Saturday, September 27, 2025
Known for his outspoken politics, the author was acclaimed for work in theatre, opera, film and TV but wanted to be thought of as a poet above all
Tony Harrison, the award-winning poet and d…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:12AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 9, 2021
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's…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:18AM[SHARE]Friday, October 15, 2021
Installation 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 most…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:03PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 15, 2021
New 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 series…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:36AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 2, 2021
Writer'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 Beckett slip…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54AM[SHARE]Monday, October 5, 2020
On 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-winning poet…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:24AM[SHARE]Friday, January 17, 2020
Papers 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 for lit…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:03AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 10, 2019
Newly 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 i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:18AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 13, 2018
Newly 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 docu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:36AM[SHARE]Friday, May 11, 2018
Lawyers 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 Kill…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:48AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 27, 2018
An 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 insi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 15, 2018
Estate 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 Lee …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:25AM[SHARE]Monday, March 5, 2018
Notes 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 t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:13AM[SHARE]Monday, September 11, 2017
The 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 celebrated o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:54AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 24, 2017
The 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 statues in…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:42AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 6, 2016
Australian 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 11:22AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 21, 2016
Extract 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 the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:15AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 1, 2016
The 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 03:01PM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 15, 2015
The 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 January 1…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:25PM[SHARE]Monday, November 23, 2015
RL 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 Cheese an…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:50AM[SHARE]Twixt 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 09:41AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 20, 2015
A 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 tantalis…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:06AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 17, 2014
Writer 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 07:23AM[SHARE]Monday, May 5, 2014
The 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 07:02AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 13, 2014
After 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 11:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 5, 2014
Satanic 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 07:02PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 28, 2014
Two 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 03:30AM[SHARE]Monday, July 8, 2013
A 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 08:52AM[SHARE]Friday, May 17, 2013
Charity 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 05:30PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Misery … 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 06:20AM[SHARE]Friday, August 10, 2012
Queen 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 07:40AM[SHARE] 
