlessly adaptable?

Professor Michael Dobson explains how Shakespeare manages to be simultaneously historical and contemporary, ahead of his Smart Talks on this subject in China on 21-24 September.

Tags: Arts, Theatre, Literature, Shakespeare

Skakespeare, in the words of Ben Jonson, is ‘not of an age, but for all time.’

Date: 09 June 2015 - 05:52

Was Shakespeare as popular in his own time as he is now?

Hamlet is Shakespeare’s most popular play in modern times, but how did Shakespeare's contemporaries rate his works? Professor Laura Estill looks at how attitudes to Shakespeare have changed.

Tags: Arts, Theatre, Literature, Shakespeare

Try your learners with a fun exchange of insults from A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Art (c) Folger Shakespeare Library

Date: 22 April 2015 - 17:46

How to make Shakespeare easy for English language learners

Have you ever had difficulty relating Shakespeare to learners of English? Tutor and resource writer Genevieve White comes to the rescue, in time for Shakespeare Day today.

Tags: English language, Arts, Literature, Teaching, Teaching resources, Theatre, Shakespeare

Did you know Shakespeare has been translated to Klingon, Esperanto, and Interlingua? Photo of Maxine Peake as Hamlet at the Royal Exchange Theatre by Jonathan Keenan.

Date: 19 March 2015 - 09:19

Fun international facts about Shakespeare

Which Shakespeare play has been translated into 75 languages? How many times does the word 'love' appear in the complete works? Here are some unusual facts about the great English writer.

Tags: Arts, Literature, Theatre, English language, Shakespeare

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