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Shakespeare started his profession not extensive after the first community playhouses were founded in London. His most well-known performs were given at the Theater, an open-air play house in Shoreditch. Many of his performs were published for the World, refurbished from the wood of the Theater on Bankside. A variety of Shakespeare’s later performs were [...]
Making a movies is no fun. Travelling in group is a part of making a movie. A visitor health insurance is much needed to overcome your financial burden in case anyone in the group falls sick. If the group is travelling to US they need to have a patriot America visitor insurance Academy award-nominated director Julie Taymor says she’s in the final planning stages for a film version of “The Tempest.” Taymor recently told the Australian newspaper The Age that she hopes to start shooting in November if financing is available. Taymor said, “We’re at that last horrible moment when we don’t have quite enough money.”
The British Library is now offering the first complete full-color facsimile of William Tyndale’s pioneering translation of the New Testament from Greek into English. The library holds one of only two surviving copies of Tyndale’s Bible, from the 3,000 copies originally printed. This new edition, The New Testament 1526, contains an authoritative introduction by David [...]
The Shakespeare publishing industry showed no signs of slowing down in August. Nearly four dozen Shakespeare related book were released during the month. A couple of highlights include a new paperback series of Shakespeare’s plays published by the Royal Shakespeare Company and a “new” Shakespeare play adapted by novelist John Reed. The new Royal Shakespeare [...]
Each year, Globe Education offers staged readings of little-known plays written between 1567 and 1642 by Shakespeare’s contemporaries. This week, the Globe announced the next four plays to be presented in the Read Not Dead series between October and December 2008. The series, which began in 1994, has given audiences the unique opportunity see more [...]
Scotland on Sunday reports that the new film version of King Lear starring Anthony Hopkins could be filmed in Scotland instead of Ireland as was first reported. In addition to Anthony Hopkins, the film will feature Keira Knightley as Cordelia, Gwyneth Paltrow as Regan, and Naomi Watts as Goneril. According the article published 10 August, [...]
Director Lucy Bailey and designer William Dudley have partially transformed Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre for their new production of Timon of Athens. They’ve strung a rope net above the audience, from which bungee-cord assisted actors swoop down on stage like so many vultures. Bailey recently told The Independent, “My concept of Timon is to see this [...]
