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  Romeo and Juliet movie child abuse lawsuit to be thrown out by judge

  The Guardian - Benjamin Lee

  The stars of Franco Zeffirelli’s Oscar-winning film have tentatively lost their battle to receive damages over a sex scene filmed when they were teenagers A California judge has signalled she will throw out a child abuse lawsuit put forward by the two lead actors from the 1968 adaptation of Romeo …

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  Why Rewrite Shakespeare Into Modern English? Why Not, Says Playwright Hansol Jung

  Playbill - By Diep Tran

  Jung’s modern version of Romeo and Juliet is currently running Off-Broadway with the National Asian American Theatre Company. Playwright Hansol Jung …

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  It Is Long Past Time to Retire the Oldest, Dumbest Debate in Literary History

  slate.com - Isaac Butler

  Shakespeare truthers poison the discourse, just like every other kind of conspiracy theorist.

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  Shakespeare's First Folio turns 400: what would be lost without the collection? An expert speculates

  The Conversation UK - Emma Smith

  It has been 400 years since the publication of the first collected edition of Shakespeare’s plays, a volume now known as the First Folio. Prepared by …

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  Shakespeare's environmentalism: how his plays explore the same ecological issues we face today

  The Conversation UK - Todd Andrew Borlik

  Climate change, urban sprawl, air pollution, deforestation, depleted fish stocks, biodiversity and species loss: these are not exclusively modern …

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  Shakespeare by numbers: how mathematical breakthroughs influenced the Bard’s plays

  The Conversation UK - Madeleine S. Killacky

  Mathematical motifs feature in many of Shakespeare’s most memorable scenes. He lived and wrote in the late 16th century, when new mathematical …