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“Worthy service": The Tempest-uousness of The White Lotus
Natasha Rothwell and Murray Bartlett in The White Lotus
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“Worthy service": The Tempest-uousness of The White Lotus

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Austin Tichenor

HBO’s Emmy-winning “The White Lotus” transforms Shakespeare’s “The Tempest” into a darkly funny satire of the hospitality industry, writes Austin Tichenor.

Birds of Shakespeare: The barnacle goose
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Birds of Shakespeare: The barnacle goose

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Missy Dunaway

The barnacle goose, referenced in Shakespeare’s “The Tempest,” was an unmistakable symbol of metamorphosis for a 17th-century audience. It was commonly believed that the barnacle goose evolved from driftwood. Artist Missy Dunaway shares her painting of this fascinating bird along…

Shakespeare's roles in the Caribbean
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Shakespeare's roles in the Caribbean

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Shakespeare is woven into the culture of the British Caribbean, with a special emphasis on Caliban and The Tempest–but does he reflect the colonial past, influence anti-colonial authors, or both? Scholars Giselle Rampaul and Barrymore A. Bogues traced his complex…

Strange Shakespeare: Transforming ‘The Tempest’, classifying Caliban
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Strange Shakespeare: Transforming ‘The Tempest’, classifying Caliban

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Kristina Straub

Shakespeare became the Bard of Avon, the English national poet, in the roughly two hundred years following his death in 1616. During this period, his plays were constantly staged in theaters throughout the British Isles and their colonies—but often in…

Prospero's epilogue as Shakespeare's farewell? Excerpt - 'This is Shakespeare' by Emma Smith
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Prospero's epilogue as Shakespeare's farewell? Excerpt - 'This is Shakespeare' by Emma Smith

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In this excerpt from her new book, This is Shakespeare (published Mar 31 in the United States), Emma Smith probes the biographical interpretations that readers have layered over Shakespeare’s plays, particularly The Tempest, and how that shapes what we think.

"Thorny hedgehogs, be not seen": Hedgehogs in Shakespeare's plays and the early modern imagination
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"Thorny hedgehogs, be not seen": Hedgehogs in Shakespeare's plays and the early modern imagination

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Haylie Swenson

Edward Topsell. The historie of foure-footed beastes. 1607. FOLGER STC 24123 copy 1 While the global population of European hedgehogs (Erinaceus europaeus) is stable, their numbers have been rapidly declining in the UK for decades, especially in rural areas. This…

Outdoor Shakespeare: The pioneers of a summer tradition
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Outdoor Shakespeare: The pioneers of a summer tradition

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Georgianna Ziegler

Shakespeare by the sea, on the river, in the park or garden, on the common – in the summertime Shakespeare’s plays are everywhere outdoors! High-profile shows in New York’s Central Park or at Ashland’s Oregon Shakespeare Festival may come to…

Caliban by the Yellow Sands: Shakespeare and immigrant communities in New York - Excerpt: Here in This Island We Arrived
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Caliban by the Yellow Sands: Shakespeare and immigrant communities in New York - Excerpt: Here in This Island We Arrived

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Here in This Island We Arrived: Shakespeare and Belonging in Immigrant New York is a 2019 book from Elisabeth H. Kinsley that explores Shakespeare performance in late 19th- and early 20-century Manhattan during a time of profound demographic change, when…

Excerpt - Miranda in Milan by Katharine Duckett
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Excerpt - Miranda in Milan by Katharine Duckett

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What happens after “The Tempest” ends? “Miranda in Milan,” Katharine Duckett’s debut novel, picks up where Shakespeare’s play leaves off.

San Francisco Shakespeare Festival celebrates its 35-year history with 35 Shakespeare speeches
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San Francisco Shakespeare Festival celebrates its 35-year history with 35 Shakespeare speeches

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Esther French

San Francisco Shakespeare Festival has been presenting a series of free, short performances of famous Shakespeare speeches at notable San Francisco landmarks to celebrate its 35-year history in the city.

Hearing island voices: Roomful of Teeth's Caroline Shaw talks Shakespeare and 'The Tempest'
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Hearing island voices: Roomful of Teeth's Caroline Shaw talks Shakespeare and 'The Tempest'

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Esther French

In this special anniversary year for Shakespeare, the Folger has commissioned Caroline Shaw to compose a new vocal piece inspired by The Tempest. Shaw, who has toured with Kanye West and is the youngest person to win the Pulitzer Prize…

Teller and The Tempest: Magic in Shakespeare's time
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Teller and The Tempest: Magic in Shakespeare's time

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Esther French

Prospero (Larry Yando) suspends his daughter Miranda (Eva Louise Balistreiri) in midair as the ever-watchful Ariel (Nate Dendy) assists his master in Chicago Shakespeare Theater’s production of The Tempest, directed by Aaron Posner and Teller, in the Courtyard Theater, 2015.…

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