Essay | Shakespeare’s London and the Emergence of the Playhouse
Today, the idea of the theatre can evoke tradition and history, having perhaps one of the longest histories of all…
An interview with Gwilym Jones
There’s something about the unpredictability of a storm that arouses excitement and chaos in a reader, writer, or just your…
Grinning at his Pomp
In this quatercentenary of Shakespeare’s death, it was inevitable that the most keenly anticipated examination of the great…
‘William oure brother’: 23 April 1616
A month before the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, I’m walking along the banks of the Avon, the river…
Real Texts versus the Duller Page
Shakespeare’s Sonnets: An Original-Spelling Text, ed. Paul Hammond, Oxford University Press, 2016, 494pp, £19.99 (paperback) John Donne, ed. Janel…
Scarifying Confrontation: Pericles at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse
Pericles isn’t the easiest of Shakespeare’s plays either to like as literature or to enjoy on stage. There are…
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