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If This Be Magic by Daniel Hahn review – how on earth do you translate Shakespeare? ⊕
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Is Hamlet still Hamlet when every word has changed? A superbly diverting book about language and creativity
The great Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges, who translated William Faulkner, André Gide, F…
48 days ago
To see or not to see? Every single Shakespeare play – ranked! ○
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Antony and Cleopatra? Exhausting. Lear? Magnificent but flawed. Hamlet? Limitless. For Shakespeare’s birthday, the Guardian’s former theatre critic ranks all the plays
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Romeo & Juliet at the Harold Pinter Theatre review: Sadie Sink and Noah Jupe's lack of stage experience shows in this gimmicky production lacking in earnest romance ⊕
Romeo And Juliet stars two young leads: Sadie Sink , star of Netflix 's Stranger Things , and British actor Noah Jupe, who appears as Hamlet at the end of the film Hamnet.
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From Hamlet at the Globe to Keir Starmer on SNL UK: the anarchic rise of George Fouracres ⊕
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After years of skits and Shakespeare, the Black Country performer has found his biggest audience yet on Saturday Night Live UK. Phil Wang and others hail his ‘pure comedic instinct’
A cast of unknowns…
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‘It feels like flying!’ Sadie Sink and Noah Jupe on child stardom, passion and the heady rush of Romeo and Juliet ⊕⊕
Fresh from Stranger Things and Hamnet, the pair are surprised to find themselves playing Shakespeare’s star-crossed lovers in the West End. They talk chemistry, dating apps – and what they’ve taught …
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Scarlet review – Mamoru Hosoda turns Hamlet into tale of prowling knights and deep ‘nothingness’ ⊖
The normally great director misses the mark with a wonderfully animated but narratively clunky retelling of the Shakespearean staple
Film versions of Hamlet are the new buses; you wait for ages for on…
O’Romeo review – Bollywood Shakespeare takes dive into grisly mafia queens territory ⊕
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After hit takes on Macbeth, Othello and Hamlet, Vishal Bhardwaj’s Romeo and Juliet adaptation sees dead-eyed lovers drag one another to gutter and grave
It must be Misbegotten Adaptations week. This H…
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Hamlet review – Riz Ahmed’s tortured prince drives chilling modern take through London’s streets ⊖⊖
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Timothy Spall and Art Malik co-star in Aneil Karia’s intelligent and stark retelling of Shakespeare’s tragedy, set in the world of shady family business
Screenwriter Michael Lesslie and director Aneil…
Poem of the week: Now, Mother, What’s the Matter? by Richard W Halperin ⊕
An exploration of what constitutes the literary arts – plus all the ‘troubled hearts’ and demons that accompany it – through the lens of Shakespeare’s Hamlet
Now, Mother, What’s the Matter?
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