Posts in this blog relating to Shakespeare
The Bardathon: 1 – The Two Gentlemen of Verona
The Bardathon: 2 – The Taming of the Shrew
The Bardathon: 3 – The Henry VI Plays, and Richard III
The Bardathon: 4 – Titus Andronicus
The Bardathon: 5 – The Comedy of Errors
The Bardathon: 6 – Love’s Labour’s Lost
The Bardathon: 7 – Romeo and Juliet
The Bardathon: 8 – A Midsummer Night’s Dream
The Bardathon: 11 – The Merchant of Venice
The Bardathon: 12 – Henry IV – Parts 1 & 2
The Bardathon: 13 – The Merry Wives of Windsor
The Bardathon: 14 – Much Ado About Nothing
The Bardathon: 16 – Julius Caesar
The Bardathon: 17 – As You Like It
The Bardathon: 19 – Twelfth Night
The Bardathon: 20 – Troilus and Cressida
The Bardathon: 21 – Measure for Measure
The Bardathon: 23 – All’s Well That Ends Well
The Bardathon: 24 – Timon of Athens
The Bardathon: 27 – Antony and Cleopatra
The Bardathon: 28 – Coriolanus
The Bardathon: 31 – The Winter’s Tale
The Bardathon: 32 – The Tempest
The Bardathon: 33 – Henry VIII
The Bardathon: 34 – The Two Noble Kinsmen
Is Shakespeare still our contemporary?
“A Midsummer Night’s Dream” at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-on-Avon
Shakespeare for the MTV generation
Shakespeare for the MTV generation: continued
“Antony and Cleopatra”, Chichester Festival Theatre, 2012
Directing “Hamlet” in one’s mind
The “tragic flaw” in Shakespeare
Prince Hal, Hamlet, and Antony: parallels and contrasts
The BBC Shakespeare: King Lear (1982)
Shakespeare just got more beautiful
“King Lear” at the National Theatre
“Tush, man, mortal men, mortal men…” The Henry IV plays at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, 2014
My unfortunate partiality for “colonising texts”
Shakespeare’s bundles of contradictions
“Love’s Labour’s Lost” at Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-on-Avon
Lear eviscerated: Jonathan Miller’s latest production of “King Lear”
“Chaos is come again”: “Othello” at Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-on-Avon
“‘Twere best not know myself”: Some new thoughts on Macbeth
“1606: William Shakespeare and the Year of Lear” by James Shapiro
A damp squib and a thing of wonder to start the New Year
Shakespeare’s “Cymbeline” at Sam Wanamaker Playhouse
“Verdi’s Shakespeare” by Garry Wills
Shakespeare’s “The Winter’s Tale” at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse
Shakespeare’s “The Tempest” at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse
#Shakespeare400: “Twelfth Night” revisited
#Shakespeare400 “King Lear” revisited
#Shakespeare400: “Love’s Labour’s Lost” revisited
#Shakespeare400 “Antony and Cleopatra” revisited
#Shakespeare400: “Henry IV, Part Two” revisited
“The love that can be reckoned”
Shakespeare’s Roman Plays on Stage
Most ignorant of what we’re most assured
“Perchance I will ne’er go home”: the role of Emilia in “Othello”
What Shakespeare may (perhaps) have thought about
Back to Shakespeare: my latest readings of “As You Like It” and “Richard II”
The Henry VI Plays at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-on-Avon
Richard III at Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-on-Avon
“Shakespearean Tragedy” by Kiernan Ryan
“Poor Naked Wretches: Shakespeare’s Working People” by Stephen Unwin
The Argumentative Old Git 