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Spice Girls Will Help Kick Off 2012 Olympics


Nov 1, 09 3:22 PM CST
(Newser) - When the eyes of the world turn to London for the opening ceremonies of the 2012 Olympics, the land of Shakespeare and the Beatles will present ... the Spice Girls. "They stand for so much in British music history and I can’t think of a better time for them... More »

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entertainment • music • London • England • 2012 London Olympics • Victoria Beckham • Simon Fuller • Spice Girls • Beatles • Melanie Brown • William Shakespeare • Emma Bunton • Mel B • Melanie C • Melanie Chisolm • Geri Halliwell

Shakespeare Didn't Work Alone, Says Computer

Program developed to spot plagiarism shows Bard wrote Edward III With Kyd

Oct 12, 09 11:28 AM CDT
(Newser) - The computer program is called “Pl@giarism,” but no one is suggesting the Bard cribbed from others—not yet, at least. Researchers used the software, developed to spot cheating scholars, to take a look at The Reign of King Edward III, an unattributed 1596 play that has recently... More »

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plagiarism • William Shakespeare • computer applications • collaboration • playwright • Elizabethan • program • Thomas Kyd

 Tomb May 
 Hold Key to 
 Shakespeare 


Sarcophagus may hold manuscripts tying Bard to another writer

Aug 9, 09 1:27 PM CDT
(Newser) - A 17th-century tomb might hold the key to the enduring mystery of William Shakespeare's identity, the Daily Telegraph reports, and researchers are hoping to take a peek inside. A scan found that the ornate sarcophagus, built at an English church by Shakespeare contemporary and fellow scribe Fulke Greville, contains three... More »

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England • biography • history • monument • Britain • William Shakespeare • sarcophagus • manuscript

 Law's Hamlet 
 to Go From 
 London to 
 Broadway 

Show to arrive from London in September

Jun 30, 09 1:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - Jude Law is Broadway-bound as the prince of Denmark in a production of Hamlet exported from London, the New York Times reports. The show is set for a 12-week run on the Great White Way, with previews starting Sept. 12 and the official opening Oct. 6. Before it arrives Stateside,... More »

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theater • London • Broadway • Denmark • Jude Law • William Shakespeare • Hamlet • Elsinore Castle

THEATER REVIEW

 Hathaway Stuns 
 in Twelfth Night 
 Under the Stars 

Rave reviews for Shakespeare in the Park debut

Jun 26, 09 8:08 AM CDT
(Newser) - New York theater critics are giving raves to this summer's free outdoor production of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, starring Anne Hathaway. For Charles Isherwood of the New York Times, Hathaway has "the unmistakable glow of a natural star" and invests the shipwrecked Viola with "a bright humor that feel... More »

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theater • New York • William Shakespeare • Public Theater • Anne Hathaway • theater reviews

THEATER REVIEW

 Jude Law's 
 Hamlet Slays 
 Critics 

Movie star's Shakespeare turn gets strong notices

Jun 4, 09 11:03 AM CDT
(Newser) - Jude Law took to the stage last night for the opening performance of Hamlet in London, and newspapers were largely impressed by the actor's take on the melancholy Dane. In the Telegraph, Charles Spencer writes that Law showed "rare vulnerability and emotional openness" in Shakespeare's toughest role. Dressed in... More »

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theater • London • Jude Law • William Shakespeare • West End theater • Hamlet • theater reviews

 White House Jams 
 to Spoken Word 

Theater, jazz, poetry collide in East Room event

May 13, 09 9:33 AM CDT
(Newser) - Spoken word, jazz, and theater took the White House by storm last night in what has been called the first presidential poetry jam, the Washington Post reports. “We're here to celebrate the power of words,” President Obama said, adding that his wife is his poet. The jam, Michelle... More »

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entertainment • music • theater • Michelle Obama • poetry • jazz • William Shakespeare • President Obama • Michael Chabon • Jay-ZTV • poetry slam • James Earl Jones • spoken word

(Newser) - "Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow"—exactly 3 days from now—Chicago will celebrate the Bard's 445th birthday with "Talk Like Shakespeare Day," the Chicago Sun-Times reports. Mayor Richard Daley unveiled the plan, saying Chicagoans can "bring the spoken words of Shakespeare into their daily lives.... More »

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Chicago • Richard Daley • William Shakespeare

Shakespeare Debate Splits Supreme Court

Stevens finds alternate author theory beyond a reasonable doubt

Apr 18, 09 8:08 AM CDT
(Newser) - John Paul Stevens and Antonin Scalia don’t agree often, but the justices are united on one case: Neither believes Shakespeare’s plays could possibly have been written by a hick like William Shakespeare. Stevens has even written papers on the topic, and searched the Bard’s home for clues.... More »

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Antonin Scalia • Anthony Kennedy • literature • Stephen Breyer • John Paul Stevens • William Shakespeare • US Supreme Court

(Newser) - Dog-owners in the UK city of Bath can audition their pooches tomorrow for a spot in a Shakespeare play, the Telegraph reports. The role in The Taming of the Shrew is historically accurate, the director said: “In Shakespeare’s time … they had a troupe of dogs specially trained... More »

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theater • England • William Shakespeare • dog • acting • The Taming of the Shrew • role • Elizabethan

 Can Tomatoes 
 Grow to Love 
 Shakespeare? 

Brit study puts plants-love-voices theory to the test

Mar 31, 09 4:16 AM CDT
(Newser) - A tomato by any other name might taste as sweet, but will it grow as fast without the sound of a human voice? A new British study intends to find out with recordings of Shakespeare's verse and a poem by John Wyndman. The recordings will be played to the plants... More »

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plants • tomatoes • William Shakespeare • scientific study • horticulture

 Rare Portrait 
 Might Not Be 
 Shakespeare 

Experts disagree on authenticity

Mar 20, 09 9:28 AM CDT
(Newser) - A recently rediscovered painting originally thought to be the only surviving portrait of Shakespeare may actually portray a 17th-century courtier, the Telegraph reports. The subject’s clothes are too grand to be the playwright's, experts say, and although the portrait is similar to another image believed to be of the... More »

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William Shakespeare • portrait

COMMENTARY

 James Joyce 
 Beat Britney to 
 the Dirty Pun 

Many artists have snuck in 'If you see Kay' line

Mar 19, 09 2:41 PM CDT
(Newser) - Britney Spears' not-so-subtle pun in her single "If U Seek Amy" (say it fast) may seem devilishly naughty, but completely original it is not. Many musicians have used the similarly racy "If you see Kay" line—from blues pianist Memphis Slim to Norwegian punk band Turbonegro—which was... More »

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Britney Spears • pop music • James Joyce • singer • William Shakespeare • cursing

(Newser) - Verona, Italy, the scene for Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, is making a bid to become a “wedding capital,” ANSA reports. Packages include an exchange of vows on the Juliet Balcony, thought by some to be the locale for her famous “Romeo, Romeo” speech. It won’t... More »

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theater • tourism • wedding • William Shakespeare • Verona, Italy • package deal • Romeo and Juliet

 Lifetime Portrait of Bard Found 

Work is only living painting of the Bard

Mar 9, 09 1:20 PM CDT
(Newser) - A family heirloom is thought to be the only surviving portrait of William Shakespeare painted during his life, the Telegraph reports. Art restorer Alex Cobbe noticed that a portrait of the Bard in the Folger Shakespeare library in Washington—known to be a posthumous copy of another work—bore an... More »

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theater • art • painting • play • history • William Shakespeare • portrait • Folger Shakespeare Library


 Hit Man May 
 Have Offed 
 Fabled Scholar 

Decoded diary points to distant cousin as Tycho Brahe's killer

Jan 17, 09 5:45 PM CST
(Newser) - Seminal Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe died in 1601 of mercury poisoning, a demise that funeral orators called "unexpected" and modern scholars are calling murder, Der Spiegel reports. As they plan to exhume Brahe's body, one specialist says he has uncovered the killer's diary: "It contains the details... More »

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murder • William Shakespeare • mercury poisoning • Hamlet • Tycho Brahe • King Christian IV

 Pianist's Skull 
 Steals Hamlet Scene 

Concert pianist left skull to theater

Nov 26, 08 9:24 AM CST
(Newser) - A concert pianist has appeared on stage in a 22-performance run of Hamlet—26 years after his death. André Tchaikowsky, a Polish Jew who was smuggled out of Warsaw as a child of 7, left his skull to the Royal Shakespeare Company upon his death in 1982. It was finally... More »

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theater • skull • William Shakespeare • Royal Shakespeare Company • Hamlet • André Tchaikowsky • Robert Andrzej Krauthammer

MOVIE REVIEW

 Demented Hamlet 2's the Thing

The play's the thing in deranged spoof of high school musicals

Aug 27, 08 11:38 AM CDT
(Newser) - Hamlet 2 may not put the Bard out of business but it's not lacking for invention, critics say. The "genuinely bizarre and frequently hilarious comedy" follows the outrageous fortunes of a failed actor turned high-school drama teacher who tries to pen a Hamlet sequel, Rafer Guzman writes in Newsday.... More »

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comedy • movie review • William Shakespeare • movies • Steve Coogan

(AP) - Archeologists think they have found the theater where Romeo and Juliet debuted and where William Shakespeare himself may have trodden the boards. The possible foundations of what is known as simply "the Theatre" were unearthed by builders excavating the London site—a vacant garage—for another structure. Museum archaeologists... More »

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theater • London • archeology • William Shakespeare

Bard-Working Librarians Help Nab Book Thief

Shakespeare folio stolen in England surfaces in Washington

Jul 11, 08 4:29 PM CDT
(Newser) - Quick-thinking librarians have helped recover a valuable book of Shakespeare's works stolen from a British university 10 years ago, the Washington Post reports. A man who arrived unannounced at Washington's Folger Shakespeare Library with a copy of the 1623 First Folio set off "alarm bells" with his tale of... More »

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theft • literature • William Shakespeare • First Folio • Folger Shakespeare Library • Durham University

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