“When Donald Rumsfeld was asked by a journalist why he was so sure that there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, he said: ‘We have the receipts’. Shakespeare would ...
Richard III hardly flies the flag for feminism. So what did Sophie Sellars think when Southwark’s Rose Theatre staged an all-female production?
“To begin with the weight of his genius absolutely crippled me. I had what I thought was this terrific idea that all the characters would speak as if they were ...
Young Shakespeare tracks down an ancient poet.
Echoes of King Lear in modern-day Lancashire.
Hamlet’s “slings and arrows of outrageous fortune” are cast at London.
Dear Reader… We’ve put together Litro #133, an issue devoted to The Bard, as a special gift for his 450th birthday – and to shine the spotlight into some dimly ...
Featuring exclusive fragments from Ben Crystal’s rehearsal diaries on playing Hamlet, new fiction and poetry from David McGrath, Jenn Ashworth, Andrew Pidoux and Pauline Kiernan – plus an interview with ...
Ben Crystal shares exclusive fragments from his rehearsal diaries on playing Hamlet, and considers where Shakespeare might be headed next…
Later this month, Litro will be publishing its Shakespeare issue. Emma Whipday goes to the Rose Theatre – the Elizabethan theatre where many of the Bard’s early plays were performed ...
Write a Shakespearean sonnet before 10th April, and win Ben Crystal’s Shakespeare on Toast and a free ticket to Litro Live!: an evening of Words, Music and Conversation
The Lion and Unicorn theatre is an intimate setting for the domestic turmoil of Othello; a small stage situated above a pub. Upon entering the space of this theatre, you ...
The current production of Julius Caesar at the Donmar Warehouse is a curious creature. In what could be seen as a move specifically designed to court controversy, director Phyllida Lloyd ...
Navigate a mirror maze by scent; literary adaptations galore at the 56th London Film Festival; Moby Dick as science fiction; Daniel Radcliffe to star in adaptation of Joe Hill’s 2010 ...
There’s something odd in how we think about authors. We believe that what they create is so incredibly personal, and yet there’s not necessarily anything about their finished product – ...
This week I went along to the London Review Bookshop to hear American academic James Shapiro answering questions on his new book, Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare?
I ...
