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  1. King Lear review – Ian McDiarmid is a titanic, heartbreaking wonder
    By Mark Lawson

    Crucible theatre, Sheffield The 82-year-old actor gives a performance of absolute authenticity and clarity as the erratic demagogue in a uniformly impressive production

    theguardian.com/stage/2026/sep

    #Theatre #WilliamShakespeare #Culture #Stage #IanMcDiarmid #TheGuardian #MarkLawson

  2. Love’s Labour’s Lost review – paella, bullfighting and flamenco make Shakespeare’s farce a fiesta
    By Mark Lawson

    Shakespeare’s Globe, LondonChoreographers Carmen Igarza and Vanessa Guevara deserve to take a bow as spectacular dance and movement add passion to the seemingly unfinished play

    theguardian.com/stage/2026/jul

    #Stage #ShakespearesGlobe #Culture #WilliamShakespeare #TheGuardian #MarkLawson

  3. Love’s Labour’s Lost review – paella, bullfighting and flamenco make Shakespeare’s farce a fiesta
    By Mark Lawson

    Shakespeare’s Globe, LondonChoreographers Carmen Igarza and Vanessa Guevara deserve to take a bow as spectacular dance and movement add passion to the seemingly unfinished play

    theguardian.com/stage/2026/jul

    #Stage #ShakespearesGlobe #Culture #WilliamShakespeare #TheGuardian #MarkLawson

  4. ‘I just knew it would sound incredible!’: why the Globe is giving Shakespeare some flamenco fire
    By Lyndsey Winship

    Love’s Labour’s Lost offers a heady mix of passion and death – which makes the Spanish art form a perfect match, says director Indiana Lown-Collins. Our writer joins the theatre’s flamenco bootcamp

    theguardian.com/stage/2026/jul

    #Stage #Flamenco #ShakespearesGlobe #Culture #Dance #Theatre #WilliamShakespeare #Comedy #Comedy #TheGuardian #LyndseyWinship

  5. ‘I just knew it would sound incredible!’: why the Globe is giving Shakespeare some flamenco fire
    By Lyndsey Winship

    Love’s Labour’s Lost offers a heady mix of passion and death – which makes the Spanish art form a perfect match, says director Indiana Lown-Collins. Our writer joins the theatre’s flamenco bootcamp

    theguardian.com/stage/2026/jul

    #Stage #Flamenco #ShakespearesGlobe #Culture #Dance #Theatre #WilliamShakespeare #Comedy #Comedy #TheGuardian #LyndseyWinship

  6. A quotation from Shakespeare

    For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds;
    Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds.

    William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
    Sonnet 94, ll. 13-14 (pub. 1609)

    More about this quote: wist.info/shakespeare-william/…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #shakespeare #williamshakespeare #breakdown #corruption #degeneracy #depravity #downfall #festering #rot

  7. William Shakespeare – A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Judi Dench – Helen Mirren – Diana Rigg – Ian Holm 

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9Ry0lUghcw

    Restored Version by Shakespeare Network. – This was the first live-action version of this play to be filmed in colour.

    #AMidsummerNightSDream #DianaRigg #Film #HelenMirren #IanHolm #JudiDench #ShakespeareNetwork #Theater #WilliamShakespeare
  8. The murder of Desdemona, from Orson Welles’ Othello – Gefunden – Von Wolfgang Sofsky

    Die über drei Stunden dauernde Tragödie von der Intrige des Jago und der Eifersucht des Mohren hat Welles auf einen 90minütigen Film gekürzt. Er endet bekanntlich mit der Frage des Othello an die schöne Desdemona (Suzanne Cloutier),  ob sie zur Nacht schon gebetet habe, schließlich soll die Todgeweihte nicht sterben, ohne sich mit dem Himmel ausgesöhnt zu haben. Der Tod der Desdemona (Othello V,2) wird bei Welles zu einem grandiosen Schauspiel von Licht und Schatten, Schönheit und Entschlossenheit, Liebe, Eifersucht, Angst und Tod: 

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5nfj6DfwCs

    https://holbachinstitut.wordpress.com/2015/05/06/orson-welles-othello-2/

    #Aufklärungen #Film #Medien #OrsonWelles #Othello #Schauspiel #Theater #Video #WilliamShakespeare #WolfgangSofsky #wordpress
  9. "Cherish" is a song by American singer #Madonna from her fourth studio album, #LikeAPrayer (1989). It was written and produced by Madonna and #PatrickLeonard, and was released by #SireRecords as the album's third single on August 1, 1989. "Cherish" was built around the themes of love and relationships, with #WilliamShakespeare's #RomeoAndJuliet being one of the major inspirations. The track also included a line from "Cherish" by the 1960s band #theAssociation.
    youtube.com/watch?v=hiUHbqKIBdM

  10. Quest'articolo è anche un pretesto per segnalare che è appena uscito il secondo romanzo di #AndreaPennacchi (Una foresta di scimmie) col bardo proto James Bond. Shakespeare è realmente esistito? ilfattoquotidiano.it/2026/01/0

    @cultura

    #WilliamShakespeare #UnoLibri

  11. Quest'articolo è anche un pretesto per segnalare che è appena uscito il secondo romanzo di #AndreaPennacchi (Una foresta di scimmie) col bardo proto James Bond. Shakespeare è realmente esistito? ilfattoquotidiano.it/2026/01/0

    @cultura

    #WilliamShakespeare #UnoLibri

  12. Quest'articolo è anche un pretesto per segnalare che è appena uscito il secondo romanzo di #AndreaPennacchi (Una foresta di scimmie) col bardo proto James Bond. Shakespeare è realmente esistito? ilfattoquotidiano.it/2026/01/0

    @cultura

    #WilliamShakespeare #UnoLibri

  13. Quest'articolo è anche un pretesto per segnalare che è appena uscito il secondo romanzo di #AndreaPennacchi (Una foresta di scimmie) col bardo proto James Bond. Shakespeare è realmente esistito? ilfattoquotidiano.it/2026/01/0

    @cultura

    #WilliamShakespeare #UnoLibri

  14. Quest'articolo è anche un pretesto per segnalare che è appena uscito il secondo romanzo di #AndreaPennacchi (Una foresta di scimmie) col bardo proto James Bond. Shakespeare è realmente esistito? ilfattoquotidiano.it/2026/01/0

    @cultura

    #WilliamShakespeare #UnoLibri

  15. A quotation from Shakespeare

    RICHARD: I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.

    William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
    Richard II, Act 5, sc. 5, l. 50 (5.5.50) (1595)

    More about this quote: wist.info/shakespeare-william/…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #shakespeare #williamshakespeare #richardii #dying #monotony #mortality #oldage #regret #wastingtime #passageoftime

  16. "Cherish" is a song by American singer #Madonna from her fourth studio album, #LikeAPrayer (1989). It was written and produced by Madonna and #PatrickLeonard, and was released by #SireRecords as the album's third single on August 1, 1989. "Cherish" was built around the themes of love and relationships, with #WilliamShakespeare's #RomeoAndJuliet being one of the major inspirations. The track also included a line from "Cherish" by the 1960s band #theAssociation.
    youtube.com/watch?v=8q2WS6ahCnY