How to Fail’s Elizabeth Day and historian Dan Jones dissect the mistakes of Richard VIII and Anne Boleyn. Plus, Kylie Jenner lets her guard down to Kid Cudi
How to Fail’s Elizabeth Day teams up with h…
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Walking Shadow by Greg Doran review – Shakespeare’s healing power ⊕
After the death of his husband, Antony Sher, the former RSC director embarks on a quest to see every First Folio
This is really two books in one. The first part consists of the diaries written by Anto…
2 days ago
Golden eagles could be reintroduced to England after more than 150 years ⊖
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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International
Study identified eight areas that can sustain a population and government has given £1m for recovery programme
“The world is grown so bad that wrens make prey where eagles dare not perch.” So wrote Sh…
7 days ago
‘Coke and booze didn’t help my creativity’: Joe Eszterhas on his wild times – and his supernatural, anti-woke Basic Instinct reboot ⊕⊕
He was the screenwriting colossus behind Flashdance, Jagged Edge, Showgirls and more. Now clean, ‘Hollywood’s Shakespeare’ talks about today’s scared studios, his refugee trauma – and taking acid wit…
14 days ago
Did you solve it? R y clvr ngh t rd ths sntnc? ⊕
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Earlier today I set you the following puzzles. Listed below are ten common phrases or sayings in the English language, five of which are found in Shakespeare. Each letter is repl…
15 days ago
All the things you didn't know about Romeo + Juliet - from a real life kidnapping on set to its 'feuding' co-stars - as Baz Luhrmann's epic marks 30th anniversary ⊕
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a story from The Daily Mail 💩 › The Daily Mail
It's been 30 years since Leonardo DiCaprio locked eyes with Claire Danes through the Capulet mansion's fishtank in Baz Luhrmann nineties take on Shakespeare's most famous love affair.
16 days ago
Quotations quiz: can you spot what’s Shakespeare, Cantona or chatbot? ⊖
ChatGPT allegedly mangled some quotes in Matt Goodwin’s book, but which of these are correct or correctly attributed?
Poor old Matt Goodwin. No sooner had he lost the Gorton and Denton byelection for …
17 days ago
From Hamlet at the Globe to Keir Starmer on SNL UK: the anarchic rise of George Fouracres ⊕
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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International
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…
18 days ago
William Shakespeare’s Romeo+Juliet review – Baz Luhrmann’s joyful tragedy is still extravagantly full of life ⊕
The 1990s love tragedy starring a young Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes is a tonic and a delight
Thirty years ago, Baz Luhrmann reinvented Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet as a gangbanger love traged…
25 days ago
Through the Centuries: Songs of Madeleine Dring album review – puts paid to any idea that she was not a serious composer ⊕
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Whately/Drake
Kitty Whately and Julius Drake perform the fervent, fun and intoxicating works of a British musician whose fresh assessment is richly deserved
Born in 1923, Madeleine Dring stu…