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Shakespeare or Shaikh Zubair?

Edit Dawn 08 May 2016
We are shown Englishmen fighting a sea-battle against the ‘Spanish tyrant’ ... Following frequent food shortages in the 1590s and a failed coup by Robert Devereux, Second Earl of Essex in 1601, the jittery London public turned against the strangers, probably the first Muslims that most of them had ever seen ... He is the first of the playwright’s ‘Moors’, as The Merchant of Venice is thought to have been written in the late 1590s ... ....

The Hollow Crown and the tricky question of staging the Henry VI plays

Edit New Statesman 06 May 2016
The War of the Roses plays are great crowd-pleasing popular hits ... This shouldn’t be surprising ... From these we learn that a play “Harey Vj” was performed on 2nd March 1592 (Henslowe’s spelling is non-standard, perhaps eccentric even in the 1590s ... The writer Thomas Nashe’s ‘Piers Penniless’, which was registered with the Stationer’s Office (the 1590s equivalent of copyright registration) in August 1592 sees Nashe praise the play, saying.....

BBC Two’s The Hollow Crown and the tricky question of staging the Henry VI plays

Edit New Statesman 06 May 2016
The War of the Roses plays are great crowd-pleasing popular hits ... This shouldn’t be surprising ... From these we learn that a play “Harey Vj” was performed on 2nd March 1592 (Henslowe’s spelling is non-standard, perhaps eccentric even in the 1590s ... The writer Thomas Nashe’s ‘Piers Penniless’, which was registered with the Stationer’s Office (the 1590s equivalent of copyright registration) in August 1592 sees Nashe praise the play, saying.....

Literary Leicester laughs it up

Edit The Guardian 06 May 2016
Not only is the East Midlands city the proud holder of the Premier League title, it can boast the likes of Graham Chapman, Sue Townsend and Anne Fine as natives ... And one of these stories even involves a miraculous success for the Foxes … Richard III by William Shakespeare (1590s) ... Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis (1954) ... With better luck, the city might have had a hat trick of breakthrough 50s works ... Entertaining Mr Sloane by Joe Orton (1964)....

sex, money and Shakespeare

Edit New Statesman 02 May 2016
Like sex, money is something that a lot of people spend a lot of time thinking about (and wanting more of) ... It began with an ... *** ... ... ... The combination of aristocratic patronage and business acumen – a share in the profits as opposed to the piecework payments on which other dramatists relied – allowed Shakespeare to purchase the title of “gentleman” and to buy a large house back in his own town (at a knockdown price) by the late 1590s....

Theatre expected to attract famous actors (Liverpool John Moores University)

Edit Public Technologies 29 Apr 2016
(Source. Liverpool John Moores University). 29th April 2016. Like this article? Share it today. ... There is clear documentary evidence of the existence of the theatre in the 1590s to 1600s, of who built it, and of the dimensions of the site on which it was built ... Strange's Men performed Titus Andronicus at The Rose Theatre in London and the company was the precursor to Lord Chamberlain's Men - Shakespeare's Globe company in the 1590s....

Playing the Curtain with Dr Lucy Munro

Edit Skiddle 26 Apr 2016
Mortimer Wheeler House in London. Friday 13th May 2016. 12.15pm til 1.45pm. No age restrictions ... Event Info. Venue.  . Playing the Curtain with Dr Lucy Munro on Fri 13th May 2016. From the plays of Shakespeare and Jonson in the 1590s to those of Dekker, Ford and Rowley in the 1620s, the Curtain was one of the most enduring performance places in early modern London ... Tickets available here ... ....

Book reviews roundup: The Cauliflower; All That Man Is; This Orient Isle

Edit The Guardian 22 Apr 2016
What the critics thought of The Cauliflower by Nicola Barker, All That Man Is by David Szalay and This Orient Isle Elizabethan England and the Islamic World by Jerry Brotton ... He advised readers to skip to Barker’s afterword first, to spare confusion, and concluded ... Brotton excels, he wrote, in “his exploration of the ways that English dalliances in the Islamic world filtered into Elizabethan popular culture during the 1590s ... ....

Stratford-Upon-Avon marks 400 years since Shakespeare died

Edit The Oklahoman 20 Apr 2016
STRATFORD-UPON-AVON, England (AP) — "All the world's a stage," wrote William Shakespeare, who died 400 years ago this week. But he played out much of his life in one small English market town. Stratford-upon-Avon. "It's the home of one of the greatest writers who's ever lived, whose works are translated into all the world languages ... During the late 1580s and early 1590s, Shakespeare left Stratford to seek fame and fortune in London ... ....

Shakespeare's last act: a torrent of twisted fantasies

Edit The Guardian 17 Apr 2016
Thinker, lover, father, King’s man … to mark the 400th anniversary of the Bard’s death, great writers explore different sides of Shakespeare. Beginning a week-long series, James Shapiro reveals why his work took a dark turn with the death of Elizabeth. Most of us think of Shakespeare as an Elizabethan ... Twitter ... Twitter ... And in the nine history plays he wrote in the 1590s he also relentlessly explored the nature of Englishness ... Twitter ... ....

How spring has blossomed in literature

Edit The Guardian 02 Apr 2016
Mistaken expectations, foolish illusions, dangerous liaisons … while spring is always keenly awaited in literature, its onset so often signifies trouble. Carmina Burana (11th or 12th century) ... Ah!” Dream on, student poet. Love’s Labour’s Lost by William Shakespeare (1590s). The April as “cruellest month” tradition perhaps begins with the song “Spring” in this early romcom’s bleak coda ... Torrents of Spring by Ivan Turgenev (1872) ... ....

Is this the real model for Othello?

Edit The Guardian 19 Mar 2016
The Moroccan ambassador to Elizabethan London who has striking similarities to Shakespeare’s noble Moor ... The painting is an enigma ... The inscriptions on the portrait reveal as much ... Twitter ... As the theological terms “Islam” and “Muslim” only appeared in English in the 17th century, characters defined by terms such as “Moors”, “Saracens”, “Turks” and “Persians” predominated in more than 40 plays performed in the 1590s ... ....

Romeo and Juliet at a glance: Your brief guide to the most famous of all ...

Edit The Independent 07 Mar 2016
Plot. Romeo is a Montague. Juliet is a Capulet. He loves her, she him ... Themes ... Background. Written in the mid-1590s, with the male lead probably played (as usual) by Richard Burbage ... Read more ....
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