All The World's His Stage

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  In Defense of Polonius

  JSTOR Daily - Jeffrey R. Wilson

  Shakespeare’s tedious old fool was also a dad just doing his best. Your wife dies. You raise two children by yourself. You build a great career to …

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  Arthur Hughes: First disabled Richard III is 'big gesture' from RSC

  BBC News - By Emma Saunders

  Sir Antony Sher, Robert Lindsay, Ian Richardson and Christopher Plummer are just a few of the consummate actors to have played one of the most prized roles in English drama, Shakespeare's deliciously evil Richard III. But although the Machiavellian anti-hero had scoliosis, a curved spine, none of …

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  THE SCOTTISH PLAY

  stck.me - Ron Fassler

  On this day twenty-two years ago, a new production of Shakespeare’s Macbeth opened at the Music Box Theatre. Directed by former director of the Royal …

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  Shakespeare First Folio copy estimated to fetch $2.5m in New York auction

  The Guardian - Nadia Khomami Arts and culture correspondent

  An original copy of William Shakespeare’s First Folio, often referred to as the most important book in English literature, will be auctioned next month in New York. The book, which was printed almost 400 years ago, is one of fewer than 20 copies left in private hands and is estimated to fetch up to …

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  Ruth Negga Thinks Lady Macbeth Is Misunderstood

  The New York Times - Salamishah Tillet

  Ruth Negga dazzles onstage. Not just because, as Lady Macbeth, she briefly wears a gold metallic gown in Sam Gold’s otherwise fairly casual staging of “Macbeth” at the Longacre Theater. But, rather, it’s because she infuses her character, and her marriage to Macbeth (Daniel Craig), with such …

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  David Tennant calms his stage fright … with chocolate

  The Guardian - Dalya Alberge

  He is one of the biggest stars of stage and screen, from the Royal Shakespeare Company to Doctor Who, but even David Tennant suffers from nerves – and chocolate is one of his secrets to calming them, he has revealed. The actor allowed himself exactly three squares of chocolate in every interval of …