Country Life

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1 a) All have played Hamlet; b) All have played King Lear; c) All have played Cleopatra; d) All have played Malvolio; e) All were directed by Peter Brook; f) All were designed by the architect Frank Matcham 2 a) ‘Hamlet’; b) ‘Look Back In Anger’; c)

SFX

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RELEASED OUT NOW! 464 pages | Hardback/ebook Author DK Fields Publisher Head Of Zeus This first novel from DK Fields (a pseudonym for David Towsey and Katherine Stansfield) is a much more unusual, intricate and clever novel than it first appears. At

SFX

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QUESTION 1 In which horror film are theatre critics murdered using methods inspired by Shakespeare’s plays? QUESTION 2 Name the William Shatner LP which includes recitations from Henry V and Hamlet. QUESTION 3 Which Philip Pullman novel takes its nam

Storytime

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Hermia and Lysander were deeply in love, but Hermia’s father didn’t approve of Lysander, so he was forcing Hermia to marry Demetrius. No matter how much Hermia pleaded, her father wouldn’t listen, so Lysander came up with a plan. “Hermia, meet me in

The Threepenny Review

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A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare, directed by Nicholas Hytner, The Bridge, London, 2019. THE HENRY V I saw at Shakespeare’s Globe in London last June was the latest of many recent productions that reach out for racial, gender, and se

Empire Australasia

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As commander of the fairy law enforcement unit Lower Elements Police (also known, genuinely, as ‘LEPrecon’) in this Disney fantasy, Dame Judi Dench is a tough cookie. Clap your hands if you believe in justice! Sure, this gang of motorcyclists are le

The Millions

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Islands are almost always the geographic feature with which utopias are associated, for paradise is not paradise if it’s easily accessible. The post Island Time: On the Poetics of the Isle appeared first on The Millions.

The Australian Women's Weekly

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Kate Mildenhall, 39, is an author and teacher whose Melbourne childhood shaped her passion for books. “I was a massive reader. Our house was filled with books and it was very normal to spend all day curled up with books. I started (like so many write

Literary Hub

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“When you started out, you wanted to work with books,” an administrator once told Conor O’Sullivan. “Now you want to work with kids.” It’s a subtle but profound shift—and one of the great challenges of teaching high school English. Most of us come to

Writing Magazine

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Untreed Reads is a digital-only small press founded by Jay A Hartman in 2008 as a way to promote ebooks, with an emphasis on independent authors and publishers. Spend time at the website, novel submissions are limited to certain genres or authors but

Literary Hub

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First things first: I know A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a play and not a novel. But I write this column, and therefore, much like Puck—not to mention Shakespeare himself—I get to break the rules. Plus, it’s feeling mighty midsummery out there (though

Cairns Vibrance

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Shakespeare’s classic comedy, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, is reawakened in this breathless production brimming with magic, mirth and mayhem. Love is in the air in Athens – and it’s contagious. Besides the royal wedding, which is just days away, there

Opera Canada

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This fall, Deutsche Oper Berlin revived its 2020 production of Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream by American director Ted Huffman (seen Oct. 10th; originally staged for Opéra national de Montpellier in 2019) bringing one of the greatest English lan

Foreign Policy Magazine

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Shakespeare may never have left England, but he became the most global writer who ever lived.

History Revealed

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37 The number of (known) plays written by William Shakespeare 410 The average number of professional productions of Shakespeare every year between 1959 and 2015, according to the World Shakespeare Bibliography £120 The rough cost of the new famil

CrossStitcher

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The Grimms’ Fairy Tales Stitch-A-Long design is now complete! Over the past year designer Amanda Butler has created a stunning sampler containing 12 much-loved Grimms’ Fairy Tales characters. If you enjoyed stitching it then turn over the page and yo

New Zealand Listener

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1. What long, light, narrow sled is for sliding over snow or ice? (8)7. The rivers Moselle, Main and Neckar are tributaries of which river? (5)8. Who in 17th-century France was known as “L’Éminence Rouge”? (9)9. Who was George Gershwin’s lyricist bro

Fortean Times

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In Act 2 Scene 1 of The Tempest, (right) all the characters are beginning to argue among themselves. Ariel enters, invisible, and plays music that puts everyone to sleep except Sebastian and Antonio, who discuss how advantageous it might be to kill t

Writing Magazine

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Small press Close 2 the Bone publishes novels and short stories. They need ‘gritty and interesting’ fiction across multiple genres, stories about ‘bank robberies gone bad, double-crossing bastards going at it, serial killers with a heart (maybe liter

New Zealand Woman’s Weekly

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She was born in Fiji and raised in New Zealand. She used to be a lawyer but was always writing stories in her spare time, and published her first book almost 20 years ago. She lives in Auckland and is a prolific writer of paranormal romance, sci-fi a

Writing Magazine

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Vernacular Books is a small press specialising in ‘awesome SF/F in a wide variety of forms’, currently open to submissions of novels, novellas, and short stories. Open to all subgenres, the editorial team ask writers to query by email for novels and

Poets & Writers

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At first glance, Nick Drnaso’s second graphic novel, Sabrina—which begins when its title character, a young woman living in Chicago, goes missing—might seem like a mystery. But after Sabrina’s disappearance is picked up by both the media and conspira

Chat It's Fate

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The New Forest is well-known for being home to pixies – lots of place names reference this – and also Puck, the mischievous sprite from A Midsummer Night’s Dream, who’s said to live here. These aren’t cute little Victorian winged fairies though – t

Cairns Vibrance

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At CPAC you will witness innovative and debut performances in addition to a well-crafted mix of classics and revived theatrical pieces. With multiple performance spaces, the versatility of the venue enables the presentation of a variety of events inc

Total Film

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A companion/sequel to 2017’s The Art And Soul Of… this reveals more about unused ideas, from Luv’s original fate to a canopy covering all of Vegas. Aside from a section on dystopian couture (this season’s theme is ‘urban snow trash’), the focus is lo

Writing Magazine

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I’m about to submit my novel to agents. I’m not sure how to categorise it, whether it’s literary or commercial or somewhere in-between. Could you tell me the difference? This is a time-old question, and one that invites a great deal of debate within

Literary Hub

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“Anyone can be a critic.” It’s a common lament these days now that the book review landscape is changing. English professors and book reviewers in newspapers aren’t the only tastemakers in literary criticism anymore: Goodreads community members, anon

Literary Hub

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In the front of the classroom, the tenured professor teaching this Introduction to Literary Criticism course my sophomore year of college lectures on Shakespeare’s The Tempest. I am the student of language; he, the master of language. This is the rea

Australian Women’s Weekly NZ

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Kate Mildenhall, 39, is an author and teacher whose Melbourne childhood shaped her passion for books. “I was a massive reader. Our house was filled with books and it was very normal to spend all day curled up with books. I started (like so many write

Australian Women’s Weekly NZ

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The Duchess of Cornwell has shared some of her favourite recent reads to inspire book lovers and promote reading. Her Royal Highness is an avid reader and patron of several literary organisations. Gothic horror meets psychological realism. A crime