Scholar Molly Yarn identifies more than 60 women who have contributed to the history of the Bard’s works, and believes there are still more to find Reviewing Charles and Mary Cowden Clarke…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:18AMInstallation inspired by The Happy Prince will be accompanied by similar celebration of Samuel Beckett, who like Wilde was educated in the town In The Happy Prince, one of Oscar Wilde’s mo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:03PMNew show uncovers a long tradition for princes of Wales to excuse their own behaviour by comparing it to Prince Hal’s From Frederick in the early 18th century to Charles in our own, a seri…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:36AMWriter’s attempts to stay ‘invisible’ while marrying Suzanne Déchevaux-Dumesnil will be explored in monologues by well-known authors and actors Sixty years ago, in 1961, Samuel Becket…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54AMOn Connection, which draws on their life struggles and creative joys, was written ‘for others who don’t fit’ Kae Tempest: what I have learned from 20 years on the mic The award-winnin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:24AMPapers revealing the Swedish Academy’s deliberations over the Waiting for Godot author reveal fierce disputes over his ‘nihilism’ Fifty years after Samuel Beckett won the Nobel prize f…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:03AMNewly released papers show the committee chairman’s doubts in 1968 whether a prize for the Irish author would be in the spirit of the awardSamuel Beckett won the Nobel prize for literature…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:18AMNewly found documents in the National Archives show the playwright’s father John was harassed by Crown informers, which may have influenced his attitude to power and classLong-forgotten do…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:36AMLawyers for the late novelist, and for producers of Aaron Sorkin’s stage adaptation, have agreed a deal that will allow the show to open in DecemberAaron Sorkin’s stage adaptation of To …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:48AMAn overseas buyer was prevented from purchasing the 1640 book after the UK government intervened, allowing the University of Edinburgh to buy the ‘extraordinary’ collectionGiving a rare …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:00AMEstate alleges Aaron Sorkin’s script breaches undertakings to stay faithful to Lee’s novel, altering characters including Atticus Finch, Tom Robinson and Scout FinchThe estate of Harper …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:25AMNotes made on a 16th-century manuscript, thought to have been an inspiration for the play, could have been the Bard’s own, says John CassonAnnotations in the margins of a 16th-century text…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:13AMThe British Library’s digital archive reveals early objections to Samuel Beckett’s play alongside other records of classic works’ early livesToday, Waiting for Godot is the most celebr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:54AMThe University of Southern California’s decision to spell the Bard’s name as ‘Shakespear’ sparks some gentle joshing – but is it wrong?Amid other, far uglier confrontations around …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:42AMAustralian academic David McInnis claims literary bias by first editors of OED has credited Shakespeare with inventing phrases in common Elizabethan useShakespeare did not coin phrases such …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:22AMExtract from The Antelopes by Wallander author – who spent years in Mozambique – published in Index on CensorshipA play by Henning Mankell about a Swedish couple struggling to understand…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:15AMThe Windham-Campbell prizes, whose recipients are unaware they are in contention until they have won, were announced on Tuesday morningThe British novelist Tessa Hadley and the Irish playwri…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:01PMThe Death and the Maiden playwright was inspired on his wedding day, in 1966, to note the ‘seed’ of a story about music as a form of resistance, now in printOn his wedding day on 7 Janua…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:25PMRL Stine’s bestselling children’s horror stories will be presented in abandoned railway tunnels beneath Waterloo station in LondonFeaturing everything from the deadly camera of Say Chees…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:50AMTwixt Cup and Lip, an early work by the future Nobel prizewinner unseen until now, appears in the Strand magazineAn early play by a young William Faulkner, in which an author better known fo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:41AMA Cambridge academic claims to have found the first use of a ‘brilliant innovation’ that has endured as a mark of incomplete speechOne of the earliest examples of the ellipsis, that tant…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:06AMWriter tells audience at a Cambridge University lecture that current system is 'both wrong and a waste'Alan Bennett has blasted the private school education system in a hard-hitting lecture …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:23AMThe storyline is ridiculous, but the glorious melodrama of Les Mis will leave you in tears. And the songs couldn't be more rousingI knew the songs of Les Misérables off by heart well …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:02AMAfter rejection by conventional imprints, actor and director finds 'sense of independence' renewed by releasing books himselfHe is a major force in British acting and a much-garlanded playwr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:00AMSatanic Verses author, and 200 others, use open letter to denounce Putin regime's new laws 'putting writers at risk'On the eve of the Sochi winter Olympics, as the eyes of the world turn tow…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:02PMTwo newly attributed poems find Brecht, a writer later known for his trenchantly anti-war views, in surprisingly patriotic formTwo poems showing a teenage Bertolt Brecht urging "real German …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:30AMA raucous theatre production of We're Going on a Bear Hunt kept my toddler transfixed. Suggestions for more like this are welcomeMichael Rosen's words and Helen Oxenbury's illustrations comb…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:52AMCharity auction of annotated first edition novels gives unprecedented insight into the genesis of classic titlesFrom JK Rowling's satisfaction at how the game of quidditch "infuriates men" t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:30PMMisery … cannot be dead! New theatre adaptation of King's book to open in Pennsylvania in NovemberAnnie Wilkes, the deranged fan who keeps a novelist prisoner and forces him to write a boo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:20AMQueen of crime fiction's contribution to the stage to be celebrated with statue in London's theatrelandLondon's first memorial commemorating the bestselling queen of crime fiction Agatha Chr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:40AMA California theatre company will combine the words of the American poet and the music of the US composer and lyricist into a production that will 'reveal the sublime BS of life'The unlikely…
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