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Shakespeare’s many lives
The book jacket for Schoenbaum's book Shakespeare's lives, one of James Shapiro's favourites It’s said we know next to nothing about Shakespeare’s life, yet new biographies are published every year. Is...
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Your actions are my dreams: Shakespeare and conspiracy
A week on Sunday it will be exactly ten years since the awful events of 9/11 in which thousands of people died and which sparked the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. On Monday it was revealed that a poll...
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The mysterious Passionate Pilgrim and Shakespeare
I’ve been spending some time just recently re-reading James Shapiro’s great book 1599, which I strongly recommend if you haven’t already read it. It focuses on a single year, decisive in Shakespeare’s...
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“New-fangled shows”: Christmas and the Rose Theatre
An Elizabethan rehearsal Christmas must have been anything but relaxing for Shakespeare when he was at the height of his career. Instead of putting his feet up in front of a roaring fire with a warming...
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James Shapiro on Shakespeare in 1606
James Shapiro Back in 2005 James Shapiro published his book 1599, about a single year in Shakespeare’s life. According to Jonathan Bate, who reviewed it for the Telegraph, It was “one of the few...
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Shakespeare lost in translation?
Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s Theatre A week or so ago the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, one of the oldest and largest US Shakespeare festivals, announced they have commissioned “translations” of 39...
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Henry James and Shakespeare
Henry James by John Singer Sargent 28 February 2016 is the centenary of the death of the author Henry James. James was born in 1843 in New York but spent most of his adult life in Europe, particularly...
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Getting creative. Did Shakespeare write King Lear in lockdown?
The title page of the First Folio, 1623 When lockdown was first imposed, in March 2020, it was pointed out that Shakespeare had written King Lear while under lockdown himself during a period when the...
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