The Globe will be streaming some of their past productions on their YouTube channel, with each show featured on the channel available to stream for two weeks before the next play airs. Their 2009 production of Romeo & Juliet just premiered on April 22, and will be followed by The Two Noble Kinsmen (2018), The Winter’s Tale (2018), The Merry Wives of Windsor (2019), and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2013).
Shakespeare's Tragedies
Subtitle: Everybody dies. This is how Shakespeare rolls, no?
Original Pronunciation of Shakespeare - A Short Documentary
Linguist David Crystal and his son, actor Ben Crystal explain the differences between English pronunciation now and how it was spoken 400 years ago.
Shakespeare Figures Converted to Gorgeous Graphs
The bard has coined a vast number of figures of speech that are central to our modern English. So many in fact that we don't often remember that they are figures of speech. Well, this NYC designer, Nicholas Weltyk, designed these three stunning charts to reinvigorate the quotes with meaning, perhaps helping us see them anew.
Reminds me very much of the rap represented in mathematical charts and graphs from years ago. Much prettier though.
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PHILIP GAWTHORNE
A screenwriter and playwright from the United Kingdom, Gawthorne has written extensively for BBC television, his stage plays have been performed throughout London and New York, and he is now working primarily in film.
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