Tag: Shakespeare
If music be the food of love – don’t play it...
Duke Orsino opens Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night describing music as the food of love and demanding that it “play on”. Music’s well documented, in both fiction...
Playing it safe: the dead hand of tradition
So one of the most exciting figures in UK theatre, The Globe Theatre's artistic director Emma Rice, has proved too exciting: she’s on her...
Happy Birthday, Will. Now BAN Shakespeare from schools!
A TINY poem I like using when working as a writer in schools is titled Stratford Visit and is only two words long: 'Bard...
