Measure For Measure, Sam Wannamaker Playhouse: Review
Measure for Measure, running until 15th January 2022 at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, has been termed a “problem play” because, while … Read more
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Is Film Star Anne Hathaway Really A Reincarnation Of Shakespeare’s Wife?
Here at No Sweat Shakespeare we are very busy dealing with questions and comments. They are usually to do with students’ homework and assignments. However, … Read more
Review: ‘Doing Shakespeare’ at the Bridewell Theatre
A group of six amateur thespians in the village of Felching are putting on a Shakespeare play. In spite of having a very limited knowledge … Read more
Chiswick Playhouse’s All Women Macbeth: Review
A group of players with nothing more than a small acting space, a few crates to be used as tables, a throne, a scaffold, and … Read more
‘Telling Tales’: Half Term Fun at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre
Shakespeare still offers the greatest fun, of any writer, for children. The Globe Theatre confirms that with its half-term attraction, Telling Tales. On a day … Read more
Elizabethan Theatre Lives on in Today’s World
There are thousands of writers and actors all around the country who work in groups and make artistic decisions with their fellows. That’s a lot … Read more
Metamorphoses at The Globe Theatre: Review
Strong on theatre, flimsy on drama, great on storytelling This is the first test of the Globe’s new writers-in-residence, Sami Ibrahim, Laura Lomas, and Sabrina … Read more
Shakespeare & The Knock Knock Joke
“Knock knock” jokes are the first jokes kids respond to and laugh at as their reasoning faculties begin to develop. The linguistic trick clicks in … Read more
Twelfth Night Review, The Globe Theatre, August 2021
Sean Holmes’s production of Twelfth Night at The Globe Theatre is characterised by inventions and innovations within a faithful performance of the text, with a … Read more
The Comedy of Errors, RSC Stratford, July 2021 Review
The Comedy of Errors is on at the RSC’s Lydia and Manfred Gorvy Garden Theatre until 26th September 2021. Phillip Breen’s outdoor production is a … Read more
‘Bodkin’? What Exactly Is A Bodkin?
“Bodkin” is one of those lovely Middle English words that adorn Elizabethan plays but that we don’t use anymore. We use the word “stiletto” for … Read more
The ‘Golden Age’ And William Shakespeare
The name ‘William Shakespeare’ is associated with a golden age in English drama. The term “golden age” refers to a period when great activity in … Read more
