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Game of Thrones, Shakespearean? What fools these mortals be!
By Michael BillingtonThe Mad King may bring more dynastic disputes and dotty despots to the RSC – but a ‘mayhap’ or a riddling aphorism does not a Shakespeare play make
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/aug/11/game-of-thrones-the-mad-king-royal-shakespeare-company
#Theatre #RoyalShakespeareCompany #GameofThrones #GeorgeRRMartin #Books #Culture #Stage #WilliamShakespeare #DuncanMacmillan #DominicCooke #TheGuardian #MichaelBillington
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Game of Thrones, Shakespearean? What fools these mortals be!
By Michael BillingtonThe Mad King may bring more dynastic disputes and dotty despots to the RSC – but a ‘mayhap’ or a riddling aphorism does not a Shakespeare play make
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/aug/11/game-of-thrones-the-mad-king-royal-shakespeare-company
#Theatre #RoyalShakespeareCompany #GameofThrones #GeorgeRRMartin #Books #Culture #Stage #WilliamShakespeare #DuncanMacmillan #DominicCooke #TheGuardian #MichaelBillington
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FOOL: Come away, come away, death,
And in sad cypress let me be laid.
Fly away, fly away, breath,
I am slain by a fair cruel maid.William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Twelfth Night, Act 2, sc. 4, l. 58ff (2.4.58-61) (1601)More about this quote: wist.info/shakespeare-william/…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #shakespeare #williamshakespeare #twelfthnight #feste #burial #death #dying #heartbreak #passion #pining #rejection
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Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
-- William Shakespeare (Macbeth)⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #WilliamShakespeare #Death #Life
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #TheMaze #Dollhouse #Canyonlands #Utah
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Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
-- William Shakespeare (Macbeth)⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #WilliamShakespeare #Death #Life
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #TheMaze #Dollhouse #Canyonlands #Utah
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ORSINO: If music be the food of love, play on.
Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting,
The appetite may sicken and so die.William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Twelfth Night, Act 1, sc. 1, l. 1ff (1.1.1-3) (1601)More about this quote: wist.info/shakespeare-william/…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #shakespeare #williamshakespeare #twelfthnight #orsino #appetite #excess #gorging #love #music #passion
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ORSINO: If music be the food of love, play on.
Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting,
The appetite may sicken and so die.William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Twelfth Night, Act 1, sc. 1, l. 1ff (1.1.1-3) (1601)More about this quote: wist.info/shakespeare-william/…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #shakespeare #williamshakespeare #twelfthnight #orsino #appetite #excess #gorging #love #music #passion
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ORSINO: These most brisk and giddy-pacèd times.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Twelfth Night, Act 2, sc. 4, l. 7 (2.4.7) (1601)More about this quote: wist.info/shakespeare-william/…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #twelfthnight #shakespeare #williamshakespeare #busyness #change #instability #moderntimes #pace #present #speed #times
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Striving to better, oft we mar what's well.
-- William Shakespeare (King Lear)⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #WilliamShakespeare #Improvement
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #CoyoteButtesNorth #TheWave #VermilionCliffs #Utah
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Striving to better, oft we mar what's well.
-- William Shakespeare (King Lear)⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #WilliamShakespeare #Improvement
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #CoyoteButtesNorth #TheWave #VermilionCliffs #Utah
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Love’s Labour’s Lost review – paella, bullfighting and flamenco make Shakespeare’s farce a fiesta
By Mark LawsonShakespeare’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
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/jul/30/loves-labours-lost-review-shakespeares-globe-london
#Stage #ShakespearesGlobe #Culture #WilliamShakespeare #TheGuardian #MarkLawson
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VIOLA: O Time, thou must untangle this, not I;
It is too hard a knot for me t’ untie.William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Twelfth Night, Act 2, sc. 2, l. 40ff (2.2.40-41) (1601)More about this quote: wist.info/shakespeare-william/…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #shakespeare #williamshakespeare #twelfthnight #complexity #conundrum #passageoftime #problem #puzzle #tangle #time #untangle
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VIOLA: O Time, thou must untangle this, not I;
It is too hard a knot for me t’ untie.William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Twelfth Night, Act 2, sc. 2, l. 40ff (2.2.40-41) (1601)More about this quote: wist.info/shakespeare-william/…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #shakespeare #williamshakespeare #twelfthnight #complexity #conundrum #passageoftime #problem #puzzle #tangle #time #untangle
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Love’s Labour’s Lost / Much Ado About Nothing review – breezy double bill brings out the best in both
By Mark LawsonBraboeuf Manor, GuildfordElegantly stitching the plays into two parts of the same continuing story, Tom Littler’s sunny al fresco productions play every possible tragicomic note
#Theatre #Stage #WilliamShakespeare #Culture #TheGuardian #MarkLawson
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‘I just knew it would sound incredible!’: why the Globe is giving Shakespeare some flamenco fire
By Lyndsey WinshipLove’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
#Stage #Flamenco #ShakespearesGlobe #Culture #Dance #Theatre #WilliamShakespeare #Comedy #Comedy #TheGuardian #LyndseyWinship
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OLIVIA: What’s a drunken man like, Fool?
FOOL: Like a drowned man, a fool, and a madman. One
draught above heat makes him a fool, the second
mads him, and a third drowns him.William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Twelfth Night, Act 1, sc. 5, l. 128ff (1.5.128-131) (1601)More about this quote: wist.info/shakespeare-william/…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #shakespeare #williamshakespeare #shakespeare #twelfthnight #alcohol #drinking #drunkenness #intoxication
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Book Review: Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare
Author: William Shakespeare
Title: Much Ado About Nothing
Publication Info: New York : Washington Square Press, 2005 [written circa 1598-1599]
Summary/Review:Leonato, the governor of Messina, hosts Don Pedro and his troops on his estate after a successful battle. One of his men, Claudio and Leonato’s daughter Hero immediately fall in love and plan to marry. But Don Pedro’s jealous brother Don John plots to upset the happy scenario by framing Hero as an unfaithful woman. The plan to exonerate Hero involves cribbing from Romeo & Juliet with a fake death, but a happier outcome.
Much of this is overshadowed by the B-plot involving Leonato’s niece Beatrice and Claudio’s friend and fellow soldier Benedick. As the play begins, they display a deep loathing for one another exchanging barbed quips I can only imagine in the style of a 1940s screwball comedy. Don Pedro’s men along with Hero and her attendant Ursual plot to convince Beatrice and Benedick that the other suffers from unrequited love for them. The ploy works hilariously to create the ur-text of enemies-to-lovers romance plots.
I think this may be to most laugh out loud funniest of Shakespeare’s comedies in the chronology thus far (although The Comedy of Errors, Love’s Labour’s Lost, and A Midsummer’s Night’s Dream all have their moments) while also tying together two complementary plots in a successful whole.
Rating: ****
I’m reading every Shakespeare play, one per month, in chronological order. Here’s my progress thus far:
- The Two Gentlemen of Verona
- The Taming of the Shrew
- Henry VI, Part 1
- Henry VI, Part 2
- Henry VI, Part 3
- Titus Andronicus
- Richard III
- The Comedy of Errors
- Love’s Labours’ Lost
- Richard II
- Romeo and Juliet
- A Midsummer’s Night’s Dream
- The Life and Death of King John
- The Merchant of Venice
- The History of Henry IV, Part 1
- The Merry Wives of Windsor
- The History of Henry IV, Part 2
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Book Review: Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare
Author: William Shakespeare
Title: Much Ado About Nothing
Publication Info: New York : Washington Square Press, 2005 [written circa 1598-1599]
Summary/Review:Leonato, the governor of Messina, hosts Don Pedro and his troops on his estate after a successful battle. One of his men, Claudio and Leonato’s daughter Hero immediately fall in love and plan to marry. But Don Pedro’s jealous brother Don John plots to upset the happy scenario by framing Hero as an unfaithful woman. The plan to exonerate Hero involves cribbing from Romeo & Juliet with a fake death, but a happier outcome.
Much of this is overshadowed by the B-plot involving Leonato’s niece Beatrice and Claudio’s friend and fellow soldier Benedick. As the play begins, they display a deep loathing for one another exchanging barbed quips I can only imagine in the style of a 1940s screwball comedy. Don Pedro’s men along with Hero and her attendant Ursual plot to convince Beatrice and Benedick that the other suffers from unrequited love for them. The ploy works hilariously to create the ur-text of enemies-to-lovers romance plots.
I think this may be to most laugh out loud funniest of Shakespeare’s comedies in the chronology thus far (although The Comedy of Errors, Love’s Labour’s Lost, and A Midsummer’s Night’s Dream all have their moments) while also tying together two complementary plots in a successful whole.
Rating: ****
I’m reading every Shakespeare play, one per month, in chronological order. Here’s my progress thus far:
- The Two Gentlemen of Verona
- The Taming of the Shrew
- Henry VI, Part 1
- Henry VI, Part 2
- Henry VI, Part 3
- Titus Andronicus
- Richard III
- The Comedy of Errors
- Love’s Labours’ Lost
- Richard II
- Romeo and Juliet
- A Midsummer’s Night’s Dream
- The Life and Death of King John
- The Merchant of Venice
- The History of Henry IV, Part 1
- The Merry Wives of Windsor
- The History of Henry IV, Part 2
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Theater Review: Julius Caesar by Dream Role Players
Julius Caesar
Hannah Baker – Director
Aza Pietropaolo – Assistant DirectorJulius Caesar by William Shakespeare
July 10, 2026: Longfellow Park, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Cast
Julius Caesar – Robin Abrahams
Brutus – Jaryn Wilcox
Cassius – Elizabeth Ross
Marc Antony – Angelo Alexander
Casca – Mary Parker
Metellus – Lisa Burdick
Cinna – Lucia A. Grunko
Decius – Crow J. Traphagen (u/s Brutus, Caesar)
Octavius/Funeral Citizen 1 – Delaney Walkes
Lucius/Artemidorus/Funeral Citizen 2 – Hayley Haggerty
Calpurnia/Lepidus/Popilius/Funeral Citizen 3 – Paula Hawthorne (u/s Cassius, Antony)
Soothsayer/Cobbler/Servant/Funeral Citizen 4 – Kris Kim (u/s Casca, Decius, Cinna, Metellus)Last night I enjoyed free Shakespeare in the park, courtesy of the Dream Role Players and an almost all-woman and nonbinary cast. The park in question is Longfellow Park, overlooked by the house of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, who I would expect would love seeing Shakespeare performed in his front yard. Hannah Baker’s direction of the play takes a dark political humor approach. Shakespeare’s words are not changed but they are delivered in a humorous manner emphasizing the pettiness of political infighting and misguided notions of honor. Also, for some reason Cassius rides a Segway scooter for the entire play. I don’t know if it’s supposed to represent a chariot or just a bit of absurdism. Like many Shakespeare works, I had several moments of “oh, that’s where that phrase comes from,” perhaps more often than typical. Previously, I was only familiar with the scenes from Julius Caesar that my high school Latin teacher had us act out every year on the Ides of March.
Familiar faces in the cast include Robin Abrahams (A King and No King), Jaryn Wilcox (Mariette in Ecstasy), and Mary Parker (director of A King and No King).
Julius Caesar continues at Longfellow Park tonight and tomorrow and then July 17-19, before moving to Herter Park in Allston for two shows on July 24-25. All performances begin at 7pm.
#Drama #DreamRolePlayers #PerformingArtsReviews #Theater #TheaterReviews #Theatre #WilliamShakespeare -
Theater Review: Julius Caesar by Dream Role Players
Julius Caesar
Hannah Baker – Director
Aza Pietropaolo – Assistant DirectorJulius Caesar by William Shakespeare
July 10, 2026: Longfellow Park, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Cast
Julius Caesar – Robin Abrahams
Brutus – Jaryn Wilcox
Cassius – Elizabeth Ross
Marc Antony – Angelo Alexander
Casca – Mary Parker
Metellus – Lisa Burdick
Cinna – Lucia A. Grunko
Decius – Crow J. Traphagen (u/s Brutus, Caesar)
Octavius/Funeral Citizen 1 – Delaney Walkes
Lucius/Artemidorus/Funeral Citizen 2 – Hayley Haggerty
Calpurnia/Lepidus/Popilius/Funeral Citizen 3 – Paula Hawthorne (u/s Cassius, Antony)
Soothsayer/Cobbler/Servant/Funeral Citizen 4 – Kris Kim (u/s Casca, Decius, Cinna, Metellus)Last night I enjoyed free Shakespeare in the park, courtesy of the Dream Role Players and an almost all-woman and nonbinary cast. The park in question is Longfellow Park, overlooked by the house of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, who I would expect would love seeing Shakespeare performed in his front yard. Hannah Baker’s direction of the play takes a dark political humor approach. Shakespeare’s words are not changed but they are delivered in a humorous manner emphasizing the pettiness of political infighting and misguided notions of honor. Also, for some reason Cassius rides a Segway scooter for the entire play. I don’t know if it’s supposed to represent a chariot or just a bit of absurdism. Like many Shakespeare works, I had several moments of “oh, that’s where that phrase comes from,” perhaps more often than typical. Previously, I was only familiar with the scenes from Julius Caesar that my high school Latin teacher had us act out every year on the Ides of March.
Familiar faces in the cast include Robin Abrahams (A King and No King), Jaryn Wilcox (Mariette in Ecstasy), and Mary Parker (director of A King and No King).
Julius Caesar continues at Longfellow Park tonight and tomorrow and then July 17-19, before moving to Herter Park in Allston for two shows on July 24-25. All performances begin at 7pm.
#Drama #DreamRolePlayers #PerformingArtsReviews #Theater #TheaterReviews #Theatre #WilliamShakespeare -
FOOL: Good madonna, why mourn’st thou?
OLIVIA: Good Fool, for my brother’s death.
FOOL: I think his soul is in hell, madonna.
OLIVIA: I know his soul is in heaven, Fool.
FOOL: The more fool, madonna, to mourn for your brother’s soul, being in heaven. Take away the fool, gentlemen.William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Twelfth Night, Act 1, sc. 5, l. 64ff (1.5 64-70) (1601)More about this quote: wist.info/shakespeare-william/…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #shakespeare #williamshakespeare #twelfthnight #afterlife #death #grief #heaven #hell #mourning #paradise #fool #folly
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Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
-- William Shakespeare (Macbeth) -
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
-- William Shakespeare (Macbeth) -
RSC casts Sharon D Clarke as black lesbian Othello in reimagining of play https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/jul/01/royal-shakespeare-company-casts-sharon-d-clarke-as-black-lesbian-othello #RoyalShakespeareCompany #Stage #WilliamShakespeare #Culture #Theatre #SharonDClarke #UkNews #Othello
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RSC casts Sharon D Clarke as black lesbian Othello in reimagining of play https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/jul/01/royal-shakespeare-company-casts-sharon-d-clarke-as-black-lesbian-othello #RoyalShakespeareCompany #Stage #WilliamShakespeare #Culture #Theatre #SharonDClarke #UkNews #Othello
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TOBY: I am sure care’s an enemy to life.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Twelfth Night, Act 1, sc. 3, l. 2ff (1.3.2-3) (1601)More about this quote: wist.info/shakespeare-william/…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #shakespeare #williamshakespeare #twelfthnight #anxiety #care #grief #living #mourning #sadness #worry
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TOBY: I am sure care’s an enemy to life.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Twelfth Night, Act 1, sc. 3, l. 2ff (1.3.2-3) (1601)More about this quote: wist.info/shakespeare-william/…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #shakespeare #williamshakespeare #twelfthnight #anxiety #care #grief #living #mourning #sadness #worry
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Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel.
-- William Shakespeare (King Lear) -
Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel.
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Trupe de Luneiros faz adaptação “junina” de peça de Shakespeare
- cijnusp
https://jornal.usp.br/cultura/trupe-de-luzeiros-faz-adaptacao-junina-de-peca-de-shakespeare/
#Cultura #ArtesCnicas #SonhodeUmaNoitedeSoJoo #Sonhodeumanoitedevero #Teatro #TrupedeLuneiros #WilliamShakespeare -
Shakespearean Gardens celebrates 90 years | Spare News https://www.allforgardening.com/1817286/shakespearean-gardens-celebrates-90-years-spare-news/ #garden #gardening #horticulture #LandscapeArchitecture #parks #PlantAgriculture #ShakespeareGarden #SpareNews #StratfordUponAvon #WilliamShakespeare
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Shakespearean Gardens celebrates 90 years | Spare News https://www.allforgardening.com/1817286/shakespearean-gardens-celebrates-90-years-spare-news/ #garden #gardening #horticulture #LandscapeArchitecture #parks #PlantAgriculture #ShakespeareGarden #SpareNews #StratfordUponAvon #WilliamShakespeare
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Ein tiefer #Fall führt oft zu hohem #Glück.
(William #Shakespeare)
#psychotHHerapie #Zitat #Zitate #Leben #WilliamShakespeare -
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
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#IanMcKellen Reads a Passionate Speech by #WilliamShakespeare, Written in Defense of #Immigrants
"Say now the king
Should so much come too short of your great trespass
As but to banish you, whither would you go?
What country, by the nature of your error,
Should give you harbour? go you to France or Flanders,
To any German province, to Spain or Portugal,
Nay, any where that not adheres to England,
Why, you must needs be strangers: would you be pleased
To find a nation of such barbarous temper,
That, breaking out in hideous violence,
Would not afford you an abode on earth,
Whet their detested knives against your throats,
Spurn you like dogs, and like as if that God
Owed not nor made not you, nor that the claimants
Were not all appropriate to your comforts,
But chartered unto them, what would you think
To be thus used? this is the strangers case;
And this your mountainish inhumanity." -
#IanMcKellen Reads a Passionate Speech by #WilliamShakespeare, Written in Defense of #Immigrants
"Say now the king
Should so much come too short of your great trespass
As but to banish you, whither would you go?
What country, by the nature of your error,
Should give you harbour? go you to France or Flanders,
To any German province, to Spain or Portugal,
Nay, any where that not adheres to England,
Why, you must needs be strangers: would you be pleased
To find a nation of such barbarous temper,
That, breaking out in hideous violence,
Would not afford you an abode on earth,
Whet their detested knives against your throats,
Spurn you like dogs, and like as if that God
Owed not nor made not you, nor that the claimants
Were not all appropriate to your comforts,
But chartered unto them, what would you think
To be thus used? this is the strangers case;
And this your mountainish inhumanity." -
William & Hamnet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqs-ueGZ9QI
#thedarkknaik #hamnet #jessiebuckley #williamshakespeare #hamlet
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A quotation (not) from Shakespeare
What a terrible era in which the idiots govern the blind.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
More about this quote: wist.info/shakespeare-william/…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #shakespare #williamshakespeare #badgovernment #blindness #dolts #era #government #idiots #misgovernment #period #regime #rulership
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#Zweifel sind #Verräter. Sie rauben uns, was wir #gewinnen können, wenn wir nur einen #Versuch wagen.
(William #Shakespeare)
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‘I want to hit 100’: Derek Jacobi on Aids, ageing and failing to boil an egg https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/may/22/derek-jacobi-aids-ageing-interview #Film #DerekJacobi #Culture #Stage #Television #FrancisBacon #LucianFreud #WilliamShakespeare #TelevisionRadio
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Why Shakespeare Left Family for Work in 'Hamnet'?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqs-ueGZ9QI
#thedarkknaik #hamnet #jessiebuckley #williamshakespeare #hamlet
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