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Shakespeare First Folio Discovered in Scotland

April 8, 2016

Another Shakespeare First Folio has been discovered in Scotland on the Isle of Bute, less than 18 months after a copy was discovered in 2014, by a librarian in Saint-Omer, near Calais. Unlike many of the 230 od... Read More...

Richard III – For A Horse

C S Hughes

March 30, 2015

History

CATESBY Rescue, my Lord of Norfolk, rescue, rescue! The king enacts more wonders than a man, Daring an opposite to every danger: His horse is slain, and all on foot he fights, Seeking for Richmond in the t... Read More...

The Genius Of The Fable – Four Books We’d Like To See Made By Studio Ghibli

C S Hughes

January 6, 2015

Books, Film & TV

The fable is at the heart of storytelling; it is a mystery, an exaggeration, a tall story, a romance, a story that takes us into the shadows, and out again, and teaches us more often than not a sharp, double-ed... Read More...

Copy of Shakespeare’s First Folio Discovered by a Librarian in France

Olga Hughes

November 26, 2014

Books, History, News

A copy of William Shakespeare's First Folio, one of only 231 of the first-ever compilation of his plays, has been discovered in the library of a small town in Saint-Omer near Calais. The folio was published in ... Read More...

Who Wants To See Patrick Stewart Read John Cooper Clarke’s Chickentown?

C S Hughes

October 17, 2014

Poet's Stage

They say the Yorkshire accent is the closest thing to the way English sounded in Elizabethan times, except for Bostonians, who make the same claim. Also, Klingons, but they are mostly fictional despite appearin... Read More...

A New Afterlife for King Richard III?

Olga Hughes

May 31, 2014

History, News

The University of Leicester, along with scientists from the University of Cambridge and Loughborough University, have finally released their case report on King Richard III's spinal condition. The study, titled... Read More...

Shatner, Shakespeare and Much Ado About Whedon

C S Hughes

July 24, 2013

Film & TV

There is something quite magnificent about seeing Shakespeare done properly. Especially the comedies. Raucous, ribald, rude and rambunctious, done properly a Shakespeare comedy is quite improper. No one does it... Read More...

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