If Shakespeare has always been considered an integral part of young people’s learning, then the past few years have seen an even greater push towards a creative approach to Shakespeare, ar…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:45PMShakespeare’s early writings are peppered with the romantic tales of Hermia and Lysander, Rosalind and Orlando, Viola and Orsino. Stage productions abound; they are as popular and ente…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:22AMCoriolanus. Asked to name one of Shakespeare’s plays, it’s probably not the first one that springs to mind. One of Shakespeare’s final tragedies, and perhaps one of his least well know…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:49AMSchool education introduces Shakespeare and his contemporaries as texts to be read, analysed and teased apart, and most university English programmes do little to move beyond this. So what…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:22PMSpeaking to an old school friend about how young people are introduced to Shakespeare showed just how difficult and uninteresting she had found him during her younger years. Being a long-tim…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:28PMFollowing the announcements about 2012’s World Shakespeare Festival, the Bard takes centre stage yet again. Beginning on the great man’s birthday, the festival will coincide with the…
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